Navel
['neɪv(ə)l] or ['nevl]
Definition
(noun.) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; 'you were not supposed to show your navel on television'; 'they argued whether or not Adam had a navel'; 'she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton'.
(noun.) the center point or middle of something; 'the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe'.
Edited by Harold--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Typist: Maxine
Definition
n. the mark or depression in the centre of the lower part of the abdomen at first a small projection.—n. Nāv′el-string the umbilical cord.
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Examples
- He is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- This was the centre, the knot, the navel of the world, where the earth belonged to the skies, pure, unapproachable, impassable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here at last she folded her venture and settled down like a crystal in the navel of snow, and was gone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The two predominating varieties in California are the Washington Navel and the Valencia orange. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only our ancestral deity sitting upon the centre and navel of the earth will be trusted by us if we have any sense, in an affair of such magnitude. Plato. The Republic.
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