Synonyms of the word waist


WAISTAREA - PART - PORTION - REGION - SHANK - WAISTLINE

waist

  • n. The part of the body between the pelvis and the stomach.
  • n. A part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist.
  • n. The narrow connection between the thorax and abdomen in certain insects (e.g., bees, ants and wasps).
  • n. The middle portion of the hull of a ship or the fuselage of an aircraft.
  • n. (nautical) That part of the upper deck of a ship between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

area

  • n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
  • n. A particular geographic region.
  • n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
  • n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
  • n. (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
  • n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
  • n. (slang) Genitals.

part

  • n. A portion; a component.
  • n. Duty; responsibility.
  • n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
  • n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
  • n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
  • v. (intransitive) To leave.
  • v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
  • v. (transitive) To divide in two.
  • v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
  • v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
  • v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
  • v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
  • v. To leave; to quit.
  • v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
  • adj. Fractional; partial.
  • adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

portion

  • n. An allocated amount.
  • n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • n. One's fate; lot.
  • n. The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
  • n. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • v. (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
  • v. (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

region

  • n. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable…
  • n. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
  • n. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number…
  • n. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
  • n. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
  • n. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
  • n. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental…

shank

  • adj. (slang) Bad.
  • n. The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
  • n. Meat from that part of an animal.
  • n. (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus…
  • n. A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
  • n. The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
  • n. The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends…
  • n. A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
  • n. The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the…
  • n. (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects…
  • n. (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon; a shiv.
  • n. A loop forming an eye to a button.
  • n. (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
  • n. (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
  • n. (printing, dated) The body of a type; between the shoulder and the foot.
  • n. (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
  • n. Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
  • n. The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
  • n. The main part or beginning of a period of time.
  • v. (archaic, Ulster) To travel on foot.
  • v. (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
  • v. (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly golf, tennis, soccer) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting…

waistline

  • n. a line around the body at the waist; its measurement.
  • n. the narrowest part of a garment, usually at the waist, but may be above or below depending on the dictates…
  • n. (slang) person having a large waistline.

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