waist
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /weɪst/
waist (plural waists)
- The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
- A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
- The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
- The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
- (nautical) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 18
- There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 18
- (obsolete) The middle part of anything.
- French: taille
- German: Taille
- Italian: vita, cintura, cintola
- Portuguese: cintura
- Russian: та́лия
- Spanish: cintura
- French: taille
- German: Rumpf
- Russian: шкафу́т
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