(n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
(n.) A swadding cloth.
(n.) A piece; a fragment.
(n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
(n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
(n.) A blow with the hand.
(n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
(n.) To join or patch clumsily.
(n.) To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
(n.) To give a blow to; to strike.
(n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bargaining is a question of clout, and which side has more of it.
(2) The growing power of public sector employees allowed them to win better pay and conditions, and gave them a degree of political clout.
(3) Also, the sections of the public keenest on the BBC – women, younger Britons, people in the south-east of England, the wealthier ABC1 social categories – have considerable political clout.
(4) For a start it was a powerful coalition of organisations – which carried serious clout.
(5) White, backed by the financial clout of the US treasury, prevailed.
(6) Gallenzi, though, believes it still has the clout to stand up to Amazon.
(7) And that means they need to use their lobbying abilities, they need to use their commercial clout to force the government to be more responsible in whatever jurisdiction it is, in safeguarding our public interests.
(8) Although he is from the Pashtun ethnic group that dominates south Afghanistan , Ghani's tribe has traditionally had more clout in the east.
(9) King said Ryan, an influential voice on budgetary matters who was Mitt Romney’s presidential running mate in 2012, was the only person with the clout to run for speaker.
(10) China has far greater clout than Spain in Argentina, whose economy is heavily dependent on soya exports to the Asian giant, leading to speculation that Fernández might strike her own deal with Sinopec, effectively handing even greater control over Argentina's economy to Beijing.
(11) Political action committees are a means for individuals to join together so they have some clout in the political process, Symons said.
(12) As the Americans draw down their forces, their clout is visibly weakening.
(13) "Part of what has given Britain clout in the last 15 years has been that our economy has been seen to be successful, but the whole Anglo-Saxon model has taken a great knock," says Niblett.
(14) At the time of the handover, the then foreign secretary, Robin Cook, reiterated that Britain would use its clout to defend Hong Kong and its freedoms.
(15) US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks refer to Hadi as a putative reformer, albeit one who had enjoyed little clout among Yemeni powerbrokers.
(16) Less than a fifth of English voters think that Scottish independence would diminish the rest of Britain's clout in the world.
(17) Film-makers with clout could circumvent the system, but when most directors are straight, white men making films about straight, white men, we don’t tend to get a very diverse lineup of films.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
(18) Patrick Connolly of IFA firm AWD Chase de Vere is more sceptical about the power of individual shareholders, but says institutional investors do have a lot of clout.
(19) He was credited with helping YouView get its house in order and giving it some much-needed commercial clout.
(20) But if and as it grows, it will give China the clout in regional financing that membership of the ADB has not allowed it to wield, in spite being a generous capital provider to it.
Fragment
Definition:
(v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(2) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(3) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
(4) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(5) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) Comparative data for the fragments from RNAs 1, 2, and 3 show that they have nearly the same sequence as the RNA 4 fragment.
(8) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(9) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(10) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
(11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(12) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(13) The 6.6-kb DNA Bam HI fragment containing the resistance gene was cloned with the plasmid vector pIJ699.
(14) It was found that these Hageman factor fragments promoted rapid proteolysis of one-chain factor VII to a more active two-chain form.
(15) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
(16) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(17) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(18) The method involves the use of a monoclonal antibody fragment mixture that binds to platelets.
(19) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(20) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.