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- Dictionarystrait-laced/ˌstreɪtˈleɪst/
adjective
- 1. having or showing very strict moral attitudes: "his strait-laced parents were horrified"
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1 day ago · The same idea was very neatly summarised in the 1951 movie of C S Forester’s The African Queen, in which Humphrey Bogart, as the dissolute Charlie Allnut, says it is only human nature to get drunk; to which Katharine Hepburn, as the strait-laced Rose Sayer, replies: “Nature, Mr Allnutt, is what we were put into this world to rise above.”
Jul 3, 2024 · Bering Strait, strait linking the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea and separating the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point. The strait averages 98 to 164 feet (30 to 50 metres) in depth and at its narrowest is about 53 miles (85 km) wide.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 20, 2024 · A strait is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water. It is naturally formed without human intervention. A channel, on the other hand, is a wider strait or waterway between two land masses that lie close to each other.
- Joseph Pacheco
Jun 24, 2024 · By definition, a strait is just a narrow passage of water connecting two larger water bodies, like a sea or ocean, but it is more than a mere geographical entity. Today, it has a broader role and importance. Some straits are maritime chokepoints, and several nations wish to establish their dominance over them.
Jun 23, 2024 · On the other hand, a strait is a narrow passage of water that connects two larger bodies of water, typically found in the ocean but sometimes in a lake. Straits can be formed by fractures in an isthmus, a narrow strip of land that connects two bodies of water.
- Elias Flores
Jul 3, 2024 · Taiwan Strait, arm of the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles (160 km) wide at its narrowest point, lying between the coast of China’s Fukien province and the island of Taiwan (Formosa). The strait extends from southwest to northeast between the South and East China seas. It reaches a depth of about 230 feet.
Dec 7, 2023 · Racism does not only play out at an individual level. In the Australian context, systemic racism is also widely prevalent, stemming from a settler colonial legacy of dispossession and State-sanctioned violence toward First Nations Peoples.
