What's the difference between attire and uniform?

Attire


Definition:

  • (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.

Uniform


Definition:

  • (a.) Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay.
  • (a.) Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.
  • (a.) A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.
  • (v. t.) To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.
  • (v. t.) To make conformable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
  • (2) In voltage-clamp experiments the ion current flowing through the channels was homogeneous indicating a defined conformation and a uniform size.
  • (3) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (4) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (5) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
  • (6) The age distribution was not uniform as age group 0 to 4 included more children than age groups 5 to 9 and 10 to 14.
  • (7) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
  • (8) Ejection fraction, %deltaD, and Vcf by LAO cineangiograms and echo were uniformly higher than corresponding measurements from RAO angio, and were often normal in the presence of other indicators of significant left ventricular dysfunction.
  • (9) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
  • (10) A study of cell proliferation in different regions of axolotl embryos has shown a rather uniform distribution of the S phase and mitotic indices in the animal half of the early and midgastrulae.
  • (11) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
  • (12) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
  • (13) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (14) In contrast, sporoblasts and budding and free sporozoites in mature oocysts were labeled uniformly on the outer surfaces of their plasma membranes, indicating a uniform distribution of CS protein on these membranes.
  • (15) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (16) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
  • (17) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
  • (18) Hence the aggregation inhibition produced by amphiphilic phenylalkylamines and phenylalkanoles is not due to a uniform metabolic effect of both classes of derivatives.
  • (19) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
  • (20) Although there is no reliable symptom or sign during the latent period, abdominal pain occurs almost uniformly and Kehr's sign is quite common.