Definitions for bight
baɪtbight

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bightnoun

   a loop in a rope

2. bightnoun

   a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

3. bightnoun

   a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

   "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"

4. bightverb

   the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

5. bightverb

   fasten with a bight

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bightnoun

   A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

   I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cu00E9vennes)

2. bightnoun

   An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf

3. bightnoun

   A curve in a rope

4. Etymology: From bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt, see bought), from byht, from buhtiz, from bʰūgʰ-. Cognate with bicht, bocht, bucht, Bucht, bugt, bugða. Compare bought.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bightnoun

   It is explained by Stephen Skinner, the circumference of a coil of rope.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bight

   A bight is a bend or curve in a geographical feature, usually a coast, river, or mountain range. It can also refer to a loop or slack part in a rope or line.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bight

   a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow

2. Bight

   a bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin

3. Bight

   the double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bight

   In knot tying, a bight is a curved section or slack part between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn. "Any section of line that is bent into a U-shape is a bight." An open loop is a curve in a rope narrower than a bight but with separated ends. The term is also used in a more specific way when describing Turk's head knots, indicating how many repetitions of braiding are made in the circuit of a given knot.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bight

   bīt, n. a bend of the shore, or small bay: a bend or coil of a rope. [A.S. byht; cf. Dan. and Sw. bugt, Dut. bocht; from būgan, to bow.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bight

   A bend in a coast forming an open bay or an open bay formed by such a bend.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bight

   A substantive made from the preterperfect tense of bend. The space lying between two promontories or headlands, being wider and smaller than a gulf, but larger than a bay. It is also used generally for any coast-bend or indentation, and is mostly held as a synonym of shallow bay.

2. bight

   The loop of a rope when it is folded, in contradistinction to the end; as, her anchor hooked the bight of our cable, i.e. caught any part of it between the ends. The bight of his cable has swept our anchor, i.e. the bight of the cable of another ship as she ranged about has entangled itself about the flukes of our anchor. Any part of the chord or curvature of a rope between the ends may be called a bight.

Matched Categories

1. • Bay
   • Fasten
   • Loop
   • Turn

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How to pronounce bight?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bight in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bight in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bight
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bight
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bight
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bight
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bight
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bight
8. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=bight
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bight