TORRES STRAIT

Meaning of TORRES STRAIT in English

/tawr"iz, tor"-/

a strait between NE Australia and S New Guinea. 80 mi. (130 km) wide.

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TORRES STRAIT — geographical name strait 80 miles (129 kilometers ) wide between island of New Guinea & N tip of Cape York …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TORRES STRAIT — Passage between the island of New Guinea and Australia's Cape York Peninsula. It connects the Coral Sea and the Arafura …
Английский словарь Британика
TORRES STRAIT — passage between the Coral Sea, on the east, and the Arafura Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean. To the north …
Britannica English vocabulary
TORRES STRAIT — Passage between the island of New Guinea and Australia's Cape York Peninsula. It connects the Coral Sea and the Arafura …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
TORRES STRAIT — geographical name strait 80 miles (129 kilometers ) wide between island of New Guinea & N tip of Cape York …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TORRES STRAIT — Pronunciation: ' to ̇ r- ə s Function: geographical name strait 80 mi (129 km ) wide bet. island of …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
TORRES STRAIT — геогр. пролив Торреса
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — геогр. пролив Торреса
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TORRES STRAIT — геогр. пролив Торреса
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — _n. Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — n. Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — прол. Торреса
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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TORRES STRAIT — Торресов пролив
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STRAIT — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Bass Strait Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of …
Английский словарь Британика
STRAIT — n. Bass Strait Belle Isle Strait of Canso Strait of Chatham Strait Cook Strait Davis Strait Dover Strait of Euripus …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STRAIT — a. strett; n. strette; desfacilitá
English interlingue dictionary
STRAIT — hiktin
English-Visayan vocabulary
TORRES — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) {{link=Torres Strait">Torres Strait Torres Strait Islands
Английский словарь Британика
STRAIT — I. ˈstrāt, usu -ād.+V adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English streit, strait, straight, from Old French estreit, from Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STRAIT — ( a. ) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STRAIT — — straitly , adv. — straitness , n. /strayt/ , n. 1. Often, straits . ( used with a sing. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STRAIT — I. ˈstrāt adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estreit, from Latin strictus strait, strict, from past participle of stringere Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STRAIT — adj a variant of straight. 2. strait ·superl narrow; not broad. 3. strait ·adv strictly; rigorously. 4. strait ·adj a …
Webster English vocab
STRAIT — [strait] adj [ME, fr. OF estreit, fr. L strictus strait, strict, fr. pp. of stringere] (13c) 1 archaic: strict, rigorous …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TORRES — Torres BrE AmE ˈtɒr ɪs ˈtɔːr-, -ɪz, § -əs AmE ˈtɔːr əs
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STRAIT — strait BrE AmE streɪt ▷ straits streɪts
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STRAIT — / streɪt; NAmE / noun 1. [ pl. ] (also straits ) (especially in the names of places) a narrow …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAIT — strait /streɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: strait 'narrow' (13-20 centuries) , from Old French estreit …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STRAIT — n. & adj. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large bodies …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STRAIT — n. & adj. --n. 1. (in sing. or pl.) a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large bodies …
Oxford English vocab
STRAIT — ( straits) 1. You can refer to a narrow strip of sea which joins two large areas of sea as …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STRAIT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE desperate ▪ Without papal assistance, crown finances would have been in even more desperate …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STRAIT — [noun] [C usually plural] - a narrow area of sea which connects two larger areas of seaThe Straits of GibraltarThe …
Cambridge English vocab
TORRES — Torres Bodet Jaime Torres Strait Torres Strait Islands
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STRAIT — noun 1 narrow piece of water connecting seas, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ narrow VERB + STRAIT ▪ go through , pass …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
STRAIT — n. 25B6; noun a strait about six miles wide : CHANNEL, sound, inlet, stretch of water. the company is in …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
STRAIT — laced adj. priggish, prim, conservative, old-fashioned, Victorian, old-maidish, proper, prudish, puritanical, moralistic, strict, narrow-minded, (over-)scrupulous, fussy, Colloq pernickety or US …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait ≈ в отчаянном положении …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STRAIT — strait.ogg _I 1. streıt n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STRAIT — I 1. [streıt] n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of Dover …
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STRAIT — _I 1. streıt n 1. обыкн. pl (узкий) пролив the Strait of Magellan - Магелланов пролив the Straits of Dover …
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STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив the Straits of Gibraltar — Гибралтарский пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив the Straits of Gibraltar — Гибралтарский пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
STRAIT — - pelvic strait
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STRAIT — - pelvic strait
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STRAIT — пролив - international strait
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
STRAIT — сущ. 1) часто мн. пролив 2) обыкн. мн. затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства, нужда in desperate strait ≈ в отчаянном положении …
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TORRES VEDRAS — geographical name town W Portugal N of Lisbon
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS — Island group (pop., 1981: 6,000), in the Torres Strait . They are inhabited by a mixture of Polynesians, Melanesians, and …
Английский словарь Британика
TORRES VILLARROEL, DIEGO DE — born c. 1693, , Salamanca, Spain died June 19, 1770, Salamanca mathematician and writer, famous in his own time as …
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TORRES VEDRAS — town and concelho, (municipality), Lisboa district, Portugal, north of Lisbon. Roman inscriptions were found there, but the Latin name of …
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TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS — island group in the Torres Strait, north of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, south of the island of New Guinea. …
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TORRES BODET, JAIME — born April 17, 1902, Mexico City, Mex. died May 13, 1974, Mexico City Mexican poet, novelist, educator, and statesman. Torres …
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PORTO TORRES — Latin Turris Libisonis, town, Sassari province, northwestern Sardinia, Italy. It lies along the Gulf of Asinara (an inlet of the …
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TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS — Island group (pop., 1981: 6,000), in the Torres Strait . They are inhabited by a mixture of Polynesians, Melanesians, and …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
THURSDAY ISLAND — geographical name island NE Australia off N Queensland in Torres Strait
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
YORK, CAPE — Northern point of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland , Australia. Australia's northernmost point, it is about 15 mi (25 km) long …
Английский словарь Британика

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