(v. t.) Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.
(n.) A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.
(n.) A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
(2) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
(3) Three blonde d'Aquitaine calves (one male and two females) about four months old, exhibited skin lesions just after birth, the site and nature of which suggested photosensitisation.
(4) Our ConservativeHome poll of party members shows Theresa May now leads the blond bombshell in the stakes to be the next leader.
(5) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(6) The court heard that MP responded to Nimmo's message of "Dumb blonde bitch" with the message "That's dumb Dr blonde bitch to you".
(7) She would look 10 tons prettier with it natural, and the blonding just makes me think of Miley Cyrus.
(8) Both black and blond tobacco CSCs proved to interact synergistically with 2-aminoanthracene mutagenicity.
(9) The size of my posterior is directly related to the content and credibility of the stories I'm reporting on for this network.Those wise words of yours from 1986 are still ringing in my ears: "That's why you don't see blonde newsreaders," you explained patiently.
(10) Two of them were right mingers, but the blonde was OK, but when they started laughing at me, I thought, I ain't bovvered, so I paid for their drinks 'an headed back to the hotel.
(11) "The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blond-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.
(12) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
(13) The following signs and symptoms indicated her condition to be homocystinuria: blond hair with deep blue eyes, macrocytic anemia, factor VII deficit (51%), strong positive Brandt's reaction, cystine homocystine in the plasma, and presence of homocystine, cystathionine, and methionine in the urine.
(14) That is the question confronting Reese Witherspoon , the actor best known for the Legally Blonde comedies and an Oscar-winning turn as June Carter Cash in the 2005 film Walk the Line.
(15) One identified a blonde woman, smiling as she sold peanuts in paper cones to the rafters, as her sister – alive and well in Cuba, she said.
(16) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(17) Pictures of the young Depardieu in a good light suggest a rugged, brooding, if not classically good-looking man with a squared chin and mop of blonde hair.
(18) In both versions, the sniper turns out to be a beautiful blonde cellist who has previously caught Bond's eye, and whom he declines to kill.
(19) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
(20) This year international fashion magazine Numero used blonde-haired, blue-eyed Ondria Hardin in an editorial entitled African Queen.
Dexterity
Definition:
(n.) Right-handedness.
(n.) Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel.
(n.) Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emphasis is placed upon practical matters, such as quality of measurement, instruments and the dexterity of the surgeon.
(2) Since the effectiveness with which they are removed largely depends on the age with respect to the stage of root formation, bone resilience and relationship with adjacent anatomical structures, and the dexterity of the operator, whenever possible, early removal is recommended.
(3) The in vitro culture of mouse bone marrow (Dexter cultures) has allowed a detailed analysis of the biology of murine hematopoiesis.
(4) Ethanol alone impaired manual dexterity, increased drowsiness, reduced 'clearheadedness' and also tended to reduce feelings of aggression.
(5) Long-term in vitro human hematopoietic (Dexter) cultures are limited both in their longevity (8-12 weeks) and in their cell production over time.
(6) Cor triatriatum dexter is rare and is infrequently diagnosed before postmortem study; however, once the diagnosis is extablished, the condition is amenable to a relatively simple surgical correction.
(7) At the age of 50, Keaton adopted her first child, her daughter Dexter, now 18.
(8) Additional experiments were performed to assess the formation of new progenitor cells in reconstituted Dexter cultures.
(9) The conditioned medium of a non-virus producing A-MuLV transformed fibroblast cell line was synergistic with medium from Whitlock-Witte long-term bone marrow cultures, while conditioned medium from modified Dexter-type cultures was not active.
(10) Aesthesiometric thresholds (two-point discrimination and depth sense perception), manipulative dexterity, pinch grip force and fingertip skin temperature (FST) were measured before and after exposure to different combinations of static load (handle holding), noise and vibration by using new production brush saws for 5 to 15 min.
(11) The results showed a very good distribution of 100% or 90% in the bronchi principals dexter and sinister.
(12) MK-8057 can be maintained in Dexter-type liquid culture with a feeder layer of irradiated bone marrow cells.
(13) Sex differences emerged on the Embedded-figures Test and the first half of the dexterity test.
(14) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(15) We feel that these innovations may enhance surgical dexterity of residents without the need for animal sacrifice.
(16) Yet, we could not find relevant associations between radiographic findings and clinical outcome parameters (pain, morning stiffness, dexterity, grip strength, and patient's overall assessment).
(17) And, apart from appearing in plays at his Belper grammar school, Bates became a regular visitor to Derby Playhouse, where he admired the work of two unknown actors, and later friends, John Osborne and John Dexter.
(18) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(19) Our data suggest that poorer performance may be because orthodontists: (1) perceive their younger population of patients at less risk for HBV and HIV; (2) treat 2.5 times as many patients, which increases the costs of infection control; (3) do not use invasive procedures; and (4) perceive that glove use decreases dexterity.
(20) The interaction of noise and heat entailed superior performance of the tasks of memory and search, two hand coordination and reaction time, at moderate difficulty levels, but no distinct interaction effect was observed on the performance of tweezer dexterity.