(n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.
Example Sentences:
(1) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(2) Of the nine inversions, two have been described earlier by Bock from laboratory populations established from Borneo, Thailand and the Philippines.
(3) In Hunstanton Natasha Bocking, from Bircham Newton, 10 miles away, was doing the weekly shopping with her friend Samantha Burpitt, from Sculthorpe.
(4) He's given software chief Bocking an Angry Birds stuffed toy.
(5) Bock said: “It is now up to the remaining parties, in particular the Australian government, to also recognise this reality and cancel this destructive project.
(6) We conclude that a portion of the mechanism proposed previously (Bock, P.E., and Frieden, C. (1976) J. Biol.
(7) In around 1300, the peasants of Bocking in Essex (later a centre of the 1381 peasants’ revolt) appealed to Magna Carta in a struggle against their lord’s bailiff.
(8) Purification of the enzyme to homogeneity from bovine heart mitochondria was described more than a decade ago [H. G. Bock and S. Fleischer (1975) J. Biol.
(9) A dysfunctional antithrombin III (ATIII) gene encoding a qualitatively and quantitatively abnormal anticoagulant molecule is responsible for hereditary thrombosis in a Utah kindred [Bock et al.
(10) We have previously shown that an alkaline phosphatase signal peptide mutant containing a polyleucine core region functions efficiently in transport of the enzyme [D. A. Kendall, S. C. Bock, and E. T. Kaiser (1986) Nature 321, 706-708].
(11) "It is great to see so many people downloading BBM, but the true measurement for us is engagement – the connections being made and the conversations in which our BBM community engages," said BlackBerry's executive vice president of BBM, Andrew Bocking.
(12) The early version "resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways", Bocking wrote.
(13) Laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses can be performed with the most diverse types of laser (Dujovny et al: 4th Annu Gen Sci Meet LANSI, 1986; Godlewski et al: World J Surg 10:329-333, 1986; Gomes et al: Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo 37:255, 1982; Quigley et al: Laser Surg Med 5:357-367, 1985; Quigley et al: Lancet 1:334, 1985; Quigley et al: Neurosurgery 18(3):292-299, 1986; Jain: J Microsurg 1:436-439, 1980; Jain: Lancet 2:816-817, 1984; Krueger and Almquist: Lasers Surg Med 5:55, 1985; Neblett et al: Neurosurgery 19(6):914-934, 1986; Schober et al: Science 232:1421-1422, 1986; Ulrich et al: 2nd Annu Gen Sci Meet LANSI, 1984; Ulrich and Bock: Optoelectronics in Medicine, Spring-Verlag 418-423, 1986).
(14) Chief executive Kurt Bock said: "Our customers are continuing to act cautiously and are reducing their inventories."
(15) The postponement will hold up the official release for at least a week, Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry, said in a blogpost .
(16) On comparing these findings with an earlier proposed model (Bock & Bromm, 1977) we could show a good correspondence for the P.P.
(17) Bock and Wheeler (1972) reviewed the Drosophila melanogaster species group in which more than 70 species were classified into a number of subgroups.
(18) Non-axial feet developed recently, such as the SAFE II and Seattle Light feet achieved higher scores in the older age group, while single-axis feet, such as the LAPOC and Otto Bock feet achieved higher scores in the younger age group (p < 0.05).
(19) These findings support a new concept of cold-lability proposed by Bock, Gilbert & Frieden [Biochem.
(20) In a randomly selected population screening study of 8450 men and 9039 women 33 to 71 years of age conducted in Iceland in 1967-1977, 27 men and 17 women were found to have left bundle branch bock (LBBB).
Booking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Book
Example Sentences:
(1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(5) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(6) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(7) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(8) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(9) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(10) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(11) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(12) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(13) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
(14) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
(15) In 1999, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
(16) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(17) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
(18) Rates Six to 12 hours from R$189 (£54) to R$396 (£113), or from £199 by the day; booking policy unlikely to change during the World Cup.
(19) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(20) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.