English words for 'Short for middy blouse.'
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noun
- A kind of short trousers for women, usually ending at midcalf.
- (usually plural only) A non-auger posthole digger of a hand tool type with hinged operation.
- Waders; rubber pants (including oversized boots) worn when wading in shallow water, especially when digging for clams with a clam rake.
- plural of clamdigger
noun
- A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.
- The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt, sometimes specifically excluding the sleeves.
- An underbodice: an undershirt for women.
- A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
- part of a dress above the waist
noun
- a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress
- A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress.
- a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit
- Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming.
- A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress.
- A wimple; a wide, stiffly starched cloth that covers the neck and shoulders, as part of the habit of nuns of certain orders.
verb
noun
- (fashion) A type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm.
- (dance) A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.
- music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance
- a short jacket; worn mostly by women
- a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets
verb
noun
- (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
- Alternative form of blouze.
- (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
- Alternative form of blowze.
- (India, Bangladesh) A short garment worn under a sari.
- a top worn by women
verb
noun
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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adj
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
- (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
- A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
- A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
noun
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- (slang) A police record.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
- a short coat
- an outer wrapping or casing
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- the outer skin of a potato
verb
noun
adj
noun
- a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse
- (fashion) A short overskirt cut in such a way that the sides form points. [from 20th century]
- a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
- (Ancient Greece) A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
- (countable) An individual film in this genre.
- (uncountable) A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics.
- (Ancient Greece) A kind of women's outer garment in ancient Greece; a veil.
- (fashion) A short overskirt attached to the waist of a garment; a basque.
noun
adj
adj
noun
- a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case
- a condensed written summary or abstract
- (usually in the plural) Underwear briefs.
- (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
- (usually in the plural) Swimming briefs.
- (English law, slang) A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
- (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy.
- (UK, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
- A short news story or report.
- (law) An answer to any action.
- (slang) A ticket of any type.
- (Roman Catholicism) A short papal letter.
- (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
- (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
- (law) A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
verb
noun
- the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt
- the front of man's dress shirt
- a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
- A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.
- (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
- An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
- A breastplate.
- A man's shirt-bosom.
- (zoology) The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
noun
adj
noun
- The fashion of wearing long sleeves outside a short-sleeved shirt.
- Something that yields a substantial additional benefit; something that figuratively kills two birds with one stone.
- (also attributively) Something sold at a discount of two for the price of one.
- A cabling device used in theatre, allowing two stage lighting instruments to be connected to one dimmer.
- a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one
- an offer of two for the price of one
noun
name
- (fashion, historical) An influential fashion collection launched by designer Christian Dior in 1947.
- (US, historical) The new national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which aimed to balance Cold War military commitments with the nation's financial resources.
noun
- A kind of short trousers for women, usually ending at midcalf.
- (usually plural only) A non-auger posthole digger of a hand tool type with hinged operation.
- Waders; rubber pants (including oversized boots) worn when wading in shallow water, especially when digging for clams with a clam rake.
- plural of clamdigger
noun
- A blouse; any shirt for women, particularly the upper part of a two-piece dress or similar European folk costume.
- The upper portion of a women's one-piece dress, equivalent to a shirt, sometimes specifically excluding the sleeves.
- An underbodice: an undershirt for women.
- A corset-like sleeveless overgarment for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
- part of a dress above the waist
noun
- a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress
- A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress.
- a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit
- Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming.
- A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress.
- A wimple; a wide, stiffly starched cloth that covers the neck and shoulders, as part of the habit of nuns of certain orders.
verb
noun
- (fashion) A type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm.
- (dance) A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.
- music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance
- a short jacket; worn mostly by women
- a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets
verb
noun
- (fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
- Alternative form of blouze.
- (military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
- Alternative form of blowze.
- (India, Bangladesh) A short garment worn under a sari.
- a top worn by women
verb
noun
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
- (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
- A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
- A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
adj
noun
noun
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- (slang) A police record.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
- a short coat
- an outer wrapping or casing
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- the outer skin of a potato
verb
noun
adj
noun
- a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse
- (fashion) A short overskirt cut in such a way that the sides form points. [from 20th century]
- a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
- (Ancient Greece) A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
- (countable) An individual film in this genre.
- (uncountable) A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics.
- (Ancient Greece) A kind of women's outer garment in ancient Greece; a veil.
- (fashion) A short overskirt attached to the waist of a garment; a basque.
noun
adj
noun
- the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt
- the front of man's dress shirt
- a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail
- (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
- a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest
- A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.
- (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
- An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
- A breastplate.
- A man's shirt-bosom.
- (zoology) The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
noun
adj
noun
- The fashion of wearing long sleeves outside a short-sleeved shirt.
- Something that yields a substantial additional benefit; something that figuratively kills two birds with one stone.
- (also attributively) Something sold at a discount of two for the price of one.
- A cabling device used in theatre, allowing two stage lighting instruments to be connected to one dimmer.
- a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one
- an offer of two for the price of one
noun
name
- (fashion, historical) An influential fashion collection launched by designer Christian Dior in 1947.
- (US, historical) The new national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which aimed to balance Cold War military commitments with the nation's financial resources.
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adj
noun
adj
noun
- a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case
- a condensed written summary or abstract
- (usually in the plural) Underwear briefs.
- (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
- (usually in the plural) Swimming briefs.
- (English law, slang) A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
- (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy.
- (UK, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
- A short news story or report.
- (law) An answer to any action.
- (slang) A ticket of any type.
- (Roman Catholicism) A short papal letter.
- (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
- (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
- (law) A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.