What's the difference between fashion and retro?

Fashion


Definition:

  • (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.

Retro


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Computed Tomography was used to demonstrate the increased retro-orbital fat.
  • (2) To investigate the topochemical preference of backbone and side chains, unusual amino acids, including beta-methylphenylalanine7 or 11, beta-methyltryptophan8, as well as backbone modifications such as retro-inverso structures have been incorporated.
  • (3) retro-, herpes- and rhabdoviruses), virus adsorption to the outer cell membrane.
  • (4) The extent of conversion of retro-3-dehydroretinyl acetate into 3-dehydrovitamin A was much smaller than that of the conversion of retro-retinyl acetate into vitamin A.
  • (5) In two cases the author has successfully carried out retro-sternal transposition "of necessity", at 6 months and 4 years after coloesophagoplasty in the pre-thoracic variant.
  • (6) In cases of spondyl- and retro-olisthetic instability the upper vertebra moved posteriorly during traction and anteriorly during compression.
  • (7) Retro-molar trigones call for combined telecobaltherapy-electrontherapy;--curie-therapy is too difficult in this area.
  • (8) On the average, 8.65 fiber bundles of the vagus nerve leave the retro-olivary area.
  • (9) The retro-analogs of deaminotocinamide, tested at concentrations up to 10)-5)M, were found to be without activity as agonists or antagonists in the oxytocic assay.
  • (10) Combined with the ILD and difference between bilateral I-VIPL, must be useful for determining the location of retro-cochlear lesions.
  • (11) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (12) We believe that simultaneous presence of oedema and effusion in both intra- and retro-peritoneal cavities along with renal enlargement is in practice pathognomic of EHF.
  • (13) These short films aren't always musical; Laser Cats is a deliberately retro-amateurish sci-fi series about mutant cats who shoot lasers from their eyes, while a student film about giraffes claims that they are from outer space and will destroy mankind.
  • (14) Drilling away one or several segments realizes a trans-petrous approach which always begins by drilling away the posterior-external segment, the retro-labyrinthine segment.
  • (15) After documentation of significant ischemia (EKG, left atrial pressure), the crossclamp of the retro-IMA graft was removed.
  • (16) The existence of the retro-esophageal segment of the aorta was confirmed by left ventriculography and computerized axial tomography.
  • (17) Retro-orbital tissue membranes have been shown to have adenylate cyclase activity which can be stimulated by thyrotropin and by an exophthalmogenic factor derived from the thyrotropin molecule by partial pepsin digestion.
  • (18) Since lymphatic invasions are unusual in children, surgical exploration of the retro-peritoneal space is no longer considered necessary for the stagging and is replaced nowadays by ultrasonography and CT scan.
  • (19) We found that nerves from the superior cervical and pterygopalatine ganglia form a plexus at the orbital apex corresponding to the retro-orbital plexus found in rabbit, monkey and man.
  • (20) Three cases of retro-placental hematoma are reported.