Halo vs Girdle - What's the difference?
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(astronomy) A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
(astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
(religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
To encircle with a halo.
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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.
Halo is a related term of girdle.
As nouns the difference between halo and girdle
is that halo is halo while girdle is that which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.As a verb girdle is
to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.halo
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(wikipedia halo)Noun
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* (luminous disc around head of saints in paintings) aureole, nimbusDerived terms
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----girdle
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(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
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