What's the difference between cloth and kidderminster?
Cloth
Definition:
(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.
Kidderminster
Definition:
(n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Worcester facilities will be better and safer than the old Kidderminster hospital.
(2) The ambulance drove past Kidderminster's closed A&E on a 50 minute journey to Worcester, where Mr Jones was pronounced dead after 20 minutes.
(3) "It was intended to down grade Kidderminster when the new Worcester hospital comes on-stream in 2002.
(4) When Kidderminster College decided to seek a merger in the spring of 2013, it was in a sound financial position.
(5) David Collins Kidderminster, Worcestershire • I have always found that the culprit in a TV murder mystery ( Letters, 7 August ) is invariably the character who says, “How can I help you, Inspector?” They are normally pouring tea at the time.
(6) Dobson says that Kidderminster has similarly gained from pooling resources.
(7) Every politician has learned the lesson of the Kidderminster effect, when a local hospital consultant swept to victory in Wyre Forest in the 2001 general election, in defence of the A&E department at his hospital.
(8) "But by announcing that Kidderminster was virtually going to be turned into a cottage hospital, that led to a crisis in staffing.
(9) Rufus Norris on Trevor Argent I met Trev when I joined his decorating team on a block of flats in Kidderminster, probably in 1984.
(10) Last September, Kidderminster's accident and emergency facilities were downgraded to a minor injuries unit.
(11) Kidderminster had one of the smallest incomes of general further education colleges in the country, before its merger with Newcastle College Group (NCG).
(12) Back in Wyre Forest, Clive Joyce, editor of the local paper, notes that complaints from readers about the NHS have mushroomed since Kidderminster's A&E department closed.
(13) He found himself in the Worcestershire town of Kidderminster and attended a community church where another experience of an attempted gay conversion began.
(14) In order to assess support for this peaceful but possibly effective protest, interested readers should write to me at 11 Church Walk, Kidderminster DY11 6XY or taylorr@rtact.freeserve.co.uk.
(15) "You're ... you're ... that butcher from Kidderminster".
(16) In February that decision had fatal consequences when a pensioner, John Jones, who lived five minutes from Kidderminster hospital, had a heart attack.
(17) But while the loss of services at Kidderminster has made for politics with instant appeal, not all the facts stack up on Dr Taylor's side.
(18) The MP, a junior minister in the Lord Chancellor's department, whose wife practises as a GP locally, accuses Health Concern of distorting the facts to whip up alarm among the voters of Kidderminster.
(19) Mr Lock insists: "The general election, whenever it comes, is not going to be a referendum on Kidderminster hospital.
(20) At the start of October, the 35-year-old mother from Kidderminster was broke.