(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.
Sleeveless
Definition:
(a.) Having no sleeves.
(a.) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) This weekend’s games would have to go some way to top the drama of Indianapolis rallying to overcome 28-point deficit against Kansas City , New Orleans posting their first-ever road playoff win in Philadelphia and a sleeveless Colin Kaepernick steering San Francisco to victory over Green Bay at a frozen Lambeau Field .
(2) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(3) He recounted being in a meeting when a colleague mentioned a boy who had arrived at school in below-zero temperatures wearing just a thin, sleeveless bodywarmer.
(4) The fine needle technic utilizes a sleeveless, thin, flexible needle for transhepatic cholangiography.
(5) Sleeveless dresses were verboten despite the heat of summer.
(6) Sixty percent of that population will be under 30 by 2030, so it’s really time for retailers to take notice that they exist.” For years Muslim women in the UK have had to resort to a jigsaw puzzle assemblage of long sleeved T-shirts and cardigans to cover low-cut necks and sleeveless dresses.
(7) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
(8) Umran Ashman has run the website Modestkini since 2005, and alongside her "full cover" burkini-style swimsuits, she offers semi-covered styles, from short-sleeved tunics with three-quarter length leggings to sleeveless dress styles with cycling shorts.
(9) Summer is for those who like salads, greenery, sleeping naked under a sheet instead of cocooned in flannelette and thermals, sleeveless dresses, pedicures and strappy sandals, iced tea and Pimms, laughing gaily in the sunshine instead of nodding sombrely indoors as another Norwegian killer is unmasked, or baking themselves on a beach as the sun beats down.
(10) These women will usually be on the arm of some dude wearing some awful designer denim, a sleeveless shirt, so as to show off his designer tattoos, and expensive sunglasses, which prove, of course, just how cool he is.
(11) Forensics specialists in black sleeveless jackets peered into the soil looking for a flash of white bone.
(12) Jaeger now has three womenswear lines: Jaeger Collection, the don't-frighten-the-horses clothes we all recognise; Jaeger London, innovative dresses and separates for contemporary working women; and Jaeger Black, its premium range of what it considers investment dressing - the perfect sleeveless black shift dress, the evening coat.
(13) A group of tanned young men in sleeveless shirts and cowboy hats roamed, looking a bit like fashion models on their way to a dude-ranch photo shoot.
(14) Whether or not they approved of the Saint Laurent collection, the audience were united in lust for the latest versions (classic and sleeveless) of the house's Perfecto biker jacket.
(15) Robert Swannell, M&S's chairman, promised that the company was listening and said the number of dresses with sleeves was up 20% last year, while the sleeveless range had been cut down from 300 to 173.
(16) Earlier in the day, they will have pulled on one of those green, North Face, sleeveless fleeces over an Aran sweater tucked into the freshly pressed denims and gone stravaiging about the local park.