(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.
Trape
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these cases the aneurysm has been traped by ligation of the internal carotid artery in the neck and its supraclinoid course and at the same time and extracranial intracranial anastomosis performed.
(2) Case report about a 53 year old man, suffering from sudden suffocation, caused by inflammatory laryngeal edema following a foreign body traping in the esophagus with consecutive abscess and phlegmona of the esophageal wall.