(n.) A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
(n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
(n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(2) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
(3) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(4) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(5) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(6) Thirteen of the fourteen melanomas detected were on anatomic sites normally covered by clothing.
(7) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(8) A case-control study of 160 patients with cancers of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses and 290 controls showed an excess risk associated with employment in the textile or clothing industries, with the increase (relative risk [RR] = 2.1) found only among female workers.
(9) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(10) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(11) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(12) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(13) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(14) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(15) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(16) So Mick Jagger still wears clothes that he wore when he was 20 – quite possibly the exact same clothes – and the man looks great, because that's who he is.
(17) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(18) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(19) On the regulatory side, Carney's role as chair of the Financial Stability Board suggests an individual cut from relatively orthodox cloth while working at the coal face of implementation on a range of issues.
(20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.
Interlining
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interline
(n.) Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, over a range of raster widths, discrimination of texture areas with a given difference in line orientation varied not with absolute values of line length but with the ratio of line length to interline spacing.
(2) Results of the use of this technique on seven normal knees confirmed the precise anatomical details provided, with direct visualization of the femorotibial interline and particularly of the cruciate ligaments, menisci and cartilages.
(3) The interline differences in the manifestation of aggression evoked by stimulation was studied in mice of eight inbred lines, and the role of different types of dopamine (DA) receptors in its manifestation was investigated.
(4) In contrast, in selections III, IV, and V a similar interline difference was observed: the lack of IgG2a isotype in L lines only.
(5) Detected during phlebography of lower limbs during investigation of a pulmonary embolus, the aneurysm, of a sacciform shape, was located above the interline of the knee and often contained a thrombus: this site of onset facing the calf "venous pump" makes it an "experimental" emboligenic focus.
(6) A close coincidence of theoretical and practical indices by the studied sings, proves the ability to use this method for prediction of interline hybridization of pigs.
(7) The H-2 linked gene accounts for 29% of the total interline difference for response to BSA and only 11% for response to RGG.
(8) The characteristics of the response to H-BSA and to SE both injected intravenously were similar in several aspects: ranges of interline difference in agglutinin response were equivalent; minimal immunogenic doses were lower in HL than in LL mice.
(9) The progressive interline separation produced by 6 generations of selective breeding demonstrates that responsiveness to PHA is submitted to polygenic regulation.
(10) As for SE, the use of an adjuvant (Al-BSA) increased the response of LL more than that of HL mice, so the interline difference decreased.
(11) At this time most of the interline difference in responsiveness is already expressed.
(12) This was confirmed by the fact that no interline difference could be detected in the expression of T-cell mediated immunity, as estimated by the production of protective T cells and delayed sensitivity T cells, and by the level of immunological memory.
(13) To demonstrate that the interline difference in responsiveness was due essentially to genetic factors independent of environmental effects, a systematic study of various culture conditions has been undertaken.
(14) The innate resistance and the protective efficacy of vaccination against P. berghei infection induced by parasitized erythrocytes was measured in H and L lines and in the interline hybrids F1, BcH, and BcL of selections I and II.
(15) A similar interline difference was observed when concanavalin A (ConA) was used as mitogen.
(16) A maximal interline separation has been obtained after 10 consecutive generations of selective breeding for the character "quantitative in vitro response of lymph node lymphocytes to the mitogenic effect of phytohaemagglutinin".
(17) A cytodynamic study carried out in terms of plaque-forming cells (PFC) and rosette-forming cells (RFC) in the spleen during the exponential phase showed that the principal interline difference is found in the doubling time of cells engaged in the immune response.
(18) For these two antigens the interline difference was reduced after booster.
(19) The normal distribution of agglutinin titers in the F0 population and the significant interline difference already observed in the F2 and F3 generations indicate that oral tolerance is a character controlled by the additive effect of several independent loci.
(20) The final result of both GP and GS selections demonstrate a marked improvement of the high and low antibody production traits, both quantitatively (interline divergence) and qualitatively (multi-specific effect).