(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.
Slipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, slips.
(n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
(n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
(n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
(n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
(a.) Slippery.
Example Sentences:
(1) But two of the three judges who subsequently considered the issue said: “We are also of the opinion that there was no basis for the primary judge to conclude that Brough was part of any combination with anyone in respect to the commencement of these proceedings with the predominant purpose of damaging Slipper in the way alleged or at all.” Brough said Dreyfus should look at the federal court’s findings on 27 April 2014 – which appeared to be a reference to the decision handed down on 27 February 2014.
(2) In fact, Slipper's role as a senior detective in the Metropolitan police was much more significant over the years than that one incident, which led to both a book and a television film, might indicate.
(3) Dreyfus asked directly whether Brough agreed to obtain unauthorised copies of the Slipper’s diary for a journalist, and whether as a matter of government policy the minister now gave unauthorised copies of other documents to journalists.
(4) Mal Brough has vowed to stare down calls to resign over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper as the Labor party seeks to build pressure on Malcolm Turnbull for backing the special minister of state.
(5) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
(6) On Tuesday, Brough told parliament the interview with 60 Minutes, which was aired in 2014 and featured an admission from Brough that he had asked former staffer James Ashby to procure Slipper’s diary, was selectively edited.
(7) But he said: “I don’t think you should call for the resignation of the Speaker lightly.” The former Speaker Peter Slipper was ordered to pay back $954 worth of expenses after a court found he had misused his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries.
(8) In Peter Slipper’s case, he has paid back more than $14,000 under the Minchin protocol .
(9) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
(10) Dreyfus asked the same question as Hayes: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” “No,” Brough said.
(11) It never does | Lenore Taylor Read more Jamie Briggs resigned as the minister for cities and the built environment after “inappropriate” conduct towards a staffer during an official visit to Hong Kong and Mal Brough stood aside as special minister of state pending a police investigation into his alleged role in the downfall of Peter Slipper.
(12) In 2014 a magistrate convicted Slipper of dishonestly causing a risk of loss to the commonwealth and ordered him to repay the $954.
(13) Peter Slipper's resignation followed a heated debate in parliament during which the prime minister, Julia Gillard , and the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, traded insults over the use of misogynistic language in politics.
(14) Mal Brough faces fresh parliamentary pressure over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper , after his attempt to walk away from a key admission was undermined by 60 Minutes releasing the unedited interview exchange.
(15) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
(16) Tales from the Golden Slipper is at the Orkney Arts Theatre , Kirkwall, on Friday and Saturday, and at Stenness School on June 29.
(17) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
(18) James Ashby’s case against Peter Slipper and the Commonwealth, and the associated infusion of media and political involvement, would have to be one of the grubbiest assaults on a government in recent memory.
(19) The member for Fisher [Brough] stated to me that we needed to destroy Peter Slipper and he had all the evidence to put Peter Slipper away for a very long time.
(20) It transpires they are antique slippers used in the foot-binding process to which Chinese women were subjected: "I make art out of them.