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prən noun
1.
a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing: a kitchen apron.
2.
Anglican Church. a similar garment extending to the knees, worn by bishops, deans, and archdeans.
3.
a metal plate or cover, usually vertical, for a machine, mechanism, artillery piece, etc., for protecting those who operate it.
4.
a continuous conveyor belt for bulk materials, consisting of a chain of steel plates.
5.
(in a lathe) a part of the carriage holding the clutches and gears moving the toolholder.
6.
a paved or hard-packed area abutting an airfield's buildings and hangars, where planes are parked, loaded, or the like.
7.
a broad paved area used for parking cars, as at the end of a driveway.
8.
Civil Engineering.
a.
any device for protecting a surface of earth, as a riverbank, from the action of moving water.
b.
a platform to receive the water falling over a dam.
9.
the part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line.
10.
11.
the outer border of a green of a golf course.
12.
the part of the floor of a boxing ring that extends outside the ropes.
13.
Also called skirt. a flat, broad piece of interior window trim immediately beneath the sill. See diag. under double-hung.
14.
a strip of metal set into masonry and bent down to cover the upper edge of flashing; counterflashing.
15.
the open part of a pier for loading and unloading vessels.
16.
Nautical. (in a wooden vessel) a piece reinforcing the stem on the after side and leading down to the deadwood.
17.
Geology. a deposit of gravel and sand at the base of a mountain or extending from the edges of a glacier.
18.
the frill of long hairs on the throat and chest of certain long-haired dogs, as the collie.
19.
a structure erected around another structure, as for reinforcement or decoration: a high fence surrounded by a wire apron buried in the ground.
verb (used with object)
20.
to put an apron on; furnish with an apron.
21.
to surround in the manner of an apron: The inner city is aproned by low-cost housing.
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Origin:
1275–1325; 1925–30 for def 6; 1900–05 for def 8; Middle English napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) < Middle French naperon, equivalent to nape tablecloth (< Latin mappa napkin; cf. map) + -ron diminutive suffix
1275–1325; 1925–30 for def 6; 1900–05 for def 8; Middle English napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) < Middle French naperon, equivalent to nape tablecloth (< Latin mappa napkin; cf. map) + -ron diminutive suffix
Related forms
a·pron·like, adjective
un·a·proned, adjective
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apron (ˈeɪprən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a protective or sometimes decorative or ceremonial garment worn over the front of the body and tied around the waist |
| 2. | the part of a stage extending in front of the curtain line; forestage |
| 3. | a hard-surfaced area in front of or around an aircraft hangar, terminal building, etc, upon which aircraft can stand |
| 4. | a continuous conveyor belt composed usually of slats linked together |
| 5. | a protective plate screening the operator of a machine, artillery piece, etc |
| 6. | a ground covering of concrete or other material used to protect the underlying earth from water erosion |
| 7. | a panel or board between a window and a skirting in a room |
| 8. | geology a sheet of sand, gravel, etc, deposited at the front of a moraine |
| 9. | golf the part of the fairway leading onto the green |
| 10. | machinery the housing for the lead screw gears of a lathe |
| 11. | another name for skirt |
| 12. | tied to someone's apron strings dependent on or dominated by someone, esp a mother or wife |
| —vb | |
| 13. | (tr) to protect or provide with an apron |
| [C16: mistaken division (as if an apron) of earlier a napron, from Old French naperon a little cloth, from nape cloth, from Latin mappa napkin] | |
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Word Origin & History
apron
mid-15c., faulty separation (cf. adder, umpire) of a napron (c.1300), from O.Fr. naperon, dim. of nappe "cloth," from L. mappa "napkin." Napron was still found as late as late 16c. Symbolic of "wife's business" from 1610s. Apron-string tenure was
in ref. to property held in virtue of one's wife, or during her lifetime only.
"Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string." [Anne Brontë, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," 1848]
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
| apron (ā'prən) Pronunciation Key
An area covered by a blanketlike deposit of glacial, eolian, marine, or alluvial sediments, especially an area at the foot of a mountain or in front of a glacier. |
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Apron definition
found in the Authorized Version in Gen. 3:7, of the bands of fig-leaves made by our first parents. In Acts 19:12, it denotes the belt or half-girdle worn by artisans and servants round the waist for the purpose of preserving the clothing from injury. In marg. of Authorized Version, Ruth 3:15, correctly rendered instead of "vail." (R.V., "mantle.")
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
She has a nearly clean apron, and the shoddy coat has been tidied a little.
Our waiter fit the stereotype-handlebar moustache, long white apron wrapped around a portly waist-and apparently so did we.
The hydraulically controlled apron had not been blocked to prevent it from accidently falling.
She will get in the kitchen, with the apron, and hook a meal up.
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