shirt

[ shurt ]

/ ʃɜrt /

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noun

a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.

an undergarment of cotton, or other material, for the upper part of the body.

a shirtwaist.

a nightshirt.

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Idioms about shirt

in one's shirt sleeves, without a coat: It was so hot that they worked in their shirt sleeves.Also in one's shirt-sleeves.

keep one's shirt on, Informal. to refrain from becoming angry or impatient; remain calm: Tell him to keep his shirt on until we're ready.

lose one's shirt, Informal. to lose all that one possesses; suffer a severe financial reverse: He lost his shirt in the stock market.

Origin of shirt

before 1150; Middle English schirte,Old English scyrte; cognate with German Schürze,Dutch schort apron, Old Norse skyrtaskirt

OTHER WORDS FROM shirt

shirtless, adjective

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How to use shirt in a sentence

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
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The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
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He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
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British Dictionary definitions for shirt

shirt

/ (ʃɜːt) /

noun

a garment worn on the upper part of the body, esp by men, usually of light material and typically having a collar and sleeves and buttoning up the front

short for nightshirt, undershirt

keep your shirt on informal refrain from losing your temper (often used as an exhortation to another)

put one's shirt on informal to bet all one has on (a horse, etc)

lose one's shirt on informal to lose all one has on (a horse, etc)

Word Origin for shirt

Old English scyrte; related to Old English sceort short, Old Norse skyrta skirt, Middle High German schurz apron

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shirt

see give the shirt off one's back; hair shirt; keep one's shirt on; lose one's shirt; stuffed shirt.

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