A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides.

Bay, Bays, baying, or The Bay may also refer to:

Places

China

  • Bay County or Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

France

  • Bay, Haute-Saône, a commune

Philippines

  • Bay, Laguna, a municipality
  • Bay River

Somalia

  • Bay, Somalia

United Kingdom

  • Bay, Dorset, an area of Gillingham, England
  • Bay, Highland, a location in Scotland

United States

  • 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

Animals

  • Bay (horse), a color of the hair coats of some horses
  • Baying, a kind of howling made by canines

Plants

  • 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

  • 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

Radio stations

  • 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
  • Bay FM (Japan), a radio station in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • 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

  • 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 (department store) or The Bay, a chain of department stores in Canada

Transport

  • 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 )
  • Loading bay, a synonym for loading dock

People

  • Bay (chancellor), a royal scribe to an ancient Egyptian ruler
  • Bay (surname)
  • Bay Buchanan (born 1948), a prominent American conservative political commentator

Other uses

  • 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

  • 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