Bay vs Opening - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A berry.
, a shrub of the family Lauraceae , having dark green leaves and berries.
The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
The leaf of this or certain other species of shrub, used as a herb.
* Trumbull
(US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
A kind of mahogany obtained from (Campeche) in Mexico.
(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
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, title= A bank or dam to keep back water.
An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
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(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
(rail transport) A bay platform.
Shortened form of bay window.
The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
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To howl.
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To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
A horse of this color.
An act or instance of making or becoming open.
Something that is open.
An act or instance of beginning.
Something that is a beginning.
# The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
# The initial period a show at an art gallery or museum is first opened, especially the first evening.
# The first few measures of a musical composition.
# (chess) The first few moves in a game of chess.
A vacant position, especially in an array.
# A time available in a schedule.
# An unoccupied employment position.
An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
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Bay is a related term of opening.
As an adverb bay
is brazenly.As a verb opening is
.As a noun opening is
an act or instance of making or becoming open.As an adjective opening is
(cricket).bay
English
(wikipedia bay)Etymology 1
From (etyl) baye, baie, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes .
- The patriot's honours and the poet's bays .
Synonyms
* bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurelDerived terms
* bayberry * bay laurel * bay leaf * bay rum * bay rum tree * bay tree * red bay * sweet bayEtymology 2
From (etyl) baie, from baia.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Synonyms
* (body of water) gulfDerived terms
* California bayEtymology 3
From (etyl) baie, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
Derived terms
* bay platform * bay window * bomb bay * buggy bay * loading bayEtymology 4
From (etyl) bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form (etyl) baier, abaier.Noun
(en noun)- Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay .
- The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.
Derived terms
* at bayVerb
(en verb)- The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed .
- to bay the bear
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* bay at the moonEtymology 5
From (etyl) baie, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* bay cat * bay lynxNoun
(-)Quotations
* (English Citations of "bay")See also
* abeyance * badinage * baize * daphne * voe * * *Anagrams
* ----opening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The daily openings of the day lily bloom gives it its name.
- He remembered fondly the Christmas morning opening of presents.
- A salamander darted out of an opening in the rocks.
- He slipped through an opening in the crowd.
- There have been few factory and store openings in the US lately.
- Their opening of the concert with ''Brass in Pocket'' always fires up the crowd.
- They were disappointed at the turnout for their opening , but hoped that word would spread.
- John spends two hours a day studying openings , and another two hours studying endgames.
- Are there likely to be any openings on the Supreme Court in the next four years?
- If you'd like to make a booking with us, we have an opening at twelve o'clock.
- The only two-hour openings for the hockey rink are between 1AM and 5AM.
- We have an opening in our marketing department.
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