skirting, encircling(a)
(adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing; “his encircling arms”; “the room’s skirting board needs painting”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
skirting
present participle of skirt
skirting (countable and uncountable, plural skirtings)
skirting board
skirts collectively; material for skirts
The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
• striking
Source: Wiktionary
Skirt"ing, n.
1. (Arch.)
Definition: A skirting board. [R.]
2. Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.
Skirt, n. Etym: [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. skört a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt.]
1. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
2. A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.] A narrow lace, or a small skirt of 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. Addison.
3. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak.
4. A petticoat.
5. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.
Skirt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]
1. To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.
2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.
Skirt, v. t.
Definition: To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 November 2024
(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
