Ribbon vs Cincture - What's the difference?
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A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
A narrow strip or shred.
(shipbuilding)
(slang, dated, in the plural) Driving reins.
(heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(spinning) A sliver.
(computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
(cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
* 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161
(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
to girdle, circle or surround
As nouns the difference between ribbon and cincture
is that ribbon is a long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping while cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.As verbs the difference between ribbon and cincture
is that ribbon is to decorate with ribbon while cincture is to girdle, circle, or surround.ribbon
English
(wikipedia ribbon)Noun
(en noun)- a steel or magnesium ribbon
- sails torn to ribbons
- (London Athenaeum)
See also
* ribandSynonyms
* beribbonAnagrams
*cincture
English
Noun
(en noun)- In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.