(n.) A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clearly recovered from her attack of British modesty, she jumps out of an SUV in denim shorts and a crop top, her voice almost completely lost.
(2) If there is a patron saint of shorts in this country, then it is undoubtedly the Chungmeister, with her beloved denim hotpants and collection of lacy and smart city shorts.
(3) Wearing an open denim shirt, with her hair pulled into two plaits, she looks like the rebel she has always been.
(4) You might have read a couple of articles in fashion magazines of late attempting to big up the DD look, no doubt with references to denim's "timelessness", "1950s teenage sense of freedom" and, lest we forget, "Americana".
(5) A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
(6) American Eagle hopes shoppers will be won over by choice: women’s jeans come in 45 colours and seven styles while men have to make do with a mere five fits in 36 shades – or washes, as they are called in the denim business.
(7) Beside her, curled up, are the remains of a girl in denim shorts.
(8) Tight polo necks, worn as layers, and smart little denim jackets looked likely to be commercial hits.
(9) For several stain carriers the DNA-containing solution was contaminated by chemical substances, which in the case of the blue denim, suede, and carpet samples inhibited the digestion of the DNA with restriction enzymes and prevented DNA typing.
(10) There are things in my notebook which I later published and therefore always remember: the breathless, denim-jacketed couple from the provinces asking: “Excuse me, is this the way out?”; the man walking up Friedrichstrasse who exclaimed “28 years and 91 days!” (that’s how long he had been stuck behind the Wall); the improvised poster proclaiming “Only today is the war really over”.
(11) It's hard to say why Felt and Denim never enjoyed the success of many of their peers, or why Go Kart Mozart haven't been included in the pantheon of XL-approved heritage acts.
(12) You can buy denim repair kits online for £9.95 and you can choose from a range of weights and colours.
(13) So what are we going to conclude about the denim hotpants trend?
(14) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(15) Leather palazzo trousers, for God’s sake, the most nonsensical garment, like a denim raincoat, or a cashmere bikini.
(16) To ensure catheter retention, the method uses a silicone plug fitted to the catheter and located cranial to its entry to the vein, double ligation at the venous insertion, subsequent passage of the catheter to exit 10 cm cranial to the scapula on the dorsal midline, and a denim vest fitted to the thorax.
(17) Rihanna has treated her fans to Instagrammed selfies of her enjoying the view at a strip club, of her buttocks barely concealed by a tiny denim thong and of her posing with two oversize cannabis joints while in Amsterdam.
(18) Mainly I just follow behind 70-year-old Diego, a retired cowboy turned guide, who never looks anything less than immaculate, in his buttoned-to-the-top denim shirt.
(19) "I can't bear it when people say, 'I wanna be part of the everyday world'," muses Lawrence, the surname-less enigma behind cult bands Felt, Denim and Go Kart-Mozart.
(20) Jenna Lyon at the J.Crew headquarters in New York Photograph: Danielle Levitt J Crew's USP is fashion nous mixed with accessibility – a relatively basic flowered T-shirt with high-waisted denim shorts, or a single-breasted navy blue blazer worn cape-style.
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.