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Unitary vs Unitard - What's the difference?

unitary | unitard |

As nouns the difference between unitary and unitard

is that unitary is a unitary council while unitard is a skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.

As an adjective unitary

is having the quality of oneness.

unitary

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having the quality of oneness.
  • (government) Relating to a system of government in which sovereign power is concentrated in a single body instead of being shared or possessed by more local bodies.
    • Ex.
  • (mathematics) Pertaining to a unit.
    • Ex.

    Antonyms

    * (government) federalist

    Derived terms

    * unitariness * unitarity

    Noun

    (unitaries)
  • (UK) A unitary council
  • (mathematics) A unitary operator

    • 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.