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Definition: Dire Straits |
Dire StraitsNoun1. A state of extreme distress. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Dire StraitsSynonym: desperate straits (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dire Straits is an British rock band formed in 1976 by Mark Knopfler (guitar and vocals), David Knopfler (guitar), John Illsley (guitar) and Pick Withers (drums).
Dire Straits recorded and released their first, self-titled album in 1978 to little fanfare but five months later a single release, "Sultans Of Swing" became an unlikely chart hit and album sales took off. The second album followed soon afterward; these first two albums featured a stripped-down band sound. The third album, Making Movies featured keyboardist Roy Bittan (from Bruce Springsteen's band) and marked a move towards more complex arrangements and production which would continue throughout the band's career. The band's 1985 release Brothers in Arms was an international hit and spawned several singles including the number one hit "Money for Nothing". A long period of inactivity followed with only a hits compilation and a live set released for the next six years. The band's final original studio album, On Every Street was released in 1991 to mixed reviews and moderate success. Mark Knopfler would later concentrate on solo projects and film music.
The band's line-up changed over the years, but one constant was Mark Knopfler, who wrote most of the band's songs and acted as clear leader of the band. (The best-of album Sultans of Swing contains only two songs not credited to Knopfler alone: "Money For Nothing", which he co-wrote with Sting, and "Tunnel of Love", which contains an instrumental section based on music from Carousel but is otherwise all Knopfler's own work.)
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Expression using "dire straits": in dire straits. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "dire straits"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 苦境 (grievance). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | stretta (bite, clasp, clutch, defile, embrace, firm hold, grasp, grip, hand-grip, hold, hug, jam, nip, pinch, press, squeeze). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ireday aitsstray sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), müthiş sıkıntı. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-r-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: artistries. | |
-2 letters: arteritis, distraite, irritated, irritates, redstarts, satirised, starriest, traitress. | |
-3 letters: artistes, artsiest, diarists, diasters, dirtiest, disaster, disrates, distaste, distrait, ditsiest, irritate, rarities, redstart, restarts, satirise, satirist, sitarist, staidest, starters, straiter, striated, striates, striders, tardiest, tarriest, tarsiers. | |
-4 letters: airiest, aridest, arrests, arrises, artiest, artiste, artists, artsier, astride, attired, attires, dairies, daisies, darters, diaries, diarist. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-r-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: disintegrators, distributaries, transistorised, transistorized. | |
+4 letters: radiotherapists. | |
+5 letters: administratrices, osteoarthritides, prestidigitators. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 72 65 53 74 72 61 69 74 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i r e   S t r a i t s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0072 0065 0053 0074 0072 0061 0069 0074 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758471253868467758685 |
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