(n.) An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
(n.) Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
(n.) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
(n.) A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
(n.) A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
(n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
(n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
(n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
(n.) The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
(n.) A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
(n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
(2) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
(3) Because surface water pollution appears to be important it is proposed that headwalls and drainage aprons be built around unprotected sources.
(4) The cervical lead shield was compared with the conventional lead apron with regard to efficiency of protection against radiation during a full-month survey (fourteen periapical and two bitewing radiographs).
(5) This layer, the superficial plexiform layer, forms an apron around the posterior segment of the olfactory bulb and contributes to the interbulbar adhesion.
(6) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(7) After the areas below the survey line of the anterior abutments are aproned with wax, Duralay resin is applied onto the areas above the survey line, and extended to join the functional parts of the blockout instrument.
(8) At her similarly grass-thatched home on the other side of the road the traditional birth attendant, who now calls herself Sister Josephine, contemplates the wreck of her once-yellow plastic apron and wonders where she will get another.
(9) Upper extremities are always protected by a shield, while many patients keep their hands and arms upon and not under an apron.
(10) In 1986 and 1987, the feed apron yielded the most immature stable flies (62.5%).
(11) Aprons hanging on the coat rails outside the classroom.
(12) We have developed and tested a radiation protection material that provides similar attenuation for diagnostic x-ray spectra to that of conventional Pb apron materials with approximately 30% reduced weight.
(13) One set of apron and finger ring dosimeters was designated for the resident who managed the airway and stabilized the neck, when necessary, during cervical spine radiography (A-CS resident).
(14) Second, after each meal, the client was provided with an apron and a glove and asked to pick up trash in the area and deposit the trash in an appropriate receptacle.
(15) Lead aprons and thyroid shields should be used by the urologist and other personnel in the endoscopy room.
(16) Radiation doses to organs below a lead apron, when worn, were estimated from the unshielded dose values using a transmission factor appropriate to the quality of the scattered radiation.
(17) Lower abdominal aprons may be safely removed by a low transverse incision extended laterally up to the iliac crests and superiorly as far as the umbilicus.
(18) Scrupulous hand washing should be observed before and after attending patients and it may be advisable to remove the white coat and put on a plastic apron before examining wounds.
(19) Every challenge ended with the same reassuring visual sequence: the puffing out of cheeks, a half-step backwards, apron strings being loosened with relief.
(20) With its sideways rain and grinding social bleakery, The Mill's closest relative is How We Used To Live, the long-running ITV schools programme that taught children about past-times woe while warning of the dangers of gin and floral aprons.
Driveway
Definition:
(n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(2) Partial surface capping, as would occur with driveways and patios, was found to have a minor effect on soil gas pressures.
(3) (There are expensive cars in his driveway, I later found, but he is still taken to the airport in a tiny old Peugeot 106 by a retired Maltese taxi driver named Charlie.)
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Earley's cleans off his driveway in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(5) I sat in the driveway eating takeaways when I couldn't face going inside and drove for miles singing my heart out to Springsteen songs, tears running down my face.
(6) A high proportion of toddler injuries occurred in residential driveways and were caused by vehicles backing up.
(7) Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatality incident for children less than five tended to occur when the child was backed over in the home driveway by the family van or light truck driven by a parent.
(8) Photograph: Mae Ryan for the Guardian On our last morning in town, Deb intercepted me in the driveway to explain how fragile I was.
(9) Anyhow, if the Edstone is living a new life as a driveway on the south coast, we need to know about it.
(10) Then in August the convoy of the EU ambassador was shot at by the hotel's driveway entrance.
(11) This is important for a number of reasons: • It means residents are not just forgotten people who live down the end of a driveway.
(12) Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in 2010 as he drove into the driveway of his upmarket Johannesburg home.
(13) The letter stated: “The properties are mostly houses with a low rental charge and normally come with access to a garden and in some instances have a private driveway.
(14) Another approach is to slow down water runoff with grass roofs, porous paving on driveways and even simple water butts.
(15) Those who have driveways are often blocked into them.
(16) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
(17) According to the study findings, there is a need to educate the public and health professionals about the risks associated with leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle and the hazardous environment of the private driveway.
(18) He gets into the car and, as his mother and their elderly neighbour Sato-san look on, he motors down the narrow driveway, past the cracks caused by the earthquake.
(19) Halfway down the driveway he turns and fixes his gaze on the home he is leaving behind.
(20) He went outside into the driveway, leaving his wife, Nancy, in the house.