(n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
(n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.
(v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(2) The endothelium surface comprised thick, deep, intertwined "cable-like" or "corduroy-like" ridges.
(3) As he sits in the bay window of his elegant rooms looking out over Trinity's Great Court, dressed in baggy corduroys and a well worn tweed jacket, he looks the part of a man who is completely captivated by the seductive mix of social comfort, institutional prestige and intellectual challenge which academia at its best can provide.
(4) Planet Corduroy, his first stand-up DVD, is out now.
(5) Snugly suited in olive corduroy, speaking in London before the release of his new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel , Anderson nods at the thought.
(6) When people first saw what I was wearing - a shirt, jeans, corduroy jacket and man bag stuffed with my work - they said it was just right for the paper.
(7) The supporters of this so-called boycott are really a bunch of, you know, corduroy-jacketed academics.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson prays at the Western Wall on Wednesday During his three-day trade mission, Johnson repeatedly criticised calls for a boycott of Israeli goods, describing the campaign as “completely crazy” and promoted by a “few lefty academics” in corduroy jackets pursuing a cause.
(9) • 21 Trenant Close (01208 862003, surfsupsurfschool.com ); taster session £16 for just over an hour, beginner group lesson £26 for two hours, with free use of boards and wetsuits Llangennith, Gower Peninsula, Glamorgan This bay regularly offers "4ft corduroy perfection", making it popular with locals and novices alike.
(10) He crosses and uncrosses his legs, clad in his trademark clay-coloured corduroy, strokes his clean-shaven chin and runs his hands through his mousey bob.
(11) This charge is even more hilarious attached to Murphy than it is to Jeremy Corbyn – corduroy-ey even when he’s not in corduroy, he looks far more like the accountant he started out as than the renegade tax-hunter he became.
(12) This time, his remarkable protagonist – an exceptional athlete and renowned hardman, who nonetheless sports an epic survivalist beard and hipster corduroy jacket and displays the kind of insecurities you might more readily associate with a teenage boy – wasn’t only on the page.
(13) I had moved beyond orange corduroy couches to ones of beige silk moiré.
(14) The atrial atheromatous process was distributed in elongated nodules, which had a ridged or corduroy-like appearance on gross examination.
(15) My favourite ever anti-homophobia placard is the one reading “Corduroy skirts are a sin” held adjacent to a sartorially misguided evangelist with a placard of her own.
(16) Diana Freeman-Mitford, known as Nardy, Corduroy and Honks, had what passed for a normal childhood in that household, Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire (an appendectomy on a spare-bedroom table, side-saddle hunts with the Heythrop hounds) before first revealing her looks and revelling in their power on visits to Paris, although she was gated for months after the discovery of a diary entry about going to a cinema with a boy .
(17) I would strongly argue that the best movie moment for men's fashion this century is the totally awesome corduroy suit worn by the eponymous hero in Fantastic Mr Fox.
(18) He's like a teacher; he reads dry books, smokes a pipe and wears corduroy.
(19) At that period, I regularly sported a black corduroy suit and was astonished to turn up at a pre-show press conference to find that Briers had adopted exactly the same costume for the role.
(20) As Palestinians and supporters of BDS, we cannot in good conscience host Johnson, as a person who denounces the international BDS movement and prioritises the feelings of wearers of ‘corduroy jackets’ over an entire nation under occupation.
Cotton
Definition:
(n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
(n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
(n.) Cloth made of cotton.
(v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
(v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
(v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
(v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
Example Sentences:
(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(4) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(5) Infection of cotton rats with the recombinant virus induced NS1 antibodies in 1 of 11 animals.
(6) Effects of both tricyclic and non-tricyclic drugs on the extrinsic Cotton effects of dicumarol bound to human alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) have been investigated.
(7) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
(8) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
(9) Each of the Lea gene families probably contains two active homeologous genes (alloalleles), one in each of cotton's two subgenomes.
(10) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
(11) This complex is characterized by an increased absorption at 430 nm together with a positive Cotton effect, as also observed in the case of the complex with the competitive inhibitor maleate indicating protonation of the internal aldimine.
(12) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
(13) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(14) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
(15) Ammoniacal extracts of bloodstains and dried bloodstains on cotton substrata behaved comparably with respect to the parameters studied.
(16) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.
(17) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
(18) Cotton rats that possessed prechallenge rotavirus antibodies that may have been acquired either passively or actively developed neutralizing antibodies against the OSU strain following intranasal administration of the live Ad5-OSU VP4 recombinant.
(19) The Canadians had earlier developed a water-filled suit, which the RAF adopted, but comparative trials in 1944 by the Royal Air Force concluded that: "There is no doubt the Cotton Suit gives the best protection."
(20) The effect of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection on the electrophysiologic properties of the airway epithelium was studied in tracheas obtained from cotton rats, after in vivo exposure to the virus.