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waist 音标拼音: [w'est] n. 腰,腰部,腰身,背心 腰,腰部,腰身,背心 waist n 1: the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips [ synonym: { waist}, { waistline}] 2: the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole [ synonym: { shank}, { waist}] Waist \ Waist\, n. [ OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. w[ ae] stm growth. See { Wax} to grow.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] I am in the waist two yards about. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially ( Naut.), that part of a vessel' s deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter- deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A girdle or belt for the waist. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Waist anchor}. See { Sheet anchor}, 1, in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster] 26 Moby Thesaurus words for " waist": blouse, bodice, center, core, corsage, diameter, diaphragm, dickey, equator, heart, interior, kernel, linen, mean, median, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, nucleus, shift, shirt, thick, thick of things, waistline, zone |
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