(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.
Sari
Definition:
(n.) Same as Saree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
(2) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(3) The mRNA has an untranslated region of 38 residues before the initiation codon, AUG. A unique feature of the 5'-end sequence of the mRNA is that the sequence of 12 nucleotides (GUAUUAAUAAUG) prior to, and including, the initiation codon is the same as that found at the ribosome-binding site for 80S ribosomes in brome mosaic virus RNA4, a eukaryotic mRNA [Dasgupta, R., Shih, D., Saris, C. & Kaesberg, P. (1975) Nature 256, 624-628].
(4) Paddle past women washing their colourful saris in the waterways, farmers herding their swimming ducks to pastures new and see wildlife that would otherwise have been scared away, before taking a dip to cool off.
(5) It runs health-related events, with a women’s wellness and fun day held on International Women’s Day, including a Zumba class, sari-tying and a writer’s workshop.
(6) From that Friday we worked every day, for 17 hours every day, sewing saris."
(7) The 30-year-old looks away and fiddles with the hem of her bright yellow sari.
(8) We examined the relationship between uses of the sari that are potential health hazards and episodes of diarrhoea in children younger than 6 years in 247 families living in 51 slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(9) In Bangladesh, a family feast is held during the seventh month, at which goodies such as saris and jewellery are bestowed.
(10) With their glittering saris, bright makeup and a reputation for bawdy song and dance, hijras, India's transgender minority, are hard to miss.
(11) By then the dominant feature of modern India may well not be the rural village or the picturesque forts and saris of the tourist brochures but the nondescript, semi-finished, ragged-edged, semi-urban, semi-rural world that is simultaneously neither and both of them.
(12) Responses evoked by electrical stimulation in intact vascular preparations were significantly attenuated by prior exposure to the selective angiotensin II (AII) antagonist SarI-Ile8-AII.
(13) At her primary school, my sari-wearing mother was a member of the local NUT black teachers’ caucus.
(14) The women arrive, some in saris and matching bangles, others more low key.
(15) There are at any point 70,000 people, but that number does not take account of geography or whether they are logistically capable of mounting an attack on Raqqa or the internal dynamics,” Sary said.
(16) Having not had a wedding cake at her own marriage – it is not a tradition in Bangladesh – Hussain’s final bake was decorated with jewels from her own wedding day and a sari in red, white and blue: “So my husband and I did get our wedding cake after all.” The 30-year-old has spoken previously of her worries “that perhaps people would look at me, a Muslim in a headscarf, and wonder if I could bake”, but she has won enormous support among viewers, while David Cameron took time from preparing for his party conference speech to tell reporters that he was rooting for Hussain in the final because she was “so cool under pressure”.
(17) Sari Bashi, the Israel-Palestine director at HRW, added: “The Israeli authorities should investigate and prosecute those responsible for the attack.
(18) I went to school, I had a car, I had an apartment, I had a boyfriend," she told me, brushing mud from her white sari.
(19) Anuradha Vittachi, who has been attending Davos for years as founder of the OneWorld development group, says: "The panel used to look at the brown female wearing a sari with her hand up and point to someone else in the audience to ask a question."
(20) The metro has some wonderfully Indian idiosyncrasies: passengers are reminded not to ride on train roofs; sari-clad women are advised to use the stairs, lest their silks get trapped in the escalators – and urged to use the ladies-only carriages to avoid rush-hour groping.