(n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
(n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(2) The show has been co-produced by ChannelFlip, the company which has made webshows for talent including Harry Hill and David Mitchell.The sponsorship deal has been struck by media agency Carat.
(3) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
(4) Carat's biggest upward forecast revision in the Asia Pacific region is for China.
(5) The above principle, of which my 24-carat Tory pupil-master was so justly proud, is now hanging by a thread, one which the Ministry of Justice's plans will finally sever.
(6) The house, which once belonged to Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the playboy younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, boasts a ballroom with elaborate panelled walls edged with 24-carat gold leaf.
(7) The government claims to have already stockpiled 4.6m carats worth up to $1.7bn, though some believe this is greatly exaggerated.
(8) The zinc oxide film formed on the as-cast specimen is effective in preventing of oxidation Cu in 18 carats gold alloys.
(9) Carat has revised down its global forecast from an expected 5.8% slump to a decline of almost 10% this year.
(10) High-resolution electron microscopy and electron diffraction were applied to elucidate the hardening mechanism in an 18-carat gold commercial dental alloy, Au-31.7 at.%,Cu-8.1 at.%,Pd-5.3 at.%,Ag-54.9 at.%.
(11) Growth was driven by Aegis Media, which includes media operations such as Carat and Vizeum, which delivered 3% year-on-year growth.
(12) The media buying agency network Carat has upgraded its forecast for global advertising growth this year to 2.9%, with a further 4% in 2011, thanks to significant signs of recovery in markets including the UK.
(13) The US, which last October Carat predicted would suffer a 2.6% ad spend fall this year, will now record growth of 0.2%.
(14) In the 18 carat gold alloy, the oxidation rate at 800 degrees C was about 10 times that at 700 degrees C. 7.
(15) This article explores the ten "carative" factors that form the core of Jean Watson's theoretical model and relates them to nursing practice.
(16) Connoisseurs of British indecision will greet Sir Howard Davies's announcement on Tuesday as an all-time, blue-chip, 24-carat masterpiece of the genre.
(17) This study was designed to investigate the enhancement of dose to soft tissue (or water) close to high electron-density materials and to measure the detailed lateral and depth-dose profiles in soft-tissue-simulating polymer adjacent to planar interfaces of several higher atomic-number materials: 18-carat gold dental casting alloy; Ag-Hg dental amalgam alloy; Ni-Cr dental casting alloy; and natural human tooth structure.
(18) In March Carat said that it expected the total UK ad market to slump by 7.1% this year; the new forecast predicts a decline of almost 12%.
(19) There is no cytotoxic action in the cases of pure gold and higher carat alloys than 58% Au-42% Cu alloy, but mild toxicity in lower carat alloys than 50% Au-50% Cu alloy.
(20) Don't matter what colour you are: white, black, Asian – they gonna treat you the same' Facebook Twitter Pinterest For all the street-level rawness of his subject matter, there has long been something Forbidden Planet-friendly about Ghostface: his 1996 solo debut Ironman was named after the Marvel superhero, while in 2007, he was immortalised as an action figure with 14-carat medallion, retailing for a cool $500.
Cart
Definition:
(n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
(n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
(n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
(n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
(v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart.
(v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
(v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(2) "They don't go to secondary school – they go out scrapping with horses and carts, and make a living from collecting metal.
(3) Existing bedside emergency resuscitation carts all have certain shortcomings, which interfere with the rapid, efficient care of the hospitalized patient in a catastrophic episode.
(4) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
(5) Metabolic carts (MC) for indirect calorimetry are expensive, require the use of meticulous technique by trained personnel, and impose conditions that are difficult to maintain in critically ill patients.
(6) This success allows us to incorporate QEEG and CART into our technological armamentarium and to return to the evaluation of less well-understood disorders with confidence in both our findings and anatomoclinical principles we derive from them.
(7) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
(8) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
(9) Sligo, Ireland This has to be one of the most perfect equine mini-breaks … with the freedom of the open road, bogland path, cart track and miles of sandy beach.
(10) The gourmet Monsieur Bleu only opened last year and is already a favourite power-lunch venue for art world movers and shakers, but the prices are not cheap (à la carte from €30pp).
(11) TV streaming and buying would be entirely à la carte.
(12) Start-up costs were determined to be less than $2,200 for the system which includes a mobile medication cart stocked with a limited inventory of prepackaged medications.
(13) Groceries were delivered and a horse-drawn fruit and veg cart called along the road weekly.
(14) The same multiple-choice questionnaire was distributed to nurses at the University of Michigan Hospitals 18 months before decentralized services were implemented (November 1982) and again after two satellite pharmacies had been established and a clinical pharmacist had begun providing first-dose dispensing services using a movable medication cart (March 1985).
(15) Like the rest of Tarkovsky’s filmography, these two works have received extensive analysis .Coming on the heels of the shelved Andrei Rublev , long withheld from release by the Soviet government, Solaris enjoyed such a degree of success that Tarkovsky was effectively given carte blanche for any future projects.
(16) Rats joined in surgical parabiosis for 25 to 30 days were tested by restraining one member of the pair on a movable cart while allowing the second member to remain free to move about.
(17) "Sometimes we'll talk about a feature, then we'll be like 'right, this is a shopping cart'.
(18) Specific modifications in anesthesia machines, anesthesia cart, laryngoscope, mercury sphygmomanometer, oximeter, and remote blood pressure devices are described.
(19) He seems equally prepared to be carted off in a body bag, if that helps.
(20) • carteblanchefoodcart.com Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian This folksy cart dishes out Southern comfort food: freshly made mac 'n' cheese, pumpkin-spiced waffles with maple butter, meatloaf and succotash .