(n.) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
(n.) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) ☞ Jimmy Cowan of Aston Villa overpowering the great Steve Bloomer in 1897!
(2) "Derby County's idolising of Steve Bloomer takes some beating," writes Matt Lewis.
(3) This study was designed to test the concurrent validity of the revised Task-Oriented Assessment (TOA) component of the Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) (Bloomer & Williams, 1979) with Part 1 of the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) (Nihira, Foster, Shellhaas, & Leland, 1969, 1974) and to develop a means of interpretation for the numeric scores on the TOA.
(4) Reanalyses of Year 1 data based on these follow-up outcomes demonstrated that only late bloomers used more communicative gestures than did language-matched controls.
(5) Late bloomers also used more communicative gestures than did age-matched controls, suggesting that they (the late bloomers) were using gestures to compensate for their small oral expressive vocabulary.
(6) I'm a late bloomer: I like to come to things at my own tempo.
(7) Ibanez, in his third stint with the Mariners and old enough to remember what it was like to play in the Kingdome, Seattle's previous home , is a bit of a late bloomer.
(8) Phil Bloomer, Oxfam 's director of campaigns, was more blunt: "Every year we delay an estimated 150,000 people will have died and a further 1 million displaced as a result of climate change."
(9) Others were being used as evacuation centres, said Bloomer, making it important to find alternative spaces.
(10) "We cooked for the nuns, we washed their big bloomers, we cleaned their rooms.
(11) She spent £1,168 on champagne and flowers, mostly at the Auntie's Bloomers shop at the BBC Television Centre in west London, between 22 March 2004 and 26 November 2004.
(12) And now it has Bodvarsson, a rare Icelandic league late bloomer.
(13) One senior City fund manager said the Prudential was a strong enough name to find support for the cash call, its second in six years following the £1bn rights issue in 2004 that ultimately cost then-chief executive Jonathan Bloomer his job .
(14) Previous X-ray studies (2.8-A resolution) on the crystals of tobacco mosaic virus protein (TMVP) grown from solutions containing high salt have characterized the structure of the protein aggregate as a bilayered cylindrical disk formed by 34 identical subunits [Bloomer, A.C., Champness, J.N., Bricogne, G., Staden, R., & Klug, A.
(15) The Xenopus 5S RNA replication-expression model of Gottesfeld and Bloomer (Cell 28:781-791, 1982) and Wormington et al.
(16) Oxfam's campaigns and policy director, Phil Bloomer, said: "E.ON's plans to cancel building a new coal plant at Kingsnorth is a welcome reprieve for the millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change.
(17) A handful of investors are understood be considering whether to bypass the chairman, Sir David Clementi, who has been unflinching in his support for chief executive Jonathan Bloomer, and approach the senior non-executive, Rob Rowley, instead.
(18) Results showed that all 4 children who were truly delayed at follow-up had been delayed in language comprehension at the first visit, but the 6 late bloomers had been at the same level as their age-matched controls.
(19) It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!").
(20) Phil Bloomer is the executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre .
Loaf
Definition:
(n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
(v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
(v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meat loaf systems were also employed to determine the effects of protein additives to meat under actual meat loaf conditions.
(2) 8.04pm BST First challenge for the remaining seven is the tea loaf.
(3) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(4) However when given the choice, they preferred to reduce the weight of a loaf rather than increasing the price.
(5) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
(6) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
(7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
(8) Premier was hit by soaring wheat prices following a Russian export ban and has warned the wheat shortage could raise the price of bread by at least 5p a loaf.
(9) Parkinson says: “Walking up the Sugar Loaf with him was amazing.
(10) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
(11) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
(12) The third major unique property of wheat flour doughs is their ability to set in the oven during baking, and thereby to produce a rigid loaf of bread.
(13) So, from one basic bread dough, you can make the family loaf and have a bit of fun in the kitchen too.
(14) Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively.
(15) Here it’s called pljeskavica and a bun is not a typical bun, but a tiny round loaf of bread called lepinja .
(16) He described how, during the trip back home in the taxi with his wife, he kept on crying.” Fred Ballinger, the composer he plays, loafs around a high-tone Swiss spa hotel with his old pal Mick, a veteran Hollywood film director played by Harvey Keitel , and casts a wearied eye over human frailties – both his own and those of people around him.
(17) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
(18) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
(19) When he was young, his father would leave a loaf for him in the oven.
(20) Researchers have calculated that white medium-sliced bread has a carbon footprint of 1,244g of CO 2 equivalent per loaf.