different between bight vs fiord
bight
English
Etymology
From Middle English bight, bi?t, by?t (also bought, bowght, bou?t, see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”) . Compare bought.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: bite, by't, byte
Noun
bight (plural bights)
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- the bight of a horse's knee
- the bight of an elbow
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166
- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
- (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
- A curve in a rope
Related terms
- Bight of Benin
- Bight of Biafra
- German Bight
- Great Australian Bight
- New York Bight
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Parts of the knot
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fiord
English
Noun
fiord (plural fiords)
- (now chiefly New Zealand) Alternative spelling of fjord
Derived terms
- Fiordland
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
fiord m (plural fiords)
- fjord
French
Pronunciation
Noun
fiord m (plural fiords)
- Alternative spelling of fjord
Polish
Etymology
From Norwegian fjord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??rt/
Noun
fiord m inan
- fjord
- Fjord horse
- Synonyms: fiording, fiordyng
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) fiordowy
Related terms
- (nouns) fiording, fiordyng
Further reading
- fiord in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French fjord
Noun
fiord n (plural fiorduri)
- fjord
Declension
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