What's the difference between cape and strait?

Cape


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
  • (v. i.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
  • (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
  • (v. i.) To gape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
  • (2) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
  • (3) With the increasing English influence after the British occupation of the Cape, the name was changed to the more Anglicised New Brighton before finally becoming Woodstock.
  • (4) Obama finishes his South African trip on Sunday, when he plans to give a speech on US-Africa policy at the University of Cape Town.
  • (5) During his career in South Africa, he played an active role in the then Cape of Good Hope, Western Branch, of the British Medical Association.
  • (6) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
  • (7) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
  • (8) The Cape Ray, a 648ft converted car ferry, has been waiting at the Spanish port of Rota for four months for the extraction of chemical weapons from Syria to be completed.
  • (9) The 288 study subjects included over 70% of Aboriginal adults residing in an isolated Cape York community.
  • (10) This cross-sectional descriptive study of 161 suicide inquests in the Cape Town area during 1983 and 1984 includes demographic characteristics of the study population and factors assumed to have had a determining influence on the act of suicide.
  • (11) Algeria had not scored a World Cup goal since they drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland at Mexico 1986, a run that took in five matches, including that dire 0-0 draw with England in Cape Town four years ago.
  • (12) Cape Town, South Africa experienced an upsurge in the level of political violence from May to July of 1986.
  • (13) Both RNAs are caped and, unlike in other tricornaviruses, both initiate with an A residue.
  • (14) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
  • (15) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
  • (16) It was responsible for 22.9% of all cancer deaths in Cape Town during the 3-year period.
  • (17) The outcome of treatment at the psychiatric day centre of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town is described.
  • (18) Speaking from a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is promoting her novel, she said: "I'm over the moon.
  • (19) A system has been developed to immunise all children entering the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, in whom immunisation is incomplete for age.
  • (20) The Air Ambulance Service completed 20 years of service to the people of southern Africa and particularly those of the Cape Province on 6 February 1986.

Strait


Definition:

  • (a.) A variant of Straight.
  • (superl.) Narrow; not broad.
  • (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.
  • (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
  • (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
  • (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.
  • (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
  • (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.
  • (a.) A narrow pass or passage.
  • (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
  • (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.
  • (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
  • (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Coastguard Mohamed al-Alay said the refugees, carrying official UN refugee agency (UNHCR) documents, were travelling from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
  • (2) It’s a model Guyula says could be strengthened and expanded if the Australian government agreed to negotiate a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
  • (3) Burrows had resigned as governor of Bank of Ireland, leaving the lender in dire straits, with big losses and mounting debt threatening its very survival.
  • (4) When dealing with Tsai, we should bear in mind important factors such as her experience, personality and mindset,” added Wang, from the association for relations across the Taiwan strait.
  • (5) In the wake of direct shipping and postal links, this summer also saw the first direct flights across the Taiwan Straits since the civil war, with passenger services now running daily.
  • (6) If one of the focuses of this government is getting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people employed and staying within the workforce then one would have thought we’d have seen a larger outcome of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations funded under this strategy.
  • (7) The speedboat drivers pay close attention to the water conditions on the strait and try to approach the Iranian coast just after sunset.
  • (8) An epidemiological study of the prevalence of refractive errors was made of the Eskimo population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
  • (9) Abbott will never be the prime minister for Aboriginal affairs because his “lifestyle” claim exposed such a fundamental lack of understanding about the imperative of “country” to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including those in the cities, that I’m sure few will ever be able to trust him again.
  • (10) Mortality at study sites in the Strait of Juan de Fuca was related to premature parturition; 19 of 49 (39%) of the pups found dead were born prematurely.
  • (11) She read aloud the act preamble , acknowledging the Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders as the inhabitants of Australia before European settlement and the dispossession, without compensation, of their lands.
  • (12) It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things.” Indigenous prisoner who killed himself wasn't in a 'safe' cell despite being at risk Read more He said a Labor government would fund three trials – in a city, a regional town and a remote community – of “justice reinvestment” programs, “redirecting funds spent on justice system to prevention and diversionary programs to address underlying causes of offending with disproportionately high levels of incarceration”.
  • (13) Still, Murrumu’s qualified support for constitutional recognition will be controversial among the many Indigenous Australians who believe “recognise” offers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nothing and that treaties are a minimum starting point.
  • (14) Except sex.” Rechtshaid and Flowers bonded on the phone over Dire Straits and Depeche Mode, relinquishing control to each other in Flowers’ Battle Born studios and crafting an accessible yet sophisticated power rock record.
  • (15) Earlier in the expedition, the crew believe, they became the first boat to travel through the Nares Strait west of Greenland to the Arctic Ocean in June, once impassable because of sea ice at that time of year.
  • (16) When the White House sent a private message to Tehran last week about its so-called "red lines" in the Strait of Hormuz, the reaction was both puzzled and incredulous.
  • (17) The loss of Aboriginal land, cultures and livelihoods is at the core of the climate crisis, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people forced off our land due to extractive industries that fuel climate change, and increasingly by the devastating impacts of sea level rise, drought and reduced access to clean water,” she said.
  • (18) With one exception, animals from Georgia Strait and those away from the immediate influence of Fraser River water contained no detectable levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons.
  • (19) But they did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a grievous, hurtful, harmful wrong on many levels and this includes failing to include a single positive word about us anywhere in the constitution of modern Australia.
  • (20) The straited accumulations in adrenal cortical cells and brain macrophages that are characteristic of adrenoleukodystrophy have been studied histochemically in cryostat sections to seek leads for the biochemical identification of the striated material.