(v. t.) To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
(v. t.) To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.
(v. i.) To wear clothes.
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.
Livery
Definition:
(n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
(n.) The writ by which possession is obtained.
(n.) Release from wardship; deliverance.
(n.) That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.
(n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.
(n.) The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.
(n.) Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London.
(n.) Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.
(n.) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
(n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.
(n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.
(n.) A low grade of wool.
(v. t.) To clothe in, or as in, livery.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is painted all in black, save for three steel roller shutters that each represent a juncture of White's life: one is yellow, a nod to the livery of the upholstery business he started when he was 21; the second is red, the signature colour of his blues-rock band, the White Stripes; the last is blue, the colour he has latterly adopted for his solo career.
(2) I mean, obsessed.” When I visited Burton in the McQueen studio, the floors were still piled high with the distinctive yellow and green livery of the magazine.
(3) Uber succeeds because it can “prey parasitically on established taxicab and livery services” by cutting corners and ignoring laws meant to protect passengers, the plaintiffs said in the suit.
(4) A man stands up, spreads his arms wide and sings: “We love you Brian, we do.” He is instantly joined in the chant by a cluster of zealots dressed, like he is, from bobble hat to weatherproof boots in the royal blue and white livery of Sarpsborg 08 football club.
(5) They flew in on a private Boeing 777 airliner complete with customised "Panda Express" livery; a bespoke cuisine of bamboo, apples, carrots and specially prepared "panda cake"; and private suites of Perspex and steel.
(6) During the seven-year project, it refreshed its planes' liveries, refurbished its premium-class lounges and upgraded cabins in its longhaul aircraft.
(7) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
(8) Their green-liveried vehicles also connect Jewish settlements across the green line to each other and to the centre.
(9) Both of the striken planes still had the old livery, so none of the images of the wreckage in Ukraine, or the reconstructions of the missing plane, have featured the new corporate paint job.
(10) Election banners and lorries with party livery line most routes and roundabouts in Baghdad.
(11) Modified methods, using selective organic extraction and absorption-distributional column chromatography, are described for isolation of prostglandines with high yield; the substances were differentiated by means of the methods used into series A, E, F. Use of radioimmunologic method enabled to obtain data on content of prostglandines in blood plasma and in thrombocytes of healthy people and of patients with ischemic heart impairments as well as on content of these substances in rabbit blood plasma, fatty and livery tissues.
(12) Liveried waiters served roast quail on Limoges china and poured Loire Valley wines, properly chilled against the equatorial heat.
(13) British Airways pilot Mitch Preston flew the first 787 in BA livery and is managing the model's entry into service.
(14) The Il-62 s used for VIP transport were previously painted in livery almost identical to that of Air Koryo.
(15) Peace broke out as Red Bull launched their new 2016 livery in London on Wednesday, with Horner saying he had been encouraged by the progress made by Renault in the winter.
(16) Five windows from business class could be seen above the red and blue stripe of Malaysia Airlines livery.
(17) I don’t have any objections to a Jack the Ripper museum, it’s a commercial enterprise like the London Dungeon and Jack the Ripper walking tours, but what I’m miffed about is the fact that we seem to have been completely deceived, in a way that is rather unpleasant.” Above the museum’s black and red livery frontage are two signs made to resemble London’s official English Heritage blue plaques.
(18) Counties lose their names, trains lose their livery, ginger snaps lose their flavour and mint humbugs their sharp corners ... under my derationalisation programme, Yorkshire would get back its Ridings, the red telephone box would be a preserved species, there would be Pullman cars called Edna, a teashop in every high street and a proper card index in the public library."
(19) Brown will stay with the group, known for its hard-nosed sales tactics and fleet of liveried Mini cars, as a non-executive director.
(20) Dressed in a sporty livery of black and white stripes, it was the deserved winner of the Carbuncle Cup for the worst building of the year, "for services to greenwash [those three wind turbines have never moved], urban impropriety and sheer breakfast-extracting ugliness".