Cay

Definition: Cay

Cay

Noun

1. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.

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

Date "cay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Geography

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

CAY

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Cay

Crosswords: Cay

Cornish (wharf).

The Cay (1974)

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

Books

• A Guide for Using The Cay in the Classroom (reference)

• Doc Savage Omnibus: The Mindless Monsters, the Rustling Death, King Joe Cay, the Thing That Pursued (Doc Savage) (reference)

• Literature Circle Guide: The Cay (reference)

• Prisoner of Pedro Cay (reference)

• The Cay (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Eastern Cay (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Islands in the stream - the cays on the north side of Pillsbury Sound British Virgin Islands to the left - St. Johns to the right Picture taken from the top of Thatch Cay.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Surf and rock on the north end of Congo Cay.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Conducting range-azimuth hydrography at Pelican Cay All of the elements of range-azimuth Observer tracking boat with Wild T-2 theodolite Party off of WHITING.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

26' plastic pig at the end of a hydrographic survey line Approaching the northwest tip of Congo Cay Launch off of WHITING.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Dismantling the signal at Station Out, Thatch Cay Cleaning up at the end of a project Lt.(j.g.) Mike Kuhl cutting wire securing signal.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking across Pillsbury Sound to Thatch Cay.Credit: America's Coastlines.

View of Buck Island Reef National Monument from Chenay Bay on Green Cay.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Green Cay and Chenay Bay.Credit: America's Coastlines.

"Water Bay and Native Bringing in Fodder from Thatch Cay, St. Thomas." In: "The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands", by Theodoor De Booy and John T. Faris, 1918. J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia. P. 40. Library Call Number C/hc100 V81 B.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Aerial photograph of school of 400-500 pound bluefin tuna off Cat Cay, Bahamas Islands. The reason there are only adult tuna in the photo, is that they have come together for spawning.Credit: Fisheries.

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Economic History

Bahamas

It includes three resorts-Breakers Cay, Lighthouse Pointe, and Manor House-14 restaurants, meeting and convention rooms, and state-of-the-art amenities. (references)

The Bahamas

Other industries include sun-dried sea salt in Great Inagua, a wet dock facility in Freeport for repair of cruise ships, and mining of aragonite--a type of limestone with several industrial uses--from the sea floor at Ocean Cay. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

Under the new law, approval is automatically granted for non-Bahamians to purchase residential property of less than five acres on any single island in The Bahamas, except where the property constitutes over fifty percent of the land area of a cay (small island) or involves ownership of an airport or marina. (references)

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

Expression using "cay": Tega Cay. Additional references.

Albanian

sharrnajë (reef), ishull i ulët. (various references)

Arabic 

‏جزيرة صغيرة منخفضة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

коралов или пясъчен риф, плитчина (bar, flat, hurst, mud-bank, rift, shallow, shelf, shoal, slew). (various references)

French

banc de sable. (various references)

Greek 

χαμηλό αμμώδεσ ή κοραλιογενέσ νησί. (various references)

Hungarian

homokzátony (bank, flat, mud-bank, sand-bank, sand-spit). (various references)

Italian

banco di sabbia (sand bank, sand bar, sand reef, sandbank, sandbar). (various references)

Pig Latin

aycay

Portuguese

recife de coral (bank reef, coral reef, coralreef, platform reef, table reef), ilhota (ait, inch, islet). (various references)

Russian 

коралловый риф (coral reef, coral-reef), песчаная отмель (sand bar, sandbank, sandbanks). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sprud (key, sandbank, sandbar, shelf, shoal), koralni greben (coral reef). (various references)

Spanish

cayo, isla pequeña. (various references)

Swedish

rev (fishing line, fishing-line, reef, ripped, shelf), grund (bank, basic, basis, behalf, bottom, cause, footing, foundation, ground, root, shallow, shallows, shoal, shoals, soil, superficial). (various references)

Thai

เกาะเล็กๆ. (various references)

Ukranian 

шхерний острівець, кораловий риф, банка (cup, cupping glass, jar), піщана обмілина. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cay": cayenne, cayenned, cayennes, cayman, caymans, cays, cayuse, cayuses. (additional references)

Words ending with "cay": decay. (additional references)

Words containing "cay": alcayde, alcaydes, decayed, decayer, decayers, decaying, decays, picayune, picayunes, picayunish. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acey, acoy, acy, caby, cacy, cagy, cah, caie, Caig, caiu, caiv, caj, caky, Caly, camy, cany, caty, cau, cauy, cawy, caxy, caya, cayd, caye, cayl, cegy, cei, cey, ceye, chay, cii, cly, Cmyb, cqa, csy, Cty, cuay, cuy, Cuyo, cya, cyab, cyf, Cyg, cyy, Czyzk, kay, khay. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ay, ya.

+1 letter: achy, acyl, cagy, caky, cavy, cays, chay, clay, cyan, cyma, lacy, racy, yack, yuca.

+2 letters: acidy, acyls, cabby, caddy, cadgy, cagey, cakey, calyx, campy, candy, canny, canty, carny, carry, casky, catty, chary, chays, clary, clays, coaly, crazy, cyano, cyans, cycad, cycas, cymae, cymar, cymas, decay, fancy, farcy, jacky, kyack, lacey, lycea, nancy, saucy, scaly, scary, spacy, tacky, wacky, yacht, yacks, yucas, yucca.

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