The Bosporus is a narrow, 20-mile long strait connecting the Mediterranean and Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea.
From a Scottish surname which was derived from Gaelic caol meaning "narrows, channel, strait".
Long Streets, Yet Strait of the Medieval Town is a poem about a medieval town. It was written by Emmanuel George Cefai.
Kyla is the female version of Kyle which comes from a Scottish surname which was derived from Gaelic caol meaning "narrows, channel, strait"
The first inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere came from Asia. At a time when the Bering Strait was frozen, they were able to walk from Siberia to Alaska.
The term "dire straits" which means desperate circumstances has no particular origin. It is just one of those phrases which people adopted as a cliche to describe a particular thing.It is spelled strait - it has no relation to straight. A strait is a difficult circumstance.The word, dire, comes from the Latin word, dirus, which has a meaning close to terrifying. The word, strait, is a derivation of the word, straight, and originally had a similar meaning - tight and/or narrow. In the 14th century, it's meaning became more specified to mean narrow waterway.A literal translation for dire straits, then, would be terrifying narrow (or tight) waterway. A very nice metaphor for what we understand this phrase to mean.
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strait of Gibraltar
there's the sierra strait, the sally strait and the smith strait.
The strait that separates northern Asia and Alaska is the Bering Strait.
This is the Strait of Otranto.
It's called the Palk Strait.
A Strait is a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies, as in the Strait of Gibraltar or Strait of Magellan, the Strait of Georgia
Straight is the homophone for strait.
The STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR is the only strait near Morocco.
The Strait of Gibraltar
Taiwan or Formosa strait