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APRON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("apron" is a kind of...):
protective garment (clothing that is intended to protect the wearer from injury)
Meronyms (parts of "apron"):
apron string ((usually used in the plural) a cord used to tie an apron at the waist)
bib (top part of an apron; covering the chest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("apron" is a kind of...):
paved surface (a level horizontal surface covered with paving material)
Holonyms ("apron" is a part of...):
airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
Synonyms:
apron; forestage; proscenium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("apron" is a kind of...):
stage (a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience)
Meronyms (parts of "apron"):
footlights (theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors)
prompt box; prompter's box (a booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage)
Holonyms ("apron" is a part of...):
theater stage; theatre stage (a stage in a theater on which actors can perform)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("apron" is a kind of...):
land site; site (the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located))
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Holonyms ("apron" is a part of...):
fairway (the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short)
Context examples:
I was evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress—white undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
After that, she covered her head up with her apron again and had another laugh about Mr. Barkis.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Indeed, the Tin Woodman began to cry, but fortunately remembered that he might rust, and so dried his tears on Dorothy's apron.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I thought you hated to be tied to a woman's apron string? retorted Jo, quoting certain rebellious words of his own.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
No, Roddy, I’ll stay no longer eating my heart out in this little village, but I’ll leave my apron behind me and I’ll seek my fortune in London, and when I come back to Friar’s Oak, it will be in such style as that gentleman yonder.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A snug small room; a round table by a cheerful fire; an arm-chair high- backed and old-fashioned, wherein sat the neatest imaginable little elderly lady, in widow's cap, black silk gown, and snowy muslin apron; exactly like what I had fancied Mrs. Fairfax, only less stately and milder looking.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Peggotty only laughed the more, and held her apron tight over her face when my mother tried to pull it away, and sat as if her head were in a bag.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
What have you got in your apron?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
