(v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
(n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reduction was more marked in the smoking glass bangle workers indicating additive effect of cigarette smoking on the small airways.
(2) In the southern state of Kerala officials are considering the distribution of "electronic bangles" which could send a signal to the nearest police station in the event of an assault.
(3) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(4) Simon Cowell once bought me a Cartier bracelet, but my favourite thing is the bangle my manager gave me from Tiffany's one Christmas.
(5) The women arrive, some in saris and matching bangles, others more low key.
(6) The cardiac cost of work and recovery pulse rates were evaluated in 38 glass bangle workers (mean age 27.8 years, SD 3.4) exposed to radiant heat (46.2 degrees C, SD 5.1) and high ambient temperature (38.2 degrees C, SD 3.4) for a mean period of 11.0 years, SD 3.5 in the glass bangle industry.
(7) Visual perception showed a downward trend among the glass bangle workers, although the MPI test indicated no personality changes.
(8) But a week later, on Friday 15 May, the bug in Perkins’s car caught his passenger, Jones, bragging: “The biggest cash robbery in history at the time and now the biggest tom [short for tomfoolery, slang for jewellery] in the fucking world, that’s what they are saying … And what a book you could write, fucking hell.” That day Perkins also said stolen Indian gold could be his pension: “I’m going to melt my good gold down.” Later, Asian necklaces, bangles and pendants were recovered.
(9) He is dressed in black, wears shades in the studio, a diamond earring, a watch that P Diddy would die for, bangles galore, every inch the rock star.
(10) Besides the cardiac stress, the cardiac cost of the work under the prevailing hot conditions in the glass bangle industry was very high, adding further to circulatory strain in these workers.
(11) The pulmonary function status of 73 glass bangle workers suffering from chronic bronchitis having varied exposures to pulmonary toxicants in the work environment was evaluated in 1984.
(12) Spirometric lung functions were evaluated in 220 asymptomatic glass bangle workers exposed to the salts of various heavy metals, such as arsenic, lead, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, cadmium, and selenium, which are used as coloring agents in the manufacture of glass bangles.
(13) alioco – The Bangles – Walk like an Egyptian and Peter Cetera – Glory of Love: "My first tape was a double 'Hits 5' cassette, it had stuff like The The - Infected (I fast forwarded this), The Bangles - Walk like an Egyptian and Peter Cetera - Glory of Love" Jiggyg – Vanila Ice and MC Hammer, Snap and 2 Unlimited: "My were caressed to the warbles of Vanila Ice and MC Hammer.
(14) The occupational and environmental factors responsible for the high prevalence of chronic bronchitis and associated ventilatory dysfunction in relatively young glass bangle workers are discussed.
(15) A year later came Parade, along with the chart-topping single Kiss (and behind it at No 2 was the Bangles’ Manic Monday, another Prince composition).
(16) The cardio-respiratory responses showed physiological strain induced by the high ambient temperature and radiant heat prevailing in the glass bangle factory.
(17) He shows off the diamond earring and two-euro bangle she bought for him.
(18) Would retro beads and bangles for a tenner, scatter cushions for £30 and "vintage" clothes at £50 really be much help for those struggling on a tiny budget?
(19) A group of 19 male children (mean age 12.1 years SEM 1.6 years) occupationally exposed to an excessively hot environment for an average duration of 2.5 years SEM 1.7 years in the glass bangle factory in Firozabad, India, were studied to evaluate the physiological strain induced by the thermal radiation (mean radiant temperature 46.2 degrees SEM 5.1 degrees C) and high ambient temperature (38.2 degrees SEM 3.4 degrees C) prevailing in the factory.
(20) A more detailed study in eight glass bangle units was therefore undertaken to make quantitative estimates of heat stress on exposed workers in the summer season.
Mangle
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.
(v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
(n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.
(n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Against all sense, their goals all came in a six-minute spell as they mangled a defence billed as the world's best.
(2) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(3) What so often poisoned their dealings and repeatedly mangled New Labour's effectiveness in its early, popular years was the personal dimension.
(4) This is bad news for aggregators whose digital serfs cut, paste, compile and mangle abstracts of news stories that real media outlets produce at great expense.
(5) Retrospective data suggest that a Mangled Extremity Syndrome Index (M.E.S.I.)
(6) It will now be unfairly blamed on the bill and a bill that is not only mangled and bureaucratic, but also unnecessary."
(7) While all my other questions have been answered, albeit halfheartedly, this one was not fudged or spun or mangled, but simply ignored.
(8) Inside were the mangled seats where two of the pilots had sat.
(9) And a programme on the Northern Ireland hunger strikes that had a rather vivid contribution from Ian Paisley was mangled for fear of it projecting a nasty image of Britain.
(10) It is in the patient's best interest if the emergency department staff assumes that a mangled extremity will be replanted or revascularized.
(11) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(12) It was a mangled, distorted reflection of the will of the people perhaps, but that's what it says on the FPTP tin.
(13) The House of Representatives today votes on the Waxman-Markey bill to establish a carbon cap-and-trade system, which shows all the signs of having been through the congressional mangle.
(14) Seventeen patients fit the category of Mangled Extremity Syndrome (M.E.S.).
(15) Graphic photos of Said's mangled face have spread across the internet, prompting protests in Cairo and Alexandria, which have been broken up by the police.
(16) Areas that were once a mass of shattered houses and mangled cars, and boats dragged in by the waves, are now flat, vacant spaces.
(17) The opening points passed in a blizzard of high quality baseline slugging as Murray attacked the Djokovic serve and after 22 brain-manglingly intense minutes the British No1 got his first little nudge in front, breaking serve to go 2-1 up.
(18) "It would seem more logical for the prime minister to refine her vocabulary than for the Macquarie Dictionary to keep changing its definitions every time a politician mangles the English language," Fiona Nash, a senator in Abbott's coalition, said.
(19) A haunting photograph of the pair lying on the ground, the mother’s body badly mangled but one arm still cradling the corpse of her child, was shared on social media and led to another round of both sides loudly blaming the other for the atrocity.
(20) Standing by a mangled corpse of an Isis militant on Wednesday, Jaffar said the Isis Humvees had advanced despite a hail of rocket-propelled grenades fired by the peshmerga.