A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides.
Bay, Bays, baying, or The Bay may also refer to:
Places
editChina
edit- Bay County or Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
France
edit- Bay, Haute-Saône, a commune
Philippines
edit- Bay, Laguna, a municipality
- Bay River
Somalia
editUnited Kingdom
edit- Bay, Dorset, a location in England
- Bay, Highland, a location in Scotland
United States
edit- Bay, Arkansas
- Bay, Springfield, Massachusetts, a neighborhood
- Bay, Missouri
- Bay County, Florida
- Bay County, Michigan
- Bays, Kentucky
- Bays, Ohio
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, a metropolitan area often referred to as just "the Bay"
Animals and plants
editAnimals
edit- Bay (horse), a color of the hair coats of some horses
- Baying, a kind of howling made by canines
Plants
edit- Bay laurel, the evergreen laurel tree species Laurus nobilis
- Bay leaf, the aromatic leaves of several species of the Laurel family
- Rose bay, a common name for Rhododendron maximum
Architecture and interior design
edit- Bay (architecture), a module in classical or Gothic architecture
- Bay, the name in English of a ken, a Japanese unit of measure and proportion
- Bay window, a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room
- Bay (shelving), a basic unit of library shelving
Arts, entertainment, and media
editRadio stations
edit- Bay Radio (Malta), a radio station located in Malta
- Bay Radio (Spain), a radio station serving the Valencian Community in Spain
- Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria, formerly The Bay, a radio station in North West England
- Hot Radio, originally operating as The Bay 102.8, a radio station in Dorset, England,
- Easy Radio, formerly Swansea Bay Radio, a radio station in South Wales
- WZBA, a classic rock radio station, operating as 100.7 The Bay, in Westminster, Maryland
Other arts, entertainment, and media
edit- The Bay (film), a 2012 American found footage horror film
- The Bay (web series), a soap opera web series that premiered in 2010
- "The Bay", a 2011 single by Metronomy
- The Bay (TV series), a British crime drama
- Bays (album), a 2015 album by Fat Freddy's Drop
Businesses
edit- Bank of Ayudhya, a Thai commercial bank (Stock symbol: BAY)
- Bay Networks, a network hardware vendor acquired by Nortel Networks in 1998
- Bay Trading Company, a retailer of woman's clothes in the UK
- Hudson's Bay (retailer) or The Bay, a chain of department stores in Canada
Transport
edit- Baia Mare Airport in Baia Mare, Romania
- Bay platform, a dead-end platform at a railway station which has through lines
- Bay station, a subway station in Toronto
- Bayswater railway station, Melbourne
- Bay, the space enclosed by a set of struts on a biplane (see Biplane § Overview)
- Loading bay, a synonym for loading dock
People
edit- Bay (chancellor), a royal scribe to an ancient Egyptian ruler
- Bay (surname)
- Bay Buchanan (born 1948), prominent conservative political commentator
Other uses
edit- Bay (cloth), a coarse woolen cloth similar to Baize but lighter in weight and with shorter pile.
- Drive bay, an area for adding hardware in a computer
- Sick bay, nautical term for the location in a ship that is used for medical purposes
- The Bay School of San Francisco, a private high school
- Substation bay, an interconnection of equipment in an electrical substation
See also
edit- Category:Lists of bays
- Bay Area (disambiguation)
- Bay breeze (disambiguation)
- Bay Bridge (disambiguation)
- Bay City (disambiguation)
- Bay School (disambiguation)
- Bay Street (disambiguation)
- Bay Township (disambiguation)
- Baye (disambiguation)
- Bae (disambiguation)
- Bays (disambiguation)
- Bey (disambiguation)
- eBay