(n. pl.) Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.
(n. pl.) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
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.
Pressman
Definition:
(n.) One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
(n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.
(n.) One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
Example Sentences:
(1) The release by glycyl-L-phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide (Gly-L-Phe-2-NNap) of endocytosed invertase associated with the MLP fraction (sum of the M, L and P fractions [de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux & Appelmans (1955) Biochem.
(2) Three different experimental approaches have been used to study the subcellular localization of the enzyme: (a) conventional differential centrifugation (De Duve, C., Pressman, B.C., Gianetto, R., Wattiaux, R. and Appelmans, F. (1955) Biochem.
(3) The Preston keeper saw his long kick take a bounce over the stranded Pressman and roll into the back of the net, securing his side a 1-1 draw.
(4) The portly Pressman later claimed he had been distracted by the sun; we'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
(5) The prostaglandins PGB2, PGE2 and PGF2 alpha were found to translocate calcium in a modified Pressman cell.
(6) The ionophoretic capabilities of phospholipids have been examined by direct measurement in a Pressman cell of the phospholipid-mediated translocation of cations across an organic phase separating two aqueous phases.
(7) When submandibular-gland homogenates were fractionated by the scheme developed for liver by de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux & Appelmans (1955), all the enzymes assayed, except cytochrome c oxidase, were found to occur partly in the soluble fraction and partly in the particulate fractions.
(8) The Na+ ionophoretic capability of various purified phospholipids and the modulating effects of bile acids and phosphatidylcholine was examined by: (a) measurement of 22Na+ partition into the organic phase (chloroform) of a two-phase system and (b) direct measurement of the translocation of 22Na+ across a bulk chloroform phase separating two aqueous phases in a Pressman cell.
(9) "Asked by a pressman if he would say a few last words to the American public before he left for his home, Coolidge replied: 'Yes — Goodbye'".
(10) 2) The fastest sending in British football is held by Sheffield Wednesday keeper Kevin Pressman - who was sent off after just 13 seconds for handling a shot from Wolverhampton's Temuri Ketsbaia outside the area during the opening weekend of this season.
(11) Family therapy theorists have been criticized for emphasizing shared responsibility and obscuring the seriousness of the violence (Bograd, 1989; Pressman, 1989).
(12) In 7 patients with true positive findings the Pressman Specificity Index, as measured from biopsied material, ranged from 1.5-3 in 4 patients and from 5 to greater than 100 in 3 patients.
(13) After differential centrifugation by the method of de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux & Appelmans [(1955) Biochem.
(14) The transport model initially proposed by Pressman and co-workers (Proc.
(15) As I once said to a pressman who observed that we were winning, but without firing on all cylinders, 'What do you want ...
(16) And the most recent to score from his kick-out is Andy Lonergan, who, since this fine piece of knowledge was originally published, managed to fire one past hapless Kevin Pressman at Leicester earlier this season.
(17) Anatomically the supraglottic larynx has been shown to be self contained as regards its boundaries and lymphatic compartments which tend to limit the spread of cancer arising within the region until it reaches the margins of the supraglottis (Pressman and Simon, 1961).
(18) The calcium translocation in a Pressman cell by this protein is selectively driven by a hydrogen ion gradient.
(19) We have investigated the distribution of several substances endocytosed by rat-liver, after isopycnic centrifugation in a sucrose gradient of the MLP fractions (de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux and Appelmans (1955) Biochem.J.
(20) Homogenates were fractioned by differential centrifugation, according to de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux and Appelmans [(1955) Biochem.