Girdle vs Hem - What's the difference?
girdle | hem | 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 utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
* Spectator
To make the sound expressed by the word hem ; to hesitate in speaking.
* Shakespeare
(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
A rim or margin of something.
* Shakespeare
In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
(in sewing) To make a hem.
(transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
(transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.
In transitive terms the difference between girdle and hem
is that girdle is to kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark while hem is : To surround something or someone in a confining way.As an interjection hem is
used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.As a pronoun hem is
obsolete form of 'em|lang=en.girdle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)
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)
Verb
(girdl)Anagrams
* * *hem
English
Etymology 1
A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)See also
* ahem * hawNoun
(en noun)- his morning hems
Verb
(hemm)- Hem , and stroke thy beard.
Derived terms
* hem and hawEtymology 2
From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm and related to Middle High German .Noun
(en noun)- hem of the sea