Straiter vs Straiten - What's the difference?
straiter | straiten |
(strait)
(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:
To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.
(senseid) To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
As an adjective straiter
is (strait).As a verb straiten is
.straiter
English
Adjective
(head)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
*straiten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.
- "And the reason why Birds'' are ''Oviparous'' and ''lay Eggs , but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much."
- Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.