(v. t.) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
(v. t.) To rail at; to banter.
(v. i.) To make cloth.
(v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reinforcement portion of the surgical drape that contained the fenestration was segmented into four identical-appearing sections, two on each side of the fenestration.
(2) Striking a completely different note, Kelly Smith, a Texan who lives in Sedgefield, draped herself in the US flag and made a lone stand in support of her president.
(3) Attention to detail is required for all phases of shoulder arthroscopy, including patient positioning, draping, outlining of bony landmarks, and exact placement of arthroscopic portals.
(4) Such localization after head trauma is often hampered by cerebral distortion, previous incomplete debridement, fragment migration, and surgical draping.
(5) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(6) folds up its comedy deckchair, presses mute on the trombones and drapes a hand towel discreetly over Mark's crotch.
(7) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(8) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
(9) Design of the drape and technique of application are important considerations in preventing lift from the skin.
(10) A man's body was also found draped over Tilikum at Orlando SeaWorld in July 1999.
(11) The innominate vein is easily accessible in every state of blood circulation, even intraoperatively when the patient is covered by drapes.
(12) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.
(13) Drugs commonly implicated in DRAPEs were systemic steroids, digoxin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents, alpha-methyldopa, calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, theophylline, furosemide, sympathomimetics, thiazides, and benzodiazepines.
(14) This included the use of surgical drapes and gloves, collecting the cornea without interruption, saline irrigation of the eye, and inversion of the eye chamber to ensure complete contact of the cornea with the antibiotic-containing media.
(15) It was demonstrated that in areas away from the wound, the bacterial concentration on the drape surface was significantly affected only by airborne bacteria.
(16) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
(17) In 354 operations conventional cotton gowns and drapes were used, while in 679 operations, a disposable gown and drape system was utilized.
(18) A simple method is described for pinning of slipped capital femoral epiphysis with a stationary x-ray machine and the limb draped free.
(19) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
(20) At various stages of his breakdown, Mr Blair has visions of a soldier's coffin draped with the Union flag in his kitchen, a suicide bomber about to detonate himself in his office, and a dead child in a bombed-out home in Iraq.
Garland
Definition:
(n.) The crown of a king.
(n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
(n.) The top; the thing most prized.
(n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
(n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
(n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
(v. t.) To deck with a garland.
Example Sentences:
(1) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(2) A mass lesion with ring or garland-like enhancement surrounded by brain edema was shown on the CT scans.
(3) The most characteristic microscopic features of the ovarian metastases were garland and cribriform growth patterns, intraluminal "dirty" necrosis, segmental destruction of glands, and absence of squamous metaplasia.
(4) The "garland" subtype had significantly more proteinuria than both the "starry sky" (p = 0.04) and "mesangial" (p = 0.003) subtypes.
(5) The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-White-Garland Syndrome) is a rare congenital malformation reported to occur in 0.25-0.5% of all congenital cardiac anomalies.
(6) Garland paid a terrible price for this success, as she became addicted to the pills given her to stay perkily awake, to get to sleep, to kill her appetite in order to slim.
(7) A native Chicagoan and Harvard graduate, Garland excelled in private law but chose to eschew fat salaries for the less lucrative but arguably more exciting world of public criminal prosecutions.
(8) Changes include (a) attenuation, (b) lytic attenuation, (c) garland-shaped widening of the GBM, (d) dome-shaped widening of the GBM, and (e) disruption of the GBM.
(9) "What I do is listen a lot during a session and try to pick up some little something from the musicians that might make the record more commercial" - a guitar lick by Hank Garland, perhaps, or a clipped piano figure from Floyd Cramer, whose Last Date (1960) was one of Atkins' early successes, along with Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go (1959) and Skeeter Davis's The End of the World (1963).
(10) King's Theatre , to Wed LG End Of The Rainbow, Northampton End of the Rainbow Returning one last time to the venue where it first began, Peter Quilter's play about the acting and singing legend Judy Garland at the end of her life as she attempts to make one last comeback at London's Talk Of The Town in 1968, certainly deserves its encore.
(11) Garland is expected to go to Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin meeting with senators face-to-face.
(12) Histologically, JOF is unique in showing a loose-fibroblastic stroma that contains garland-like strands of osteoid with entrapped osteoblasts, the latter feature not being observed in other fibro-osseous lesions.
(13) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
(14) 1997 Alex Garland, after the popular hit The Beach, managed to write The Tesseract but then hit a period of writer's block.
(15) However, a garland-shaped CT appearance, representing a subgroup of ring-shaped lesions, seems to be most typical for glioblastomas since it was observed in 19% of ring-shaped glioblastomas but in only one out of 172 metastases and in no case of an astrocytoma grade II or an abscess in our series.
(16) Only C16, C14 and C12 intermediates were detected in uncoupled mitochondria oxidizing [U-14C]hexadecanoyl-CoA in the presence of fluorocitrate and carnitine, providing evidence for some organization of the enzymes of beta-oxidation [Garland, Shepherd & Yates (1965) Biochem.
(17) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(18) The brothers have now played together 54 times, winning 31, since Nottingham in 2006, when Andy retired injured when they were 0-4 down to Stan Wawrinka and Justin Gimelstob – but they have had more garlanded performances than that, pertinently in this competition four years ago against Luxembourg in Glasgow, when they thrilled the home crowd with a commanding three-set win.
(19) In both, Bo is wearing a multicoloured Hawaiian garland, which he was wearing on his introductory White House visit.
(20) Yes, seems to be the answer – just as Angelina Jolie has been thrilled to accept a staggering total of humanitarian awards , most inaugurated just for her, when those who toil at the coalface of the problems to which she gives attention between making movies will never be garlanded in a million years.