WAIST

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Traducere în limba română

waist substantiv

1. talie, mijloc.

2. mijloc, parte din mijloc (a unui lucru, a viorii etc.); (tehn.) îngustare; gâtuire.

3. (amer.) corsaj; bluză.

4. (mar.) porţiune a punţii de la provă în imediata apropiere a catargului principal.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"One drift took me up to the waist; happily the snow is quite soft yet."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“You’ll see him with the belt round his waist before he’s five-and-twenty, or I am no judge of a man.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They kissed each other, and, with arms around each other's waists, they advanced toward him.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Even the wheel, quite a deal higher than the waist, was covered and swept again and again.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I took that occasion to put my arm round Em'ly's waist, and propose that as I was going away so very soon now, we should determine to be very affectionate to one another, and very happy, all day.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

At the touch of the cord he snapped the bonds which bound him, dashed one of the archers to the deck, and seizing the other round the waist sprang with him into the sea.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These conditions are: • High blood pressure • High blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels • High levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, in your blood • Low levels of HDL, the good cholesterol, in your blood • Too much fat around your waist

(Metabolic Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Also, Miss Flanagan had sent special instruction that said waist must be delivered by that night.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

To her astonishment (and it was something that she never ceased from relating to her dying day), she saw Martin Eden seize an iron from the stove and throw a fancy shirt-waist on the ironing-board.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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