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Unitard vs Retard - What's the difference?

unitard | retard |

As nouns the difference between unitard and retard

is that unitard is a skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet while retard is retardation; delay.

As a verb retard is

to keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder.

unitard

English

(wikipedia unitard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.
  • * 2007 , Leslie Norton, , Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star , page 46,
    • While Lincoln Kirstein noted that the unitards did show clearly the dancers' lines, he too found them distracting: "Union-suit tights are hard to make look neat, but the line of undergarments shining through continually destroyed the line."
  • * 2011 , Scott Speck, Evelyn Cisneros, Ballet for Dummies , unnumbered page,
    • The unitard' consists of a ''leotard'' (a sort of stretchy one-piece bathing suit) attached to a pair of tights, which completely cover the legs. The ' unitard can be worn by anyone — men and women, boys, girls, and extraordinarily graceful household pets.
  • * 2011 , Jodi Lundgren, Leap , page 73,
    • Backstage (that is, in the high school locker room) before the show, all the other senior girls were pulling on their red unitards for the jazz piece.

    retard

    English

    (wikipedia retard)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Retardation; delay.
  • (slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation.
    • Do all retards have a low I.Q.?
  • (slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.

    • Synonyms

    * (retardation) delay, hold-up, retardation * (person with mental retardation) idiot, tard (offensive), imbecile (disused medical term), mental deficient (legal term), moron (disused medical term), person with learning difficulties * (stupid person) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
    • retard the march of an army
    retard the motion of a ship
  • To put off; to postpone.
    • to retard the attacks of old age
    to retard a rupture between nations
  • (obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
  • To decelerate; to slow down.
  • (obsolete) To stay back.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Synonyms

    * decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down * (postpone) postpone, put off * (stay back) hang back, stay back

    Antonyms

    * accelerate, speed, speed up * (postpone) * (stay back) come forward

    Derived terms

    * retarded

    References

    * IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs

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