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APRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apron mean? 

APRON (noun)
  The noun APRON has 4 senses:

1. a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothingplay

2. (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the greenplay

3. the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)play

4. a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being usedplay

  Familiarity information: APRON used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


APRON (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:

(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)


Sense 3

Meaning:

The part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

apron; forestage; proscenium

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:

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)


 Context examples 


“Tell him so,” retorted Peggotty, looking out of her apron.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When the old witch got up next morning, she called her daughter, and wanted to give her the apron, but she did not come.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Ah, that depends on who wears the apron!" and Laurie gave an audacious tweak at the tassel.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Dorothy put on a green silk apron and tied a green ribbon around Toto's neck, and they started for the Throne Room of the Great Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

To my surprise, it was a woman who answered the summons, a large, coarse-faced, elderly woman, in an apron.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It’s Jack Harrison the bruiser! Lord Frederick was going to take on the ex-champion. Give him one on the apron, Fred, and see what happens.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She wiped her eyes with her apron: the two girls, grave before, looked sad now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Scientists use the term "gully" for features on Mars that share three characteristics in their shape: an alcove at the top, a channel, and an apron of deposited material at the bottom.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)

The mother, out of pure indulgence, took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently seized me by the middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibly have broke my neck, if the mother had not held her apron under me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All round, in the edge of the circle of the light, stood the castle servants, the soldiers who were to form the garrison, and little knots of women, who sobbed in their aprons and called shrilly to their name-saints to watch over the Wat, or Will, or Peterkin who had turned his hand to the work of war.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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