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Definition: Shirt |
ShirtNoun1. A garment worn on the upper half of the body. Verb1. Put a shirt on. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shirt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Every man's bosom friend. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of putting on your shirt, is a sign that you will estrange yourself from your sweetheart by your faithless conduct. To lose your shirt, augurs disgrace in business or love. A torn shirt, represents misfortune and miserable surroundings. A soiled shirt, denotes that contagious diseases will confront you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Shirt (See Nessus .) Shirt for ensign. When Sultan Saladin died, he commanded that no ceremony should be used but this: A priest was to carry his shirt on a lance, and say: "Saladin, the conqueror of the East, carries nothing with him of all his wealth and greatness, save a shirt for his shroud and ensign." (Knolles: Turkish History.) Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin- i.e. My property is dear to me, but dearer my life; my belongings sit close to my heart, but "Ego proximus mihi." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | The inner lining of a blast furnace. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | Each player shall be numbered on the front and back of his shirt with plain arabic numerals of solid color. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A shirt is a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body.Colloquially, a shirt for women is often called a top, though this term is not completely restricted to women's clothing.
For such clothing, including vests, sweaters, jackets, etc. one can disinguish:
With regard to covering the shoulders and arms:
With regard to level of the lower edge:
- with no covering of the shoulders or arms - a tube top (not reaching higher than the armpits, staying in place by elasticity, see e.g [1])
- with only bands on the shoulders
- covering the shoulders, but without sleeves
- with short sleeves
- with half-long sleeves
- with long sleeves, may further be distinguished by the cuffs:
- no buttons
- buttons - single or multiple
- buttonholes only for use with cufflinks
and levels in between.
- leaving the belly button area bare (much more common for women than for men)
- until the waist
- covering the crotch
- covering part of the legs (essentially this is a dress; however, a piece of clothing is either perceived as a shirt (worn with trousers) or as a dress (worn by women, and by men just in the special case of cross-dressing).
With regard to opening:
With regard to the neck:
- left and right front side not separable, put on over the head
- vertical opening on the front side, with buttons or zipper.
With regard to pockets: how many (if any), where, not closable, or with a button or zipper.
- V-shaped permanent opening on the top of the front side
- with or without polo-neck
- no opening
- vertical opening on the top of the front side, with buttons or zipper
With or without collar. Furthermore the collar may have buttons at the tips for a "button-down collar".
Some common shirt types:
- T-shirt
- polo shirt - a shirt with collar but only a partial vertical opening with buttons
- dress shirt - a shirt with collar and full vertical opening with buttons
- tank top - a sleeveless shirt
- blouse - ladies dress shirt
- nightshirt - for sleeping
- sweatshirt - with or without hood
- rugby shirt - typically a long-sleeved T-shirt
- Hawaiian shirt - a colourful short-sleeve dress shirt
- golf shirt - a polo shirt
- baseball shirt - usually distinguished by a three quarters sleeve
- fishnet shirt, transparent, see e.g. [1]
- tube top - a shoulderless, sleeveless "tube" that wraps the torso
- halter top - a shoulderless, sleeveless, backless garment, typically for women. It is mechanically analogous to an apron with a string around the back of the neck and across the lower back holding it in place.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shirt."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Body clothes; linen; hickory shirt; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, negligee, dressing gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit. |
Coherence | Cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like Dejanira's shirt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Keep your shirt on, old-timer (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston) Where I will unveil a fifth of whiskey, I have hidden here under my loose, flowing sports shirt. (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) Nice shirt, Cecille (Cruel Intentions; writing credit: Roger Kumble. Based on the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Choderlos de Laclos.) You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn) That's a nice shirt. (Dead Man on Campus; writing credit: Anthony Abrams; Adam Larson Broder) | |
Lyrics | I have a history of taking off my shirt (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) Iridescent socks with the same color shirt (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) I pulled a diamond ring out of the pocket of my shirt (We Danced; performing artist: Brad Paisley) She's got a body under that shirt, (I Can't Dance; performing artist: Genesis) Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) | |
Clever | Guys: No Shirt, No Service. Gals: No Shirt, No Charge. (references; author: unknown) Seen on a T shirt in Australia: "My wife says that I don't listen… At least I think that's what she said. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tale of a Shirt (1933) Only One Shirt (1914) His Dress Shirt (1911) The Song of the Shirt (1908) Green Plaid Shirt (1996) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured is a handler, kneeling, wearing a white lab shirt. He is holding a beagle. The dog will probably be used in some experiment. It is an outdoor setting. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | A woman in a red shirt explains a chart in a booklet by drawing it on a blackboard in colored chalk. See artwork: OCC-04. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Deploying Fluxgate magnetometer on EXPLORER Harris B. Stewart in black shirt. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Eoline R. Hand Fifth from right with long-sleeve white shirt With Navy crew used to do hydrography at Lahaina Roads. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Senator Breaux, in the red shirt, was the keynote speaker at the Big Island restoration project dedication, July 1, 1998. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A crewman operates a light-registering fathometer while wearing a home-designed U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey logo embossed work shirt. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | California producer, and Chu Yang (blue shirt), NRCS Soil Conservationist, Fresno, CA, discuss drip irrigation with a group of the original Hmoung farmers to the Central Valley of California. [Slide 97CS2979]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Crew members F. Petry (left) and W.M. Langridge (in gun) pose at the breech of one of the ship's 13"/35 guns, 1903. Note the "A" with figure "8" knot on Petry's shirt. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Firing on board USS Hornet (CV-12), circa February 1945, probably during gunnery practice. The original picture caption identifies the photo as having been taken during Task Force 58's raid on Japan, 16 February 1945. However, helmetless members of the gun crew, and rolled up shirt sleeves, strongly indicate that the occasion was in warmer climes and not while in combat. View looks aft on the port side, with the carrier's port quarter 5"/38 guns just beyond the 40mm mount. Note ready-service ammunition and spent shell casings at right; men passing 4-round clips to loaders at left. Credit: NAVY. |  | Doorman without shirt standing under awning frame without awning in front of ornate entrance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pink shirt" by hagit Commentary: "Indian bus stand." | "Man with a red shirt 02" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Man with a red shirt 02." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John Heywood | The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You earn twelve sous at shirt making, that falls to nine sous, not enough to live |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The man was dressed in gray wool trousers and a blue shirt, dark blue with sweat on the back and under the arms |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I let my shirt down to my waist, and drew up the bottom, fastening it like a girdle about my middle to hide my nakedness |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I believe that all races at some seasons wear something equivalent to the shirt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Tuck your shirt into your pants. (references) | |
Tuck pant legs into socks or boots and tuck shirt into pants. (references) | ||
It is easily wrapped around your stomach and held in place under your shirt. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Tunisia | The Government originally claimed that J'day committed suicide by hanging himself with his shirt from the bars in his cell and that he died on the way to the hospital. (references) |
Travel | Trinidad | Standard office wear for men is shirt and tie, or business suit. (references) |
Vietnam | During the hotter months, formal dress for men is a shirt and tie. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character. Let us dissemble. Adam |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shirt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.89% of the time. "Shirt" is used about 2,608 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.89% | 2,579 | 3,540 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.8% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.19% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,608 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shirt": adhere like Dejanira's shirt ♦ boiled shirt ♦ bush shirt ♦ casual shirt ♦ cellular shirt ♦ checked shirt ♦ cotton shirt ♦ dress shirt ♦ evening shirt ♦ get smb.'s shirt out ♦ hair shirt ♦ Hunting shirt ♦ Iron Shirt Chi Kung ♦ Iron Shirt II ♦ keep one's shirt on ♦ keep your shirt on! ♦ lose one's shirt ♦ night shirt ♦ polo shirt ♦ puffy shirt ♦ put one's shirt on a horse ♦ shirt blouse ♦ shirt button ♦ shirt dress ♦ shirt front ♦ shirt of mail ♦ shirt tail ♦ shirt waist ♦ sport shirt ♦ sports shirt ♦ stuffed shirt ♦ sweat shirt ♦ tee shirt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shirt": shirt-button, shirt-chaser, shirt-clad, shirt-collar, shirt-cuff, shirt-dress, shirt-dresses, shirt-factory, shirt-front, shirt-like, shirt-maker, shirt-neck, shirt-sleeve, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shirt-sleeved, shirt-sleeves, shirt-stud, shirt-tail, shirt-tails, shirt-throwing, shirt-waist, Shirt-waist suit, shirt-waister, shirt-wearing. | |
Ending with "shirt": night-shirt, sweat-shirt. | |
Containing "shirt": in one's shirt-sleeves, Pink-Shirt Book. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
t shirt | 11,179 | t shirt design | 1,033 |
wet t shirt | 6,885 | bird t shirt | 1,004 |
funny t shirt | 5,042 | wholesale t shirt | 970 |
cat t shirt | 4,022 | custom t shirt | 948 |
dog t shirt | 3,926 | american flag shirt | 934 |
hawaiian shirt | 3,361 | mountain lion t shirt | 879 |
animal t shirt | 3,241 | polo shirt | 784 |
lion t shirt | 2,815 | bowling shirt | 781 |
wolf shirt | 2,203 | humor t shirt | 766 |
shirt | 2,168 | christian t shirt | 692 |
wet t shirt contest | 2,125 | free t shirt | 660 |
golf shirt | 1,917 | marine corps t shirt | 644 |
tiger t shirt | 1,516 | t shirt printing | 590 |
patriotic shirt | 1,239 | usmc t shirt | 571 |
vintage t shirt | 1,191 | death t shirt | 561 |
tropical shirt | 1,173 | cougar t shirt | 558 |
dolphin t shirt | 1,170 | shark t shirt | 533 |
wildlife t shirt | 1,099 | whale t shirt | 514 |
wet shirt | 1,084 | harley davidson t shirt | 504 |
butterfly shirt | 1,037 | metal t shirt | 497 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "shirt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hemp. (various references) | |
Albanian | këmishë nate (chemise, night gown, nightdress, night-robe, nightshirt, nighty, petticoat), këmishë e brendshme (singlet, slip), këmishë (book jacket, caul, shimmy, sleeve, wrapper), bluzë grash. (various references) | |
Arabic | قميص تحتاني (singlet, undervest), قميص (jacket). (various references) | |
Asturian | camisa. (various references) | |
Bemba | ishati. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | isttohksisoka'sim. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | риза (envelope, shift), шемизета (shirt blouse). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kamisadentro. (various references) | |
Chamorro | chinina. (various references) | |
Chinese | 襯衣 , 襯衫 (blouse), 衬衣. (various references) | |
Cornish | crýs. (various references) | |
Czech | košile (chemise, undervest). (various references) | |
Danish | skjorte. (various references) | |
Dutch | overhemd. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | camiza (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĉemizo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skjúrta. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیراهن پوشیدن , پیراهن . (various references) | |
Finnish | paita (vest). (various references) | |
French | chemise (shift), maillot. (various references) | |
Frisian | himd (vest), boesgroentsje. (various references) | |
German | Hemd (chemise, shift). (various references) | |
Greek | πουκάμισο. (various references) | |
Guarani | kamisarã. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חולצה (blouse, tunic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ing (chemise, sark). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skyrta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kemeja (blouse), berbaju (jacket, wear cloth), baju (blouse, clothes, clothing, jacket). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | atigi. (various references) | |
Irish | léine. (various references) | |
Italian | camicia (top), camicetta (blouse, chemisette). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, vaseline, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wipe out, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, worm, wow, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern), シャッポを脱ぐ (castle, chateau wine, Chateaubriand, shirt blouse, shirtwaist, shuttle, shuttle bus, shuttle loop, shuttlecock, singlet, to take one's hat off). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ワイシャツ (business shirt), シャツ (singlet). (various references) | |
Kongo | kinkutu. (various references) | |
Korean | 셔츠. (various references) | |
Macedonian | koshula. (various references) | |
Manx | lheiney [f] (sark), lheiney (sark). (various references) | |
Maori | haate. (various references) | |
Norwegian | trøye, skjorte. (various references) | |
Papago | ipud. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kamisa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irtshay.(various references) | |
Polish | koszula. (various references) | |
Portuguese | camisa (jacket, sark). (various references) | |
Provencal | camisa. (various references) | |
Romanian | cãmaşã (chemise, crust, jacket, sheathing), bluzã (blouse, jumper, pea jacket, sack, smock, smock frock). (various references) | |
Romansch | chamischa. (various references) | |
Romany | gad. (various references) | |
Ruanda | ishati. (various references) | |
Russian | рубашка (jacket). (various references) | |
Samoan | ofutino. (various references) | |
Scottish | léine (a shirt, shift, smock, winding-sheet). (various references) | |
Sepedi | gempe. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oplata (planking, revetment, sheeting, skin), košulja. (various references) | |
Shona | hembe. (various references) | |
Sicilian | cammisa. (various references) | |
Spanish | camisa (chemise, dust cover, jacket, shimmy), camiseta (camisole, caul, chemisette, singlet, strip, t-shirt, undershirt, undervest, vest). (various references) | |
Sranan | empi. (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-hémbe. (various references) | |
Swedish | skjorta (shimmy, skirt, vest). (various references) | |
Tagalog | kamisadéntro, barò (dress, gown, robe). (various references) | |
Thai | เสื้อยืดไม่มีปก (tee shirt). (various references) | |
Turkish | gömlek (blouse, Sark, shimmy, Slough, tunic, Tunica), bluz (blouse, shirt blouse). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kцяnek (dress). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сорочка (caul), гімнастерка, блузка (blouse, chemisette, tunic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | huênh hoang (sidy, stuffed shirt), chất phác; thô kệch (homespun, shirt-sleeve), áo vệ sinh ngắn tay (sweat shirt). (various references) | |
Welsh | crys. (various references) | |
Zulu | ilihembe, ihembe. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tunica, tunicae, tunicam, tunicas, tunicis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | camisia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shirt": shirtdress, shirtdresses, shirtfront, shirtfronts, shirtier, shirtiest, shirting, shirtings, shirtless, shirtmaker, shirtmakers, shirts, shirtsleeve, shirtsleeved, shirtsleeves, shirttail, shirttails, shirtwaist, shirtwaists, shirty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shirt": brownshirt, nightshirt, overshirt, redshirt, sweatshirt, undershirt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shirt": brownshirts, nightshirts, overshirts, redshirted, redshirting, redshirts, sweatshirts, undershirted, undershirts. (additional references) | |
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"Shirt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chirt, hirt, Schnirch, schort, Shaprt, shart, shert, shertz, Shifra, Shikra, shilt, shint, shir, shira, shirb, shird, Shiret, shiro, shiry, Shitrit, shitt, shorta, shri, shrit, shurt, Sihr, smirt, smirtz, snirt, sqirt, swirt, Tshirt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shirt" (pronounced sher"t) |
| 2 | -er" t | alert, assert, avert, blurt, chert, curt, dessert, dirt, disconcert, divert, Evert, exert, flirt, Girt, hurt, inert, insert, invert, overt, Peart, pert, reassert, revert, skirt, spurt, squirt, subvert, unhurt, vert, wert. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hist, hits, shri, sith, stir, thir, this. | |
-2 letters: his, hit, its, sir, sit, sri, tis. | |
-3 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airths, births, firths, friths, girths, griths, mirths, rights, shirts, shirty, shrift, theirs, thirds, thirls, thirst, thrips, thyrsi, yirths. | |
+2 letters: athirst, brights, brutish, christy, cithers, dithers, frights, harpist, hastier, heister, heriots, hermits, hinters, hipster, hirsute, history, hitters, hoister, hornist, mithers, ostrich, ratfish, rattish, resight, richest, runtish, ruttish, shifter, shortia, shortie, shrifts, sighter, slither, spright, swither, tarnish, tartish, thairms, thirams, thirsts, thirsty, thorias, thrifts, thrills, thrives, tigrish, tithers, trishaw, withers, wraiths, wrights, writhes, zithers. | |
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