Waist
That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
A girdle or belt for the waist.
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Waist Quotations
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White
Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
Jack LaLanne
They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.
Jim Bakker
I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
Victoria Wood
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
Annette Funicello
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
Lee Westwood
Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.
Ricki Lake
My god! It's a hamster with explosives taped around it's waist!
Colin Mochrie
This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more.
Melissa Joan Hart
I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything.
Berenice Bejo
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
Anthony Doerr
The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
Michael Servetus
The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Tom Wilson
As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.
Cat Deeley
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
Larry Flynt
And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.
Joely Richardson
When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.
Joe Gold
A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'
Norman Lindsay
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
Tina Louise
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
Matthew Green
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
Rose Schneiderman
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Waist Translations
waist in Dutch is middel, leest, taille
waist in German is Taille
waist in Italian is vita
waist in Portuguese is cintura
waist in Spanish is cintura, talla
waist in Swedish is midja
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