(n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
(n.) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
(n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the purpose of this paper to report the studies conducted on 1) different materials used for the fabrication of the screws, and 2) the significance of the variations in the jaw opening using the Simmons mechanical crimper.
(2) Laboratory tests on compression assemblies demonstrated that: hex-nut loosening can be produced in the laboratory by the cyclical loading of compression assemblies; crimping of the threads of the rod prevented hex-nut back-off and loosening of the SHB; crimping of the threads of the rod with the described rod crimper applied at a 90 degree angle did not damage the core of the rod or compromise its ability to withstand cyclical or tension loads; and crimping of the threads of the rod at angles other than 90 degrees damaged the core of the rod and significantly altered its ability to withstand cyclical loading.
(3) Today the Simmons crimper is used by the majority of orthopaedic surgeons.
(4) 7.54pm GMT This week Abbey is wearing a bellydancer's outfit, and has borrowed Darcey's crimpers so she looks like one of the Riddlers.
Textile
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.
(n.) That which is, or may be, woven; a fabric made by weaving.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case-control study of 160 patients with cancers of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses and 290 controls showed an excess risk associated with employment in the textile or clothing industries, with the increase (relative risk [RR] = 2.1) found only among female workers.
(2) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(3) The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ageing on textiles (17.5 months), air temperature (25-45 degrees C) and relative air humidity (RH) (45-85%) on the CH2O release rate from 6 kinds of drapers and furniture coverings.
(4) The cutaneous receptive field was explored with textile fiber sized probes of diameter 20-50 microns, with buckling loads from 75 to 150 mgf.
(5) In this review the results of the interaction of the active dyes used in the USSR textile industry with microbial enzymes and blood serum proteins are discussed.
(6) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(7) I took some Bolivian textiles to the interview and ranted on about Eduardo Galeano and Márquez.
(8) The occupation of the mother was not associated with delivery of a small-for-gestational-age infant, in contrast to paternal employment in the art (OR = 2.6, 95% Cl 1.2-5.6) and textile industries (OR = 2.5, 95% Cl 1.3-4.7).
(9) An epidemiologic study of 151 matched pairs of employees was conducted in two adjacent textile plants, one of which used inhibited 1,1,1-trichloroethane as a general cleaning solvent.
(10) Southern eurozone countries such as Italy and Spain have suffered from rising competition with China in textiles and light manufacturing industries.
(11) An attempt is made to demonstrate a relationship between changes in arterial blood pressure and sex steroids, gonadotrophins and mineralocorticoids in 30- to 55-year-old females with essential hypertension, employed in textile industry in Cheboksary.
(12) On the fringes was the then young radical furniture and textiles designer Terence Conran .
(13) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(14) Considering only subjects with repeatable measurements, FEV1 was lower among textile workers with byssinosis and machinists with chronic bronchitis than among their asymptomatic coworkers.
(15) A Front National party worker who once worked in a long-closed textile factory said: "There's no question of voting for Hollande or Sarkozy, they represent the system.
(16) · The Zandra Rhodes Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, London SE1, which contains works by Ossie Clark as well as 3,000 of Rhodes's own designs, is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5:45pm No: Alice Rawsthorn On a trip to Paris, the New York fashion designer Donna Karan was dragged off to the Picasso Museum by her late husband, Stephen Weiss.
(17) In the sub-group of French nationals only the risk associated with the textile industry was significantly higher than unity (OR = 2.30).
(18) There was an excess of bladder cancer patients with some previous occupational exposure, such as rubber, chemicals, and textiles.
(19) A survey of chronic respiratory symptoms was undertaken in 1127 asbestos workers engaged in asbestos mining, asbestos cement production, production of friction materials or in the manufacture of asbestos textile.
(20) Asthma due to inhalation of dusts of western red cedar, isocyanates, detergent enzymes and textiles is considered in detail.