(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.
Orleans
Definition:
(n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.
(n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was undertaken to determine the magnitude of the charges and costs and the sources of reimbursements for the care of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) patients in an urban setting, Orleans Parish (County), Louisiana, in 1971.
(2) At Charity Hospital in New Orleans transverse Kirschner wires have been routinely used to stabilize the zygoma in these cases.
(3) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
(4) Seattle defeated New Orleans 23-15 and my oh my they still very much look like the best team in the NFL.
(5) Only one Republican went with the majority – Joseph Cao, who represents a largely Democratic area of New Orleans – while the remaining 176 Republicans opposed the health reforms.
(6) An analysis of 401 gynecologic deaths occurring at the Charity Hospital of Louisianna in New Orleans from April 1961 to January 1969 was compiled for comparison with a similar study (401 fatalities) conducted at the same medical facility in 194 (Miller).
(7) On board Air Force One on the flight from Washington to New Orleans, Donna Brazile, the Democratic strategist, New Orleans native and former member of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, told reporters that Bush had gotten a bad rap for his handling of the recovery.
(8) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(9) The brief MAST interview (a shortened version of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test) has been demonstrated to be effective in identifying alcoholism in public health clinics for tuberculosis in New Orleans and Birmingham, Ala., with scores indicating populations of alcoholic patients of 25% and 28%, respectively.
(10) The reason black people could not get out of New Orleans was not because they were separate but because they were unequal - the wealthier ones left.
(11) Volatile organics from New Orleans drinking water and pooled plasma were collected on a solid phenyl ether polymer and analyzed by gas chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques.
(12) The mood in New Orleans was even more celebratory than usual, however, even though couples who tried to marry ran into a wall of bureaucracy.
(13) A Texas gumbo doesn’t taste quite the same.” He misses the organic way that “New Orleans culture bubbles from the bottom up, from the streets, the neighbourhoods, the working class people especially”, but said he is happy in Houston.
(14) The monkey finally off their back, Manning and the Colts would return to the Super Bowl three years later, though this time they would be defeated by Drew Brees and the underdog New Orleans Saints.
(15) Updated at 12.58am GMT 12.54am GMT Living up to their seeding It was not a flawless performance from Seattle, who struggled to move the ball through the air after Percy Harvin left the game, and who certainly did not dominate New Orleans as they had earlier in the season.
(16) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(17) A court order, handed down by a judge in New Orleans, means BP will no longer be liable for a maximum of $21bn in fines at next week's civil trial – after a judge ruled the oil company would not have to pay for 810,000 barrels of oil collected at the source of the broken well.
(18) From 1963 through 1983, 327 patients underwent resection for gastric adenocarcinoma at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
(19) Two such songs, Rock Island Line and John Henry found their way on to the Barber band's 1954 album, New Orleans Joys, but it wasn't until 18 months later that they were released, under Donegan's name, as a novelty single.
(20) Photograph: YouTube Bookended by the flooding of the city of New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina – and by which the city’s black residents were disproportionately affected – and a black child in a hoodie dancing opposite a police line and a quick cut to graffiti words “stop shooting us”, Beyoncé morphs into several archetypical southern black women.