Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
3,900,484,150 visitors served.
forum Join the Word of the Day Mailing List For webmasters
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Bay
(redirected from kept at bay)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial 0.01 sec.
bay: see laurel laurel, common name for the Lauraceae, a family of forest trees and shrubs found mainly in tropical SE Asia but also abundant in tropical America. Most have aromatic bark and foliage and are evergreen; deciduous species are usually those that extend into temperate
..... Click the link for more information.
; magnolia magnolia, common name for plants of the genus Magnolia, and for the Magnoliaceae, a family of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, often with showy flowers.
..... Click the link for more information.
.

bay

In architecture, any division of a building between vertical lines or planes, especially the entire space included between the centerlines of two adjacent vertical supports. The space between two columns or pilasters, or from pier to pier in a church, including that part of the vaulting (see vault) or ceiling between them, is thus called a bay.


bay

Any of several small trees with aromatic leaves, especially the sweet bay, or bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), source of the bay leaf used in cooking. The California laurel (Umbellularia californica) is an ornamental tree also called the bay tree. The bay rum tree, or simply bay (Pimenta racemosa), has leaves and twigs that yield, when distilled, oil of bay, which is used in perfumery and in the preparation of bay rum, a fragrant cosmetic and medicinal liquid.


bay

Semicircular or nearly circular concavity, similar to a gulf but usually smaller. Bays may range from a few hundred yards to several hundred miles from side to side. They are usually located where easily eroded rocks, such as clays and sandstones, are bounded by harder, more erosion-resistant formations of igneous rocks, such as granite, or hard calcareous rocks, such as massive limestones. Some bays form excellent harbours.


bay
See drive bay and Bay Networks.
bay1
1. a wide semicircular indentation of a shoreline, esp between two headlands or peninsulas
2. an extension of lowland into hills that partly surround it
3. US an extension of prairie into woodland

bay2
1. an alcove or recess in a wall
2. See bay window
3. a compartment in an aircraft, esp one used for a specified purpose
4. Nautical a compartment in the forward part of a ship between decks, often used as the ship's hospital
5. Brit a tracked recess in the platform of a railway station, esp one forming the terminus of a branch line

bay3
1. a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berries
2. any of various other trees with strongly aromatic leaves used in cooking, esp a member of the genera Myrica or Pimenta
3. any of several magnolias
4. any of certain other trees or shrubs, esp bayberry

bay4
a. a moderate reddish-brown colour
b. (as adjective): a bay horse

bay []
(aerospace engineering)
A space formed by structural partitions on an aircraft.
(architecture)
Division of a building between adjacent beams or columns.
(botany)
Laurus nobilis.An evergreen tree of the laurel family.
(computer science)
(electromagnetism)
One segment of an antenna array.
(engineering)
A housing used for equipment.
(geography)
A body of water, smaller than a gulf and larger than a cove in a recess in the shoreline.
A narrow neck of water leading from the sea between two headlands.
(geophysics)
A simple transient magnetic disturbance, usually an hour in duration, whose appearance on a magnetic record has the shape of a V or a bay of the sea.

bay
bay of an arcade
1. Within a structure, a regularly repeated spatial element defined by beams or ribs and their supports.
2. A protruded structure with a

(hardware)bay - (As in an aeroplane "cargo bay") A space in a cabinet into which a device of a certain size can be physically mounted and connected to power and data.

Common examples are a "drive bay" into which a disk drive (usually either 3.5 inch or 5.25 inch) can be inserted or the space in a docking station where you insert a notebook computer or laptop computer to work as a desktop computer or to charge their batteries, print or connect to the office network, etc.

Bay 

a small part of a sea, gulf, lake, or reservoir separated from open water by areas of dry land. Local conditions determine the hydrological characteristics of a bay, which differ somewhat from the characteristics of the nearby waters. Usually bays form good harbors for vessels (Gelendzhik and Novorossiisk bays in the Black Sea, the Golden Horn in the Bosporus Strait, and other bays).



Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Feedback
Mentioned in?  References in periodicals archive?   Encyclopedia browser?   Full browser?
No references found
 
A broad range of airlines are all locate to hold you to your preferred objective at the much loved time, and when existence offers discount airline as a bonus; uncertainties are to be kept at bay Find trace to enter the globe of easy and cheap ticketing, and strike a chord you of status in queues for a journey and make you be anxious your money off in them too.
LEON OSMAN: Lively early on but was kept at bay after the opening half an hour - 6.
It is a true but hard to accept fact that we cannot remain young forever, but it is also true that the signs of aging can be kept at bay for a very long time.
 
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Terms of Use | Privacy policy | Feedback | Advertise with Us | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc.
Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.