(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.
Pullover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
(2) Only after training with a set of shirts that sampled the range of stimulus and response variation for "putting on pullover shirts" was successful generalization observed.
(3) "I've got nothing against him if he does a good job," said Wout Van Bavel, a retired businessman in the obligatory orange pullover and shirt.
(4) Performance across eight nontrained, probe shirts was used to assess generalization of the skill "putting on pullover shirts."
(5) He is said to have been dressed in multiple layers of clothing, including pullovers, although it is summer in Serbia.
(6) So please, don't ponder whether Scotland will keep one of England's old pullovers and wear it tearfully around the house on rainy Sundays, having learned her lesson after a brief and unsatisfactory liaison with a wealthy Nordic state.
(7) Comforting blankets, fabric toys or forcibly applied pullovers may cause initial inoculation.
(8) They see themselves as wholesome, Midwestern folks who just adore rooting on their Cardinals in red pullover sweatshirts.
(9) By this time, Freeman was widely known by his nickname "Fluff", apparently derived from his fondness for wearing a loose-fitting submariner's pullover given to him by his mother, Annie.
(10) The pullover shirt aid, the largest device, was stored in an adjoining playroom area.
(11) When Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general recently sentenced to 24 years for persecuting Serbs , arrived in Scheveningen in 2005, his erstwhile arch-enemy, the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, lent him a pullover because he was cold, according to Ljube Boskovski who spent three years there before being acquitted of war crimes.
(12) She can be seen in photographs looking rather fetching in a pullover patterned with the flags of the European nations.
(13) @LengelDavid October 26, 2013 I predict we will see lots of shots of 60-year-old women with their hair in a bonnet wearing red Cardinals pullovers.
(14) And if I tell you its pupils wear grey blazers with red trim, ties and V-necked pullovers, stand in obedient lines waiting for teachers to lead them into classrooms, and sometimes learn Latin, you probably envisage a leafy suburban school, patronised by affluent white families from expensive detached houses.
(15) Reading his work earlier this month at a conference at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Murray cuts a formidable figure – "the fattest major English-language poet since the 20-stone Ben Jonson", as a critic once bluntly put it – sporting a voluminous pullover and alternately perching a scruffy baseball cap and his spectacles on his domed head.
(16) Tying a pullover around your waist to hide the soiled patch behind your uniform in case the tissue leaks is a dead giveaway.