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shirt
What does shirt mean?
shirt (noun): an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use shirt in a sentence?
- He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce shirt?
/ʃɝt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does shirt come from?
From Middle English schirt, schirte, schuirte, schyrtte, seorte, shearte, shert, shirt, sseorte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “shirt” mean?
an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms
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the rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time
Not quite: that's what speed means.
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