GIRDLING

Meaning of GIRDLING in English

p.pr. & ·vb.n. of girdle.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

GIRDLING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Girdle
Английский словарь Webster
GIRDLING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Girdle
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GIRDLE — I. noun Etymology: Middle English girdel, from Old English gyrdel; akin to Old High German gurtil ~, Old English gyrdan …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DIAMOND CUTTING — Branch of lapidary art involving the five basic steps in fashioning a diamond: marking, cleaving, sawing, girdling, and faceting. The …
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SLASH-AND-BURN — I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : characterized or developed by felling and girdling trees and then burning them to make land arable …
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GIRDLE — I. ˈgərd ə l, ˈgə̄d-, ˈgəid- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English girdel, from Old English gyrdel; akin to …
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CANKER — I. ˈkaŋkə(r), -ˈai- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English canker, cancre, from Old North French cancre & Old English …
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WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST — noun also white-pine rust : a disease of 5-leaved pine (as Swiss pine or various No. American white pines) that …
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UNMANNED — |ən+ adjective Etymology: un- (I) + manned, past participle of man 1. : having no men aboard : not guided …
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TIP-OVER — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun ( -s ) Etymology: from tip over, v. : a disease of eggplant caused by a fungus ( …
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SOUTHERN BLIGHT — noun : a disease of many vegetable and ornamental plants caused by a fungus ( Sclerotium rolfsii ) and characterized …
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PALES WEEVIL — |pā(ˌ)lēz- noun Etymology: New Latin pales, specific epithet of Hylobius pales : a large brown weevil ( Hylobius pales ) …
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FIDDLER BEETLE — noun : any of certain beetles: as a. : fiddleback b. : a root-girdling beetle ( Prepodes vittatus or a …
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DEADENING — noun ( -s ) 1. : action that deadens 2. : something that deadens: as a. : material used to …
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DEADEN
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CLOVER ROOT CURCULIO — noun : a small dark broad-snouted weevil ( Sitona hispidula or a closely related species) that feeds on clovers, alfalfa, …
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AIR LAYERING — noun : vegetative propagation of a plant (as one difficult or impossible to graft or bud) by enclosing a branch …
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OAK-ROOT ROT — /ohk"rooht', -root'/ , Plant Pathol. a disease of oaks and other trees and woody plants, caused by the fungus Amillariella …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GIRDLE — — girdlelike , adj. — girdlingly , adv. /gerr"dl/ , n. , v. , girdled, girdling . n. 1. a …
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DEADENING — /ded"n ing/ , n. 1. a device or material employed to deaden or render dull. 2. a device or material …
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AIR LAYERING — Hort. a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing …
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SCORCH — symptom of plant disease in which tissue is burned because of unfavourable conditions or infection by bacteria or fungi. Unfavourable …
Britannica English vocabulary
PLANT DISEASE — an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. All species of plants, …
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LOGGING — process of harvesting trees, sawing them into appropriate lengths (bucking), and transporting them (skidding) to a sawmill. The different phases …
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DIAMOND CUTTING — separate and special branch of lapidary art involving five basic steps in fashioning a diamond: marking, cleaving, sawing, girdling, and …
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DESERT — any large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation. It is one of the Earth's major types of ecosystems, …
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KNIGHT, THOMAS ANDREW — born Aug. 12, 1759, Ludlow, Herefordshire, Eng. died May 11, 1838, London British horticulturalist and botanist whose experiments on the …
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GIRDLE — ( girdles, girdling, girdled) A girdle is a piece of women’s underwear that fits tightly around the stomach and hips. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GIRDLE — (~s, girdling, ~d) A ~ is a piece of women’s underwear that fits tightly around the stomach and hips. N-COUNT
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DIAMOND CUTTING — Branch of lapidary art involving the five basic steps in fashioning a diamond: marking, cleaving, sawing, girdling, and faceting. The …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
WALKING — Synonyms and related words : ambling, ambulant, ambulation, ambulative, ambulatory, backpacking, circuit-riding, expeditionary, footing, footing it, footwork, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, …
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