(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.
Theatre
Definition:
(n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
(n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
(n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
(n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.
(n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(4) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(5) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(6) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(7) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(8) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(9) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(10) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(12) You shouldn't get involved in theatre or film if you don't think they can do your book."
(13) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But is theatre even happening in the right places to begin with?
(14) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(15) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(16) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(17) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
(18) This paper describes a search for Gram-negative bacteria in an operating theatre and the steps taken to reduce the level of environmental contamination.A high rate of infection in clean wounds prompted a bacteriological survey.
(19) What's the best thing about making theatre in Britain?
(20) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.