different between thong vs cincture

English

Etymology

From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang, þweng, þwæng (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”).

Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?ng, IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

thong (plural thongs)

1. A strip of leather.
2. (usually in the plural, Australia, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
   • 1964, The Beach Boys, All Summer Long

     T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).

   • 2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108,

     Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.

   • 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 126,

     You shouldn?t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you?ve splashed $5000 on daddy?s credit card.

3. (Britain, US, New Zealand) An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.

   No! I won't buy you a thong. You're too young for that.

4. The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.

Synonyms

• (an item of footwear): see list in flip-flop
• (an undergarment or swimwear): G-string, butt floss

Translations

See also

• sandal

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Etymology

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Noun

thong

1. pillar

English

Etymology

From Latin cinctura. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??k.??/
• Rhymes: -??kt??

Noun

cincture (plural cinctures)

1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 161

     In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.

3. (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Translations

Verb

cincture (third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured)

1. To encircle, or surround.
2. (viniculture) To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).

Translations

Latin

Participle

c?nct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of c?nct?rus