(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.
Stripper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(2) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(3) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(4) "I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper.
(5) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
(6) Paper Gods comes wrapped in a collage that includes the Patrick Nagel lips from the Rio sleeve , cut-outs of a sumo wrestler, a champagne glass and a silhouette of a stripper to represent the Girls on Film video, and a tiger (albeit a non-ragged one).
(7) The fascia stripper, therefore, needs to be directed along an imaginary line from the lateral tibial condyle to the iliac crest to obtain the strongest fascia lata and avoid transecting the longitudinal fibers.
(8) Its most enthusiastic supporter was the coup plotter James Goldsmith, one of the most unscrupulous asset strippers of that time.
(9) There is described an easy and rapid technique using the Mayo Vein Stripper to facilitate safe harvesting of the long saphenous vein for vascular reconstruction.
(10) John Worboys, a 51-year-old former stripper from Rotherhithe, south-east London, raped at least one of his passengers and sexually assaulted seven others.
(11) No, not Ed Miliband's latest Labour party slogan, but the motto of Johnny Anglais , fitness expert and stripper extraordinaire; I found it on his website, just beneath what seems to be his personal crest.
(12) Wearing a stripper’s bikini and a see-through plastic mac, Zhora is murdered in a soft-porn, slow-motion spectacle, played out to sad music; but is sadness for her what we feel?
(13) Since the incident in Colombia, there have been several media reports of similar secret service misconduct in the past, including allegations that officers hired strippers and prostitutes during a presidential trip to El Salvador last year.
(14) "You have stated that you will continue to advocate the morality and acceptability of your involvement in the adult industry and argue that it should not be inappropriate for a teacher to work as a stripper or in pornographic films.
(15) I met them, again, at the filming of another Baillie Walsh video for Be Thankful for What You've Got , which consisted of a stripper doing her act while miming the song in Raymond's Revue Bar in Soho, London.
(16) If one attempts to obtain fascia lata by directing a fascia stripper along an imaginary line directed from the head of the fibula to the anterior iliac spine, as suggested in most textbooks, an inadequate specimen may be obtained.
(17) Barbara Ellen is an Observer columnist Teacher Benedict Garrett was suspended in July 2010, after being discovered working as a stripper, naked butler and porn actor.
(18) Inflow was restored by performing a graft limb thrombectomy using a Fogarty balloon catheter and simultaneously employing an endarterectomy ring stripper to dislodge tenaciously adherent fibrinous material and thrombotic plug.
(19) You know how many times I’d get a call from girlfriends saying, ‘I just got kicked out of a camp, come pick me up?’” In the US press, the gender imbalance in Williston initially attracted as much attention as the population boom, with apocryphal tales of strippers earning $2,500 a night in tips (though the $500 per night reputed to be more accurate is nothing to sniff at).
(20) It comes as no surprise then, that when the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, turned up to join the bus in North Warwickshire on a recent day in the campaign – bearing cupcakes, of course – he was greeted with the whoops and laughter normally reserved for a stripper.