(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.
Hang
Definition:
(v. i.) To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.
(v. i.) To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a door, gate, etc.
(v. i.) To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax to its helve.
(v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.
(v. i.) To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc.
(v. i.) To paste, as paper hangings, on the walls of a room.
(v. i.) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
(v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
(v. i.) To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.
(v. i.) To die or be put to death by suspension from the neck.
(v. i.) To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.
(v. i.) To be, or be like, a suspended weight.
(v. i.) To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.
(v. i.) To lean or incline; to incline downward.
(v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds.
(v. i.) To be undetermined or uncertain; to be in suspense; to linger; to be delayed.
(n.) The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.
(n.) Connection; arrangement; plan; as, the hang of a discourse.
(n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(3) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
(4) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
(5) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(6) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
(7) His photographs are hanging all over my house today.
(8) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
(9) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
(10) 68 min: Ronaldo gets booked for hanging out of Ginaluca Zambrotta.
(11) At the time of the most recent follow-up, the success rate was 64% in the hang-back group and 85% in the conventional group.
(12) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(13) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
(14) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(15) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(16) Sixteen percent of the treatment sample were found to be abusive pattern drinkers; that is, persons who report not only drinking heavily but also spending a great deal of time hanging out on the street, getting high, and consuming many other additional drugs.
(17) Ellen White: It depends what group you hang around in.
(18) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(19) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
(20) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.