Crossword clues for waist
waist
- Spare-tire locale?
- Spare tire site?
- Skirt top
- Sash site
- Place for a cummerbund
- Love handles setting
- Jackknife dive hinge
- Cummerbund's spot
- Belt's place
- Belt site
- A diet may slim it
- Where you can have a belt
- Where to hold a slow-dance partner
- Wasp's claim to fame
- Trousers statistic
- The 24 in '36-24-36'
- The "24" in 36-24-36
- The "24" in "36-24-36"
- Target for middle management?
- Spot for love handles
- Spot for a cummerbund
- Spare tire's place?
- Spare tire spot
- Spare tire site
- Ribs to hips region
- Place for pants loops
- Place for a cinch belt
- Pants stat
- Oft watched line
- Number on a pants tag
- Narrowest part of the torso
- Mom jeans have a high one
- Middle of a three-part body measurement
- Middle number of three measurements
- Middle measure
- Levi's spec
- It may increase with age
- Hula hoopsite
- Hula hoop site
- Fanny pack's spot
- Fanny pack site
- Fanny pack setting
- Ever-expanding middle
- Dressmaker's measurement
- Body midpoint
- Belted area
- Belt's spot
- Belt's site
- Belt place
- Belt location
- At times, it's belted
- Place for belt-tightening
- Midsection
- Cummerbund's place
- Place for a spare tire?
- Dieter's measure
- Spot for a spare tire
- Tailor's measurement between the bust and the hips
- Middle measurement
- Concern of many a dieter
- Top of a bottom
- What a belt encircles
- The narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
- The narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- It's often tape-measured
- Word with coat or line
- In 36-26-36, the 26
- Spot for a cinch belt
- Cummerbund locale
- Bodice
- What a girdle girdles
- Area measured by a tailor
- Place for a girdle
- Oft-watched line
- Wasp of yesterday
- Place for a belt
- Part of an hourglass figure
- Wasp feature
- Kind of line
- Where too much food goes to waste, I'm told
- Spare tyre location?
- Narrow part of the body, perhaps
- Units in temple belt round it perhaps
- Body part
- Skirt part
- Pants measure
- Dieter's concern
- Pants measurement
- Belt setting
- Jeans measure
- Dress feature
- Slacks measure
- It gets belted quite often
- Part of a trunk
- Hips to ribs region
- The 24 in 36-24-36
- Spot for a belt
- Place for a sash
- Part of the body
- Belt locale
- The middle number of 36-24-36
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waist \Waist\, n. [OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. w[ae]stm growth. See Wax to grow.]
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That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
--Chaucer.I am in the waist two yards about.
--Shak. Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
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A girdle or belt for the waist. [Obs.]
--Shak.Waist anchor. See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "middle part of the body," also "part of a garment fitted for the waist, portion of a garment that covers the waist" (but, due to fashion styles, often above or below it), probably from Old English *wæst "growth," hence, "where the body grows," from Proto-Germanic *wahs-tu- (cognates: Old English wæstm, Old Norse vöxtr, Swedish växt, Old High German wahst "growth, increase," Gothic wahstus "stature," Old English weaxan "to grow" see wax (v.)), from PIE *wegs-, extended form of root *aug- (1) "to increase" (see augment).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach. 2 A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist. 3 The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps). 4 The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft. 5 (context nautical English) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Waist is the narrow point of the body between the ribcage and hips. Other meanings derive from this by extension.
- Waist (clothing) is also a term for the bodice of a dress or for a blouse or woman's shirt.
- Waist, a variant of waistline, the line of demarcation between the upper and lower portions of a garment, which notionally corresponds to the natural waist but may vary with fashion from just below the bust to the upper hips
- Waist, a constriction in the body of musical instruments
- Waist, the narrowest part of a laser beam, see Gaussian beam
- W.A.I.S.T., acronym for an international softball tournament held in West Africa every year
Waist was a common term in the United States for the bodice of a dress or for a blouse or woman's shirt from the early 19th century through the Edwardian period.
A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt; i.e., of shirting fabric with turnover collar and cuffs and a front button closure. In the later Victorian period the term became applied more generally to unlined blouses with relatively simple construction and usually of a cotton or linen fabric, but often highly ornamented with embroidery and lace.
From the mid-20th century, shirtwaist referred to a dress with the upper portion (the bodice and sleeves) fashioned like a man's shirt, with a turnover collar and buttons down the front. Different embroidery were added to the shirtwaist, like rhinestones and different patterns.
Usage examples of "waist".
His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.
The alchemist aimed a finger at the woman and her hair grew to her waist.
Seregil paid his price without quibbling and Maklin threw in a sword belt, showing Alec how to wrap it twice around his waist 63 and fix the lacings so that the blade hung at the proper angle against his left hip.
Flinging his sword aside, he seized Alec around the waist and heaved him over the parapet.
It showed a man in antique clothing standing behind a fossil ammonite that almost reached his waist.
In front of him as he sat on the angareb her eyes were at the same level as his waist.
At her waist the tapestry aulmoniere remained firmly attached, though bedraggled.
Now she watched everything avidly, her grip on his waist and the back of his saddle just enough to keep her steady and balanced, and when he looked back at her, she was smiling, and her kohl-lined eyes were wide and bright.
He clenched his fist over the golden axes on his black tunic coat and bowed jerkily from the waist.
She were lying under a down quiltme wedding gift to the bride, Hindoo lady up in Ponda sewed it for mebut just as we came in she shrugged it off, and you could see her bare as a babby to the waist.
Its clothing was singular, to say the leasthigh-topped brogans of black leather, baggy pantaloons and baggier shirt of what looked to be a good-quality cloth in the hue of a dark-green olive, what might have been a broad sword belt cinching the waist, but no visible weapons and no armor except the close-fitting helmet.
The men throw several baht notes onto the bar, then depart, thick arms clasped around the tiny waists of their companions.
He had a bandanna for a headband, sunglasses, a collection of silver pendants around his neck on cords, a water bottle at his waist, no shirt, baggy shorts, and Velcro-strapped sandals.
Anoshi and Bap were dressed in the undersuiting that went with their spacesuits, including even biomedical sensors and the semi-bulky EMU urine collection systems about their crotches and waists.
The cadaver is shown from the waist up, so I cannot say whether Barbet dressed him Jesus-style in swaddling undergarments, but I can say that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the monologuist Spalding Gray.