(n.) Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
(n.) The art of process of making cloth.
(n.) A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
(n.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.
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.
Dress
Definition:
(v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
(v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
(v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
(v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
(v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
(v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
(v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
(v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
(v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
(n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
(n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
(n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
(n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(3) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(4) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(5) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
(6) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(7) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(8) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(9) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(10) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(11) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(14) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(15) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(17) Clare, 17, says her dress was well within guidelines for the event's dress code - it was "fingertip length".
(18) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
(19) What was very worrying was at half‑time when you go in the dressing room, I could sense there was no response.
(20) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.