Definition von waist

Häufigkeit

waist

(weɪst )

Wortformen: plural waists

1. zählbares Substantiv [oft poss NOUN]

Your waist is the middle part of your body where it narrows slightly above your hips.

Ricky kept his arm round her waist.

He was stripped to the waist.

-waisted Affix

Sarah looked slender-waisted, fragile and very beautiful.

2. zählbares Substantiv

The waist of a garment such as a dress, coat, or pair of trousers is the part of it which covers the middle part of your body.

-waisted Affix

...high-waisted dresses.

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'parts of an aircraft'

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waist in British English

(weɪst )

Substantiv

1. anatomy

the constricted part of the trunk between the ribs and hips

the part of a garment covering the waist

the middle part of an object that resembles the waist in narrowness or position

the middle part of a ship

5. Also called: centre section

the middle section of an aircraft fuselage

the constriction between the thorax and abdomen in wasps and similar insects

Abgeleitete Formen

waistless (ˈwaistless)

Adjektiv

Wortherkunft von waist

C14: origin uncertain; related to Old English wæstm wax2

Häufigkeit

waist in American English

(weɪst )

Substantiv

the part of the body between the ribs and the hips

the part of a garment that covers the waist

waistline (sense 2) waistline (sense 2a)

the part of a garment covering the body from the shoulders to a line above the hips

the upper part of a woman's dress; bodice

e. Archaic

blouse

the narrow part of any object that is wider at the ends

the waist of a violin

4. Aeronautics

the middle section of the fuselage of an airplane, esp. a bomber

5. Nautical

the central section of a ship; specif., the part of the deck between the forecastle and the quarterdeck

6. Zoology

the narrow part of the front of the abdomen of certain insects, as ants or wasps

Wortherkunft von waist

ME wast < base of OE weaxan, to grow, wax1: sense development: growth (of body), hence size, thickness

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