(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.
Lisle
Definition:
(n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) the laser-pulses of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser produce an optical breakdown in the irrigation liquid surrounding the urinary stone.
(2) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
(3) Meanwhile, Lisle Austin, the Barbados official who was banned for one year after he went to court in the Bahamas to try to force through his claim to succeed Warner as president of Concacaf has branded Fifa as "corrupt".
(4) If Cool succeeds in climbing the world's highest mountain again, he will have honoured a pledge by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lisle Strutt, deputy leader of the pioneering 1922 expedition, made to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who awarded the climbers medals at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
(5) In a work, the results of studying the properties of 17 types of the surgical knots of polyamide threads (braided, lisle, monothreads) are presented.
(6) But as Ms Lisle-Mainwaring demonstrated by painting her £15m terrace house like an ice-cream stall from Margate, we are free in the UK to be creative.
(7) Defying Kensington and Chelsea council’s ruling that the beach hut-style design should be removed, Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring said she was “entitled to do what I wish with it, and there are a lot of people who agree with me.
(8) It’s more Camden or something like that.” “My neighbours say they want the building kept in commercial use,” Lisle-Mainwairing said.
(9) Significant differences were found in the subclass results obtained by the ICN ImmunoBiologicals assay (Lisle, Ill.), compared to the two reference laboratories.
(10) So my first reaction when I read about the red and white stripes that Lisle-Mainwaring had painted on her townhouse in South End, in London’s Kensington, was pride that we live in a nation where such bursts of cultural creativity are possible – even if it was motivated by revenge and a bit of mild vandalism.
(11) Laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) appears to be a very promising solution to this problem.
(12) Candy-stripe house redesign makes Kensington neighbours see red Read more If Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring lived in Celebration, Disney’s model town in Florida, painting the outside of her house with red stripes might not have sent her to the electric chair, but there would have been consequences.
(13) 10.40am: An email arrives from our Fans' Network member Rod de Lisle on how New Zealand's progress is being experienced over there: "Unusually, the round ball code has kicked rugby off the front page in NZ sports papers this week.
(14) Laser-induced shock wave lithotripsy (LISL) with a Q-switched neodymium-YAG laser depends on the generation of a laser-induced breakdown in the fluid surrounding the stone.
(15) Kensington and Chelsea council says house stripes must go Read more Lisle-Mainwaring, who lives in Switzerland, was said to have ordered the stripes be painted in order to provoke her neighbours.
(16) Laser induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) on artificially inserted human renal calculi was realized in explanted pig ureters.
(17) Her solicitors said they had no comment to make on any further legal action that would be taken by Lisle-Mainwaring.
(18) Yet this is how Kensington resident Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring has chosen to express her annoyance with the local council and neighbours, who objected to her basement development but are now “horrendously unhappy”.
(19) Since the LISL is an endoscopic technique, problems arise from the transmission of the laser pulses through optical fibers.
(20) She may tell the press that everyone around her loves the stripes, and there are always a few eccentric people who like odd things just because they are odd, but I can tell you that most people absolutely do not think that way.” Lisle-Mainwaring has the right to appeal by 5 June in the magistrates court but otherwise must repaint the front elevation white and carry out repairs to the windows by 3 July.