What's the difference between clothing and wearable?

Clothing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clothe
  • (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.

Wearable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The immediate future will bring us: WAK (Wearable Artificial Kidney) FAK (Filtrating Artificial Kidney) PAK (Peritoneal Artificial Kidney) HAK (Hemoperfusion Artificial Kidney).
  • (2) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
  • (3) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
  • (4) It could be that wearables are poised for a tsunami of success.
  • (5) Cook appeared more keen to talk about the wearable technology trend – Google is already marketing its video recording, phone call making glasses, while Apple is reported to be developing a computer that can be worn on the wrist.
  • (6) It is necessary for the wearable module to be connected to the 20 L dialysate bath for an average of 90 minutes to achieve adequate urea and 5+ removal.
  • (7) Before long, smartphones will be able to deduce our emotional state from our social interactions and tone of voice, while wearable sensors will measure adherence to "smart" medicines and gather important data on a range of factors relevant to mental health, including sleep quality, cardiovascular status, galvanic skin response and even gait.
  • (8) Slimane is famous for his ultra-slim proportions, but his clothes are surprisingly wearable due to the atelier's workers' ability to scale up size without ruining proportions.
  • (9) Shine isn’t the only healthcare professional considering how wearable technology can transform the sector.
  • (10) Think wearable tech: Google Glass, for instance, or Oculus Rift , both of which extend the possibilities even further to virtual or augmented realities and audiences existing within artworks, not simply looking on.
  • (11) Apple’s highly anticipated entry into the world of wearable technology is the Apple Watch, CEO Tim Cook announced on Tuesday.
  • (12) The wearable unit consists of a combined blood and dialysate pump (1.2 kg), rechargeable batteries, tubing, Dow dialyser and charcoal regeneration module with a total weight of 3.5kg.
  • (13) Moves to make clothes wearable for longer, while ensuring they remain fashionable and saleable, are now underway.
  • (14) It's a partnership with Puma, the German sports company, and is claimed to be "a wearable fashion accessory".
  • (15) Although single or multiple daily subcutaneous injections of insulin are the mainstay of insulin delivery techniques, several other methods of insulin delivery are now available or in development, including: (a) continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion by a wearable infusion pump; (b) total or segmental transplantation of a pancreas; (c) transplantation of isolated islet cells; (d) implantation of a programmable insulin pump; (e) oral, nasal, rectal and transdermal mechanisms of insulin delivery; (f) insulin analogues; (g) implantation of polymeric capsules which give continuous or time-pulsed release of insulin; and (h) implantation of a biohybrid artificial pancreas which uses encapsulated islets.
  • (16) These examples of images on the websites of Autographer and Narrative Clip , two leading wearable cameras, reveal the kind of things their makers imagine we might do with their devices.
  • (17) The startup took inspiration from Google’s modular smartphone concept Project Ara , and iterated the idea into a wearable.
  • (18) The slide also showed examples of a range of equipment that could be issued with in future including a camera, “wearable computing” (such as a smart watch) and what appear to be Google Glass-type spectacles designed to enhance “ situational awareness ”.
  • (19) Wearable computing has recently become a red-hot area for investment and development in Silicon Valley.
  • (20) The wearable type of closed-loop system has been developed recently for the first time by the authors.

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