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Loins vs Waist - What's the difference?

loins | waist |

As nouns the difference between loins and waist

is that loins is plural of lang=en while waist is the part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.

loins

English

Noun

(head)
  • The lower abdomen, groin and genitalia.

    • Derived terms

    * fruit of one's loins * gird up one's loins

    Related terms

    * lumb-, lumbo- * lumbago * lumbar * lumbosacral

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    waist

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
  • A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
  • The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
  • The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
  • (nautical) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
  • * 1851 ,
    • There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist .

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from waist) * pantywaist * waistband * waistcoat * waistless * waistline

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