What's the difference between firth and girth?

Firth


Definition:

  • (n.) An arm of the sea; a frith.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
  • (2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
  • (3) However, one of the channel's British reporters, Sara Firth, appeared to go off message with a series of disparaging tweets in which she said the channel's reporters were engaged in lies.
  • (4) The kidney taken from a rat rendered nephrotic by exposure to puromycin aminonucleoside retains sodium abnormally when perfused in isolation and has an abnormally low vascular resistance (J. D. Firth et al., Clin.
  • (5) In a letter to Rochester voters, David Cameron said the two candidates were Anna Firth and Kelly Tolhurst, two local councillors.
  • (6) Magic in the Moonlight, which stars Colin Firth, Stone and Jackie Weaver, is released on 25 July in the US, on 28 August in Australia and 19 September in the UK.
  • (7) Changes in abundance at haul-out sites were followed, and data on the number of deaths collected, to describe the pattern and extent of mortality resulting from the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak in the Moray Firth common seal population.
  • (8) Rebecca Howett, 27, Edinburgh, Scotland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rebecca Howett, in the distance, wades into the water at Talisker Bay, Skye My usual swimming spot is Portobello beach , a long sandy beach on the Firth of Forth, a few miles east of Edinburgh, where a group of swimmers called the Wild Ones meet every Sunday morning.
  • (9) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
  • (10) Darron Burness, head of the AA's flood rescue team, said areas most likely to be affected stretched from the Firth of Forth and down the east coast of England to Kent.
  • (11) Many TV writers have also added their names, including Andrew Davies – who wrote the Colin Firth adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for the BBC – and Jimmy McGovern, whose latest series Banished aired recently on BBC2.
  • (12) It was Chatsworth House, I remind Cooper, that served as Pemberley in that scene in Pride and Prejudice where Firth emerges from the lake, wet shirt clinging to his chest, and turns the knees of Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth Bennet to jelly.
  • (13) Together, the books sold 15m copies in 40 countries and spawned two Hollywood films starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as her warring paramours.
  • (14) The campaign has attracted a coalition of public figures and companies , from Tottenham Hotspur, energy company EDF, the Guardian and online supermarket Ocado to chef Delia Smith, DJ Sara Cox, film stars Colin Firth and Samantha Morton, author Ian McEwan, former London mayor Ken Livingstone and economist Nicholas Stern.
  • (15) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
  • (16) Colin Firth will star in a thriller set in the morally murky world of military drones for the Ender's Game director, Gavin Hood, reports Screen .
  • (17) Whether the delay will result in scheduling issues for the in-demand Colin Firth is unclear, but he is expected to star alongside Renée Zellweger and Grant.
  • (18) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
  • (19) "I think it's a bit arrogant to say we're creating a bit of South Ken here," says Firth.
  • (20) Fielding has admitted that the original source for the plot came from Austen, as did the on-page and on-screen casting of "successful barrister Mark Darcy" (played by Colin Firth in both Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones ).

Girth


Definition:

  • (n.) A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
  • (n.) The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.
  • (n.) A small horizontal brace or girder.
  • (v. t.) To bind as with a girth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The treatment of lymphedema with SEP and compression stockings is associated with long-term maintenance of reduced limb girth in 90% of patients.
  • (2) With attention to detail, prosthesis sizing is straightforward using intraoperative determination of corporeal girth and total corporeal length.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) By the third trimester the abdominal girth did not increase coincident with the baby's size, vomiting prevented adequate caloric intake, and pelvic pressure from the baby's head caused increasing discomfort.
  • (5) The simple ratio of waist girth to hip girth can be used to estimate the location of body fat.
  • (6) These results preclude girth as a reliable clinical indicator of intraperitoneal haemorrhage.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) Despite anuria and the absence of peripheral edema, 4 h of HWI significantly raised the central venous pressure, diminished the abdominal girth by 5%, and successfully transfered at least 2.4 liters of ascitic fluid to the intravascular space made available to ultrafiltration.
  • (9) Regression analysis revealed consanguinity-related declines in birthweight, recumbent length, head circumference and chest girth and in gestational period.
  • (10) Two patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria had increasing abdominal girth and ascites.
  • (11) Concerns over size and girth do often dominate men's – especially adolescent and younger men's – body image concerns, and comical though it may seem, it causes real distress to some.
  • (12) Length changes in the TS were presumed from its girth recorded using a mercury-in-silastic gauge wrapped around the muscle belly.
  • (13) The use of three girth measurements, height, and age enabled us to develop regression equations to predict body density in women that are comparable in accuracy to those using skinfold calipers and, thus, are a viable alternative.
  • (14) Repeated measures analysis of variance procedures indicated no significant differences consequent to the BDP for any of the variables assessed, with the exception of a small decrease in shoulder girth in both E and C and a small decrease in left breast volume in E. It was concluded that the use of a commercial exercise device with a specific BDP does not result in changes in breast size, shape, or volume.
  • (15) Arm girth and circumference often leads to difficulties in Blood Pressure (BP) measurement in obese patients.
  • (16) The constants are presented for estimating the body weight of these breeds from their heart girth and body length under Nsukka conditions.
  • (17) This increase correlated with the degree of adiposity but not with waist-to-hip girth ratio (WHR).
  • (18) A 28-year-old black woman presented with increasing abdominal girth and gross hepatomegaly.
  • (19) Subjects, 482 women, were hydrostatically weighed and circumference (girths) recorded for thigh, hips (buttocks), iliac, and abdomen (mean of abdomen 1 and abdomen 2).
  • (20) Definitive trends were not evident for differences between the two groups in percent fat, percent SNF, days open, final type classification score, or heart girth.

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