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SHIRT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment worn on the upper half of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shirt" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Meronyms (parts of "shirt"):
dickey; dickie; dicky; shirtfront (a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt)
shirt button (a button on a shirt)
shirtfront (the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket))
shirtsleeve (the sleeve of a shirt)
shirttail (fabric forming the tail of a shirt)
Meronyms (substance of "shirt"):
shirting (any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shirt"):
camise (a loose shirt or tunic; originally worn in the Middle Ages)
daishiki; dashiki (a loose and brightly colored African shirt)
dress shirt; evening shirt (a man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo))
hair shirt (an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair; worn next to the skin as a penance)
jersey; T-shirt; tee shirt (a close-fitting pullover shirt)
kurta (a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama))
polo shirt; sport shirt (a shirt with short sleeves designed for comfort and casual wear)
tank top (a tight-fitting sleeveless shirt with wide shoulder straps and low neck and no front opening; often worn over a shirt or blouse)
work-shirt (heavy-duty shirts worn for manual or physical work)
Derivation:
shirt (put a shirt on)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put a shirt on
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "shirt" is one way to...):
apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog (provide with clothes or put clothes on)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
shirt (a garment worn on the upper half of the body)
Context examples:
I recently saw a funny T-shirt on a tiny child, age 3: “Mommy is Tired. Call Grandma!”
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I'll make the set of shirts for father, instead of letting you do it, Marmee.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
From shoulder to wrist of the crossed arms, the coat-sleeve, blue flannel shirt and undershirt were ripped in rags, while the arms themselves were terribly slashed and streaming blood.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mr. Rochester opened the shirt of the wounded man, whose arm and shoulder were bandaged: he sponged away blood, trickling fast down.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Challenger sprang into the air bellowing like a bull, and tore frantically at his coat and shirt to get them off.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When sewn into a shirt, these yarns served as a self-powered breathing monitor.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With such means in his power he had a right to be listened to; and though Mrs. Norris could fidget about the room, and disturb everybody in quest of two needlefuls of thread or a second-hand shirt button, in the midst of her nephew's account of a shipwreck or an engagement, everybody else was attentive; and even Lady Bertram could not hear of such horrors unmoved, or without sometimes lifting her eyes from her work to say, Dear me! how disagreeable!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
