(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.
Weft
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Wave.
(n.) A thing waved, waived, or cast away; a waif.
(n.) The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.
(n.) A web; a thing woven.
Example Sentences:
(1) Filtration through 8-mum membrane filters (Millipore Corp.) more effectively separated hyphae and spore clumps from single spores than did filtration through cotton wefts or paper.
(2) Following a series of laboratory tests and implantations as a thoracoabdominal bypass in dogs, the Barone Microvelour has been identified as a strong graft constructed after the style of early weft-knitted designs.
(3) But Holland-Kaye insists: “We’re working with them – it’s part of the warp and weft of an airport community.” Heathrow has contributed to double glazing and adobe huts, originally designed as earthquake shelters, to protect pupils from noise.
(4) Our experiments indicate that the warp knitted grafts are more distensible than the weft knitted ones, but they are all more rigid than the replaced arteries.
(5) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
(6) But to me, alliteration is the warp and weft of the poem, without which it is just so many fine threads.
(7) The buds are first discernible as low surface evaginations which contain a complement of granular somal material, some wefts of tubular membrane and osmiophilic globuli, in addition to a number of vesicles derived by invagination from the inner membrane of the proplastid envelope.
(8) The deformation response of inflated grafts for a set of Czechoslovak-made warp and weft knitted grafts was also measured on a special experimental device.
(9) Such tactics are the warp and weft of political campaigning.
(10) Their place could be located in between formal traditional wefts, relating to institutional structures as well as to specific medical practice.
(11) Its magical moving pictures, its sounds and words are not just “content”, but the tissue of our dreams, the warp and weft of our memories, the staging posts of our lives.
(12) This is a government with little feel for the warp and weft of British life: it is rationalist, technocratic, and arrogant.
(13) Artificial aortic aneurysms with fusiform Dacron conduits were created at surgery , a weft-knit Dacron tube with balloon-expandable stents attached at both ends was inserted transfemorally through a 14-F introducer sheath and expanded at the aneurysmal level by means of inflation of a coaxial balloon.
(14) The extent to which the Disney corporation went to control the warp and weft of Celebration speaks to one of the central paradoxes of modern American life.
(15) The stroma in these is dense and granular and contains membrane-bound vesicles, osmiophilic globuli, starch granules and wefts of tubular membrane.
(16) The typical fibrous weft of the membrane which closely sticks to the handle of the malleus, on one side, and in the sulcus, on the other side, gives an optimal layout and ensures the stability of the graft.