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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024a•pron /ˈeɪprən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Clothinga garment covering part of the front of the body worn to protect the clothing.
- Aeronautics, Transporta paved area near an airfield's buildings and hangars where planes are parked.
- Architecture, Show Businessthe part of a stage floor in front of the curtain.
Idioms- tied to one's mother's apron strings, (chiefly of a male person) controlled, influenced, or dominated too much by one's mother.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024a•pron (ā′prən),USA pronunciation n. - Clothinga garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing:a kitchen apron.
- [Anglican Ch.]a similar garment extending to the knees, worn by bishops, deans, and archdeans.
- Mechanical Engineeringa metal plate or cover, usually vertical, for a machine, mechanism, artillery piece, etc., for protecting those who operate it.
- Mechanical Engineeringa continuous conveyor belt for bulk materials, consisting of a chain of steel plates.
- Mechanical Engineering(in a lathe) a part of the carriage holding the clutches and gears moving the toolholder.
- Aeronautics, Transporta paved or hard-packed area abutting an airfield's buildings and hangars, where planes are parked, loaded, or the like.
- Building, Transporta broad paved area used for parking cars, as at the end of a driveway.
- Civil Engineering
- any device for protecting a surface of earth, as a riverbank, from the action of moving water.
- a platform to receive the water falling over a dam.
- Architecture, Show Businessthe part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line.
- Furnitureskirt (def. 6).
- the outer border of a green of a golf course.
- the part of the floor of a boxing ring that extends outside the ropes.
- BuildingAlso called skirt. a flat, broad piece of interior window trim immediately beneath the sill. See diag. under double-hung.
- Buildinga strip of metal set into masonry and bent down to cover the upper edge of flashing;
counterflashing. - the open part of a pier for loading and unloading vessels.
- Nautical, Naval Terms(in a wooden vessel) a piece reinforcing the stem on the after side and leading down to the deadwood.
- Geologya deposit of gravel and sand at the base of a mountain or extending from the edges of a glacier.
- the frill of long hairs on the throat and chest of certain long-haired dogs, as the collie.
- Civil Engineeringa structure erected around another structure, as for reinforcement or decoration:a high fence surrounded by a wire apron buried in the ground.
v.t. - to put an apron on;
furnish with an apron. - to surround in the manner of an apron:The inner city is aproned by low-cost housing.
- Latin mappa napkin; compare map) + -ron diminutive suffix
- Middle French naperon, equivalent. to nape tablecloth (
- 1275–1325; 1925–30 for def. 6; 1900–05 for def. 8; Middle English napron (by later misconstruing a napron as an apron)
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: apron /ˈeɪprən/ n - a protective or sometimes decorative or ceremonial garment worn over the front of the body and tied around the waist
- the part of a stage extending in front of the curtain line; forestage
- a hard-surfaced area in front of or around an aircraft hangar, terminal building, etc, upon which aircraft can stand
- a continuous conveyor belt composed usually of slats linked together
- a protective plate screening the operator of a machine, artillery piece, etc
- a sheet of sand, gravel, etc, deposited at the front of a moraine
- another name for skirt
- tied to someone's apron strings ⇒ dependent on or dominated by someone, esp a mother or wife
vb - (transitive) to protect or provide with an apron
Etymology: 16th Century: mistaken division (as if an apron) of earlier a napron, from Old French naperon a little cloth, from nape cloth, from Latin mappa napkin |