(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.
Refashion
Definition:
(v. t.) To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(2) Failure was defined as the necessity for further surgery, either refashioning of the anastomosis or nephrectomy.
(3) With the death toll across Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone topping 5,000 this month, everything from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks is being tested, upgraded and refashioned.
(4) The details of technique of lengthening and refashioning of the residual phallic stump after partial amputation in a further 20 patients is described using a technique which leaves a satisfactory penile stump in patients who would normally be candidates for a total amputation.
(5) The author foresees that these developments may undercut the reasoning of earlier court decisions, have psychological effects leading to a refashioning of moral views, and produce a social trend away from concern with the public health benefits of abortion to the clash between fetal and women's rights.
(6) Devolution, a refashioned welfare state and stronger local institutions to bind a fractured society together all feature.
(7) Two ends of the refashioned rib were anchored to masseteric muscle mass and zygoma.
(8) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
(9) An opportunity to begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation's interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too.
(10) A sweetly young Amy Winehouse is chided by Patterson: “Drinkers Rule Number One: Have Your Tea.” A grimly sterile Victoria Beckham perfume launch is refashioned as a comic masterpiece.
(11) Along with a growing band of Hollywood innovators, the producers of 21 & Over have worked closely with the Chinese government to produce an alternate cut for their audiences, one in which the film's hero is refashioned as a Chinese exchange student who ultimately shakes off the rank delinquency of American college life and returns home a reformed character.
(12) Escobar's words would be music to the ears of the mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, who wants to refashion the welfare state into a system that builds resilience.
(13) The Liberal Democrat deputy hit out the day after Cameron used his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet on Monday night to say that the euro crisis provided an opportunity for the EU to rethink its purpose and rules and to refashion it as a looser union.
(14) It is suggested that the marked lysosomal activity during early pregnancy is related to the architectural refashioning of the placenta during this period and that there are two phosphatase-linked transfer systems in the trophoblast, one dependent upon acid-phosphatase-containing multivesicular bodies and being utilised during early pregnancy and the other reliant upon alkaline phosphatase and dominating during the second half of gestation.
(15) In his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet on Monday, Cameron said the crisis provided an opportunity for the EU to rethink its purpose and rules and to refashion it as a looser union.
(16) Those speeches about refashioning capitalism – from Clegg, Miliband and even David Cameron last week – are asking the right questions.
(17) Thrombosed shunts were treated either by refashioning the shunt (1 patient) or splenectomy and gastric devascularization (2 patients).
(18) The Labour national executive on Tuesday agreed the terms of reference for the inquiry into how Labour and the unions should refashion their relationship, and left open whether the party will look again at voting powers at conference.
(19) Complications were recorded at some stage after colostomy in 25% but only 10% required surgical refashioning.
(20) But a century or so of work by Egyptologists has seen those "mounds" refashioned into temples, shrines and the outlines of ancient houses.