(n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(5) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(6) Meanwhile, we have boots on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri.
(7) That would kickstart the spin again and then some, in doublequick time to boot.
(8) Extents of in situ ruminal digestion (72 h residue) for NDF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .05) for full-head than for late-boot-stage bromegrass.
(9) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(10) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(11) William Boot's work was done, and it was time to go home.
(12) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
(13) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(14) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
(16) cc @ kidweil #USMNT March 23, 2013 5 mins of stoppage time we're hearing... 4.00am GMT 88 mins ...Barrantes is over the ball and he drives it low and hard, but Dempsey boots it clear.
(17) Politicians On the surface a recession would be a disaster for Labour, yet it doesn't always follow that the government party gets booted out when times are hard.
(18) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
(19) The player can expect another reminder from the boot manufacturer that “all or nothing” must still only be applied within reason.
(20) The box itself is nearly identical to that of the 5S, while a picture of the phone being turned on shows the familiar Apple logo on a boot screen.
Condom
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(2) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(3) Informal support and knowing one's HIV status are strong predictors of condom use 1 year later.
(4) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(5) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(6) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
(7) As part of an effort to better educate patients about using condoms, a survey was done to assess the sexual practices, attitudes toward acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and condom use by patients who visit an urban family practice center.
(8) However, it also indicated a need for further improvement in specific areas of education, such as the value of obtaining more information about sexual partners, more awareness of the importance of multiple-partner relationships in the spread of AIDS, and more emphasis on the important role of condoms in preventing AIDS virus transmission.
(9) The results indicated that AIDS education was associated with increases in knowledge of AIDS risks and in acceptability of condoms in the initial analysis.
(10) 53 women (76%) had started using contraception before the age of 20; 47% had used more than 1 type of contraception, 46% had used oral contraceptives only, 23% had used the condom, and 5% had used nothing.
(11) The tests demonstrated that mineral oil damaged the latex condoms within 60 seconds.
(12) More than 50% of condom requests are made using these confidential forms.
(13) The extent of leakage varied over two orders of magnitude from condom to condom within each brand.
(14) Their condom use was examined with three types of partners: exclusive, nonexclusive primary, and nonexclusive secondary.
(15) IUDs, oral contraceptives and, in some cases, condoms have been prescribed.
(16) Stepwise logistic regression confirmed that group discussion was the factor most significantly associated with condom use.
(17) Children are taught to use condoms there,” Pokrovsky said, indicating that was hardly imaginable in modern Russia where the Orthodox church is growing increasingly influential.
(18) Aliquots of the fluids in the outer and inner condoms were grown in culture.
(19) A Health Ministry spokesman answers that the campaign has, in fact, stressed that use of condoms for "safe sex" does not provide complete protection but, since the only 100% sure protection, celibacy, is completely impractical, even partial protection is better than none.
(20) There appears to be a direct connection between this observation and the two main messages of the campaign as the employment of condoms increased tenfold during the period 1986-1988 end contact investigations revealed a decrease in the number of unknown sexual partners.