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発音

• IPA: /baɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt
• 異形同音異義語: bite, by't, byte

名詞

bight (plural bights)

1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow

   the bight of a horse's knee

   the bight of an elbow

   • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166:

     I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.

2. (geography) An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
3. (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
4. A curve in a rope.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.

派生語

動詞

bight (third-person singular simple present bights, present participle bighting, simple past and past participle bighted)

1. (transitive) To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

参考

• Appendix:Parts of the knot