girdle in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
girdle in Sindhi سنڌي
girdle in English
- girdle⇄girdle (1), noun, verb, -dled,-dling.
- girdle⇄girdle (2), noun.
(Scottish.) a griddle. - girdle⇄noun 1. a belt, sash, or cord worn around the waist.
2. (Figurative.) anything that surrounds or encloses.
Ex. a girdle of trees around a pond.
3. a light corset worn about the hips and waist to support or shape the body.
4. a - girdle⇄pectoral arch orgirdle
the bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the forelimbs of vertebrates, formed in man by the scapulae and clavicles.
Ex. In the coelacanth, the pectoral girdle, which in normal teleost fish is a hooplike ring of bones em - girdle⇄pelvic arch orgirdle
the bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hindlimbs of vertebrates, in man formed by the innominate bones and the sacrum.
Ex. Each side of the pelvic girdle consists of an ilium, ischium, and pubis (A. Franklin Shull). - girdle⇄v.t. 1. to surround; encircle.
Ex. Wide roads girdle the city.
(SYN) encompass.
2. to cut away the bark so as to make a ring around (a tree or branch).
3. to put a girdle on or around.