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A bight is a soft curve in a coast — a wide bend of shoreline, more open than a tight little harbour. and sailors use it; most people never need it. A famous one is the Great Australian Bight, a long sweep of coast. Though actually sailors also use bight for a loop or slack bend in a rope, the same “bend” idea in a different place. That is not this sense, but it explains why the word feels like a shape-word, not a size-word. It has nothing to do with teeth.
（海岸的）開闊灣曲、小灣
組成From Old English byht, “a bend, a corner, a bay”. It comes from an old family of words meaning “to bend”.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bightnoun/baɪt/
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A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- the bight of a horse's knee
- the bight of an elbow
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geographynatural-sciencesAn area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
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geographynatural-sciencesA bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
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A curve in a rope.
- 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.
bightverb/baɪt/
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To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。