Girdle

['gɜːd(ə)l] or ['gɝdl]

解释:

(noun.) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers.

(noun.) an encircling or ringlike structure.

(verb.) put a girdle on or around; 'gird your loins'.

(verb.) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; 'girdle the plant'.

艾琳编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A griddle.

(n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

(n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.

(n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.

(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

(v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

(v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

(v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

海尔格校对

同义词及近义词：

n. Band (for the waist), belt, CESTUS, cincture.

v. a. [1]. Gird, bind round.[2]. Environ, encompass, surround, enclose, embrace, girt, shut in.

编辑:路易斯

同义词及反义词：

[See GIRD]

埃伦校对

解释:

n. a Scotch form of griddle.

n. that which encircles esp. a band or belt for the waist: an enclosure compass limit: in jewellery a horizontal line surrounding a stone.—v.t. to bind as with a girdle: to enclose: to make a circular incision as through the bark of a tree to kill it.—n. Gird′le-belt a belt for girding the waist.—p.adj. Gird′led (Shak.) surrounded with or as with a girdle.—n. Gird′ler one who girdles: a maker of girdles.

手打:利奥波德