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English

Etymology

From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”).

Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baɪt/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪt
Homophones: bite, by't, byte

Noun

bight (plural bights)

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
the bight of a horse's knee

the bight of an elbow
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166:
  I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
(geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
A curve in a rope.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
  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.

Related terms

Translations

bend

Bulgarian: чупка (bg) f (čupka)
Dutch: bocht (nl)
Finnish: mutka (fi) (corner); kuoppa (fi) (hollow)
Hungarian: hajlás (hu), hajlat (hu), öblösödés (hu), bemélyedés (hu), szöglet (hu), kanyar (hu), kanyarulat (hu)
Ido: sesgo (io)
Russian: изги́б (ru) m (izgíb)
Spanish: curva (es) f, corva (es) f (of knee), sangradura (es) f (of elbow)

large bay

Bulgarian: бухта f (buhta)
Catalan: badia oberta f
Dutch: bocht (nl)
Finnish: lahti (fi)
French: baie (fr) f
Georgian: უბე (ka) (ube)
German: Bucht (de) f
Hungarian: öböl (hu), tengeröböl (hu)
Italian: ansa (it) f, baia (it) f
Maori: kokoru, kokorutanga, kowhanenga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bukt (no) m or f
Polish: zatoka (pl) f
Portuguese: enseada (pt)
Russian: бу́хта (ru) f (búxta)
Spanish: ensenada (es) f

curve

Bulgarian: бухта f (buhta), навито въже (navito vǎže)
Dutch: lus (nl)
Finnish: mutka (fi), puhti (fi)
Hungarian: hurok (hu)
Russian: пе́тля, петля́ (ru) f (pétlja, petljá)
Spanish: lazo (es) m

Verb

bight (third-person singular simple present bights, present participle bighting, simple past and past participle bighted)

(transitive) To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

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 ===Etymology===
-{{PIE root|en|bʰewgʰ}}
+{{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰewgʰ-}}
-From {{etyl|enm|en}} {{m|enm|bight}}, {{m|enm|biȝt}}, {{m|enm|byȝt}} (also {{m|enm|bought}}, {{m|enm|bowght}}, {{m|enm|bouȝt}}, see {{l|en|bought}}), from {{etyl|ang|en}} {{m|ang|byht||bend, angle, corner; bay, bight}}, from {{etyl|gem-pro|en}} {{m|gem-pro|*buhtiz||bend, curve}}, from {{etyl|ine-pro|en}} {{m|ine-pro|*bʰūgʰ-||to bend}}. Cognate with {{cog|sco|bicht||bight}}, {{cog|nl|bocht||bend, curve}}, {{cog|nds|Bucht||bend, bay}}, {{cog|de|Bucht||bay, bight}}, {{cog|da|bugt||bay}}, {{cog|is|bugða||curve}}, {{cog|sq|butë||soft, flabby}} . Compare {{l|en|bought}}.
+From {{inh|en|enm|bight}}, {{m|enm|biȝt}}, {{m|enm|byȝt}} (also {{m|enm|bought}}, {{m|enm|bowght}}, {{m|enm|bouȝt}}; see {{m|en|bought}}), from {{inh|en|ang|byht|t=bend, angle, corner; bay, bight}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*buhti}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*buhtiz|t=bend, curve}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰūgʰ-|t=to bend}}.
+Cognate with {{cog|sco|bicht|t=bight}}, {{cog|nl|bocht|t=bend, curve}}, {{cog|nds|Bucht|t=bend, bay}}, {{cog|de|Bucht|t=bay, bight}}, {{cog|da|bugt|t=bay}}, {{cog|is|bugða|t=curve}}, {{cog|sq|butë|t=soft, flabby}}.
 ===Pronunciation===
-* {{IPA|/baɪt/|lang=en}}
+* {{IPA|en|/baɪt/}}
+** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bight.wav|a=Southern England}}
-* {{rhymes|aɪt|lang=en}}
-* {{homophones|bite|byte|lang=en}}
+* {{rhymes|en|aɪt|s=1}}
+* {{homophones|en|bite|by't|byte}}
 ===Noun===
 {{en-noun}}
+[[File:Great Australian Bight map.png|thumb|230px|right|Map of {{w|Australia}}, showing the {{w|Great Australian Bight}}.]]
 [[File:Bight.jpg|thumb|A '''bight''' (curve in a rope)]]
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 #: ''the '''bight''' of a horse's knee''
 #: ''the '''bight''' of an elbow''
-#* '''1905''', [[w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson]], ''[[s:Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes_(1905)|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]'', [[s:Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes_(1905)/Chapter_5|page 166]]
+#* {{quote-text|en|year=1905|author=w:Robert Louis Stevenson|title=[[s:Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_Cevennes_(1905)|Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]|section=[[s:Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes/The Country of the Camisards|page 166]]
-#*: I spied a '''bight''' of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
+|passage=I spied a '''bight''' of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.}}
 # An [[area]] of [[sea]] lying between two [[promontories]], [[larger]] than a [[bay]], [[wider]] than a [[gulf]]
-# {{lb|en|geography}}  a bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature
+# {{lb|en|geography}} A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
-# A [[curve]] in a [[rope]]
+# A [[curve]] in a [[rope]].
+#* {{RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness|part=I|passage=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.}}
-#* '''1899''', [[w:Joseph Conrad|Joseph Conrad]], ''[[s:Heart of Darkness|Heart of Darkness]]'', [[s:Heart of Darkness/Section I|section 1]]
-#*: 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.
 ====Related terms====
 * {{l|en|Bight of Benin}}
 * {{l|en|Bight of Biafra}}
+* {{l|en|German Bight}}
 * {{l|en|Great Australian Bight}}
 * {{l|en|New York Bight}}
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 * Dutch: {{t+|nl|bocht}}
 * Finnish: {{t+|fi|mutka}} {{qualifier|corner}}; {{t+|fi|kuoppa}} {{qualifier|hollow}}
+* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hajlás}}, {{t+|hu|hajlat}}, {{t+|hu|öblösödés}}, {{t+|hu|bemélyedés}}, {{t+|hu|szöglet}}, {{t+|hu|kanyar}}, {{t+|hu|kanyarulat}}
 * Ido: {{t+|io|sesgo}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|изги́б|m}}
 * Spanish: {{t+|es|curva|f}}, {{t+|es|corva|f}} {{qualifier|of knee}}, {{t+|es|sangradura|f}} {{qualifier|of elbow}}
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 {{trans-top|large bay}}
 * Bulgarian: {{t|bg|бухта|f}}
+* Catalan: {{t|ca|badia oberta|f}}
 * Dutch: {{t+|nl|bocht}}
 * Finnish: {{t+|fi|lahti}}
+* French: {{t+|fr|baie|f}}
-{{trans-mid}}
+* Georgian: {{t+|ka|უბე}}
 * German: {{t+|de|Bucht|f}}
+* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|öböl}}, {{t+|hu|tengeröböl}}
+* Italian: {{t+|it|ansa|f}}, {{t+|it|baia|f}}
+* Maori: {{t|mi|kokoru}}, {{t|mi|kokorutanga}}, {{t|mi|kowhanenga}}
+* Norwegian:
+*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|bukt|m|f}}
+* Polish: {{t+|pl|zatoka|f}}
 * Portuguese: {{t+|pt|enseada}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|бу́хта|f}}
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 * Bulgarian: {{t|bg|бухта|f}}, {{t|bg|навито въже}}
 * Dutch: {{t+|nl|lus}}
-* Finnish: {{t|fi|puhti}}
+* Finnish: {{t+|fi|mutka}}, {{t+|fi|puhti}}
+* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hurok}}
-{{trans-mid}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|петля|f|alt=пе́тля, петля́}}
 * Spanish: {{t+|es|lazo|m}}
 {{trans-bottom}}
+===Verb===
+{{en-verb}}
+# {{lb|en|transitive}} To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.
 ===See also===
 * [[Appendix:Parts of the knot]]
+{{C|en|Bodies of water}}
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