Bays Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Bays? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Derivations, How to pronounce? Related sentences, Words ending with Bays, Example sentences, Words starting with Bays, Antonyms, Synonyms and more...

Word: Bays

How to pronounce: beɪ

Noun

Definitions:

1. A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards.

Example sentences: "A boat trip round the bay"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An evergreen Mediterranean shrub with deep green leaves and purple berries. Its aromatic leaves are used in cooking and were formerly used to make triumphal crowns for victors.

Example sentences: "The experiment (conducted May - June 2000) tested whole and torn leaves from 10 bay trees, 10 oak trees, and 10 toyon trees at our research site."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A space created by a window line projecting outwards from a wall.

Example sentences: "Each window projects as a bay, with a base low enough to sit on and wide enough to serve as a generous shelf for flowers and cards."

2. A compartment with a specified function in a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.

Example sentences: "A bomb bay"

Adjective

Definitions:

1. (of a horse) brown with black points.

Example sentences: "This is not equine racism, just the obvious conclusion that the brown, black and bay horses are in the vast majority, and can always gang up on a grey, especially when I have bet on it."

Noun

Definitions:

1. A bay horse.

Example sentences: "It was a bay, with a liver chestnut body and gleaming black legs."

Verb

Definitions:

1. (of a dog, especially a large one) bark or howl loudly.

Example sentences: "The dogs bayed"

Noun

Definitions:

1. The sound of baying.

Example sentences: "The bloodhounds' heavy bay"