(n.) A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
(n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
(n.) Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use
(n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
(n.) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
(n.) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
(n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
(n.) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
(n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.
(n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
(n.) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.
(v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(2) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(3) Nasal cavities from eight subadult bonnet monkeys were processed for light microscopy, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(4) Despite the BBC cutting back on the number of "bonnet and bodice" adaptations in favour of more modern period drama , Davies said there was still room for big classic pieces.
(5) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(6) Partially purified human ovarian follicular fluid peptide (hGF2) was administered during follicular phase in 5 bonnet monkeys.
(7) We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight.
(8) The purpose of this study is to develop a technique to test the utility of an investigational device, the obstetric bonnet, and measure the forces it places on the fetal head.
(9) To ascertain the role of diet in the aetiology of mucoid vasculopathy, groups of bonnet monkeys were fed protein-deficient normal carbohydrate, or protein-deficient high-carbohydrate tapioca (cassava) starch based diets or control diets of normal protein and carbohydrate for 3 or 5 months periods.
(10) Osborne has a better grasp than Cameron of what is technically required to secure British interests in a rewired relationship with the EU – the under-the-bonnet business of voting weights and single-market rules.
(11) We have confirmed the presence of M cells in bonnet monkey FAE having ultrastructural features very similar to those of human M cells.
(12) We studied behavioral development in 12 mother-reared social-group-living bonnet macaque (M. radiata monkey infants during the first four months of life.
(13) A 17-year-old girl with unilateral blindness and exophthalmos was found to have Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome without retinal arteriovenous communications.
(14) In Old World monkeys, the U2 genes were organized as a tandem repeat of an 11-kb element; the restriction maps of the 11-kb elements in baboon and two closely related macaques, bonnet and rhesus monkeys, also differed slightly, confirming that efficient sequence homogenization is an intrinsic property of the U2 tandem array.
(15) But then a car bonnet-sized choc ice gets wheeled out and everything's OK again.
(16) The symptoms in the second case resembled those described in cases of visual hallucinosis (Charles Bonnet syndrome) in the elderly.
(17) Variations with regard to salt tolerance were observed in rice varieties, Blue bonnet, IR-8, Jhona-349, and Magnolia.
(18) Also, the bonnet macaques' maltose and Polycose preferences exceeded those of the squirrel monkeys.
(19) Imipramine hydrochloride was administered orally twice daily to 18 bonnet and 3 rhesus monkeys between days 23 and 45 of pregnancy for 1-3 or 18-22 days at 1, 2, and 10 times the recommended human dose.
(20) Using the Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer, we evaluated the corneal sensation of 11 patients with unilateral Adie's tonic pupil.
Charlotte
Definition:
(n.) A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(2) At Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital from 1980 to 1987, 195 women had a trial of scar in their second ongoing pregnancy, having been delivered previously by elective caesarean section.
(3) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(4) Charlotte Emma Aitchison suits the bold, bratty music she makes.
(5) Charlotte, by email Ahh, the question that truly marks the passing of time for Generation X.
(6) I even suspect that if Charlotte had truly known what marriage to a man so teeth-gnashingly awful really meant – in a way that no woman without the experience of going out with, let alone sleeping with, someone inappropriate can – she would have made a different choice.
(7) There’s not a lot you can tell a kid.” Cam Newton called the latest police shooting in Charlotte “embarrassing”, but said he’s not rushing to any judgments until he has more information.
(8) A woman identified by a protest organizer as Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old youth organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina, climbed the flagpole before 6am and took down the controversial emblem of the antebellum, slaveholding south, with the assistance of another activist.
(9) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
(10) In an interview with the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins in February 2014, when he was chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, Whittingdale said: “The BBC is the most wasteful, bloated organisation on the planet.” He said: “Chris Patten [the BBC Trust’s former chairman] used to make jokes about the army of the People’s Republic of China being the organisation that’s the closest he’s encountered to the BBC: it is just huge numbers of people, many of whom don’t appear to be doing anything.” On Thursday, Whittingdale will unveil a green paper on the future of the BBC that sets a demanding agenda before the renegotiation of the corporation’s royal charter.
(11) The 28-year-old was having a drink with a friend outside the Draft House pub at the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street when he heard the sound of a moped crashing.
(12) 126 children of 102 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carrier mothers were delivered at Hammersmith Hospital and Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, between 1971 and mid-1978.
(13) And with that, we'll knock the first day's live blog on the head: look out later on for the ever popular galleries from the red carpet, as well as Charlotte Higgins' report from the Gatsby press conference.
(14) BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore , who commissioned the dramas with BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson, said: "These four classic novels each represent a real moment in our recent history when Britain was on the cusp of great social and cultural change.
(15) In 2013, actor Pierce Brosnan’s daughter, Charlotte, died from ovarian cancer.
(16) The day I walked in the bushveld with Desmond Tutu Read more “What Charlotte was doing was praying with us.
(17) "This is a wake-up call," said campaigner Charlotte Hitchmough, a member of Action for the River Kennet.
(18) He’s sending very strong signals that he’s going to take a hard line on Cuba but without giving specifics,” said Gregory Weeks, an expert on US-Cuban relations at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.
(19) The film co-stars Britain's ubiquitous Emily Blunt , along with Aliens star Bill Paxton, Charlotte Riley and Jonas Armstrong .
(20) Charlotte Proudman has done a great job of explaining why women should not “passively accept being objectified” in the workplace .