Definizione monolingua

bay

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To bark.
2. (transitive) To bark at.
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

bay (plural bays)

1. (obsolete) A berry.
2. A shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

4. The leaf of this shrub, used as a herb.

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Definizione dizionario bay

	baia
	body of water
	An open, curving indentation made by the sea or a lake into a coastline.

	alloro
	shrub
	herb

	abbaiare
	To produce a loud, short, explosive sound similar to that of a dog

	golfo
	body of water

abbaio

acino

argine

bacca

baio

campata

compartimento

insenatura

latrare

lauro

seno

ululare

Altri significati:

shortened form of bay window.

The leaf of this shrub, used as a herb.

An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.

distance between two supports in a vault

A horse of this color.

brown colour/color

The excited barking of dogs when hunting or being attacked.

(rail transport) A bay platform.

(transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.

A herb made from a leaf of several of the shrubs of the family Lauraceae.

(in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.

(Laurus nobilis) A shrub of the family Lauraceae.

Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

(obsolete) A berry.

(transitive) To bark at.

(intransitive) To bark.

(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.

The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.

compartment

bay colour:

(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.

An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.

A shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.

A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.