(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.
Sheepskin
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
(n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) His dad runs a financial trading company and his mum has a business selling leather coats and sheepskin products.
(2) The high mean number in sheepskins is the result of massively high populations in seven of the eighteen skins sampled.
(3) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(4) The most popular aids used for the relief of pressure areas included synthetic sheepskin pads (supplied to 46.2% of the affected patients) and ripple mattresses (supplied to 28.8% of the affected patients).
(5) Three other infants had been placed on sheepskin rugs for the first time and were found dead shortly thereafter.
(6) Hospital sheepskins were almost almost uniformly mite free.
(7) Her house is cluttered with books, throws, sheepskin rugs and a black and white cat called Yum-Yum ("after the Mikado") whose smell is everywhere.
(8) Beds are inflatable mattresses with sheepskin rugs, and guests chop their own wood and pick their own blueberries.
(9) The dermal collagen fibre-mesh of sheepskin was purified by a proteolytic enzyme treatment after which the skins were split, providing a split-skin graft corresponding to the reticular layer of the dermis.
(10) The effect of protecting the breast with sheepskin was significant at the 95% level of confidence in reducing incidence of breast blisters.
(11) The "moods" for the season are in synergy with the catwalk, yet given deliberately non-fashionista names: so the 1960s retro trend, which includes a short, belted pale-blue coat (£99) very similar to a Gucci version and a cracked patent jacket with square sheepskin collar (£89) which nods deeply to the Louis Vuitton catwalk, is dubbed "Downtown."
(12) The space boot and foam heel protectors were far more successful than sheepskin rugs or polyester heel protectors, which provided little protection to the prominent heel.
(13) The mean number of mites recovered from nursery sheepskins (all woollen) was thirteen times as high as the mean number from other forms of adult or infant bedding sampled.
(14) The at-risk older patient must immediately be placed on a supersoft support, with heels protected with sheepskin boots.
(15) In search of a biological mesh-prosthesis, sheepskin was processed according to established methods in the manufacture of leather.
(16) It teems with locals buying blankets, headscarves and spices and tourists browsing the lutes, sheepskin hats and replica daggers.
(17) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
(18) Its brand-new sister chalet, Chamois Lodge, sleeping nine, is available for £9,335 for the week starting 7 April, and has "witty, mountain chic decor" with cowhide rugs, sheepskins, antiques and art, and a hot tub.
(19) However the protection afforded is no more than 90%, and even less if the condom is made of sheepskin.
(20) The too-clean models look straight out of central casting, with their scarves, sheepskins and surly, stoned expressions.