(n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
(n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
(n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
(n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
(v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
(v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
(v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
(v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(3) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
(4) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(5) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
(6) From this proliferating layer, precursor cells migrate outwards to reach the developing neostriatum in a sequential fashion according to two gradients of histogenesis.
(7) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(8) Ruminal digestion (% of intake) of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and hemicellulose decreased linearly (P less than .05), whereas acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestion responded in a cubic (P less than .05) fashion to increasing concentrate level; NaHCO3 improved ruminal digestion of NDF (P less than .10) and ADF (P less than .05), but not hemicellulose.
(9) The latter are located within the antigen combining site, since antiidiotypic antisera specifically inhibited the binding of the corresponding immunizing anti-human high-molecular-weight melanoma-associated antigen monoclonal antibody to cultured human melanoma cells Colo 38 in a dose-dependent fashion.
(10) Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in a dose dependent fashion.
(11) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
(12) It appears that tricyclic antidepressants act in a fashion different from opiate drugs that alter the sensory discriminative component of pain.
(13) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
(14) The molecule uncoils above pH 11.5 in a time-dependent fashion.
(15) Isomers and epimers of glucose influence insulin and cAMP in a parallel fashion as do sulfonylurea compounds (tolbutamide and glibenclamide).
(16) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
(17) Platelets treated with varying concentrations of collagen and thrombin released osteonectin in a dose-dependent fashion.
(18) If added prior to cellular alignment, immunoglobulins from this serum inhibited fusion of both rat (L6) and mouse (C2) myoblasts in a dose-dependent fashion.
(19) Only centralised nation states had the capacity to collect data across large populations in a standardised fashion and only states had any need for such data in the first place.
(20) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.
Guise
Definition:
(n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
(n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
(n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(2) Russia is alleged to have infiltrated special forces into Ukraine in the guise of rebels.
(3) Some desire just to live in the old ways but in a new guise: newly rich and empowered.
(4) Ethical issues regarding saline infusion in the guise of a potent convulsant should also be considered.
(5) While the U.S. Bureau of the Census has had a long-standing policy of abstaining from enumerating the religious beliefs or backgrounds of the American people, at least two-thirds of the Jewish population of the United States has been enumerated in decennial censuses and sample surveys in the guise of persons of Russian stock or origin.
(6) They were not observed in the hybrid cells but had supposedly reappeared in the guise of the CBs.
(7) Among China's other arguments are that countries should not interfere in each other's domestic affairs; that western definitions of human rights do not acknowledge China's fast-rising living standards; and that the west is seeking to impose its own standards in the guise of "universal values".
(8) Russia’s takeover of Crimea was done under the guise of a snap exercise.
(9) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(10) The Foreign Office should not hide behind any relationship with foreign governments under the guise of ‘commercial sensitivity’,” they said.
(11) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
(12) Matthew Ryder QC, counsel for Trimingham, told Mr Justice Tugendhat the newspaper had a right to freedom of expression, but not to abuse her repeatedly under the guise of exercising that freedom.
(13) We suggest that PMR may present in a variety of guises, or have a "stuttering evolution" to the full syndrome.
(14) Kim may have ordered the confiscation of copies of the video under the guise of a crackdown on pornography, Ishimaru said.
(15) In the guise of a creative writing experiment, male and female college students were asked to listen to a tape recording of a same- or opposite-sex model relating a story in response to a sample TAT card.
(16) The inventions all seemed to herald a brave new world of British prosperity that never transpired, at least not in its engineering guise.
(17) What he of course won't accept is efforts to do away with the ACA that come in the guise of improvements.
(18) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.
(19) Unlike most character comedians, who tend to keep their repertoire to half a dozen guises at the most, Enfield is known for doing such a broad spectrum of characters that it seems a strange choice to take one sketch and stretch it out into an hour and a half's worth of gags big enough to look good on 35mm.
(20) Army troops violently dispersed several protests in Tahrir Square and, in one incident admitted by the ruling generals, sexually assaulted female protesters under the guise of " virginity checks ".