(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.
Regatta
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.
Example Sentences:
(1) Day two of rowing regatta called off due to weather problems .
(2) Recalling how they competed together in regattas together when they first met, Bertelli has said of his wife: "She was the boatman."
(3) The results mean that Team GB finish the Weymouth regatta with five medals, at the top end of the target range set before the Games but behind the Australians for the first time in four Olympics.
(4) Steve Williams, Tom James, Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge today extended Great Britain's gilded tradition in the men's four, winning gold in the Olympic regatta.
(5) If the regatta runs you have to race in whatever the conditions are,” she insisted.
(6) Last year, GCHQ organised trips to Disneyland in Paris, and its sailing club took part in an offshore regatta at Cowes.
(7) The following case report examines the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric illnesses in five children involved in a boating accident during the 1988 Pittsburgh Regatta and considered severity of injury as well as complicating psychosocial stressors in the development of the disorders.
(8) Likewise the demented take on Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King that appeared during the Henley Regatta sequence in The Social Network.
(9) The GB women's quadruple sculls and women's pair both won bronze medals in the final World Cup regatta in Munich in June.
(10) 11.36am Gold men's four The focus in the morning of Saturday 4 August falls on Eton Dorney and the final day of the Olympic rowing regatta, where the blue riband event of the men's four is the most eagerly anticipated event.
(11) The four's victory came after Britain's men's and women's double scullers claimed the team's first medals of the Olympic regatta, collecting bronze medals within 20 minutes of each other at Shunyi rowing lake.
(12) Main rival Australia Medal prediction Silver MEN'S EIGHT (From) Marcus Bateman, Ric Egington, James Foad, Matt Langridge, Alex Partridge, Tom Ransley, Mohamed Sbihi, Greg Searle, Constantine Louloudis, Phelan Hill (cox) A crew of contrasting individuals have been missing the 20-year-old Louloudis, absent from all the World Cup regattas but restored to the Olympic squad after overcoming a back injury.
(13) Prosecutions exposed murky financial ties between the developers and Jakarta city budgets The city’s ethnic Chinese have long lived near the bay and many influential families are based there in exclusive gated communities and nautical-themed luxury apartment blocks bearing names such as Regatta and Green City.
(14) After prayers are said in remembrance of Jesus’s baptism in the river Jordan, they throw the cross into the water below.’ “As a Londoner, my interest is really in the ordinary people who engage with the river rather than well-known events like the Oxford-Cambridge boat race or Henley Regatta, not least because they have been photographed so much.
(15) One woman tweeted returning home to the plush seafront district of Regatta to find it smashed and her property gone.
(16) She wears a regatta-style blazer, has a boyish haircut and natural presence.
(17) Victory was all the more impressive given that, prior to the Olympic regatta, the crew had raced competitively only twice.
(18) Crowds and competitors fell silent at Wimbledon, Henley regatta, the British Grand Prix and the horse races in Doncaster, Newton Abbot, Sandown, Beverley and Haydock.
(19) Also worth checking out are Ramsgate Week Regatta in Kent ( ramsgateweek.com , 12–17 Aug) and the daddy of all regattas, Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight ( aamcowesweek.co.uk , 3–10 Aug).
(20) The Three Rivers Regatta accident occurred on August 7, 1988 when a Formula I racing craft collided with shore, injuring 24 spectators.