Bight vs Blight - What's the difference?
bight | blight |
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
*1905 ,
An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
A curve in a rope
*1899 ,
any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts
the bacterium, virus or fungus that causes such a condition
(by extension) anything that impedes growth or development or spoils any other aspect of life
To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
* Woodward
To suffer blight.
to spoil or ruin (something)
* Byron
As nouns the difference between bight and blight
is that bight is a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow while blight is any of many plant diseases causing damage to, or the death of, leaves, fruit or other parts.As a verb blight is
to affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.bight
English
Noun
(en noun)- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- 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.
See also
*blight
English
Noun
(wikipedia blight)Derived terms
* alder blight * American blight * aphis-blight * apple blight * bean blight * beet blight * blight bird * blight canker * blight in the eye * blight-beetle * blighted * blighty * blister blight * cane blight * celery blight * chestnut blight * coffee blight * collar blight * early blight * fire blight, fireblight * frictional blight * functional blight * fusarium ear blight, fusarium head blight * green blight * halo blight * head blight * kernel blight * late blight * leaf blight * moth blight * needle blight * northern corn-leaf blight, northern leaf blight * oak blight * peach blight * pear blight * pine blight * planning blight * potato blight * rim blight * sandy blight * seedling blight * southern blight * Sphaeropsis blight * spinach blight * spur blight * stamen blight * stem blight * stripe blight * thread blight * tomato blight * twig blight * urban blight * walnut blightVerb
(en verb)- [This vapour] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
- This vine never blights .
- Those obscene tattoos are going to blight your job prospects.
- seared in heart and lone and blighted