What's the difference between fabric and regatta?

Fabric


Definition:

  • (n.) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.
  • (n.) That which is fabricated
  • (n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.
  • (n.) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.
  • (n.) The act of constructing; construction.
  • (n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.
  • (v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
  • (3) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
  • (4) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
  • (5) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
  • (6) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
  • (7) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
  • (8) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
  • (9) Designing and fabricating the metallic framework for a fixed partial denture requires planning and an understanding of what is desired in the final form.
  • (10) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
  • (11) A prospective study of six cases fabricated from CT computer-generated models of challenging cranial defects appears to show significant improvements in plate design, resulting in better plate adaptation, stability and aesthetic contour.
  • (12) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (13) In addition, there are basic differences in the PNI formation on aldehyde-treated pericardium and natural aortic valves as compared to the Dacron fabric.
  • (14) It claims that reports of civilians being killed by security forces are fabrications cooked up by activists and the international media, while the official news agency talks constantly about "armed criminal groups" trying to destabilise the country.
  • (15) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
  • (16) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
  • (17) A technique for fabricating dies without using a die saw has been described.
  • (18) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
  • (19) The second technique is the fabrication of a cast post and core restoration that fits an abutment root as well as the existing crown of a four-unit fixed restoration.
  • (20) Computer-designed and fabricated inlays and onlays are now an available treatment modality, with a reported 3-years follow-up looking very promising.

Regatta


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Day two of rowing regatta called off due to weather problems .
  • (2) Recalling how they competed together in regattas together when they first met, Bertelli has said of his wife: "She was the boatman."
  • (3) The results mean that Team GB finish the Weymouth regatta with five medals, at the top end of the target range set before the Games but behind the Australians for the first time in four Olympics.
  • (4) Steve Williams, Tom James, Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge today extended Great Britain's gilded tradition in the men's four, winning gold in the Olympic regatta.
  • (5) If the regatta runs you have to race in whatever the conditions are,” she insisted.
  • (6) Last year, GCHQ organised trips to Disneyland in Paris, and its sailing club took part in an offshore regatta at Cowes.
  • (7) The following case report examines the presence of post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric illnesses in five children involved in a boating accident during the 1988 Pittsburgh Regatta and considered severity of injury as well as complicating psychosocial stressors in the development of the disorders.
  • (8) Likewise the demented take on Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King that appeared during the Henley Regatta sequence in The Social Network.
  • (9) The GB women's quadruple sculls and women's pair both won bronze medals in the final World Cup regatta in Munich in June.
  • (10) 11.36am Gold men's four The focus in the morning of Saturday 4 August falls on Eton Dorney and the final day of the Olympic rowing regatta, where the blue riband event of the men's four is the most eagerly anticipated event.
  • (11) The four's victory came after Britain's men's and women's double scullers claimed the team's first medals of the Olympic regatta, collecting bronze medals within 20 minutes of each other at Shunyi rowing lake.
  • (12) Main rival Australia Medal prediction Silver MEN'S EIGHT (From) Marcus Bateman, Ric Egington, James Foad, Matt Langridge, Alex Partridge, Tom Ransley, Mohamed Sbihi, Greg Searle, Constantine Louloudis, Phelan Hill (cox) A crew of contrasting individuals have been missing the 20-year-old Louloudis, absent from all the World Cup regattas but restored to the Olympic squad after overcoming a back injury.
  • (13) Prosecutions exposed murky financial ties between the developers and Jakarta city budgets The city’s ethnic Chinese have long lived near the bay and many influential families are based there in exclusive gated communities and nautical-themed luxury apartment blocks bearing names such as Regatta and Green City.
  • (14) After prayers are said in remembrance of Jesus’s baptism in the river Jordan, they throw the cross into the water below.’ “As a Londoner, my interest is really in the ordinary people who engage with the river rather than well-known events like the Oxford-Cambridge boat race or Henley Regatta, not least because they have been photographed so much.
  • (15) One woman tweeted returning home to the plush seafront district of Regatta to find it smashed and her property gone.
  • (16) She wears a regatta-style blazer, has a boyish haircut and natural presence.
  • (17) Victory was all the more impressive given that, prior to the Olympic regatta, the crew had raced competitively only twice.
  • (18) Crowds and competitors fell silent at Wimbledon, Henley regatta, the British Grand Prix and the horse races in Doncaster, Newton Abbot, Sandown, Beverley and Haydock.
  • (19) Also worth checking out are Ramsgate Week Regatta in Kent ( ramsgateweek.com , 12–17 Aug) and the daddy of all regattas, Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight ( aamcowesweek.co.uk , 3–10 Aug).
  • (20) The Three Rivers Regatta accident occurred on August 7, 1988 when a Formula I racing craft collided with shore, injuring 24 spectators.

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