(n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
(n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(2) As a visual stimulus, a feather duster moving for 2 min in front of the cats eyes was used.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A duster coat from Monki.
(4) Well, it appears that acting like a cock has finally rendered Morgan the feather duster.
(5) The patient was a crop duster with numerous episodes of acute organophosphate intoxication and chronic organophosphate exposure.
(6) Last year, DKNY launched a Ramadan collection – a full range, featuring duster coats, leather jackets and silk jogging bottoms – while, next month, Armani will release a box of Ramadan chocolates.
(7) Look at him, dumbly stuffing six on to each hand like a useless Swiss knuckle-duster.
(8) The visual stimulus was a feather duster which was moved for 4-5 min in front of the cats eyes.
(9) Was there ever any danger that it would quit a cosy jurisdiction with feather-duster regulation and prosecutions as rare as hen’s teeth?
(10) It reminded me of the field in North by Northwest, where Cary Grant is strafed by a crop duster.
(11) You will need: Wax filler stick Coloured wood stain White spirit Beeswax Duster or soft cloth Fine brush 1) If you have a fairly deep scratch on a flat surface such as a table top, wax works best.
(12) Apply beeswax lightly to the scratch and the surrounding area and buff with a duster.
(13) A man walks down the street wearing a dark fedora at a jaunty angle and chatting into a mobile phone; young men lounge by a wall, like young men everywhere, all high-fives and exaggerated gestures, except that one carries an AK-47; children stand ranged like bottles on a crumbling wall as a kite soars above; donkeys with pretty pink flowers fastened to the ropes around their noses pull carts; minibuses sporting feather dusters in their bonnets groan under the weight of too many passengers and too many bags; a boy in a blue T-shirt raises two fingers to his head in salute and smiles.
(14) Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying Read more The defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said instead of dumping glyphosate from American-piloted crop dusters , as Colombia did for two decades, the herbicide will now be applied manually by eradication crews on the ground.
(15) "O ne day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster" reads Piers Morgan's bio on Twitter .
(16) But others insist the EPBC Act, introduced by John Howard’s government, is robust legislation that can either be a heavy stick or a feather duster, depending on its application.
(17) But we don't get the chance because he's off again, brushing aside the camera crew and actioning change with a stately swipe of his feather duster ("Eurk … don't like this table … nyarrph").
(18) Permethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, applied on two plots with a pressurized hand-held duster at mean rates of 2.3 and 4.0 g per burrow, was used to determine control levels for Oropsylla hirsuta fleas, a vector of bubonic plague, in black-tail prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, burrows in northern Colorado during the summer of 1988.
(19) He remembers as a child when crop dusters repeatedly used herbicide to destroy his father’s crops near the town of Tibú – and how his father would replant them.
(20) Long tunics, thin long duster coats and dresses over trousers are all the rage in bargain high-street shops such as New Look and Monki.
Dusting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dust
Example Sentences:
(1) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(2) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
(3) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
(4) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(5) The contents of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), in grinding dust were undetectable.
(6) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
(7) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(8) The median exposure of total dust was well below the Swedish threshold value, and the exposure of mould and bacteria was also low.
(9) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(10) According to the quantitative analysis between threshold titers of skin test and RAST titers using house dust and HD mites allergens, specific IgE production shall be decreased in the patients over 40 years old.
(11) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
(12) Further, investigation of electrokinetic properties of these dusts by electrophoretic quasielastic light scattering is described.
(13) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
(14) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
(15) In vitro exposure of macrophages and neutrophils to inorganic dusts can enhance their oxidative metabolism, however the effects of inorganic dust inhalation on lung-inflammatory cell-oxidative metabolism remain unknown.
(16) Fifty asthmatics, candidates for hyposensitization with the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), went through a series of allergy tests to evaluate the sensitivity of different organs to Dp.
(17) Specified cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of coal dust extract (mixture of solvent extractions of bituminous coal nitrosated by NaNO2) were investigated because of the association of an excess risk of gastric cancer in coal miners.
(18) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
(19) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
(20) Water from the reactors that were the source of Sonoda's drink is being used to spray trees to limit the buildup of dust and prevent fires.