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Halo vs Girt - What's the difference?

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Halo is a related term of girt.


As nouns the difference between halo and girt

is that halo is halo while girt is a horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

As a verb girt is

to gird or girt can be (gird).

As an adjective girt is

(nautical) bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

halo

English

(wikipedia halo)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (luminous disc around head of saints in paintings) aureole, nimbus

    Derived terms

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    Verb

    (es)
  • To encircle with a halo.

    • Related terms

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    References

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    Anagrams

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    girt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alteration of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
  • *
    • Related terms
    * girder

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To gird.
  • To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
  • To measure the girth of.

    • Etymology 3

    See gird

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gird)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

    • Anagrams

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