<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing: a kitchen apron.</li><li>a similar garment extending to the knees, worn by bishops, deans, and archdeans.</li><li>a metal plate or cover, usually vertical, for a machine, mechanism, artillery piece, etc., for protecting those who operate it.</li><li>a continuous conveyor belt for bulk materials, consisting of a chain of steel plates.</li><li>(in a lathe) a part of the carriage holding the clutches and gears moving the toolholder.</li><li>a paved or hard-packed area abutting an airfield's buildings and hangars, where planes are parked, loaded, or the like.</li><li>a broad paved area used for parking cars, as at the end of a driveway.</li><li>any device for protecting a surface of earth, as a riverbank, from the action of moving water.</li><li>a platform to receive the water falling over a dam.</li><li>the part of a stage floor in front of the curtain line.</li><li>the outer border of a green of a golf course.</li><li>the part of the floor of a boxing ring that extends outside the ropes.</li><li>a flat, broad piece of interior window trim immediately beneath the sill.</li><li>a strip of metal set into masonry and bent down to cover the upper edge of flashing; counterflashing.</li><li>the open part of a pier for loading and unloading vessels.</li><li>(in a wooden vessel) a piece reinforcing the stem on the after side and leading down to the deadwood.</li><li>a deposit of gravel and sand at the base of a mountain or extending from the edges of a glacier.</li><li>the frill of long hairs on the throat and chest of certain long-haired dogs, as the collie.</li><li>a structure erected around another structure, as for reinforcement or decoration: a high fence surrounded by a wire apron buried in the ground.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to put an apron on; furnish with an apron.</li><li>to surround in the manner of an apron: The inner city is aproneds by low-cost housing.</li></ul>