(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.
Wale
Definition:
(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
(3) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(4) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(5) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(6) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(7) Hospitals in Wales collected £5.4m in parking charges in 2006-07 and hospitals in England took more than £100m.
(8) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(9) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
(10) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
(11) The bill will create a six-month time limit for family courts in England and Wales to reach decisions on whether children should be taken into care and will require the court to take into account the impact of delays on the child.
(12) There were a record 354 deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016.
(13) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(14) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
(15) A comprehensive analysis of repeat rates has been obtained from an observational study of radiological practice in diagnostic X-ray departments throughout Wales.
(16) The most recent figures show 3,046 confirmed cases in England and Wales, compared with 1,669 cases last winter.
(17) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(18) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(19) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(20) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.