(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.
Safety
Definition:
(n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
(n.) Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.
(n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
(n.) Same as Safety touchdown, below.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(2) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(3) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(5) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(6) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(7) We evaluated the safety and efficacy of a conjugate vaccine that links the H. influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide to the outer-membrane protein complex (OMPC) of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B.
(8) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(9) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(10) In 20 adult patients with asthma, we evaluated bronchodilation to a single administration of metered-dose glycopyrrolate aerosol (GA) to ascertain its onset and duration of action along with evaluation of safety.
(11) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(12) It is clearly demonstrated that, although it will be very difficult to single out effects of specific safety measures, the combined safety actions taken by a society are very effective in getting the safety factor under control.
(13) A total of 17 patients suffering from musculoskeletal disease were included in a double blind study to compare the efficacy and safety of piroxicam and indomethacin.
(14) Safety was assessed by clinical follow-up, continuous recording of arterial oxygen saturation during the procedure with a digital oximeter, and measuring FEV1, FEF25-75, and FVC just before and 5 min after bronchoscopy.
(15) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(16) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(17) In contrast, safety assessment is relatively standardized across many pharmacologic classes of agents.
(18) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
(19) To determine the efficacy and safety of hepatitis B vaccine (Hevac B) given intradermally, 125 Nigerians (aged 1 year to 45 years), who were negative for hepatitis B virus markers, and randomised into two groups were vaccinated.
(20) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.