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# bay

«bay» in Mova's school dictionary: **part of the sea or a lake that curves into the land** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bay, bays); adjective (bay — reddish-brown, of a horse); verb (bay, bays, bayed, baying — of dogs or wolves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bay is part of the sea or a lake that curves into the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#m1)

2) A bay is a marked space or area for a special use, like a parking bay or loading bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#m2)

3) To bay is to howl with a long, deep sound, like a dog or wolf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#m3)

4) A bay is a reddish-brown horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#m4)

5) A bay tree has shiny leaves used in cooking (bay leaves). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#m5)

6) To keep something at bay means to hold it back so it cannot reach or harm you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In geography a bay is a coastal landform, wider than a cove and smaller than a gulf; waves are gentler in a bay. In everyday life: parking bays, a bay window that sticks out, bay leaves in soup. In stories wolves bay at the moon. Phrase: «keep something at bay» (keep it away).

### examples

- We swam in a sheltered bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x1)
- Park the car in an empty bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x2)
- The wolves bayed at the full moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x3)
- Mum puts a bay leaf in the soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x4)
- She rode a bay horse with a black mane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x5)
- Wash your hands to keep germs at bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x6)
- The house has a big bay window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x7)
- All day long the army of the Persians was kept at bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/#x8)

### note

Countable: bays. Homophone: «bey» (an old Turkish title) — rare. A bay is part of the sea next to land; a peninsula is land sticking into the sea. «At bay» means held back.

### In the corpora

- [Coasts with hard and soft rock form headlands and bays, since soft rock wears back faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/7/)
- [The Bristol Channel and Canada's Bay of Fundy have some of the biggest tides in the world, over 12 metres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/17/)
- [And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looked southward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.366/)
- [And the border of the north side was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.370/)
- [Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea, and abideth by its bays.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.140/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bay» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bay/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.