(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.
Tailor
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
(n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
(n.) The silversides.
(n.) The goldfish.
(v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
Example Sentences:
(1) When each overburdened adviser has an average caseload of 168 people, it is virtually impossible for individuals to be given any specialised support or treatments tailored to particular needs.
(2) Since no single procedure can correct all the different forms of mandibular prognathism, each case is individually planned and a "custom-tailored" technique is applied.
(3) As more data are obtained on the use of such tailored therapies in critically ill patients, a new generation of parenteral and enteral diets will be developed to reduce inflammation and immune dysfunction.
(4) Modern analytical techniques allow their detailed analysis in terms of the humoral antibody responses and afford the possibility of the future development of control and disease management procedures tailored to each individual host-parasite system.
(5) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
(6) This strategy should encompass environmental measures, self-care activities, and health education; it should carefully weigh the prospective costs and benefits of proposed preventive measures; and it should see that such measures are tailored to the needs of the various specific groups within the general population.
(7) (4) Proper vein-to-artery size ratio and "cobra-head" vein tailoring are desirable.
(8) Treatment must be tailor-made to fit the patient, and the physician needs to consider other professional opinions and emphasize follow-up care.
(9) The program is well into the survey phase, where the main emphasis is on tailoring the neutron spectrum.
(10) The wide variety of neurobehavioral effects produced by chemicals found in the environment argues for a rationale of tailoring test selection in many situations, particularly those where the range of expected effects has been fairly well established for the chemical under study.
(11) In the early days of the downturn, the then work and pensions minister, James Purnell, promised to tailor help to the worst-affected groups.
(12) In the current study, 70 endometrial cancer patients with suspected cervical involvement based on a positive endocervical curettage or punch biopsy were treated with initial surgery followed by tailored radiation or chemotherapy.
(13) The aim of this review is to discuss how treatment may be tailored to reduce the risk of sudden death in high-risk patients.
(14) The above applies to well, preterm babies: sick preterm infants are much more variable in their Na and water requirements than well infants of comparable gestation and weight and each needs an individually tailored regimen based on frequent clinical assessment and laboratory measurement.
(15) Here was the leader of the “indispensable nation” dressed in clothes tailored to mirror a post-western world, or rather, a very China-centred environment.
(16) The plastic operations which were Anderson-Hynes method for UP stricture and submucosal tunnel method with tailoring of dilated ureter for UV stricture were performed at the same time.
(17) It will be years before the hard-won knowledge from the human genome project is translated into new, precise treatments tailored for both the disease and the patient.
(18) Specific primers, deduced from the aminoterminal sequence of the purified protein, were tailored to facilitate direct expression of plasmic clones, and the large fraction of positive clones obtained, revealed the presence of isogenic variation.
(19) Younger women with persistent localized breast symptoms should undergo a tailored mammographic examination, but negative findings or findings of a benign lesion should not preclude biopsy of a palpable solid mass.
(20) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.