(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.
Frilling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frill
Example Sentences:
(1) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(2) The pace of growth for both Aldi and fellow German discounter Lidl has slowed over the past year, but Barnes said the no-frills chains would continue to take market share from traditional players such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.
(3) 5 Don't assume no-frills will be the cheapest option Always check which airlines are flying the route you are interested in – try Skyscanner.net .
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fancy that … Savages, a French-style cafe Fernando’s is a hole-in-the-wall no-frills Portuguese restaurant, just off Russell Road in Richmond Hill, with juicy chicken and prawns served straight from the grill.
(5) The spleens of a frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus was histo-anatomically studied.
(6) New Tesco House – the squat 1970s tower block on a grim industrial estate that the supermarket has called home for more than 40 years – used to be held up by former boss Sir Terry Leahy as a symbol of the “no-frills” corporate culture that was good for customers.
(7) They didn't seem to mind, but a group of young, well-dressed girls turned their noses up ... whether at us or at the no-frills service I wasn't sure.
(8) Baiano's no-frills bar existed several years before pacification and has become all the more happening since, attracting visitors from outside the favela.
(9) Three molecular forms of immunoglobulins: pentamer, dimer and monomer, were isolated from serum of the frill shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, the most primitive extant shark.
(10) The squeeze is encouraging shoppers to go to "no frills" chains such as Lidl and Iceland, which posted sales uplifts that were streets ahead of that of the big four supermarkets.
(11) At night, in Rome's no-frills Teatro Olimpico, on the banks of the Tiber, the playwright looks more like Humpty Dumpty than Italy's Prime Minister.
(12) As chairman of easyJet since 2010, he has been embroiled in rows with the no-frills airline's founder and largest shareholder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou .
(13) We discovered the no-frills Burmese Restaurant and Library (there is no library) in one of those moments.
(14) Was this always the plan, to go so ludicrously ballistic years ahead of the next general election, or has the scale of Corbyn’s support in the Labour movement and the novelty of his no-frills personality and raw unplasticated ideas thrown Tory spinmeisters into a panic?
(15) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
(16) Price: £9.95 Polar Gear travel mug from Robert Dyas This is a no-frills stainless steel travel mug – it will keep your coffee hot and your soft drinks cool.
(17) Picking up on Tory-run Barnet council's idea of running no-frills services like budget airline Ryanair, Miliband said: "The Ryanair model may be an OK way to run an airline but it is no way to run a hospital, a care home or any of our public services."
(18) KINDLE free Amazon's e-reader app narrowly gets the nod over Apple's own iBooks, with fewer visual frills but a large collection of ebooks, including regular discounts and offers.
(19) EasyBook could recruit the chair of the Booker judges, Stella Rimington , as CEO and offer a no-frills novel-reading experience that goes from A to B and does not tax the brain.
(20) No frills - we'll pick out all the most essential details you need to know.