(n.) Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of treatment with compression garments were assessed at 6 months and at 12 months, using a grading system based on colour, consistency and thickness of the scar.
(2) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(3) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
(4) Aerosol resuspension from garments is an important consideration in assessing inhalation exposure to toxic dusts.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women at work in a Bangladeshi garment factory.
(6) Scientists are looking at making fabrics that can absorb poisonous gases or harmful bacteria, or conduct electricity, and be used to make stylish garments.
(7) Nonporous Tyvek was permeable to all seven drugs, and the Kaycel garment was permeable to all of the drugs except etoposide.
(8) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
(9) During all trials with chemical protective garments, plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone levels (PA) were significantly (p less than 0.05) elevated following the exercise protocol while neither was affected during exercise in fatigues only.
(10) The disaster brought Bangladesh’s entire garment industry under intense scrutiny but did not slow its strong growth, from $21.5bn that year to $28bn in 2015-16.
(11) Last year retailers sourcing garments from Bangladesh faced similar calls to quit the country following the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
(12) However it is clear that Mauritius is now using many more migrant workers in its 50,000 strong garment industry, many from Bangladesh.
(13) With a standard deviation of the approximately log-normal distribution of the experimental values as high as about 2 times the mean, it is necessary to carry out as many as 20 replicate experiments in order to differentiate with certainty between garments with a two-fold difference in penetration.
(14) They hang pretty strangely, these garments of Britannia: if our decline is down to the loss of empire, how can we call that a coarsening?
(15) It is probable that the single factor most important to the decline, in our experience with these injuries, is lower fabric flammability but, because our data may not be representative, corroboration is needed before one can exclude factors such as altered garment design, fire safety-related practices at home, or changing patterns of hospital referral.
(16) Saranex-laminated Tyvek was the most protective of the barrier garments, followed closely in effectiveness by the polyethylene-coated Tyvek.
(17) Textiles, if not garments, have always been a key element of global commerce.
(18) As a charity that campaigns on issues of women’s economic equality, we take these allegations extremely seriously and will do our utmost to investigate them … we remain confident that we took every practicable and reasonable step to ensure that the range would be ethically produced and await a fuller understanding of the circumstances under which the garments were produced.” When the Fawcett Society sought reassurance about standards at the factory, Whistles emailed back to say CMT is “a fully audited, socially and ethical compliant factory” and cited accreditations relating to the provenance and content of materials.
(19) For the next two, three years I moved from zero to hero: I was running the largest business owned by a woman in Malawi, in industrial garment manufacturing.
(20) Those in Bangladesh who demanded government intervention in one of the country's few economic success stories made little headway when dozens of garment factory owners sat in parliament and powerful industry bodies had the ear of policymakers.
Overcoat
Definition:
(n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
Example Sentences:
(1) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
(2) "It is a blue overcoat, made by Gieves & Hawkes , and their label is on the inside pocket," he says.
(3) Later, in the Adelphi's huge tearoom, the leaders of the overcoat brigade compared everything from songwriting styles to their appearances in photos (Morrissey's chin grows larger, Mac's recedes – both are horrified by the results).
(4) Outside a block of humble flats on Centre Street, two women in long overcoats jump out of a taxi, avoiding the torrents of rainwater pouring along the gutter as they carry a large plastic bucket.
(5) Photos of the event show Wilson in sandals, a short-sleeved shirt, and really quite short shorts while the gentlemen of the press (and they are all men) cluster around in ill-fitting suits and, bizarrely, overcoats.
(6) A glass cabinet containing the brown overcoat, trilby hat and tracksuit of Bob Stokoe from the time of the 1973 FA Cup triumph offers a nod towards history.
(7) Plastic-covered mattresses were almost completely free from mites, but foci were found on soft furnishings and on the jackets and overcoats of hospital workers.
(8) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
(9) We are given mouldy overcoats that are so damp they're virtually liquid, and a cup of Soviet coffee – coffee with no coffee in it, made from barley.
(10) Vincent “was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts, five suits, eight pairs of shoes, three overcoats, and had appeared on American Bandstand ”.
(11) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
(12) Someone has spied him, bundled in an overcoat on the street outside.
(13) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(14) And he is keen to avoid misunderstanding, for the House abounds with overcoats of lesser quality.
(15) His scarf is long and stripy, his trainers a kaleidoscope of fluorescent colour and when he takes off his knee-length overcoat it is clear he thinks of his body in the same way Michelangelo used to think of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
(16) Crombie, the fashion house whose trademark tailored overcoats have enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to bands such as the Specials, is in talks to buy its British rival Aquascutum.
(17) The adult daily intake of tin was about 17 mg per day in 1940, but it has now decreased to about 3.5 mg, due to improvements in technique of tinning with enamel overcoat and crimped lids to minimize exposure to tin and lead solder.
(18) Grainy, newsreel black-and-white, stiff shop awnings, sky as interesting as tea crisscrossed with overheard tram wires, one or two parked cars, shuffling overcoats and - a beacon in all of this - the exotic promise of the Scala cinema on the right, advertising The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.
(19) "I want to wear sweaters, a scarf, the overcoat, the whole thing, like a Winona Ryder movie.
(20) Clad in a smart overcoat and hat, Jackson, now 70, remains a formidable presence and a compelling speaker.