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Definition: BAYS |
BAYSNoun1. Alt. of Bayze |
Date "BAYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. A bay is the reverse, an area of water bordering land on three sides. Headlands and bays are usually, but not always, found together on the same stretch of coastline. Headlands and bays form on concordant coastlines, where bands of rock of alternating resistance run perpendicular to the coast. Bays form where weak (less resistant) rocks (such as sands and clays) are eroded, leaving bands of stronger (more resistant) rocks (such as chalk, limestone, granite) forming a headland, or peninsula. Wave refraction occurs on headlands concentrating wave energy on them so many other landforms, such as caves, natural archs and stacks, form on headlands. Wave refraction disperses wave energy through the bay, and along with the sheltering effect of the headlands this protects bays from storms. This effect means that the waves reaching the shore in a bay are usually constructive waves, and because of this most bays feature a beach. A bay may be only metres accros, or it could be hundreds of kilometres accros.Headlands and bays may also form in lakes.
Sometimes bays may also form where movements of the earth's crust (tectonics) bring areas of land together, or move them apart. Usually these bays are referred to as seas or gulfs and not bays.
Headlands, particularly large headlands, may also be called peninsulas, or where they dramatically affect the ocean currents they are called capes.
"Capes and bays geography" is a derogatory term for the approach to teaching geography that requires students to rote learn the names of large number of geographical features rather than taking a more theoretically driven approach.
List of some well-known bays
- Africa
- Europe
- Bay of Biscay in France
- Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland
- Gulf of Finland between Finland and Estonia
- Lyme Bay off the southern coast of England
- Riddarfjärden in Stockholm
- Asia
- Bay of Bengal, near Bengal (India/Bangladesh)
- Persian Gulf between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran
- Subic Bay in the Phillipines, the site of a former US Navy base
- North American, Central America and the Caribbean
- Bay of Pigs on Cuba
- Mexican Gulf between Mexico and the United States
- San Francisco Bay
- South America
- Australasia
- Great Australian Bight off the south coast of Australia
- Botany Bay, near Sydney, Australia
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand
- Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
External links
- GeoResources - diagrams of headland and bay formation
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Headlands and bays."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BAYS | English | British Association of Young Scientists | Engineering & Technology, Labor |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BAYSSynonyms: Coves, Estuaries, Gulfs, Inlets, Sounds (Geomorphology). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Title | Decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward. |
Trophy | Noun: trophy; medal, prize, palm, award; laurel, laurels; bays, crown, chaplet, wreath, civic crown; insignia; feather in one's cap; (honor); decoration; garland, triumphal arch, Victoria Cross, Iron Cross. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BAYS |
| English words defined with "BAYS": Bayed, bonnet shark, bonnethead ♦ diving duck ♦ Fundulus majalis ♦ Gemel window, gray whale ♦ Lagodon rhomboides ♦ mayfish ♦ pinfish, Pristis pectinatus ♦ sailor's-choice, sea robin, searobin, shovelhead, smalltooth sawfish, Sphyrna tiburo, squirrelfish, striped killifish ♦ Tide wave. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BAYS": barge captain, black mud, Breaches ♦ DREDGE CAPTAIN, DREDGE MATE, dredge operator, dredge runner ♦ ease-water, embayed coast, embayed shore, Esturine waters ♦ FERRYBOAT CAPTAIN, finish inspector ♦ half-timbered house ♦ LIQUOR-BRIDGE-OPERATOR HELPER, LOG SORTER ♦ magnetic bay, MASTER, PASSENGER BARGE ♦ PAINT-SPRAY INSPECTOR ♦ scow captain, Spilhaus-Miller sea sampler, studio technician-video operator ♦ TRUCK LOADER, OVERHEAD CRANE ♦ videotape engineer, VIDEOTAPE OPERATOR. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bubble Shell, Haminoea sp. is seasonally abundant intertidally and subtidally on mud flats and sandy-mud bottomed bays from Alaska to the Gulf of California. The shell is fragile, translucent, and too small to contain the body. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Raptor 4001 shows its claws during a recent side-weapons-bay-doors-open test at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The F-22 is designed to carry two AIM-9 Sidewinder short-range, heat-seeking air-to-air missiles in its side weapons bays. The F-22 flight test. |
 | Has its six .50 caliber machine guns tested on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6), 10 April 1942. Note open gun bays in the plane's wings and markings below the cockpit ("6F9" with no dashes between letters and numerals). Credit: NAVY. |  | Structures, one Mediterranean style with two buildings connected by arcade (12 bays). Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pure Oil Company 20 ft. special service station with 2 service bays. Per spective elevation, plan and horizontal section] / [by] C.A.P. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Whitefish and McGregor's bays from Mt. Arabella, Georgian Bay, Ontario. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Section of one of the bays of a converted Midwestern farm implement plant now producing steam cargo winches for the Maritime Commission. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, 9th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Post office window bays. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Auckland North" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "These cliffs run all the way up the North Shore of Auckland breaking sometimes to form very picturesque bays. We went fishing in the new boat :)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It had projections, angles, black holes, recesses under the roof, bays, and promontories |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Estonia | Estonia boasts over 1,500 lakes, numerous bogs, and 3,794km of coastline marked by numerous bays, straits, and inlets. (references) |
Switzerland | In 2000, Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. had a total of 86 units rolling off its assembly bays, comprising 13 trainer units, 69 PC-12 and 4 units of the PC-6. Last year Pilatus Aircraft and its subsidiary companies registered record gross sales of Swiss francs 541.3 million ($ 318 million). (references) | |
Uae | Dubai will invest US $1.4 billion to increase passenger throughput from 12 to 60 million by 2015. This project has four main elements: (1) US $ 763 million for a 3rd terminal and 2nd concourse with 28 new departure gates and 62 parking bays by 2006. The underground check-in area will be the size of Heathrow's Terminal 4. Projected is a luxury hotel with restaurants, health spa and pool, business/conference center and duty free complex 4 times larger than the existing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Nature has done so much for us by intersecting the country with so many great rivers, bays, and lakes, approaching from distant points so near to each other, that the inducement to complete the work seems to be peculiarly strong. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BAYS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.05% of the time. "BAYS" is used about 304 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 96.05% | 292 | 17,014 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.95% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 304 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BAYS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bays | Last name | 3,000 | 4,561 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BAYS": carry off the bays ♦ Hampton Bays. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BAYS": blast-bays. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BAYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | лаври (laurels). (various references) | |
Chinese | 海湾 (bay, loch). (various references) | |
Danish | dambrug,bassiner og afgrænsede rev (beds, ponds and enclosed bays), American Petroleum Institute's stoerrelsesnumre for boretaarne refererer til antallet af aabninger eller fag mellem oeverste og nederste tvaerstivere (the API size number of the derrick refers to the number of panels or bays between the uppermost and lowest girts). (various references) | |
Dutch | begrensde percelen,bassins en riffen (beds, ponds and enclosed bays), het API-nummer van de boortoren geeft het aantal panelen of vakken aan tussen de bovenste en deonderste spant (the API size number of the derrick refers to the number of panels or bays between the uppermost and lowest girts). (various references) | |
French | parcs,bassins et récifs délimités (ponds and enclosed bays), le numéro A.P.I.d'une tour ou d'un mât de forage représente le nombre de panneaux que compte la structure entre les traverses horizontales les plus hautes et les basses (the API size number of the derrick refers to the number of panels or bays between the uppermost and lowest girts). (various references) | |
German | Buchten (bights). (various references) | |
Greek | ο αριθμός Α.Ρ.Ι.ενός πύργου ή ενός ιστού γεωτρήσεως αντι τον αριθμό των πλαισίων,που αριθμεί η κατασκευή μεταξύ των οριζοντίων ανώτερων και (the API size number of the derrick refers to the number of panels or bays between the uppermost and lowest girts). (various references) | |
Hungarian | babérkoszorú, dicsőség (boast, glory, kudos, sun). (various references) | |
Italian | parchi,bacini e scogliere delimitati (beds, ponds and enclosed bays), il numero della misura API della torre si riferisce al numero di pannelli o campate della struttura fra le travi orizzontali più in alto e quelle più in basso (the API size number of the derrick refers to the number of panels or bays between the uppermost and lowest girts). (various references) | |
Korean | 만 (bay, gulf). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aysbay.(various references) | |
Spanish | laureles, corona de laurel. (various references) | |
Turkish | defne taç, şöhret (celebrity, distinction, fame, kudos, laurels, notability, notable, odor, odour, prominence, publicity, record, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute), ün (celebrity, distinction, fame, glory, kudos, laurels, name, prestige, prominence, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лаври (bay, laurels). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BAYS": embays, forebays, goombays, redbays, rosebays, sickbays. (additional references) | |
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"BAYS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abyes, abyis, abys, ays, babys, bacs, bacy, Bafs, bahs, baia, Baic, Baies, baii, baij, baio, baiq, bais, bajs, baps, baryes, basys, bauys, baye, bayes, Bayh, Bayisa, bayl, bayn, bayo, bayt, bayu, beisa, besy, beys, bg, bhays, biais, boays, Boycs, Boyns, boyse, buays, Bya, byad, byass, byast, obays, vays, Zbys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BAYS" (pronounced bā"z) |
| 3 | b ā" z | baize, obeys. |
| 2 | -ā" z | ablaze, allays, amaze, appraise, arrays, conveys, ballets, berets, betrays, blase, blaze, bouquets, braise, cabernets, cafes, chaise, chalets, clays, cliches, communiques, craze, dais, days, daze, decays, defrays, delays, dismays, displays, dossiers, essays, faze, filets, gays, gaze, glaze, Grays, graze, Hays, haze, jays, Kays, lase, lays, leis, leys, Lyonnaise, Maes, maize, malaise, Mays, maze, morays, nays, okays, pays, phase, phrase, plays, polonaise, portrays, praise, prays, preys, raise, Rase, rays, raze, reappraise, repays, rephrase, replays, Res, shays, sprays, stays, strays, surveys, sways, todays, trays, urokinase, ways, weighs, yeas. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abys. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-s-y" | |
-1 letter: abs, aby, ays, bas, bay, bys, sab, say. | |
-2 letters: ab, as, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-s-y" | |
+1 letter: abyes, abysm, abyss, bassy, brays. | |
+2 letters: abbeys, abysms, ballsy, baryes, basely, basify, bassly, bayous, belays, bialys, blasty, boyars, boylas, brashy, brassy, bunyas, bylaws, bypass, bypast, byways, embays, maybes, scabby, shabby, stably, suably, subway, swabby, usably, yerbas. | |
+3 letters: abysmal, abyssal, abysses, babyish, babysat, babysit, baileys, banyans, barleys, baryons, barytas, barytes, basally, bashlyk, batboys, bayamos, bayards, beastly, bendays, betrays, bewrays, bobstay, boyards, brashly, brayers, bursary, byelaws, bynames, bypaths, byplays, byroads, bytalks, byzants, carboys, cymbals, daybeds, embassy, eyebars, hushaby, kabayas, maybush, paystub, redbays, rosebay, sabayon, salably, sassaby, sayable, sickbay, sizably, soybean, squabby, standby, subways, syllabi, tymbals, useably, yabbers. | |
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