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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
girth
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She is a woman of substantial girth.
▪ the enormous girth of a redwood tree's trunk
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His yellow hair flopped into his blue eyes as he did up her girths for her.
▪ I was to behave like a kind of white-skinned rani to whom such things as tightening girths and punishing dromedaries were unthinkable.
▪ It was as if he had more substance to him, like spiritual girth.
▪ Neither are they worried by sizing that implies the clothes might belong to men of more ample girth.
▪ She was about sixteen the first time, closer to twenty the next, and the years had not reduced her girth.
▪ Tallboy was confronted by a very tall man of considerable girth who looked like a retired all-in wrestler.
▪ The bass measured 30 inches long and had a 25-inch girth.
▪ The personal best pike measured a massive 45 inches with a girth of 24 inches and was returned alive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Girth

Girth \Girth\ (g[~e]rth), n. [Icel. gj["o]r[eth] girdle, or ger[eth] girth; akin to Goth. ga['i]rda girdle. See Gird to girt, and cf. Girdle, n.]

  1. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

  2. The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.

    He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.
    --Addison.

  3. A small horizontal brace or girder.

Girth

Girth \Girth\, v. t. [From Girth, n., cf. Girt, v. t.] To bind as with a girth. [R.]
--Johnson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
girth

c.1300, "belt around a horse's body," from Old Norse gjorð "girdle, belt, hoop," from Proto-Germanic *gertu- (cf Gothic gairda "girdle"), from the same source as gird. Sense of "measurement around an object" first recorded 1640s.

Wiktionary
girth

n. 1 The distance measured around an object. 2 A band passed under the belly of an animal to hold various types of saddles in place. 3 The part of an animal around which the girth fits. 4 (context informal English) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. 5 A small horizontal brace or girder. 6 (cx graph theory English) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph. vb. To bind as if with a girth or band.

WordNet
girth
  1. n. the distance around a person's body

  2. stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place [syn: cinch]

  3. v. encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields" [syn: girt, begird, gird]

  4. tie a cinch around; "cinch horses" [syn: cinch]

Wikipedia
Girth (graph theory)

In graph theory, the girth of a graph is the length of a shortest cycle contained in the graph. If the graph does not contain any cycles (i.e. it's an acyclic graph), its girth is defined to be infinity. For example, a 4-cycle (square) has girth 4. A grid has girth 4 as well, and a triangular mesh has girth 3. A graph with girth four or more is triangle-free.

Girth (tack)

A girth, sometimes called a cinch ( Western riding), is a piece of equipment used to keep the saddle in place on a horse or other animal. It passes under the barrel of the equine, usually attached to the saddle on both sides by two or three leather straps called billets. Girths are used on Australian and English saddles, while western saddles and many pack saddles have a cinch, which is fastened to the saddle by a single wide leather strap on each side, called a latigo.

Although a girth is often enough to keep a well-fitting saddle in place, other pieces of equipment are also used in jumping or speed sports such as polo, eventing, show jumping, and fox hunting; or on rough terrain such as trail riding. These include breastplates, overgirths, cruppers, and, on pack saddles, breeching.

Studies have shown that, although girths may restrict the movement of the ribcage in the horse, they have no effect on the horse's ability to take in air.

Girth (album)

Girth is Winters Bane second album. It was released in 1997 as an independent recording. It was later re-released by DCA Recordings with the artist as "Kill Procedure".

Girth (band)

Girth were an avant-garde metal band from Seattle, Washington. Dave Webb ( guitar) and Peژ Mon ( drums) began the band in 2003.

Girth (geometry)

In three-dimensional geometry, the girth of a geometric object, in a certain direction, is the perimeter of its parallel projection in that direction. For instance, the girth of a unit cube in a direction parallel to one of the three coordinate axes is four: it projects to a unit square, which has four as its perimeter.

Girth

Girth may refer to:

Mathematics
  • Girth (functional analysis), the length of the shortest centrally symmetric simple closed curve on the unit sphere of a Banach space
  • Girth (geometry), the perimeter of a parallel projection of a shape
  • Girth (graph theory), the length of a shortest cycle contained in a graph
Music and entertainment
  • Girth (album), 1997 album by heavy metal band Winters Bane
  • Girth (band), an avant-garde metal band from Seattle
  • Girth (Pushing Daisies), an episode of the TV show Pushing Daisies
  • Girth (song), the former name of the Guns N' Roses song "Coma"
Other
  • Girth (tack), a piece of equipment used to keep a saddle in place on a horse
Girth (functional analysis)

In functional analysis, the girth of a Banach space is the infimum of lengths of centrally symmetric simple closed curves in the unit sphere of the space. Equivalently, it is twice the infimum of distances between opposite points of the sphere, as measured within the sphere.

Every finite-dimensional Banach space has a pair of opposite points on the unit sphere that achieves the minimum distance, and a centrally symmetric simple closed curve that achieves the minimum length. However, such a curve may not always exist in infinite-dimensional spaces.

The girth is always at least four, because the shortest path on the unit sphere between two opposite points cannot be shorter than the length-two line segment connecting them through the origin of the space. A Banach space for which it is exactly four is said to be flat. There exist flat Banach spaces of infinite dimension in which the girth is achieved by a minimum-length curve; an example is the space C[0,1] of continuous functions from the unit interval to the real numbers, with the sup norm. The unit sphere of such a space has the counterintuitive property that certain pairs of opposite points have the same distance within the sphere that they do in the whole space.

The girth is a continuous function on the Banach–Mazur compactum, a space whose points correspond to the normed vector spaces of a given dimension. The girth of the dual space of a normed vector space is always equal to the girth of the original space.

Usage examples of "girth".

The seat he sat upon was of the sort called throne, seemingly made of golden metal picked out in glittering stones, wide enough for his massive girth, draped in blue silk, astand upon a platform which raised the seat above the level of the others in the chamber.

Then he fastened a head martingale on, and buckled it to the girths atwixt his fore legs.

The girths were similar enough that he was able to use the simple slant of each cut to place them together so the cambiums on each side met truly.

Sam, looping girths over his arm, gave Tremayne a rueful smile and said Cashless had done his best.

In their stately setting of cryptomeria, few of which are less than 20 feet in girth at 3 feet from the ground, they take one prisoner by their beauty, in defiance of all rules of western art, and compel one to acknowledge the beauty of forms and combinations of colour hitherto unknown, and that lacquered wood is capable of lending itself to the expression of a very high idea in art.

Thus the good man believed he would avoid the horned trappings of cuckoldom, and would still be able to girth, bridle, and curb the factious innocence of his wife, which struggled like a mule held by a rope.

H-bomb crane technique velocity impossibly equals speed minus girth on this turf, earthless spinner.

The girths stood the test and he was in the saddle somehow, with his jousting lance between his legs, and then he was galloping round and round the tree, in the opposite direction to that in which the brachet had wound herself up.

Life at the academy did not become easier for our portly friend, for despite drilling and the marching of his numerous demerits he grew no leaner, though he did seem to become both stronger and gain more endurance, both for physical exercise and the routine harassment that came with his girth.

Suddenly Orra began running up the slope, absurd with pounding girth and desperation.

She smoothed a hand down over the fabric of her gown where a placket of cloth had been added to accommodate her girth.

Borne up on roots, or rather walls, of twisted board, some twelve feet high, between which the whole crew, their ammunitions, and provisions, were housed roomily, rose the enormous trunk full forty feet in girth, towering like some tall lighthouse, smooth for a hundred feet, then crowned with boughs, each of which was a stately tree, whose topmost twigs were full two hundred and fifty feet from the ground.

Instead, with a heavy winter girth of white feathers that camouflaged and warmed their bodies and made snowshoes of their feet, they endured the bitter season, feeding on seed and twigs, and when a blizzard struck, scratched out small caves in the snow to wait it out.

His faded, sky-blue military coat might have once graced a Polish officer of wide girth, but it now hung open to accommodate the broad chest of its present owner.

A man on a tall gray, with the legs of speed and plenty of girth at the cinches, where girth means lung power, twisted out of a side trail and swung past El Sangre at a fast gallop.