(n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
(n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(3) According to unconfirmed reports, he made up to £3m a year through the years of boom and bust and he now owns a £4m home in Fulham and another worth £2m in Chelsea.
(4) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
(5) The five major commercial banks saw around €2bn of deposits withdrawn by customers anxious that Greece was nearing the end of its credit line with lenders and about to go bust.
(6) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(7) The bust-up could also weaken Sweden’s chances of re-election to the UN security council next year, which the government has made a strategic foreign policy goal .
(8) Photograph: Reuters “Williston was the refugee camp for the guys who went bust in 2008.
(9) At present, this test is too expensive to offer to the public although BP is touring the country to pass on green driving tips and bust some myths.
(10) According to some members of Aberdeen ’s energy sector, a group with a code of silence that would trump any Trappist throng, the North Sea is a busted flush, a dead zone of drilled-out fields with a long-term future to match.
(11) We will also generally pay 100% compensation to those who have retired on legitimate ill-health grounds, regardless of age, and those receiving a pension in relation to someone who had died at the time that the employer went bust,” says the PPF.
(12) As a company, the euro would have gone bust by now.
(13) A safety net to catch those fallen on hard times, come rain or shine, boom or bust, it would be there for all those who had paid in.
(14) Ministers can't expect firms to bust a gut to grow if they fail to take a long-term approach to creating an enterprise-friendly environment.
(15) The boardroom is surrounded by glass, which meant the bust-up was viewed by about 100 staff.
(16) In an interim review published last month, Myners has said the group must take urgent steps to reform a "massive failure" of governance or it will go bust.
(17) "The economy has been subjected to repeated 'boom and bust' cycles, above all in property.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
(19) Her attacks on the president are scathing and she sees him as a busted flush, placing herself at the heart of drives to rebuild the French right after Sarkozy "implodes" at the election.
(20) The government promised Kids Company £20m worth of funding last summer, 12 months before the charity went bust, its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has alleged.
Waist
Definition:
(n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
(n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
(n.) A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
(n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects with low HDLC also had higher body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio and serum total cholesterol (TC) concentration than subjects with normal HDLC.
(2) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(3) Under these conditions, with careful attention to sealing at ankles and waist, it was possible to estimate penetration as low as 0.3%.
(4) In two groups of postmenopausal women aged 55-69 years in the upper midwestern United States, the authors examined the reliability and accuracy of self-measurement by mail questionnaire of waist, hip, upper arm, wrist and calf girths.
(5) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(6) Moreover, they were longer (P less than 0.04); had a higher body mass index (P less than 0.04); and larger waist and hip circumferences (P less than 0.03) and buccal (P less than 0.01), subscapular (P less than 0.01), and sum of skin-fold measurements (P less than 0.03).
(7) The group whose waist ratios were larger than their obesity indices had significantly worse findings than the group whose waist ratios were not in the following medical categories: systolic blood pressure, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase levels, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase levels, uric acid levels, total bilirubin, electrocardiogram readings and optic funduscopic observation.
(8) The authors have classified the configuration of laminas in the lower lumbar spine into three different types, (WI, W2, and N), based on the two characteristic features of the lamina: 1) whether or not the inferior articular processes are wider than the waist part of the lamina, and 2) whether or not the facet joint spaces can be recognized on plain anteroposterior (AP) radiographs.
(9) Body fat distribution as measured by the ratio of waist circumference to hip circumference (WHR) is now accepted as an important risk factor for a number of diseases.
(10) For estimating regional fat distribution, either waist to hip circumference ratio or subscapular skinfold have been most useful.
(11) The alterations in triceps, waist, and total SF were related to the increase in fat weight and BF (r greater than 0.71).
(12) Body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio were positively correlated with apolipoprotein B and total cholesterol levels, and negatively correlated with apolipoprotein A1 and HDL cholesterol levels.
(13) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(14) The etiology is believed to be that of small erosions at the waist of the hernia which bleed slowly.
(15) The simple ratio of waist girth to hip girth can be used to estimate the location of body fat.
(16) To evaluate the associations between general and abdominal obesity (as determined by total body fat, waist to hip ratio, umbilical to triceps ratio, and umbilical to subscapular ratio) with glucose, plasma lipoproteins, apolipoprotein (apo) A-I and B concentrations, and low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size (LDL 1-7), we randomly selected 222 men and 243 women from rural and urban areas of Puriscal, Costa Rica.
(17) Waist-to-hip ratio correlated with both age (r = 0.441) and body mass index (r = 0.532) in simple linear correlation analysis (P less than 0.001).
(18) The waist to hip ratio was negatively associated with insulin sensitivity (r = -0.70, P less than 0.05) and insulin pulse interval (r = -0.66, P less than 0.05).
(19) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
(20) Fasting serum insulin concentrations were significantly associated with percent body fat (Pearson r = 0.45-0.53), waist-to-hip girth ratio (Pearson r = 0.18-0.27), and most of the physiologic risk factors.