(n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
(n.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
(v. t.) To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.
(v. t.) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.
(v. t.) To dress or clothe; to attire.
(v. t.) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement the club said: "We currently are in discussions with multiple parties regarding our global retail, apparel and product licensing business starting in the 2015-16 season.
(2) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
(3) "I feel good about the park's resumption, but I also have a heavy heart," said Sung Hyun-sang, president of apparel manufacturer Mansun Corporation, which has lost about 7bn won because of the shutdown.
(4) It's been less than a month since Dov Charney was ousted as American Apparel's CEO after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, and now the company has rehired him as a paid "strategic consultant" – and will let him keep his huge salary .
(5) Appropriate working conditions can be chosen with regard to apparel, environmental temperature, and work load.
(6) Normative data concerning popular styles of color-coordinated clothing were collected through observations of women's apparel in a local community.
(7) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
(8) These compounds include two drugs (benzocaine and neomycin), two cosmetic ingredients (p-phenylenediamine and balsam of Peru), four preservatives (formaldehyde, ethylenediamine, parabens and mercurials) and three ingredients of wearing apparel (nickel, chromium and thiram).
(9) Safety first Visibility There is almost no item of running apparel that isn’t available in reflective form, from shoelaces to flashing LEDs.
(10) 70 interested elderly (65 yr. and over) men and women participated in an investigation of older consumers' apparel-shopping behavior and satisfactions and dissatisfactions with available clothing and facilities.
(11) Martin Buttle, head of apparel and textiles at the Ethical Trading Initiative, said: “Paying an extra couple of pounds on a school uniform is not normally a massive cost to a UK consumer, but the difference can be huge to a Bangladeshi or Chinese garment worker.
(12) Among the other projects listed: An investment group that includes Rockefeller & Co and European-based institutional investors PGGM, Aberdeen Asset Management, Hermes, MN and Nordea will work with around 50 major food, beverage and apparel companies to improve their resilience to strains in the world’s fresh water supply.
(13) I was no longer permitted indoors because I had changed back into my own clothes, and the scents emanating from my regular world apparel had already caused Deb’s ears to swell, making it hard for her to hear.
(14) Abercombie & Fitch slumped 8.3% to $22 in premarket after the teen apparel retailer said its quarterly profit fell by a third.
(15) On Instagram, #feelthebern and #Bernie2016 vie for dominance with the #babesforbernie hashtag – which is mostly self-applied by mostly young women who are mostly holding or wearing some sort of Sanders apparel.
(16) People aren’t spending.” This week, Credit Suisse downgraded the retail sector, saying the outlook had become bleaker than it had anticipated in large part because of events in Washington and through discussion of “whether we think the risks of the border adjustment provision in the House corporate tax reform proposal are fully reflected in apparel and retailing stocks”.
(17) For this is the outdoor apparel that tells the neighbours: "I've been locked in crucial executive meetings all week, but now I'm letting my hair down outside, albeit in a controlled and responsible way."
(18) Three forced-choice situations with toys and three forced-choice situations with dress-up apparel were presented that paired same-sex and cross-sex stimuli, same-sex and neutral stimuli, and cross-sex and neutral stimuli.
(19) Five hundred of the top global companies from four key sectors – agriculture, ICT, apparel, and extractives – will be researched and ranked .
(20) "All American Apparel's employees are subject to the same confidential arbitration agreement signed by [Morales] in order to protect the privacy interests of employees and former employees, and to prevent predatory plaintiffs and their attorneys from attempting to use the media to extort the company.
Weed
Definition:
(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(3) The condition has occurred for many years and has been thought to have been associated with ingestion of Crofton weed (Eupatorium adenophorum).
(4) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(5) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(6) The coalition claims that authorities were forcing teachers, businessmen and students to weed the fields or pick cotton or face fines of up to 1 million soum (about £210) for university students.
(7) Bob McCulloch, the St Louis County prosecutor who oversaw the state grand jury inquiry that looked into Brown’s death, insisted that discrimination by law enforcement was a rarity but said authorities must “weed it out”.
(8) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(9) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(10) The substances studied generally proved very active against the weeds tested and showed marked specificity of action towards Setaria and Echinochloa.
(11) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(12) In a statement on Wednesday , he said that he will criticise the Met for "the routine gathering and retention of information that was collateral, not linked to an operation or the prevention of crime and it should have been disposed of as part of a weeding process."
(13) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(14) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(15) We have the know-how to track organisations that achieve the best results for patients, and weed out those that don't come up to scratch."
(16) After weeding, planting or harvesting, people attempt to make money.
(17) Animal Practice is a Universal Television production based on an irreverent New York veterinarian, played by Justin Kirk of Weeds and Angels in America.
(18) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(19) Weed and water samples collected from river water abstraction points, reservoirs, tap water supplies, and animal water troughs fed from this supply all contained low levels of iodine-125.
(20) There has been a troubling several decade-long pattern of denial on the part of the seed patent holders over the likelihood of resistance emerging - for example Monsanto authors of a 1997 paper asserted weed resistance would never happen.