(n.) A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russian dolls in the likeness of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
(2) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(3) The authors argue for the use of structured interview techniques with use of the anatomical dolls and the collection of normative comparison data relative to the evaluation of suspected sexual abuse.
(4) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
(5) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(6) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
(7) These dolls can be used by trained professionals to help make conclusions about a child's background.
(8) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
(9) This is a coded attack on the sexy, grownup images that surround dolls such as Barbie and Bratz.
(10) It was found that the maternity instinct is inborn but it starts to show only during the second year of life and is manifested in the form of playing with dolls and reaches its peak at the age of 3-5 years.
(11) The Makie dolls are another example of commercial production, Rowley points out.
(12) All the usual suspects are making an appearance, including mice on their mice organ, Gabriel the toad, Madeleine the rag doll and Professor Yaffle.
(13) Doll immediately gave up his own five cigarettes a day habit.
(14) Each doll can be customised according to skin tone, eye colour and hair colour to look like its owner.
(15) "Selling this doll is highly offensive to our ancestors and the African-American community," Rev KW Tulloss, NAC's president in Los Angeles, told the New York Daily News.
(16) Both groups did not differ from each other in respect to frequency of tomboyish behavior or interest in doll play and other aspects of materanl rehearsal.
(17) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(18) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
(19) A giant inflatable doll with the face of Shaker Aamer , the last British resident held at Guantánamo who returned to the UK last October after 14 years’ incarceration, was displayed not far from the White House fence and front lawn.
(20) 33 children were asked to identify from an array of pictures the one which best represented a doll's view of the stimulus display.
Moll
Definition:
(a.) Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microscopically, the lesion was papillary and cystic in architecture, and arose from an adjacent apocrine gland of the eyelid margin (gland of Moll).
(2) It was concluded that Moll's gland cyst is composed of dilated duct of the Moll's gland and secretory segment; the proportion of each segment is variable but the portion showing ductal differentiation is usually predominant and typical secretory epithelium is not always seen.
(3) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(4) The correct recognition of arthritic subtype (according to Moll and Wright classification) always resulted essentially in the choice of the therapy.
(5) Since the initial report of Beyers & Moll (1948), numerous cases of seizures and encephalopathy after pertussis immunization or DPT immunization have been reported.
(6) We studied three easily performed objective techniques for determining trunk flexibility (the common "fingertip-to-floor" test, the modified Schober and Moll tests, and the Loebl inclinometer method) and their interexaminer and intraexaminer reproducibility.
(7) DNA sequence analysis identified each cDNA encoded epitope including the carboxyl-terminal portions of cytokeratins 8 and 19 (as cataloged by Moll, R., Franke, W.W., and Schiller, D.L.
(8) In the semi-intact preparation, superfusion of AVT (10(-6) moll-1) over the abdominal ganglion decreased the amplitude of both the gill withdrawal reflex and the short-latency excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked in gill and siphon motor neurones by single action potentials elicited in sensory neurones.
(9) However, during the 1990s Granada and others continued to make acclaimed programmes such as Cracker, The Darling Buds of May and period dramas Oliver Twist and Moll Flanders.
(10) Goblet cells are plentiful in the mucosa of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva, and along the lid margin are the sweat glands of Moll.
(11) 8 and 18 of Moll's catalogue; SK 2-27, specific for polypeptides no.
(12) It was a cystic lesion, consisting of neoplastic cells of probable apocrine gland or Moll's gland origin.
(13) In the patient with a long-standing painful heloma molle between the fourth and fifth toes, a syndactylism combined with head resection of the fifth proximal phalanx may be considered the procedure of choice.
(14) Included are measurements of distances of the Ostium pharyngeum tubae auditivae to the Canalis palatinus major and the upper surface of the Palatum molle.
(15) Thus, these results indicate that subdermal injection of Keragen implant can provide significant reduction in the pain and keratoses associated with heloma durum and heloma molle.
(16) The clinical diagnoses were either a conjunctival inclusion cyst or an adnexal cyst, possibly of the gland of Moll.
(17) The treatment was evaluated by a visual analogue scale, range of spinal flexion ad modum Wright & Moll and of the patients' self-assessments.
(18) This year, Cotillard takes a belt-and-braces approach: she's an Ellis Island burlesque dancer in James Gray's 1920s-set The Immigrant , as well as a moll in 70s Brooklyn in Blood Ties (scripted by Gray, shot by her husband, Guillaume Canet).
(19) Metoprolol (a beta 1-adrenoreceptor-selective antagonist) at 3 x 10(-8)-3 x 10(-7) moll-1 and ICI 118,551 (a potent beta 2-adrenoreceptor-selective antagonist) at 10(-7)-10(-6) moll-1 had no effect on maximum responses to isoprenaline and caused parallel rightward shifts of the isoprenaline response curves.
(20) Description of a 70-year-old patient with a recurrent pleomorphic adenoma of the lower eyelid which originated form an adenoma of Moll's gland.