(n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
(n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.
(n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
(n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
(n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
(n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
(n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
(n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(3) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(4) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(5) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
(6) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(7) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(8) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(9) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(10) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(11) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(14) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(15) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(17) Clare, 17, says her dress was well within guidelines for the event's dress code - it was "fingertip length".
(18) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
(19) What was very worrying was at half‑time when you go in the dressing room, I could sense there was no response.
(20) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
Slime
Definition:
(n.) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
(n.) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
(n.) Bitumen.
(n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
(n.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
(v. t.) To smear with slime.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(2) We therefore used two different tRNA genes from the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum which are efficiently transcribed and processed in vivo in yeast.
(3) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
(4) Passive protection towards a heterologous strain, even one with an antigenically similar slime layer, was dependent on the dose of the challenging injection.
(5) Electron microscopic evidence demonstrated that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induces formation of giant intranuclear microfilament bundles in the interphase nucleus of a cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium.
(6) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
(7) An isotope dilution technique has been used to analyze the synthesis of metabolically stable nucleic acids during the mitotic cycle in surface plasmodia of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.
(8) The nucleoproteins resulting from digestion of the nuclei of the true slime mold Pysarum polycephalum with micrococcal nuclease have been resolved according to the size classes in linear sucrose gradients containg 0.5 M NaCl, and analysed for DNA, RNA and protein content.
(9) Some responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation were investigated by analyzing two aspects of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) excision repair in the vegetative cells: (i) the fate of thymine-containing dimers and (ii) the production and rejoining of single-strand breaks.
(10) A modified ruthenium red staining procedure was used to examine the fine structure of capsule and slime.
(11) Slime production by coagulase-negative staphylococci did not relate to the density of organisms recovered from the catheters or influence the presence of gram-negative bacteria.
(12) Some of the strains studied showed a greater potential to synthesize excess slime layer material than others.
(13) The intranuclear actin bundles appear at any developmental stage in two different species of cellular slime molds after treatment with DMSO.
(14) We predict that the Y.Smal protein in the restriction-modification enzyme gene locus of the enterobacterium serratia marcescens is a regulator of endonuclease expression; and, that the vegetative specific gene VSH7 of the slime mold dictyostelium discoideum codes for a regulator of gene expression specific for the slime mold growth phase before the onset of the developmental program.
(15) RNA Polymerase III transcription factors from the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum were characterized, based on their stable binding to isolated tRNA genes.
(16) The ecmA (pDd63) and ecmB (pDd56) genes encode extracellular matrix proteins of the slime sheath and stalk tube of Dictyostelium discoideum.
(17) Thirty carrier and 29 invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates were analysed for production of slime, extracellular enzymes and antibiotic resistance.
(18) The chemical analysis of lipopolysaccharide and the minimal concentration for mitogenic response eliminated the possibility that the activity of slime products may be due to the contamination of lipopolysaccharide.
(19) A soluble cytochrome was isolated and purified from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and identified as cytochrome c by room-temperature and low-temperature (77 degrees K) difference spectroscopy.
(20) Glycoproteins synthesized by the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum have been shown to contain asparagine-linked high-mannose oligosaccharides which have an N-acetylglucosamine group in a novel intersecting position (attached beta 1-4 to the mannose linked alpha 1-6 to the core mannose).