Bight

/baɪt/

Synonyms for "bight" (73 found)

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Closest matches (15)

angle apex arm armlet bay bayou belt bend bifurcation boca cant chevron

Noun(3 words)

bay bendbend of rope

Strong matches (22)

Noun(4 words)

coast indentationcoastal bendcoilcurved rope

coin corner cove crank creek crook crotchet deflection dogleg elbow ell estuary euripus fiord firth fjord fork frith

Related words (36)

furcation gulf gut harbor hook inflection inlet knee kylelloch mouth narrownarrow seasnarrowsnatural harbornook point quoin reach

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road roads roadstead slough sound strait straits swerve veer vertex zag zig zigzag

Noun(3 words)

inlet looprope loop

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More general

17 entries

bay bend center centre crook embayment fasten fixgeographic featureloop midpointphysical actionropework actionropework termsecure turn

Showing 16 of 17 words.

More specific

11 entries

bay coveform a bendgulf inletmake a looprope looprunning bightshape rope loopslack rope segmentstanding bight

Collocations

11 entries

bight around cleatbight in linebight of coastbight the ropecoastal bightcreate a bightform a bightrope bightrope loopshape into a bightslack rope

Inflections

3 entries

bighted bighting bights

Derivations

1 entries

bighted

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Heligoland is located in the German Bight.

Source: tatoeba (844843)

A bight is a long, gradual bend or recess in the shoreline that forms a large, open bay.

Source: tatoeba (6708724)

The Southern California Bight is the curved coastline between Point Conception and San Diego, and encompasses the Channel Islands.

Source: tatoeba (6708727)

the bight of a horse's knee

Source: wiktionary

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