Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SCARF

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Definitions of SCARF

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. A headscarf.
3. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
4. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
5. A type of joint in woodworking.
6. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
7. A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
8. To shape by grinding.
9. To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
10. To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
11. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
12. (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.
13. (Scotland) A cormorant.

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Examples of Using SCARF in a Sentence

• Often, it specifically describes a scarf that is wrapped around the head, covering the hair, neck, and ears while leaving the face visible.
• The nickname for Otago students, "Scarfie," comes from the habit of wearing a scarf during the cold southern winters.
• For the 2005 film, it is hinted that Zaphod "created" the second head himself when shutting off the parts of his mind that contain portions of his personality that "are not presidential", but he wanted to keep these traits, so he hid his second head under his neck and wears a large collar or scarf to keep it hidden.
• She died when her scarf became entangled in the wheel and axle of the car in which she was travelling in Nice, France.
• The character wears a blue sailor cap, a red shirt, blue pants, a yellow scarf, white gloves and tan shoes.
• Mew had a strong sense of style: her friend and editor Alida Monro remembers her wearing distinctive red worsted stockings in the winter months, and she insisted on buying her black, button-up boots (in a tiny size 2) from Pinet's bootmakers in Mayfair; items left to different friends in her will (such as a "small three drop diamond pendant" and a "scarlet Chinese embroidered scarf") also suggest a keen interest in fashion.
• In some Scout organizations, the wood badge is presented together with a Gilwell scarf and a Gilwell woggle, denoting membership of the notional 1st Gilwell Scout Group.
• The following year, on 16 June 1972, he was made the Trongsa Penlop bestowing on him directly the saffron scarf or namza.
• According to The Legal Provisions of the National Flag of the Kingdom of Palden Drukpa as Endorsed in Resolution 28 of the 36th Session of the National Assembly held on 8 June 1972, and as restated in the Constitution of 2008, the yellow signifies civil tradition and temporal authority as embodied in the Druk Gyalpo, the Dragon King of Bhutan, whose royal garb traditionally includes a yellow kabney (scarf).
• Gypsy bonnet – shallow to flat crown, saucer shaped, and worn by tying it on with either a scarf or sash, under the chin, or at the nape of the neck – nineteenth Century.
• Edgar, persuaded by his socially-conscious family's concern, and tiring of his young lover, casually ends his affair with Isabel over lunch, with the gift of a Hermes scarf.
• A scarf (: scarves or scarfs) is a long piece of fabric that is worn on or around the neck, shoulders, or head.
• This definition is mostly retained in the Eastern Persian varieties Tajiki and Dari, which commonly use reflexes of chādar in reference to almost any cloth or scarf, including loosely worn scarves that would be inappropriate to call a chador in Iranian Persian.
• Her creations from this era, Valse Caprice (Scarf Dance), Soaring, and Scherzo Waltz (Hoop Dance) are all still performed today.
• With the story themes deriving from objects in the collection (usually with the names of the people involved changed but the facts remaining true to history), the 51 episodes had such titles as "The Tartan Scarf" and "A Piece of Iron Chain" or "Frosted Glass Shards" and "A Khaki Handkerchief".
• Forney had often been in trouble for brawling and sporting a non-regulation green top hat and scarf while flying his helicopter as encouragement to downed pilots in the water.
• The gákti can be worn with a belt (pleated, quilted or with silver buttons), silver jewellery, traditional leather footwear and a silk scarf.
• The omophorion has two forms: the ancient great omophorion, which passes around the neck, is folded in the front, and hangs down past the knees in both the front and the back, like a loosely worn long scarf; and the small omophorion which is much simpler, passing around the neck and hanging down in the front similar to an epitrachelion (stole), only wider and shorter, coming down a little past the waist.
• Yasser Arafat, Palestinian politician and activist – Arafat scarf (nickname for a Palestinian keffiyeh).
• Many British, Irish and Commonwealth universities and some American universities have an academic scarf in the university's colors, usually long, woollen and patterned only with lengthwise stripes of varying widths.

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