(n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
(n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(2) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
(3) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
(4) Eighteen months ago they sent out a solitary photo of a group of kids in a car park , shrouded in smoke, their faces covered by white bandanas.
(5) They are pictured holding guns and dressed in desert camouflage and brown bandanas.
(6) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(7) He told her that someone was there for her and as she opened the front door she was confronted by a figure in a grey hoodie, a bandana over his face and his hood up.
(8) But some officials believe it is a woman with a pony tail while others believe that is being confused for a bandana.
(9) We wore bandanas, and I bought a couple of “weskits”, but resisted the urge to add a pair of fringed leather chaps.
(10) He saw the padded jackets, the riot clubs, the helmets and the bandanas concealing the policemen's faces, changed his mind and ran up the stairs to escape.
(11) Several had shaved heads, most had beards, some had bandanas, most seemed middle-aged, a handful were young.
(12) A group of police officers walked by, and each one lifted the bandana which concealed his identity, leaned down and spat on her face.
(13) There's burnt cars, bins on fire, and hundreds of guys with bandanas round their faces.
(14) Hell yeah, I’m angry!” Hamilton says, pushing down her bandana to speak to me.
(15) What kind of response is that?” said Ibrahim Morocco, a protester wearing a red bandana.
(16) The soundbites keep coming from rock gods in bandanas praising Lemmy for his "realness" and his "badness", but none of these multi-millionaires are still drinking down at The Rainbow.
(17) Out of respect to Sikhs as he visited their holiest site, he wore a dark blue bandana on his head.
(18) The uniform: a white shirt and a red bandana neck tie.
(19) They buzz you in, check your ID, have videos monitoring and even have a dress code – one man was asked to take off his hooded top and bandana.
(20) 'He had a scarf like a bandana and a scarf on his mouth and he was carrying a machine gun,' she said.
Calico
Definition:
(n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
(a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the chromosome findings in 25 male tortoiseshell or calico (T-C) cats showed a variety of aneuploidy, polyploidy, mosaicism, and chimerism.
(2) Season of invasion coincides with the period of migration of calico and humpback salmon which are additional hosts of Diphyllobothriidae.
(3) A case is reported of hemorrhagic calico papillitis showing unilateral hematuria.
(4) In 2014, Calico announced a partnership with drugs firm AbbVie to investigate ways to combat ageing and its associated ailments, entailing joint investment that could reach more than £1bn.
(5) The operative methods applied vary: they include pelvic flap pyeloplasty, caudal transposition of the kidney, interposition of the small intestine, trans-ureterostomy, calico-ureterostomy, of bladder flap transplantation and autotransplantation of the kidney.
(6) I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.” Sergey Brin Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 41, is known for his love of special projects like Google Glass and CEO Larry Page has credited him for helping bring its new biotech company Calico to fruition.
(7) Our approach can help Calico immensely and if their approach is successful it can help me live longer,” explains Venter.
(8) Short for California Life Company, Calico is more circumspect about its aims than Alphabet’s other biotechnology subsidiaries.
(9) It is the first time that Alphabet has provided specific numbers for its core business (Google’s search engine, YouTube, Android, Google Play and other units that form the heart of its business) and for the rest of the companies businesses (Google X, its research arm, Calico, its biotech company, Google Fiber, high speed internet, Nest, smart home devices and other bets on future technologies).
(10) Therefore, in the first case a calico-ileo-ureterostomy and in the second patient a calico-jejuno-ureterostomy were performed.
(11) In the "Zhigulevsky" preserve, 46 coarse calico napkins impregnated with 1 ml of an attractant, were placed alternatively as controls and experimental along the road with the interval of 5 meters.
(12) In the evening, an elderly person would have difficulty in identifying a cat as a calico cat if the cat were atop a wall and running quickly through the visual field.
(13) Adductor muscles of calico scallops, Argopecten gibbus, collected off the southeastern coast of the United States from May 1982 to December 1984 were examined for the presence of larvae of the parasitic nematode, Sulcascaris sulcata.
(14) If there is found the following trias: unilateral hematuria, pseudopapillomatous cellgroups in urine, missing pathological changes in urological X-ray examinations (or only minimal blurs at the fornices) the diagnosis of calico papillitis has to be considered carefully.
(15) Calico may get too side-tracked by basic research, worries de Grey; Venter’s approach may take years to bear fruit because of issues about data gathering, thinks Barzilai; while the money on offer from the Palo Alto prize is a paltry sum for the demanded outcome and potential societal impact, says Johnson.
(16) Mortality One of the more fantastical projects in the Alphabet stable is Calico, a biotechnology company aimed at the medical holy grail – a cure for, or rather the prevention of, death.
(17) But the appearance of Calico and others suggests the world might be coming around to his side, he says.
(18) Calico has the money to do almost anything it wants,” says Tom Johnson, an earlier pioneer of the field now at the University of Colorado who was the first to find a genetic effect on longevity in a worm.
(19) The frequency of viral infection in cats with a solid color in their coat, excluding tabby, calico, and tortoise, was higher (12.2%) than the frequency in the remainder of the cats (5.5%; P = 0.011).
(20) This was an affluent, socially mobile consumer society, delighting in every imported treat from calicoes to tea, and obsessed with fashion.