1. bight(n = noun.shape) Array - a loop in a rope; Array
is a kind of loop
Derived form verb bight1
2. bight(n = noun.shape) Array - a bend or curve (especially in a coastline); Array
is a kind of bend, crook, turn, twist
3. bight(n = noun.object) Array - a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"
is a kind of bay, embayment
has particulars: bight of benin, great australian bight
4. bight(n = noun.artifact) Array - the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends); Array
is a kind of center, centre, midpoint
is a part of rope
bight(v = verb.contact) Array - fasten with a bight; Array
is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Derived form noun bight1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. [1913 Webster]
2. A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. [1913 Webster]
3. 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. [1913 Webster]
bight, n.
1 a curve or recess in a coastline, river, etc.
2 a loop of rope.
Etymology:
OE byht, MLG bucht f. Gmc: see BOW(2)
N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.