Girdle vs Contour - What's the difference?
girdle | contour | Synonyms |
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
* Shakespeare
A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
* Bible, Revelations xv. 6
The zodiac; also, the equator.
* Campbell
* Cowper
The line of greatest circumference of a diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
The clitellum of an earthworm.
(Scottish, Northern English)
To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
Girdle is a synonym of contour.
As nouns the difference between girdle and contour
is that girdle is that which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference while contour is an outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.As a verb girdle
is to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.girdle
English
Noun
(en noun)- within the girdle of these walls
- their breasts girded with golden girdles
- that gems the starry girdle of the year
- from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
- (Francis Bacon)
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Verb
(girdl)Anagrams
* * *contour
English
Noun
(en noun)- The low drag contour of a modern automobile.