(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.
Lisle
Definition:
(n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) the laser-pulses of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser produce an optical breakdown in the irrigation liquid surrounding the urinary stone.
(2) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
(3) Meanwhile, Lisle Austin, the Barbados official who was banned for one year after he went to court in the Bahamas to try to force through his claim to succeed Warner as president of Concacaf has branded Fifa as "corrupt".
(4) If Cool succeeds in climbing the world's highest mountain again, he will have honoured a pledge by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lisle Strutt, deputy leader of the pioneering 1922 expedition, made to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who awarded the climbers medals at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
(5) In a work, the results of studying the properties of 17 types of the surgical knots of polyamide threads (braided, lisle, monothreads) are presented.
(6) But as Ms Lisle-Mainwaring demonstrated by painting her £15m terrace house like an ice-cream stall from Margate, we are free in the UK to be creative.
(7) Defying Kensington and Chelsea council’s ruling that the beach hut-style design should be removed, Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring said she was “entitled to do what I wish with it, and there are a lot of people who agree with me.
(8) It’s more Camden or something like that.” “My neighbours say they want the building kept in commercial use,” Lisle-Mainwairing said.
(9) Significant differences were found in the subclass results obtained by the ICN ImmunoBiologicals assay (Lisle, Ill.), compared to the two reference laboratories.
(10) So my first reaction when I read about the red and white stripes that Lisle-Mainwaring had painted on her townhouse in South End, in London’s Kensington, was pride that we live in a nation where such bursts of cultural creativity are possible – even if it was motivated by revenge and a bit of mild vandalism.
(11) Laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) appears to be a very promising solution to this problem.
(12) Candy-stripe house redesign makes Kensington neighbours see red Read more If Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring lived in Celebration, Disney’s model town in Florida, painting the outside of her house with red stripes might not have sent her to the electric chair, but there would have been consequences.
(13) 10.40am: An email arrives from our Fans' Network member Rod de Lisle on how New Zealand's progress is being experienced over there: "Unusually, the round ball code has kicked rugby off the front page in NZ sports papers this week.
(14) Laser-induced shock wave lithotripsy (LISL) with a Q-switched neodymium-YAG laser depends on the generation of a laser-induced breakdown in the fluid surrounding the stone.
(15) Kensington and Chelsea council says house stripes must go Read more Lisle-Mainwaring, who lives in Switzerland, was said to have ordered the stripes be painted in order to provoke her neighbours.
(16) Laser induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) on artificially inserted human renal calculi was realized in explanted pig ureters.
(17) Her solicitors said they had no comment to make on any further legal action that would be taken by Lisle-Mainwaring.
(18) Yet this is how Kensington resident Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring has chosen to express her annoyance with the local council and neighbours, who objected to her basement development but are now “horrendously unhappy”.
(19) Since the LISL is an endoscopic technique, problems arise from the transmission of the laser pulses through optical fibers.
(20) She may tell the press that everyone around her loves the stripes, and there are always a few eccentric people who like odd things just because they are odd, but I can tell you that most people absolutely do not think that way.” Lisle-Mainwaring has the right to appeal by 5 June in the magistrates court but otherwise must repaint the front elevation white and carry out repairs to the windows by 3 July.