English words for 'Wearing a shawl.'
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noun
noun
noun
noun
- 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
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
verb
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- 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.
- unite by a scarf joint
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- masturbate while strangling oneself
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
- A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).
- a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan
- (strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).
- (sometimes proscribed) A hijab (traditional headscarf covering the hair and neck), such as a khimar or shayla .
noun
- (countable) A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck.
- a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face
- (uncountable, Islam) The practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related (non-family) adult males.
- the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home
noun
- a scarf worn around the neck
- A type of scarf.
- 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
- (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.
verb
noun
noun
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
verb
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
- 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
- a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
verb
- To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
- To cover as or like a scarf.
- (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
- To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
- To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
- 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.
- unite by a scarf joint
- wrap in or adorn with a scarf
- masturbate while strangling oneself
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
- A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).
- a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan
- (strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).
- (sometimes proscribed) A hijab (traditional headscarf covering the hair and neck), such as a khimar or shayla .
noun
- (countable) A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck.
- a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face
- (uncountable, Islam) The practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related (non-family) adult males.
- the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home
noun
- a scarf worn around the neck
- A type of scarf.
- 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
- (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.
noun
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
verb
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
noun
verb
noun
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.