bay
Other forms: bays; baying; baily; bayed; bayly
A bay is an inlet along the shoreline of a body of water. A bay window occupies a similar inlet in a room. When you keep someone "at bay" you hold them off.
The different meanings of bay come from different origins. For example, the idea of the word as a cove comes from the Latin bāia, while the idea of an opening is a wall is from the Latin batāre, meaning "gape." The word that means a dog's howl, however, comes from the Latin baubari, which means "to bark." Other meanings of this versatile word include a horse with reddish coloring, and a tree with leaves used to add flavor in cooking. There's nothing quite like riding a bay along the scenic bay while listening to the hounds bay!
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an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
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synonyms:
embayment
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Abukir Bay
a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
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Andaman Sea
part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula
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Bay of Bengal
an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India
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Bay of Biscay
an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain
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Bay of Fundy
a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet
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Bay of Naples
an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
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Biscayne Bay
a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida
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Bo Hai
an inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China
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Buzzards Bay
an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts
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Cape Cod Bay
the southern part of Massachusetts Bay
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Chesapeake Bay
a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River
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Delaware Bay
an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River
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Galveston Bay
an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston
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Galway Bay
a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland
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Hangzhou Bay
a bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea
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James Bay
the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario
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Korea Bay
an inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea
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Massachusetts Bay
an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south
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Minamata Bay
a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay
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Mobile Bay
a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River
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Monterey Bay
an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California
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Moreton Bay
an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane
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Narragansett Bay
a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island
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New York Bay
a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River
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Osaka Bay
a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu
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Penobscot Bay
an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine
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Prudhoe Bay
a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968
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San Diego Bay
a bay of the Pacific in southern California
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San Francisco Bay
a bay of the Pacific in western California
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Sea of Azoff
a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine
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Tampa Bay
an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida
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bight
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
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Guantanamo Bay
an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903
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body of water, water
the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
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a small recess opening off a larger room
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a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital“they put him in the sick bay”
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compartment
a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
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compartment
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a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose“he opened the bomb bay”
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compartment
a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
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compartment
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a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color with a dark tail and mane
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Equus caballus, horse
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
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Equus caballus, horse
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(used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color
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the sound of a hound on the scent
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cry
the characteristic utterance of an animal
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cry
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utter in deep prolonged tones
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bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
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small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
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synonyms:
Laurus nobilis, bay laurel, bay tree, true laurel
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laurel
any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
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laurel
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