Cincture vs. Girdle: What's the Difference?

The act of encircling or encompassing.

A belt or sash worn around the waist.

Something that encircles or surrounds.

Something that encircles like a belt.

A belt or sash, especially one worn with an ecclesiastical vestment or the habit of a monk or nun.

An elasticized, flexible undergarment worn over the waist and hips to give the body a more slender appearance.

To gird; encompass.

A band made around the trunk of a tree by the removal of a strip of bark.

An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing

The edge of a cut gem held by the setting.

A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment

(Anatomy)The pelvic or pectoral girdle.

(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

To encircle with a belt.

To encircle, or surround.

To form a circle around:a ring of hills that girdled the city.

(viniculture) To girdle stunt or kill by cutting.

To remove a band of bark and cambium from the circumference of (a tree), usually in order to kill it.

A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, - as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.

A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

The zodiac; also, the equator.

The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.

The clitellum of an earthworm.

The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

(transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

(transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

A griddle.

That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

The zodiac; also, the equator.

The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.

A thin bed or stratum of stone.

The clitellus of an earthworm.

To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

An encircling or ringlike structure

A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

A woman's close-fitting foundation garment

Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;

Put a girdle on or around;