English words for 'A scarf.'
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noun
- A type of scarf.
- a scarf worn around the neck
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
verb
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- unite by a scarf joint
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
- masturbate while strangling oneself
noun
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
- A headscarf.
- A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- (Scotland) A cormorant.
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
- A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
- a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
adj
noun
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).
- A wraparound mortgage.
- (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
- The act of wrapping
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
- cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
verb
- (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
- (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- arrange or coil around
- crash into so as to coil around
noun
noun
- A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
- a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur
- Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
- any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs
noun
- a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- a small round woman's hat
- A towel wrapped around long wet hair in a manner resembling a turban.
- (clothing) A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
- The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.
- A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
verb
noun
noun
- A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.
- A respirator.
- A dust mask.
- (American football, Canadian football) The foul of grasping it during play.
- A facial mask (cosmetic application).
- (medicine) A surgical mask.
- (American football, Canadian football) The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
- (underwater diving) A diving mask.
noun
- A thin fabric made from this silk, as for scarves.
- (textiles) A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring.
- Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.
- the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments
- large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
noun
- a garment that covers the head and face
- a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
- a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
- the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
- (figurative, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.
- (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
- A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- (biology) The calyptra of mosses.
- Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
- An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
- (mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
- (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
- (figurative) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
- A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
verb
noun
noun
- A strip of fabric worn around the head.
- (printing) A thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing press.
- A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement.
- A hair accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back.
- a band worn around or over the head
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
- (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
- (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
- (intransitive) To grow together.
- (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- (ambitransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
- (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
- (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture.
- (transitive) To combine from various elements.
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
- make (textiles) by knitting
- tie or link together
noun
- (countable) A rich kind of shawl made from this wool.
- (chiefly uncountable) A soft fabric made of this wool.
- (countable, by extension) Any similar shawl.
- (chiefly uncountable) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat.
- a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat
- the wool of the Kashmir goat
noun
adj
noun
- A type of scarf.
- a scarf worn around the neck
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
adj
noun
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).
- A wraparound mortgage.
- (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
- The act of wrapping
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
- cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
verb
- (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
- (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- arrange or coil around
- crash into so as to coil around
noun
noun
- A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
- a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur
- Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
- any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs
noun
- a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- a small round woman's hat
- A towel wrapped around long wet hair in a manner resembling a turban.
- (clothing) A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
- The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.
- A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
verb
noun
noun
- A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.
- A respirator.
- A dust mask.
- (American football, Canadian football) The foul of grasping it during play.
- A facial mask (cosmetic application).
- (medicine) A surgical mask.
- (American football, Canadian football) The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
- (underwater diving) A diving mask.
noun
- A thin fabric made from this silk, as for scarves.
- (textiles) A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring.
- Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.
- the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments
- large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
noun
- a garment that covers the head and face
- a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
- a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
- the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
- (figurative, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.
- (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
- A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
- (biology) The calyptra of mosses.
- Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.
- An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
- (mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
- (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
- (figurative) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
- A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
verb
noun
noun
- A strip of fabric worn around the head.
- (printing) A thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing press.
- A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement.
- A hair accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back.
- a band worn around or over the head
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To create a stitch by pulling the working yarn through an existing stitch from back to front.
- (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
- (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
- (intransitive) To grow together.
- (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
- (ambitransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
- (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
- (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture.
- (transitive) To combine from various elements.
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
- make (textiles) by knitting
- tie or link together
verb
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- unite by a scarf joint
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
- masturbate while strangling oneself
noun
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
- A headscarf.
- A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- (Scotland) A cormorant.
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
- A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
- a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end
noun
- (countable) A rich kind of shawl made from this wool.
- (chiefly uncountable) A soft fabric made of this wool.
- (countable, by extension) Any similar shawl.
- (chiefly uncountable) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat.
- a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat
- the wool of the Kashmir goat
noun
adj
verb
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- unite by a scarf joint
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
- To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
- masturbate while strangling oneself
noun
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
- A headscarf.
- A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
- A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
- (Scotland) A cormorant.
- A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
- A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
- a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end