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Corduroy


Definition:

  • (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.

Fabric


Definition:

  • (n.) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
  • (n.) That which is fabricated
  • (n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
  • (n.) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
  • (n.) The act of constructing; construction.
  • (n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
  • (v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
  • (3) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
  • (4) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
  • (5) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
  • (6) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
  • (9) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
  • (10) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
  • (11) A prospective study of six cases fabricated from CT computer-generated models of challenging cranial defects appears to show significant improvements in plate design, resulting in better plate adaptation, stability and aesthetic contour.
  • (12) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (13) In addition, there are basic differences in the PNI formation on aldehyde-treated pericardium and natural aortic valves as compared to the Dacron fabric.
  • (14) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
  • (15) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
  • (16) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
  • (17) A technique for fabricating dies without using a die saw has been described.
  • (18) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
  • (19) The second technique is the fabrication of a cast post and core restoration that fits an abutment root as well as the existing crown of a four-unit fixed restoration.
  • (20) Computer-designed and fabricated inlays and onlays are now an available treatment modality, with a reported 3-years follow-up looking very promising.

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