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BIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bight" is a kind of...):
center; centre; midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)
Holonyms ("bight" is a part of...):
rope (a strong line)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
Example:
the Great Australian Bight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("bight" is a kind of...):
bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
Instance hyponyms:
Bight of Benin (a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa)
Great Australian Bight (a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("bight" is a kind of...):
bend; crook; turn; twist (a circular segment of a curve)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A loop in a rope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("bight" is a kind of...):
loop (anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself))
Derivation:
bight (fasten with a bight)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fasten with a bight
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "bight" is one way to...):
fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
bight (a loop in a rope)
