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Education and government jobs were also bight spots in an otherwise dismal report.
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The anchors are buried in the seat bight, where the back and bottom cushions meet.
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The Republic of Benin and this bight were both named after the Benin Empire.
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Some knots may be finished by passing a bight rather than the end, for ease of untying.
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The southern portion of the bight is also known as the Heligoland Bight.
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It has a bright buttery golden colour on its flanks with bight crimson and vermillion spots.
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They're buried tightly in the seat bight, the area between the seat's back and bottom cushion.
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A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight.
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Bight red radishes are excellent and crunchy additions to salads and colorful additions to vegetable trays and appetizers.
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- A loop in a rope
- Fasten with a bight
- A bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- A broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"
- The middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
- In geography, bight has two meanings. A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature--usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water.
- The term bight is used in knot tying to refer to any curved section, slack part, or loop between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn.Clifford W. Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 597. ...
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow; An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf; A curve in a rope
- The center of a slack line. (i.e: where it sags). Also a small indented curve in a shoreline.
