(n.) The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the coming years, as many of its longstanding dressmakers and seamstresses retire, the family-run business will find it hard to replace them so that the brand can continue making clothes in the UK.
(2) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(3) The city’s vibrant indoor market sees spice sellers from Morocco flogging their wares next to dressmakers from India.
(4) On the basis of precise assessment of the noise level and occupational exposure to noise and local vibrations are formed 4 groups: exposed to independent noise effect with intensity 90 and 100 db (spinners and dressmakers); exposed to combined effect of noise (91 and 103 db) and local vibrations, surpassing the maximum admissible norms respectively 2.5 and 3.5 times (miners of coal- and ore production).
(5) Two women carry what appears to be a Panasonic rice cooker Photograph: Aram Pan The video reveals many of the companies that took part, including: Dandong Chengyuan Import and Export (China) Dandong Jinyuan Trading Co (China) Gumunsan Trading Co Ltd (DPRK) Hamhung Jinxiang Trading Co Ltd. (China) Jangsubong JV (DPRK) Korea Computer Center (DPRK) Liaoning Huanghai Automotive Import and Export (China) Liaoning Shangda Industrial Development Co. Parazelsus (DPRK) Pyongsu Pharma (DPRK) Pyongyang Gemsy Dressmaking Machine Co. Ltd. (DPRK) Taedonggang Technology Co (DPRK) Watch the video: North Korea open for business (Aram Pan)
(6) The Queen's dressmaker, Hardy Amies , teeters on the brink of collapse after its Icelandic backer stops funding it In a speech at the UN, Gordon Brown calls for an end to the "age of irresponsibility" .
(7) The case of a 37-year-old woman, dressmaker, with congenital lower limb amelia is presented.
(8) We note your celebration of the strength and resilience of disabled people: Jenny Wren, whose body is twisted and painful and who makes her career as a dolls' dressmaker; Phil Squod, who can't walk straight and is disfigured, and who is hard-working, loyal and kind; Miss Flite, whose madness sees the truth; crazy Barnaby; hairless Maggie; Sloppy, whose head is too small.
(9) The bulk of fashion manufacturing [PDF] has gone offshore in the past 25 years, causing the art of dressmaking to almost disappear in the UK.
(10) Kate Winslet returns to town following last year’s A Little Chaos and the previous year’s Labor Day with The Dressmaker, an Australian romance co-starring Liam Hemsworth.
(11) Sew Over It has its own range of dressmaking patterns and kits for sale in John Lewis.
(12) Normal appearing matured cultures were subjected to a brief episode of impact trauma by dropping the flat surface of 25 to 105 mg dressmaker's pins from a height of 10 cm directly onto the exposed surface of the culture.
(13) The family had been living in the West End in London, her mother an accomplished dressmaker, her father a carpet retailer.
(14) The 19 operatives from 2 dressmaking mills all complained of work-related dermatitis.
(15) Perhaps the key to the mystery – the odd juxtaposition of commonsense and creative catharsis – can be found in Scarborough, where she was born in 1942, to an RAF serviceman, and a self‑employed dressmaker.
Tacking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tack
(n.) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(2) But fresh evidence that waiting times are creeping up, despite David Cameron's pledge to keep them low, has forced Lansley to change tack and impose an extra treatment directive on the NHS.
(3) The Department for Culture, Media and Sport also left the door open for a change of tack over the use of the licence fee, saying that if "better options than the government's preferred one emerge in the meantime", it will "consider them".
(4) Two eyes with complex detachments with fixed rolled retinas could not have been repaired without the help of retinal tacks.
(5) The government needs to change tack and admit that its obsession with structural changes to schools has failed.” Ofsted chief criticises independent schools' lack of help for state schools Read more Wilshaw’s letter was based on the results of inspections of the management and operations of seven academy chains running 220 schools across the country: AET, E-Act, Wakefield City Academies, Oasis, CfBT, The Education Fellowship and the most recent, School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA).
(6) "It was done to silence her," Akbulatov says, speaking in Memorial's office, a colour photo of Estemirova tacked to the wall.
(7) On some issues - particularly Europe - Lib Dems in the south have to tack more to the right.
(8) Syrian security forces were reported to have launched another wave of violence against pro-democracy protesters on Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad rejected a Turkish appeal to change tack or meet the fate of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
(9) The prospect of Front National gains has left Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, a broad coalition of centre right and rightwing factions, scrapping over what tack to take to hang on to their seats.
(10) In the face of popular passions about immigration and the European Union, the Labour party has bobbed and tacked without taking a clear line.
(11) Along with some of his fellow Rangers, he walked me through the program – a strong, impressive young man, with an easy manner, sharp as a tack.
(12) An improved retinal tack and applicator can be used to fix the retina to the wall of the eye mechanically.
(13) In monkey eyes, histological examination disclosed a considerable fibrovascular proliferation around the retinal tack canal, including an inflammatory response, formation of collagenous tissue and glial proliferation.
(14) The correlation between the results of all these researches leaves little doubt on the existence of eye-tacking dysfunctions in schizophrenics.
(15) A previous owner tacked on additional rooms seemingly at random, giving the impression of a mad, elongated cottage with an internal maze.
(16) It's a change of tack for the Playboy brand after some troubled decades, and many believe this return to affluent values and women dressed as rabbits is exactly the right move.
(17) When practiced by several surgeons, the flap tacking procedure 1) reduces postmastectomy seromas and 2) reduces the amount of postoperative patient office visits and care.
(18) Those changes have not altered the fundamental structure of the system, but instead have been tacked onto it, and exemplify what may be termed additive reform.
(19) 4.09am GMT Saints 23-24 Eagles, 4:44, 4th quarter The Saints certainly have time here to respond, and in fact they might need so slow things down themselves after moving immediately up to the 48-yard line on a nice Darren Sproles kick return that had an additional 15 yards tacked on the end for a horsecollar tackle.
(20) Tritiated thymidine autoradiography was used to evaluate the proliferation of ocular tissues in response to tack insertion.