Strait of Malacca
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~ the strait between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra; it connects the Pacific Ocean to the east with the Indian Ocean to the west and is an important shipping lane
strait
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~ narrow; "strait is the gate"
strait-laced
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~ exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
straiten
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~ squeeze together
straiten
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~ bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
straitjacket
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~ a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
straitjacket
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~ anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
straitlaced
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~ exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
straits
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~ a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
straits
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~ a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
strake
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~ thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
Strand
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~ a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
strand
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~ a necklace made by stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"
strand
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~ a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
strand
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~ a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
strand
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~ a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
strand
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~ line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
strand
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~ bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"
strand
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~ leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned"