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noun ˈɡəːd(ə)lˈɡərdl 1A belt or cord worn round the waist. 腰带；腰绳 her waist was defined by a gold chain girdle Example sentencesExamples - There were rings for slender fingers, bracelets for elegant arms, girdles for shapely waists, and anklets for nimble feet that danced happily in the courtyard to the sound of sweet music.
- The sleeves flared out at her elbows, and the silver girdle accentuated her slender waist; the fabric clung to her slim form.
- His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
- The men wore gold chains, pendants, girdles, and finger rings.
- Its versatility gave it multitudinous forms, a girdle, a patka or waistband, or a drape around the shoulders.
- In dress he affected a purple robe with a golden girdle, bronze sandals, and a Delphic laurel-wreath, and in his manner he was grave and cultivated a regal public persona.
- A yard was originally the length of a man's belt or girdle, as it was called.
- Some insignia, such as hats, necklaces, belts, and girdles, are worn daily.
- Such gems could be woven into important clothing, on belts and girdles, mounted as jewellery, or just collected for their own sake.
- Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
- It was a beautiful, yet plain sea-green gown with a small girdle.
- They served as belt toggles to hold containers for tobacco, money and other objects that would be carried on the cloth belt or girdle, as the kimono had no pockets.
- His long-sleeved, shirt-like garment is held in at the waist by a narrow girdle.
- The chulter, an intricately woven apron, is worn below the black wool girdle or belt.
Synonyms belt, sash, strap, cummerbund, waistband, band, girth, cord, fillet Japanese obi rare baldric, cincture, ceinture, cestus, cingulum, zone - 1.1 A thing that encircles something like a girdle.
围绕物 a communications girdle around the world 一个环绕世界的通讯系统。 Example sentencesExamples - Think about the abdominal structure as a girdle or wall that supports your internal organs and back.
- 1.2Anatomy Either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached.
〔剖〕肢带骨。见PECTORAL GIRDLE , PELVIC GIRDLE See pectoral girdle, pelvic girdle Example sentencesExamples - These animals also have relatively large shoulder girdles, possibly to provide muscle attachment to support the weight of the huge head.
- Thus, selection will necessarily favor a rigid body and limb girdles that act, as much as possible, by exerting force on the vertebral column.
- Because your shoulder girdle is an injury-prone area, take the following extra safety precautions when performing overhead presses.
- The pectoral and pelvic girdles were also greatly expanded ventrally, although the dorsal parts of the girdles were reduced.
- By doing so, your shoulder girdle will move back, allowing you to stretch your chest muscles farther during the exercise without placing as much stress on your front delts.
2A woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh. （自腰部至大腿的女用）松紧裤 she wears corsets and girdles, tight and uncomfortable Example sentencesExamples - Avoid tight-fitting clothing or undergarments that restrict blood flow at the waist, groin & legs (e.g. girdles, stockings & socks).
- He unlaced her girdle rapidly; all the while his lips took in her face.
- She pulled on a loose fitting chemise and a violet silk skirt over her girdle and stockings and left her room silently, in search of adventure.
- But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.
- She reaches up her skirt, wriggles, yanks free an enormous, elastic, tan girdle.
- A bonus of tight winter underwear is that it acts as a sort of girdle to hold in the saggy bits of fat, giving you a slimmer silhouette.
- Others must rely on foam-padded bras and girdles to create womanly curves.
- I shall wear my girdle at home as girdles are socially unacceptable.
- There they had me strip off behind a bush and put on a long line bra and girdle, a dress and wig.
- I may have been only six years old at the time but even I knew you couldn't possibly forget you were wearing a girdle.
- Unlike most sports bras or girdles currently on the market, this bra provides maximum support while minimizing the size of your breasts.
- Right now I should be wearing a bra and girdle and at times do and if I can ever afford to live alone I probably will.
- Olivia obeyed, first putting on the girdle, feeling incredibly stupid, and then the bra that gave her so much lift it hurt.
- Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
- She wore a white gown with a gilded leather girdle about her slender hips and her hair gleamed like molten gold in the morning sun.
- My grandmother is one of the last women on the planet who wears a girdle.
- The actual subject herself only appears once or twice; the ‘portrait’ is built up metonymically, in terms of the objects the mother once wore or used: chemises, girdles, shoes, lipsticks, false teeth.
- ‘I usually wear a girdle to hide any bumps,’ Dawn laughed.
- I wore the girdle to sleep, I wore the girdle to blog, I wore the girdle to watch TV.
- And most of all, she didn't have to wear a girdle.
Synonyms corset, corselet, foundation garment, panty girdle Medicine truss 3The part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting. （已雕琢宝石的）腰棱 Example sentencesExamples - The stone is next mounted on a lathe and, using a second diamond, the points of the crystal are ground away to form a round girdle, a process known as bruting.
4A ring made around a tree by removing bark. （将树木环状剥皮后形成的）环状圈 Example sentencesExamples - It was observed in all twig tissues analysed apical to the girdle, including the bark.
- Girdling brought about carbohydrate (soluble sugar and starch) accumulation in leaves and shoot bark above the girdle, in trees during their fruitless, ‘off’ year.
verb ˈɡəːd(ə)lˈɡərdl [with object]1Encircle (the body) with a girdle. 用腰带（或似腰带物）围绕（身体） the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist 修士松开了绕在腰上的绳子。 Example sentencesExamples - She was girdled up within an inch of her life in a high-waisted dress that had to be made.
- 1.1 Surround; encircle.
包围；围绕 the chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific 环太平洋的火山链。 Example sentencesExamples - Permanent examples of anticyclones exist in the subtropics, where a belt of anticyclones girdles the world at latitudes between about 20 and 40 degrees.
- The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial trough, that girdles the earth.
- You can only girdle the globe 38 times with that.
- According to their research, the droplets must have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled the Earth following the impact.
- About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15th century church.
- Like all the best old towns, it folds into its landscape, the grid of terraces like contours girdling the hill.
- Carmona, a half-hour's comfortable drive from Sevilla, is no exception, its Moorish hill-top fortifications girdled by a skirt of glaring white walls and terracotta roofs that spill down to the surrounding plains.
- A large patio stepped down to a lawn girdled by flowers and cedars.
- All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
- During the low light of new moons, the satellites are sensitive enough to capture the network of electric lights girdling the globe.
- The bus stop in her village is a semi circle of paved road girdled by a hillock.
- To watch these small whales swimming only five miles from the city was a great privilege; to watch them departing on a river girdled with filth was less so.
- Elegant arcades girdled courtyards but most remaining today have been roughly adapted to modern needs.
Synonyms surround, enclose, encircle, circle, ring, encompass, circumscribe, border, bound, edge, skirt, fringe, form a ring around, form a barrier round close in, shut in, fence in, wall in, hem in, pen up/in, lock in, cut off, confine literary gird, engird, compass
2Cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful. 将（树，枝）环状剥皮（让其死去或让其他枝干多结果实） sometimes the trees were completely girdled and died Example sentencesExamples - Avoid nicking the trunks of trees and shrubs; these cuts can injure or kill the plant by girdling the bark.
- Trees up to 3 feet in diameter can be felled and larger trees can be girdled.
- If these are not removed they can girdle the tree, cutting into the trunk and eventually killing the tree.
- If you girdle the base of the tree exposing the cambium layer, the tree will die.
- Forty-five branches were girdled to control their leaf-to-fruit ratio precisely.
OriginOld English gyrdel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gordel and German Gürtel, also to gird1 and girth. Rhymescurdle, engirdle, hurdle, nurdle noun ˈɡəːd(ə)lˈɡərdl Northern English, Scottish A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food; a griddle. Example sentencesExamples - Place a girdle or heavy non-stick frying pan on a medium heat.
- We were flipping bannocks and oatcakes on girdles centuries before sun-dried-tomato ciabatta was invented.
OriginLate Middle English: variant of griddle. nounˈɡərdlˈɡərdl 1A belt or cord worn around the waist. 腰带；腰绳 Example sentencesExamples - There were rings for slender fingers, bracelets for elegant arms, girdles for shapely waists, and anklets for nimble feet that danced happily in the courtyard to the sound of sweet music.
- His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
- They served as belt toggles to hold containers for tobacco, money and other objects that would be carried on the cloth belt or girdle, as the kimono had no pockets.
- Its versatility gave it multitudinous forms, a girdle, a patka or waistband, or a drape around the shoulders.
- It was a beautiful, yet plain sea-green gown with a small girdle.
- In dress he affected a purple robe with a golden girdle, bronze sandals, and a Delphic laurel-wreath, and in his manner he was grave and cultivated a regal public persona.
- A yard was originally the length of a man's belt or girdle, as it was called.
- Some insignia, such as hats, necklaces, belts, and girdles, are worn daily.
- Such gems could be woven into important clothing, on belts and girdles, mounted as jewellery, or just collected for their own sake.
- His long-sleeved, shirt-like garment is held in at the waist by a narrow girdle.
- The chulter, an intricately woven apron, is worn below the black wool girdle or belt.
- Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
- The men wore gold chains, pendants, girdles, and finger rings.
- The sleeves flared out at her elbows, and the silver girdle accentuated her slender waist; the fabric clung to her slim form.
Synonyms belt, sash, strap, cummerbund, waistband, band, girth, cord, fillet - 1.1 A woman's elasticized corset extending from waist to thigh.
（自腰部至大腿的女用）松紧裤 Example sentencesExamples - She pulled on a loose fitting chemise and a violet silk skirt over her girdle and stockings and left her room silently, in search of adventure.
- I wore the girdle to sleep, I wore the girdle to blog, I wore the girdle to watch TV.
- Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
- I may have been only six years old at the time but even I knew you couldn't possibly forget you were wearing a girdle.
- Unlike most sports bras or girdles currently on the market, this bra provides maximum support while minimizing the size of your breasts.
- She reaches up her skirt, wriggles, yanks free an enormous, elastic, tan girdle.
- I shall wear my girdle at home as girdles are socially unacceptable.
- ‘I usually wear a girdle to hide any bumps,’ Dawn laughed.
- My grandmother is one of the last women on the planet who wears a girdle.
- Olivia obeyed, first putting on the girdle, feeling incredibly stupid, and then the bra that gave her so much lift it hurt.
- Others must rely on foam-padded bras and girdles to create womanly curves.
- But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.
- The actual subject herself only appears once or twice; the ‘portrait’ is built up metonymically, in terms of the objects the mother once wore or used: chemises, girdles, shoes, lipsticks, false teeth.
- A bonus of tight winter underwear is that it acts as a sort of girdle to hold in the saggy bits of fat, giving you a slimmer silhouette.
- He unlaced her girdle rapidly; all the while his lips took in her face.
- Right now I should be wearing a bra and girdle and at times do and if I can ever afford to live alone I probably will.
- There they had me strip off behind a bush and put on a long line bra and girdle, a dress and wig.
- She wore a white gown with a gilded leather girdle about her slender hips and her hair gleamed like molten gold in the morning sun.
- Avoid tight-fitting clothing or undergarments that restrict blood flow at the waist, groin & legs (e.g. girdles, stockings & socks).
- And most of all, she didn't have to wear a girdle.
Synonyms corset, corselet, foundation garment, panty girdle - 1.2 A thing that surrounds something like a belt or girdle.
围绕物 a communications girdle around the world 一个环绕世界的通讯系统。 Example sentencesExamples - Think about the abdominal structure as a girdle or wall that supports your internal organs and back.
- 1.3Anatomy Either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached.
〔剖〕肢带骨。见PECTORAL GIRDLE , PELVIC GIRDLE See pectoral girdle, pelvic girdle Example sentencesExamples - The pectoral and pelvic girdles were also greatly expanded ventrally, although the dorsal parts of the girdles were reduced.
- Because your shoulder girdle is an injury-prone area, take the following extra safety precautions when performing overhead presses.
- These animals also have relatively large shoulder girdles, possibly to provide muscle attachment to support the weight of the huge head.
- Thus, selection will necessarily favor a rigid body and limb girdles that act, as much as possible, by exerting force on the vertebral column.
- By doing so, your shoulder girdle will move back, allowing you to stretch your chest muscles farther during the exercise without placing as much stress on your front delts.
- 1.4 The part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.
（已雕琢宝石的）腰棱 Example sentencesExamples - The stone is next mounted on a lathe and, using a second diamond, the points of the crystal are ground away to form a round girdle, a process known as bruting.
- 1.5 A ring around a tree made by removing bark.
（将树木环状剥皮后形成的）环状圈 Example sentencesExamples - It was observed in all twig tissues analysed apical to the girdle, including the bark.
- Girdling brought about carbohydrate (soluble sugar and starch) accumulation in leaves and shoot bark above the girdle, in trees during their fruitless, ‘off’ year.
verbˈɡərdlˈɡərdl [with object]1Encircle (the body) with or as a girdle or belt. 用腰带（或似腰带物）围绕（身体） the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist 修士松开了绕在腰上的绳子。 Example sentencesExamples - She was girdled up within an inch of her life in a high-waisted dress that had to be made.
- 1.1 Surround; encircle.
包围；围绕 the chain of volcanoes that girdles the Pacific 环太平洋的火山链。 Example sentencesExamples - A large patio stepped down to a lawn girdled by flowers and cedars.
- During the low light of new moons, the satellites are sensitive enough to capture the network of electric lights girdling the globe.
- Permanent examples of anticyclones exist in the subtropics, where a belt of anticyclones girdles the world at latitudes between about 20 and 40 degrees.
- All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
- Carmona, a half-hour's comfortable drive from Sevilla, is no exception, its Moorish hill-top fortifications girdled by a skirt of glaring white walls and terracotta roofs that spill down to the surrounding plains.
- According to their research, the droplets must have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled the Earth following the impact.
- The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial trough, that girdles the earth.
- About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15th century church.
- The bus stop in her village is a semi circle of paved road girdled by a hillock.
- Like all the best old towns, it folds into its landscape, the grid of terraces like contours girdling the hill.
- To watch these small whales swimming only five miles from the city was a great privilege; to watch them departing on a river girdled with filth was less so.
- Elegant arcades girdled courtyards but most remaining today have been roughly adapted to modern needs.
- You can only girdle the globe 38 times with that.
Synonyms surround, enclose, encircle, circle, ring, encompass, circumscribe, border, bound, edge, skirt, fringe, form a ring around, form a barrier round
2Cut through the bark all the way around (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful. 将（树，枝）环状剥皮（让其死去或让其他枝干多结果实） Example sentencesExamples - If you girdle the base of the tree exposing the cambium layer, the tree will die.
- If these are not removed they can girdle the tree, cutting into the trunk and eventually killing the tree.
- Trees up to 3 feet in diameter can be felled and larger trees can be girdled.
- Forty-five branches were girdled to control their leaf-to-fruit ratio precisely.
- Avoid nicking the trunks of trees and shrubs; these cuts can injure or kill the plant by girdling the bark.
OriginOld English gyrdel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gordel and German Gürtel, also to gird and girth. nounˈɡərdlˈɡərdl Scottish, Northern English A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food; a griddle. Example sentencesExamples - We were flipping bannocks and oatcakes on girdles centuries before sun-dried-tomato ciabatta was invented.
- Place a girdle or heavy non-stick frying pan on a medium heat.
OriginLate Middle English: variant of griddle. |