Strait vs Poverty - What's the difference?
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(archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
* Emerson
* 1866 , , Aholibah , lines 53-55
* 1900 , , To One in Bedlam , lines 3-5
(archaic) Righteous, strict.
* 1597 , , IV. iii. 79:
* Bible, Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.)
(obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
* 1613 , , III. vi. 86:
(obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) Difficult; distressful; straited.
* Secker
(obsolete) Parsimonious; niggardly; mean.
* 1596 , , V. vii. 42:
(geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
* De Foe
A narrow pass or passage.
* Spenser
* 1602 , , III. iii. 154:
A neck of land; an isthmus.
* Tennyson
A difficult position (often used in plural).
* South
* Broome
(obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
* 1593 , , III. ii. 20:
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
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Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Strait is a related term of poverty.
As nouns the difference between strait and poverty
is that strait is (geography) a narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water while poverty is the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.As an adjective strait
is (archaic) narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.As a verb strait
is (obsolete) to put to difficulties.As an adverb strait
is (obsolete) strictly; rigorously.strait
English
Adjective
(er)- too strait and low our cottage doors
- Sweet oil was poured out on thy head
- And ran down like cool rain between
- The strait close locks it melted in.
- Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line
- His strait , caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,
- Pedant and pitiful.
- to follow the strait and narrow
- some certain edicts and some strait decrees
- the straitest sect of our religion
- Is not this piece too strait ? / No, no, 'tis well.
- a strait degree of favour
- to make your strait' circumstances yet ' straiter
- I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait , / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
Usage notes
The adjective is often confused with straight.Derived terms
* straitjacket * strait-lacedNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia strait)- The Strait of Gibraltar
- We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait , though it be fifteen miles broad.
- He brought him through a darksome narrow strait / To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
- For honour travels in a strait so narrow / Where one but goes abreast.
- a dark strait of barren land
- to be in dire straits
- Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
- Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
Derived terms
* dire straitsAdverb
(en adverb)- Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester
Anagrams
*poverty
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty' line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the '''poverty''' barrier. But '''poverty'''’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own ' poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}