skirt

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

skirts

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

skirt

past (v2)

skirted

past participle (v3)

skirted

present participle

skirting

3rd person singular

skirts

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.

2. 2.A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.

   • The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.
   • I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."

3. 3.A loose edging to any part of a dress.

   • A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.

4. 4.A petticoat.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To be on or form the border of.

   • The plain was skirted by rows of trees.
   • The railway, which is single track throughout, skirts the left bank of the estuary of the River Colne, and was washed out over a length of about three miles.

2. 2.To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.

   • After Nanhsi, head into the hills again as you skirt Tsengwen Reservoir on a roller coaster of steep grades.
   • I'd forgotten how scenic parts of the line are - the railway crosses a host of streams while meandering through meadows or skirting woodland.
   • As we skirted the shores of the Dornoch Firth, between Tain and Bonar Bridge, the views across the water to the Sutherland mountains were particularly fine in the early morning sunshine.

3. 3.To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

   • He skirted the issue of which parties to attend by staying at home instead.
   • To be clear: I’m not saying Katyal helped a large corporation skirt child slavery laws, I’m just saying that he is the sort of guy who is a typical Burning Man attendee these days: the establishment in a goofy hat.

4. 4.To cover with a skirt; to surround.

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