(v. t.) To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.
(n.) Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.
(n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.
(n.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.
Example Sentences:
(1) The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control are currently stressing the need for protective clinical attire and barrier techniques to reduce cross-contamination and the spread of diseases.
(2) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
(3) Moyes had already described how he had fretted about his attire when Ferguson initially invited him round to discuss the biggest job in English football and how the colour had drained from his face when he was offered it.
(4) A strong positive association was found between the counselors' attire and the clients' perception of the four selected characteristics of counselors.
(5) If the vendors are similarly attired then this doesn't help either," says Tim Dansie at Jackson-Stops & Staff.
(6) Every morning, we were were woken by a bugle and hurriedly changed into our gym attire for the exercise session '.
(7) Many program directors indicated they are considering changes in clinical attire requirements in the future because of concern for infection control.
(8) Latex gloves have become a standard part of OR attire, and even though they serve as the primary form of hand protection in the OR, gloves also may serve as one of the key causes of contact or allergic dermatitis in OR personnel.
(9) Thus attired, she demanded a second audition as the fat nurse – and got the part, as Nurse Hilda Price.
(10) To study patient preferences on physician attire and etiquette, we interviewed 200 patients on the general medical services of teaching hospitals in Boston and San Francisco.
(11) Setback of the week Dubai: Greek model Vicky Xipolitakis – flying to Dubai in an attempt to reach Diego Maradona's 53rd birthday party, but stopped and fined at the airport for " inappropriate attire ".
(12) Although children had no strong positive preferences, they may feel negatively about informal attire.
(13) In the last two years, a man dressed as Sesame Street's Cookie Monster was charged with shoving a two-year-old, a person attired in Super Mario's overalls was accused of groping a woman and an Elmo figure pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after unleashing an antisemitic tirade.
(14) I have said before that I find it a fairly confronting form of attire.
(15) In person, he looks like central casting's idea of a technology guru: vast bulk, informal attire, no socks, beard and dreadlocks.
(16) In the middle of the hotel bar, George Lamb sits tall and flamboyantly attired: grey suit, tanned skin, crisp shirt, plumey hair.
(17) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
(18) The Observer is brilliantly, admirably non-restrictive about employee attire, and I'm lucky to be relatively free to dress myself of a morning.
(19) In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Methodists and Atlantic storms, he might appear at an ordination attired in mitre, ceremonial gloves and gremial (a silk apron-like covering for the lap of bishops).
(20) Zuckerberg's hipster attire is an eloquent statement of his disregard for those on whom his business's continued expansion relies.
Formal
Definition:
(n.) See Methylal.
(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
(a.) Dependent in form; conventional.
(a.) Sound; normal.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(2) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(3) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(4) Eleven per cent of the courses that responded provided no formal substance misuse training.
(5) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(6) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
(7) This formalism allows resolution of the intrinsic protein folding-unfolding parameters (enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity changes) as well as the ligand interaction parameters (binding stoichiometry, enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity changes).
(8) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(9) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(10) Britain and France formally announced this week they would abstain, along with Portugal and Bosnia.
(11) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(12) Instituut voor Sociale Geneeskunde, Vrije Universiteit (The process of directing self-care, informal and formal assistance).
(13) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(14) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.
(15) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
(16) His central focus was on the neutrality of government rules – or what he called (on p117), "the Rule of Law, in the sense of the rule of formal law, the absence of legal privileges of particular people designated by authority" – not the elimination of government rules: "The liberal argument is in favor of making the best possible use of the forces of competition as a means of coordinating human efforts, not an argument for leaving things just as they are."
(17) The Washington Post report is the latest in a flurry of unattributed articles suggesting that the Justice Department is unlikely to take up formal charges against Assange.
(18) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(19) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
(20) The formal results of the analysis show that when psychological considerations are incorporated into a state-dependent utility model, the normative results customarily obtained concerning value-of-life need to be qualified.