(n.) A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
(n.) A stave for a cask.
(v. t.) To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Seyðisfjörður, a beautiful small town of clapboard houses in Norwegian style “I was worried we would be bored,” says Berglind, “but in fact we get loads of people dropping in.
(2) The pristine white clapboard house, situated near the top of the hill on a secluded cul-de-sac, has raffia wallpaper and overstuffed leather couches.
(3) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
(4) Not far from of Elverum, 80 miles north of Oslo, a cluster of clapboard buildings, white and red, sits under a low mountain ridge at the end of a dirt track.
(5) Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir all literary America is talking about, lives in a first-floor flat in a pretty but rather creaky clapboard house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(6) Esidronio Arreola never gave much thought to the well that so reliably pumped water to his traditional clapboard house in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.
(7) Our conversation begins to tail off: the gloaming and the sense of anti-climax in the car are doing their work (the farm, all clapboard and rickety outbuildings, wasn't right for April and Ken; they want a beautiful place, so people can stay and attend cookery classes).
(8) Húsavik comes as a relief: it’s a pretty clapboard port with humpback whales and dolphins out in the bay, pizzas and cappuccino in town.
(9) Proyecto Azteca provided the financing to build Theresa and Emilio Azuara’s home, a clapboard structure in lime green that feels more spacious on the inside than it looks from the front.
(10) With its New England-style clapboard houses and pristine flagged walkways there is no evidence of the wrecking ball that has been knocking chunks out of the UK's traditional high streets.
(11) There were deer tiptoeing across the lawns of clapboard houses and a very friendly visitor centre.
(12) There are mosques with orange gates and lime roofs, clapboard shacks selling sweets to schoolchildren, and then, every so often, vast expanses of seeming desert.
(13) Until last year he was living with his wife, two children and two other relatives in a grey clapboard house in another Connecticut town, Shelton, with a well-kept garden and a white fence.
(14) You’ll get work with us.” A block to the north, the Cardenas siblings, who live in a clapboard house, faced the same obstacles but remained in school.
Shingles
Definition:
(n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along with asthenia, polyadenopathies, and shingles, it is often an early sign of AIDS.
(2) This outbreak suggests that shingles can be provoked by reexposure to varicella-zoster virus.
(3) A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of amantadine hydrochloride (Symmetrel) in acute herpes zoster (shingles) was carried out in 100 patients in general practice.
(4) Somatic sensory perception thresholds (warm, cold, hot pain, touch, pinprick, vibration, two-point discrimination), allodynia and skin temperature were assessed in the affected area of 42 patients with unilateral postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) and 20 patients who had had unilateral shingles not followed by PHN (NoPHN), and in the mirror-image area on the other side.
(5) Acyclovir has demonstrated clinical efficacy for chickenpox, shingles (herpes zoster), genital herpes, and other herpes simplex infections.
(6) Unusual presentations of HIV infected persons which have been seen in Africa include serially developing abscesses in pyomyositis, gall bladder diseases, pericarditis or myocarditis, diseases of the Central Nervous System (cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis, non-specific leuko-encephalitis, atraumatic paraplegia, acute psychosis or chronic deterioration in mental capacity, lymphoma of the brain), prodromal illnesses, swollen lymph nodes, herpes zoster or shingles in young adults, or tumours of the lymphatic system.
(7) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
(8) Patients over 50 with simple shingles should be offered topical idoxuridine or intravenous acyclovir to reduce the risk of post-herpetic neuralgia.
(9) The varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and shingles.
(10) Vesicles then appear on the skin in the distribution of this nerve, producing the characteristic dermatomal rash of shingles.
(11) Specimens from patients with smallpox, various forms of vaccination complications, varicella, zoster (shingles), and herpes simplex are included in this evaluation.
(12) By comparison, gypsum pellet carriers sustained penetration rates of 37% in shingle-stacked piles and 87% in random-stacked piles.
(13) At Cley, in North Norfolk, a new nature reserve just purchased by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust was flooded, a bird hide had disappeared and holes punched in the shingle sea bank threaten the whole of the marshes.
(14) They say there is particular concern in the Hunstanton area, where some of the shingle bank has been swept away, and there are reports that Mundesley Cliff Vale Road car park has been washed into the sea.
(15) Four polymorphic loci were studied on an extensive shingle beach at Dungeness.
(16) Herpes zoster or shingles is caused by the DNA virus, varicella-zoster virus, and its major morbidity in older patients is postherpetic neuralgia.
(17) The government would also extend free vaccinations for the shingles virus to older Australians aged 70 to 79 on the national immunisation program, she said.
(18) The other causes of facial paralysis in children are very much less common: a frigore or viral, traumatic, occur ring in the course of acute poliomyelitis, shingles or tumours of the middle ear.
(19) Using the polymerase chain reaction, we performed postmortem examinations of trigeminal and thoracic ganglia of 23 subjects 33 to 88 years old who had not recently had chickenpox or shingles to identify the presence of latent varicella-zoster viral DNA.
(20) Herpes zoster (shingles) is a viral infection that results from a reactivation of a dormant varicella zoster virus.