Bight

Definitions: Bight

Bight

Noun

1. A loop in a rope.

2. A bend or curve (especially in a coastline).

3. A broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin".

4. The middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends).

Verb

1. Fasten with a bight.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Gulf Lake

Noun: 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.

Crosswords: Bight

Books

• A sun shower from Jacks Bight (2 VOLS) (reference)

• Beware the Bight of Benin (Story Sound/6 Audio Cassettes) (reference)

• Beware, Beware the Bight of Benin (reference)

• From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930 (reference)

• Islanders and Mainlanders: Prehistoric Context for the Southern California Bight (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dr. Dill expounding on his views of the geology of the South Australia Bight OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Swim call! Undaunted by Jaws movies, ALBATROSS IV crewman dives into waters off Menempsha Bight.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bathymetric map of the United States continental shelf and slope off the New York Bight area. This map was derived from Coast and Geodetic Survey soundings and was published in the 1970's.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

New Bight, Cat Island, July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Leaving us at New Bight, Cat Island, July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Young baby held by mother, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas, July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Two women of Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cleveland Simmons (tallest), and others, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas, July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Eliz Austin and children with Cleveland Simmons, Old Bight, Cat Island, July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Alexander Rolle (?), Old Bight, Cat Island, July 1935.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Benin

Benin is bounded by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the north, Nigeria to the east, and the Bight of Benin to the south. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "bight": bight of Benin. Additional references.

Albanian

tegel (dart, seam, selvage), gji (bay, boob, bosom, bowels, breast, chest, entrails, gulf, inlet, milk, tit, womb), cep (cusp, horn, nook, projection, prominence, prominency, snick, tip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منعطف في شاطئ, ‏منعطف (bend, curve, kink, serpentine, turn, turning, twist), ‏عقدة في حبل (bend), ‏خليج (bay, cape, gulf, inlet, lough). (various references)

Bulgarian 

завой на река, залив (bay, embayment, fleet, gulf, hope), примка на въже (eye, slipknot). (various references)

Chinese 

海岸线 (coastline, shoreline). (various references)

Czech

smyèka provazu. (various references)

Danish

Tyske Bugt (Heligoland Bay, Heligoland Bight). (various references)

Dutch

Duitse Bocht (Heligoland Bay, Heligoland Bight). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ وخم (Cochlea, Maze), پیچ رودخانه , حلقه طناب (Loop), خلیج کوچک (Bay, Inlet), باطناب بستن (Rope, Trice). (various references)

French

boucle, baie, golfe, anse. (various references)

German

bucht (bay, bayou, box stall, cage, camber, cove, crop, crown of beam, golf, gulf, Loch, round of beam, stall). (various references)

Greek 

κολπίσκοσ (estuary), βρόχοσ (loop, mesh, noose, snare, springe), θηλιά σχοινιού. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפרץ (bay, cove, gulf, haven, inlet). (various references)

Hungarian

hurok (bow, halter, hitch, kink, knot, lobe, loop, noose, sling, slip knot, snare, snarl, springe), hajlat (bend, camber, crook, curve, elbow, run, shoulder, sinus, valley), öböl (bay, golf, gulf, sinus, trough). (various references)

Indonesian

teluk (firth, gulf). (various references)

Italian

baia (bay, cove), doppino, ansa (Advanced Network Systems Architecture, ANSA, cove, creek, handle, inoculation loop, loop, smear loop). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightbay

Portuguese

laçada (loop, mesh, stitch), esquina (angle, cant, coign, coin, corner, elbow, quoin, street corner), cabo (câblé, cable, Cape, cord, corporal, end, flex, fold, foreland, gimp, grip, gripe, guy, guy wire, hand, hand grip, handle, hawser, head, headland, helve, hilt, hokum, hook, hub, knob, leg pull, naze, non commissioned officer, non-com, ply, preventer, rope, stock, tail, thick rope, wire rope), angra (cove, Creek, inlet). (various references)

Russian 

бухта троса, бухта (bay, coil, cove). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamka (catch, deadfall, gin, mesh, noose, pitfall, snare, springe, trap), zaliv (bay, gulf), omča (loop, noose, sling, springe), labavi deo konopca. (various references)

Spanish

entrante (close, cove, entrant, following, future, inbound, incoming, ingoing, inlet, near, nearby, new, next, recess, re-entrant, starter), ensenada (cove, Creek, inlet). (various references)

Swedish

bukt (bay, bend, coil, cove, creek, flexion, fold, gulf, turn, winding), vik (bay, inlet). (various references)

Thai

โค้งยาวตามชายฝั่ง. (various references)

Turkish

roda, koy (arm, armlet, basin, bay, cove, Creek, indentation, inlet, Loch, sound), körfez (arm, bay, cove, Firth, gulf, indentation, inlet, Loch, Lough), halat bedeni. (various references)

Ukranian 

згин (bending, buckle, crease, flection, flexion, fold, ply, wimple, wind, winding, wriggle), закрут (circumvolution, meanders, wriggle), бухта (bay, sinus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chỗ lõm v� o. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bight": bighted, bighting, bights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bageho, baghy, Bakht, Becht, beigh, Bichat, Bichitr, bift, Bigah, bigat, biget, biggut, bigh, bigit, Bigshot, bigst, biha, bilgh, boght, boghte, boghten, Bukht, byt, dight, ight. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: big, bit, ghi, gib, git, hit.

-3 letters: bi, hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: bights, blight, bright.

+2 letters: bathing, bedight, bighted, bigshot, blights, blighty, brights.

+3 letters: batching, bedights, beknight, berthing, bighting, bigmouth, bigshots, birthing, bitching, blighted, blighter, botching, brighten, brighter, brightly, habiting, thumbing, unbright.

+4 letters: backlight, bedighted, beknights, benighted, bigmouths, blighters, blighties, blighting, blotching, bombsight, bothering, breathing, brightens, brightest, bullfight, eightball, eyebright, lightbulb, nightclub, thighbone, throbbing.

+5 letters: adhibiting, backlights, beclothing, bedighting, beknighted, beshouting, besoothing, bethanking, bethinking, bethorning, bethumping, betrothing, bewitching, bighearted, bigmouthed, birthright, blathering, blethering, blithering, bombsights, breathings, brightened, brightener, brightness, brightwork, brothering, bullfights, burthening, butchering, cohabiting, cohobating, eightballs, exhibiting, eyebrights, hebetating, inhabiting, inhibiting, lightbulbs, nightclubs, overbright, sunbathing, thighbones, thimblerig.

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