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Bracelet
Definition:
(n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.
(n.) A piece of defensive armor for the arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(2) Reversal of forepaw preference was studied in rats under conditions of peripheral (bracelet) or central (inactivation of contralateral motor cortex and caudate nucleus by intracerebral injection of tetrodotoxin) preferred limb block.
(3) He wears a couple of hospital bracelets on his right wrist “in case I pass out, or something.
(4) Non-junctional intramembranous particle arrays in the form of ridges, bracelets or rectilinear assemblies have been found by freeze-fracturing in the cytoplasmic half or P face of the plasma membrane in a variety of arthropod tissues.
(5) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
(6) A chunky piece of ugly technology, the sobriety bracelet is used to detect even a smidgen of alcohol in the perspiration of its wearer, from whom readings are sent twice a day in order to monitor their abstinence.
(7) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
(8) Among the first 975 people fitted with the bracelets, 84% didn't touch alcohol at all.
(9) Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has suggested the US government should put electronic monitoring bracelets on Muslims who are on the federal government’s terror watchlist.
(10) The strong 1:1 complexes of cyclo(L-Val-Gly-Gly-L-Pro)3 with K+ ANd Ba2+ in acetonitrile are structurally analogous to the bracelet conformation of valinomycin and involve the N--H's of the Val residues and of the Gly's preceding Pro in intramolecular hydrogen bonding.
(11) Avoidance of a particular food substance or use of a copper bracelet were the most common of such remedies.
(12) Some wore "slave bracelets" made out of boot laces and walked with "Black Power canes", sticks with the nub carved into a clenched fist.
(13) Wallis is wearing a plain dark blue dress, with the sapphire bracelet that is to be sold.
(14) Less numerous are tight junctions which serve to restrict entry of exogenous molecules, including lanthanum and cationic ferritin, thereby forming the blood-brain barrier; these appear to assemble by migration of individual 8- to 10-nm P face IMPs into ridges which are found between the overlapping fingers of the perineurial bracelet cell processes.
(15) So never give up the friendship bracelets, Charlotte.
(16) I remember buying that bracelet with friends before university and the bracelet was supposed to guarantee we wouldn't lose touch even though we were going to opposite sides of the country.
(17) It has also been shown that the wearing of a 'copper bracelet' results in a weight loss in excess of the body's total burden of copper (100-150 mg).
(18) The copper bracelets were weighed before and after use.
(19) The structure is characterized by an elongated bracelet form with a twofold axis of pseudosymmetry.
(20) They have given me bracelets!” A few days later, the girls in the van showed up for their group trial and were fined 5,000 tomans each – the equivalent then of less than 20 dollars.