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Girder vs Cincture - What's the difference?

girder | cincture |

As nouns the difference between girder and cincture

is that girder is a beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure while cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.

As a verb cincture is

to girdle, circle or surround.

girder

English

(wikipedia girder)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
  • One who girds; a satirist.

    • cincture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
  • A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
  • * 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161
    • In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
  • (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

    • See also

    * ("cincture" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (cinctur)
  • to girdle, circle or surround