(n.) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
(n.) A kind of shoe, consisting of cloth, and covering the ankle.
(v. t.) To dress with gaiters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements were made over the gaiter skin, the healed ulcer and the upper arm.
(2) Abnormalities in venous anatomy and function have been shown, in conjunction with evidence of reduced oxygen diffusion, through the gaiter skin before overt skin changes develop.
(3) Calf pump function was assessed by foot volumetry and the 'gaiter' skin nutritive circulation by measuring the transcutaneous oxygen tension (PtcO2).
(4) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements of the gaiter skin were performed continuously throughout the experiment.
(5) All three groups had an increase in visible capillary loops and a reduction in blood flux in the gaiter region when the leg was placed in the dependent position.
(6) These findings show that significant skin hypoxia occurs on the gaiter area of limbs with severe venous disease and support the concept of an oxygen diffusion block.
(7) Eleven patients with lipodermatosclerosis (LDS) and 14 patients without venous or arterial disease underwent measurement of xenon-133 (133Xe) half-clearance times from the gaiter region of the leg.
(8) Fifty subjects (14 normal controls, 21 with superficial venous insufficiency (SVI), and 15 with deep venous insufficiency (DVI] have been studied in the supine and dependent positions in a constant environment using video capillary microscopy, laser Doppler flowmetry and transcutaneous oxygen measurements to the gaiter skin.
(9) We examined the levels of oxygen on the skin of the gaiter areas of limbs with venous disease using a Roche Transcutaneous pO2 Monitor to determine whether hypoxia contributes to the skin changes and ulceration associated with severe venous disease.
(10) His credit appeared on episodes of the ecclesiastical sitcom All Gas and Gaiters, the legal satire Misleading Cases, Spike Milligan's The World of Beachcomber and As Good Cooks Go, an ill-fated vehicle for the comedian Tessie O'Shea.
Waiter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
(n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(3) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(4) As public sector workers prepare for the biggest strike since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner ladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their pay fall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with soaring food and energy bills.
(5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(6) The paper said the figure was a quarter of the country’s average monthly wage and around half what a waiter earns.
(7) "Most of my friends have to get jobs as waiters," says Gardiner, "and I'm getting paid to watch football and talk about it."
(8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(9) It was fully staffed with waiters in white jackets and plimsolls.
(10) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
(11) I arrived at work for 10.30am to open the restaurant as a waiter.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Habib Daguib In the aftermath of the slaughter of 38 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel have come tales of valour by waiters, lifeguards and men whose normal job is renting out water skis and plastic bananas.
(14) Corinne Haynes Nottingham • Sitting in a Paris restaurant in 1957, I asked the waiter where I could feed my baby.
(15) The authors report a case of pseudoaneurysm in an 18 year old waiter.
(16) One high-end eatery in Palma de Mallorca equips its waiters with iPod Touches on which they show pictures of dishes to patrons and, with a tap, take their orders.
(17) Unite represents some of the UK’s lowest-paid workers and has successfully campaigned this year on poor tips for waiters, the ill-treatment of workers at Sports Direct and for cleaner air for British Airways workers.
(18) I saw traffic wardens, shop assistants, and waiters subjected to rudeness and worse, by people who were clearly loaded.
(19) I'm off to Stoke where I plan to spend the next nine or 10 hours standing behind Rob Dorsett outside the Britannia Stadium making faces like this ... Roll-up man Updated at 2.37pm GMT 2.31pm GMT Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) Lazio going strong on Santos' Felipe Anderson, bidding 7m € for the 70% of his property (you know, brazilian ownerships...) January 31, 2013 2.29pm GMT Patrick O'Dea writes: "My cousin Alecc is a waiter in Red Lobster is New York," he says.
(20) As for the staff, the PR assures me that Nando's is keen to offer its workers opportunities to advance themselves, many grillers and waiters moving up the ranks to managerial status.