(n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
(n.) A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion
(n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau.
(n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.
(n.) A kind of close stool.
(n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(2) Andreas Missbach, managing director of Berne Declaration, an NGO in Switzerland where the commodities giant is based, said Glencore stood out against others in the sector.
(3) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(4) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(5) The financial crash caused by treating housing as a speculative commodity made things worse, but the truth is that the seeds of the crisis have been sown over many years.
(6) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(7) Others are new: changing family compositions because of HIV, increasing frequency of droughts and rapid fluctuations in international commodity prices.
(8) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(9) Part of the new wealth has been driven by the rise in commodity prices.
(10) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(11) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
(12) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(13) Right now, policymakers will probably be more concerned by stalling eurozone growth than a headline inflation figure dragged down by commodity prices.
(14) Often a number of aids such as standing table, adapted chairs, commode etc., is required to meet basic needs.
(15) Tate & Lyle, which no longer produces the sugar that made it a household name, is the latest company to be affected by falling commodity prices.
(16) "When you transform a food into a commodity, there's inevitable breakdown in social relations and high environmental cost," as Tanya Kerssen, an analyst for Oakland-based Food First told Time last year.
(17) The Financial Services Authority fined the bank £59.9m, while in the US the department of justice and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission also imposed fines, some £230m combined.
(18) Solitude becomes a way of life and social interaction a scarce commodity for many chronic schizophrenics who are in institutional settings.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) The commodities supercycle is dead in the water … It’s already sent some big African sub-Saharan economies into a tailspin,” said Aly Khan Satchu, an independent trader in Nairobi.
Outhouse
Definition:
(n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.
Example Sentences:
(1) The feet were missing, probably chopped off when a Victorian outhouse was built on the site of the long-lost Greyfriars church, missing the main skeleton by inches.
(2) Here in Exeter, we are not so much the northern powerhouse, as the bricked up outhouse, forgotten in the march of progress, but paying higher utility and rents than most, and getting sod all in return.
(3) "We ran and hid by the outhouse," Mrs Vishesella said, crouching as she had then beside a small white shed.
(4) It's a beautiful property, a walled tropical garden with four units for rent in outhouses and timber lodges.
(5) Outside at the back of the yard was a toilet in a small brick outhouse.
(6) I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse.
(7) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
(8) Landlords are getting rents for barely habitable properties, stables and outhouses.
(9) In the 1980s we pushed to have the county and the state help us with infrastructure because most all of the colonias were not on the grid; they didn’t have potable water; they had outhouses for the most part; the streets weren’t paved.
(10) In 1999, when a little-known prime minister, he famously pledged to "waste Chechen rebels in the outhouse".
(11) Bowker said that Joyce was “outraged on receiving his copies of the Review to see what cuts had been made”, including “chopping out Mr Bloom’s graphically-recorded visit to the outhouse in chapter four”.
(12) They had an outhouse in those days, they didn't have a toilet inside - and when the kids' hands went up 'cos they wanted to go, we didn't know what they were saying.
(13) Used judiciously, these precautions may prevent an unplanned tour of bathrooms and outhouses in foreign countries.
(14) Once protected by two giant walls, each more than 100m long and 4m high, the complex at Ness contained more than a dozen large temples – one measured almost 25m square – that were linked to outhouses and kitchens by carefully constructed stone pavements.