| 单词 | cincture |
| 释义 | cincture /singk"cheuhr/, n. , v. , cinctured, cincturing. n. 1. a belt or girdle. 2. something that surrounds or encompasses as a girdle does; a surrounding border: The midnight sky had a cincture of stars. 3. (on a classical column) a fillet at either end of a shaft, esp. one at the lower end. Cf. orle (def. 3b). 4. the act of girding or encompassing. v.t. 5. to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass. [ < L cinctura, equiv. to cinct(us) (cinc-, var. s. of cingere to gird, CINCH + -tus ptp. suffix) + -ura -URE] |
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