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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The middle outer portion of the front of the human body, extending roughly from just below the breast to the waistline.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The diaphragm. See cut at diaphragm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) See
diaphragm , n., 2. - noun The middle part of the front of the body, from the waist to the chest.
- noun That part of a garment, especially a dress or bodice, that covers the midriff{2}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The mid section of the human
torso , from below the chest to above the waist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- noun (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In later years, I thought maybe the instructors were worried about the boys not learning if they were staring at girls in midriff tops.
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Picture grown men, dressed in midriff-baring blouses, tight miniskirts, and beads, girating in the streets!
Anybody join in any Mardi Gras festivities in your towns? 2003
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Next in order is the middle region, or chest, which comprehends the vital faculties and parts; which (as I have said) is separated from the lower belly by the diaphragma or midriff, which is a skin consisting of many nerves, membranes; and amongst other uses it hath, is the instrument of laughing.
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Now that the midriff, which is a kind of outgrowth from the sides of the thorax, acts as a screen to prevent heat mounting up from below, is shown by what happens, should it, owing to its proximity to the stomach, attract thence the hot and residual fluid.
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For not a word has yet been said of the midriff, which is one of the parts that environ the viscera and therefore has to be considered with them.
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The belly, (Abdomen.) The breast, (thorax) and belly (abdomen,) are separated by a strong membrane, called the midriff or diaphragm, which will be described hereafter.
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From the vein that passes through the liver two branches separate off, of which one terminates in the diaphragm or so-called midriff, and the other runs up again through the armpit into the right arm and unites with the other veins at the inside of the bend of the arm; and it is in consequence of this local connexion that, when the surgeon opens this vein in the forearm, the patient is relieved of certain pains in the liver; and from the left-hand side of it there extends a short but thick vein to the spleen and the little veins branching off it disappear in that organ.
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My favorite and well sewn dress pattern has that same kind of midriff, but the point faces north.
Jane Tise pattern aka "best midriff ever" - A Dress A Day 2006
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That portion of the midriff which is near the ribs is fleshier and stronger than the rest, but the central part has more of a membranous character; for this structure conduces best to its strength and its extensibility.
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MR. KING: You have the same kind of midriff -- and he eats like you -- fast foods.
Remarks By Pres On Larry King Live ITY National Archives 1994
Related Words
synonyms (83)
Words with the same meaning
- abdomen
- abomasum
- barrier
- bay window
- beerbelly
- belly
- brattice
- breadbasket
- buffer
- buffer state
- bulkhead
- bumper
- center
- cloison
- collision mat
- core
- craw
- crop
- cushion
- diameter
- diaphragm
- dissepiment
- dividing line
- dividing wall
- division
- embonpoint
- equator
- fender
- first stomach
- gizzard
- gullet
- gut
- heart
- honeycomb stomach
- interior
- interseptum
- kernel
- kishkes
- manyplies
- mat
- maw
- mean
- median
- middle
- midmost
- midsection
- midst
- nucleus
- omasum
- pad
- panel
- paries
- partition
- party wall
- paunch
- pot
- potbelly
- potgut
- property line
- psalterium
- pusgut
- rennet bag
- reticulum
- rumen
- second stomach
- separation
- septulum
- septum
- shock pad
- spare tire
- stomach
- swagbelly
- thick
- thick of things
- third stomach
- tum-tum
- tummy
- underbelly
- ventripotence
- waist
- waistline
- wall
- zone
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...if ya catch midriff.
November 24, 2008