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skirt
[skurt] 
–noun
| 1. | the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist. |
| 2. | a one-piece garment extending downward from the waist and not joined between the legs, worn esp. by women and girls. |
| 3. | some part resembling or suggesting the skirt of a garment, as the flared lip of a bell or a protective and ornamental cloth strip covering the legs of furniture. |
| 4. | a small leather flap on each side of a saddle, covering the metal bar from which the stirrup hangs. |
| 5. | Building Trades.
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| 6. | Also called apron. Furniture.
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| 7. | Usually, skirts. the bordering, marginal, or outlying part of a place, group, etc.; the outskirts. |
| 8. | Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a woman or girl. |
| 9. | Rocketry. an outer part of a rocket or missile that provides structural support or houses such systems as avionics or gyroscopes. |
–verb (used with object)
| 10. | to lie on or along the border of: The hills skirt the town. |
| 11. | to border, wrap, or cover with a skirt or something suggesting a skirt in appearance or function. |
| 12. | to pass along or around the border or edge of: Traffic skirts the town. |
| 13. | to avoid, go around the edge of, or keep distant from (something that is controversial, risky, etc.): The senator skirted the issue. |
| 14. | to remove low-grade wool and foreign matter from (the outer edge of fleece). |
–verb (used without object)
| 15. | to be or lie on or along the edge of something. |
| 16. | to move along or around the border of something. |
Related forms:
skirtless, adjective
skirtlike, adjective
Synonyms:
13. evade, shun, circle, bypass.
13. evade, shun, circle, bypass.
a⋅pron
[ey-pruh
n] –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.
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| 9. | the part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line. |
| 10. | Furniture. skirt (def. 6). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
Origin:
1275–1325; 1925–30 for def. 6; 1900–05 for def. 8; ME napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) < MF naperon, equiv. to nape tablecloth (< L mappa napkin; cf. map ) + -ron dim. suffix
1275–1325; 1925–30 for def. 6; 1900–05 for def. 8; ME napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron) < MF naperon, equiv. to nape tablecloth (< L mappa napkin; cf. map ) + -ron dim. suffix
Related forms:
a⋅pron⋅like, adjective
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| skirt (skûrt) n.
v. tr.
To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border. [Middle English, from Old Norse skyrta, shirt; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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Skirt
Skirt\, n. [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. sk["o]rt a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt.]1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle. 2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.] A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. --Addison. 3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." --Shak. 4. A petticoat. 5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. --Dunglison.Skirt
Skirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]1. To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. --Milton. 2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor." --Tennyson.Skirt
Skirt\, v. t. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. --S. S. Smith.
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Language Translation for : skirt
Spanish:
falda,
German:
der Rock,
Japanese:
スカート
skirt (n.)
c.1300, "lower part of a woman's dress," from O.N. skyrta "shirt," see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (cf. Low Ger. cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded 1470, and the verb meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1623. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1560; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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