(n.) A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, humidifying devices should be carefully selected from the viewpoint of not only humidifying capability but also AWL.
(2) We have isotopically determined rates of whole-body protein synthesis and catabolism in a group of normal volunteers and in two groups of cancer patients: 20 patients with advanced weight-loss (AWL) upper gastrointestinal cancer and 7 patients with early non-weight-loss (ENWL) lower gastrointestinal cancer.
(3) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(4) Restorative treatment can be started in the early postoperative period if a screw-awl has been applied.
(5) Judges and infiltrators in Labour’s civil war | Letters Read more Even under Tony Blair’s leadership, there were Trotskyist groups involved in the Labour party, ranging from the AWL to Socialist Action.
(6) The difficulties and risks inherent in the use of the starting awl are eliminated.
(7) Mountford, who has been a member of the AWL for 33 years, denies bullying, taking over the organisation or wanting to form a new party.
(8) Utilizing Langer's technique for skin tension lines, we punctured the auricular cartilage of 10 human cadavers and 2 mature rabbits and 24 immature rabbits with a conical awl to determine their tension lines.
(9) That aside, Watson highlighting efforts by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) to get involved in the Labour party will undoubtedly fuel a media narrative that Labour is falling under the spell of revolutionary zealots.
(10) Using a special needle (awl) under laparoscopic monitoring, U-stitches are placed and then knotted epifascially.
(11) In the AWL cancer patients the rate of net protein catabolism was significantly higher than in either the volunteer or ENWL group (p less than 0.05), and glucose infusion did not result in a decrease in net protein catabolism.
(12) The AWL was affected significantly by the pressure monitoring site for the ventilator.
(13) Vertical sections of articular cartilage show different directional orientations of collagen fibers through all zones of cartilage depending upon whether the sections are parallel or perpendicular to the cleft pattern produced when the surface of articular cartilage is pierced with a round pointed awl.
(14) The AWL backs Labour in elections,” the group said.
(15) The width of the middle portion of the broadest, awl, hairs measured 12 days after irradiation decreases with increasing dose.
(16) The 30-cm-long side arm of this awl protects the surgeon's hand from direct radiation, and measurements of X-ray exposure show that the protection against radiation is sufficient.
(17) A specially designed awl makes the interlocking procedure simple and efficient.
(18) The AWL should “organise and politically hegemonise these people, and Labour clubs on campuses”, the motion said .
(19) The large follicles contain similar numbers of mitotic cells, but the BALB-c mice are more sensitive both in terms of the radiation-induced apoptosis and in terms of a reduction in awl hair width.
(20) According to Alice Gregory at the New Yorker , in fact, it was one particular Gawker writer, Choire Sicha, who now runs the excellent indie site the Awl .
Brogue
Definition:
(n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
(v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
(2) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.
(3) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
(4) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(5) But last Friday his gravelly brogue was inescapable, at least for anyone tuned to BBC radio news bulletins.
(6) She leans back, arms crossed, blue-rimmed glasses nestling in thick blonde waves on top of her head, every now and then interjecting with a quip and a delighted kick of her blue, brogued feet.
(7) You don't see enough people running around in brogues and bowler hat these days.
(8) Then there are the accents, as bad a representation of the Brummie brogue as you’re ever likely to hear on TV.
(9) That it's also one of the best things to have appeared on the BBC in years is almost by the by: this, it booms in its enormous, barrel-lunged Irish brogue, is how to make a relentlessly original, consistently gripping, vast-brained five-part psychological thriller with a gimmick (in essence: let's devote equal attention to the hunter and the hunted) that never feels like a gimmick, but rather the perfect means of exploring the banality of evil, the nature of obsession, and the niggly-squirmy minutiae of everyday, common-or-garden murder.
(10) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
(11) Just in case we hadn't got the message while sitting (and getting a bit hot and bored) for about an hour for the show to start, Danny himself appeared and spoke unto us in his matey, charismatic Lancashire brogue.
(12) shouts out one of the troops, who range from a retired chap of military bearing, wearing a tweed jacket and brown brogue shoes, to a dishevelled fan of Viz comics.
(13) The tepid sunshine wobbles in, polishes his shabby brogues, moves shyly across the surface of the dressing table.
(14) They dressed accordingly, in blazers and brogues appropriate to a Cape Cod country club, and Koenig sang about Ivy League campuses populated by characters with names like Blake and Bryn.
(15) A 65-year-old women developed an Irish brogue immediately after a deep left hemisphere stroke.
(16) Crucially, the three banks who placed higher valuations on the Royal Mail and were all ignored by the government didn't take the opportunity to put the leather brogues in.
(17) I think she is very good in it, though connoisseurs of the lilting London brogue may disagree.
(18) "Yes," you think, as you watch his brogues clacking along another forlorn cobbled boulevard to the strains of a throttled theramin.
(19) As well as Céline, a pair of splattered trousers in the J Crew collection already have a buzz about them and Martin Margiela has a pair of very smart brogues covered in paint.
(20) The hair is neatly combed and he wears a grey pinstriped suit with a blue shirt and tie, black socks, black brogues and distinct air of civility.