(n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
(v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.
Example Sentences:
(1) British Cycling, Will’s Wheels and the curious case of 2,200 pieces of GB kit Read more Drake said: “I have never been made aware, formally or informally, of any allegation that Shane Sutton had used the offensive term ‘gimps’ in reference to Paralympic athletes prior to the media reports of the past few days.
(2) I do like people.” What they say “At the risk of ruining the honourable gentleman’s reputation as Thatcher’s gimp – I mean toy boy – may I enormously commend him for the work he has done as [select] committee chair for the past 10 years” – Chris Bryant MP
(3) PT: Photoshop is standard; though it certainly won’t hurt if you get good with GIMP, which is completely free.
(4) But BrewDog got to denounce Diageo as “a band of dishonest hammerheads and dumb-ass corporate freaks”, and to affirm that the incident showed “just how scared and jealous the gimp-like establishment are of the craft beer revolutionaries”.
(5) As well as woozily offering Mark Ronson a sip of his gin, we also got to witness him confessing his love for gimp masks; playing “ hide the banana ”; and an excruciating “bit” with blind tenor Andrea Bocelli in which he stammered “Nice to, erm, see you”.
(6) A kind of unshaven, post-watershed, post-divorce and redundancy Johnny Bravo whose style inspiration sits somewhere between matador and gimp.
(7) The localization and chemical characteristics of two Golgi integral membrane proteins (GIMPs) have been studied using monoclonal antibodies.
(8) Both GIMPs are glycoproteins that contain N- and O-linked carbohydrates.
(9) In an email to the Guardian Mellor said: “‘Get those Fucking Gimps’ was a phrase that was used by Shane [Sutton] and I confirm was ignored by Ian Drake when raised by me.” Mellor also stated that in his view the Paralympic athletes were discriminated against when it came to resources, for example travelling at times without a doctor or, on one occasion, being asked to scrap a training camp when the able‑bodied team’s budget fell short.
(10) Documents from Mellor’s evidence shown to the Guardian cited an episode in which Sutton was described as coming to the coach’s office and shouting “get those fucking gimps off the track”.
(11) It’s tempting to compare them to Late Night Gimp Fight, their predecessors as the fringe’s go-to troupe for “blood, poo and bumholes” (their words) comedy.
(12) But he was left with little option but to resign after he was also accused of calling members of Britain’s hugely successful Paralympic cycling squad “wobblies” and “gimps”.
(13) The young sketch troupe Late Night Gimp Fight were entirely unapologetic about their scene at Edinburgh last month, in which Sleeping Beauty wasn't kissed awake by her prince, but raped instead.
Serration
Definition:
(n.) Condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.
(n.) One of the teeth in a serrate or serrulate margin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concurrently the pointed spines become scale-like and serrated.
(2) Compared with conventional mechanical lithotripsy with serrated, jawed instruments, electrohydraulic lithotripsy is a safe, easy to learn and effective technique for treating bladder stones.
(3) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
(4) AD evoked by stimulation of the hippocampus (long duration discharges of slow serrated waves) differed characteristically from AD following stimulation of the VMD (short duration spike and wave complexes).
(5) The cemented pins were serrated and plain and the cements used were: (1) ZOE, (2) zinc phosphate, (3) glass ionomer, and (4) polycarboxylate.
(6) The lumen of the cisterna contains a serrated layer of dense material referred to as the intracisternal lamina.
(7) The innermost layer is characterized by numerous serrations, the tips of which project into the lumen of the capsule.
(8) Esophageal radiologic findings showed a serrated type shadow defect 6 cm in diameter at the middle thoracic esophagus.
(9) Specially designed threaded and serrated posts were machined in precious metal.
(10) Comparison of a first group of 23 patients submitted to venous thrombectomy alone with 102 patients protected by filters or serrated clips shows a drastic decrease in lethal pulmonary embolism postoperatively.
(11) Vented parallel-sided, serrated posts cemented into matching precision channels provide excellent retentive strength; however, they do not offer significant resistance to rotational forces.
(12) A serrated suction tip with a variety of diameters and serrations has been developed for the microsurgical removal of tumors.
(13) The InS is formed in four steps; cell aggregation (19 days postconception and one day postpartum), formation of bone extensions and collagen fiber bundles (4 and 7 days postpartum), modification of the orientation of these fiber bundles (14 days postpartum), and formation of the serrated suture and fiber bundles with regular orientation (21, 30 and 60 days postpartum).
(14) Klein has now worked her serrated humor into a debut collection of autobiographical essays, titled You’ll Grow Out Of It , published in the US this week.
(15) Cast gold, parallel-sided, serrated post and cores were cemented in extracted teeth.
(16) Microscopically, the thickened areas consisted of abundant acellular collagen fibers containing numerous elastinophilic, thick, serrated fibers and globules, identical with the elastofibroma fibers seen in elastofibroma dorsi.
(17) A serrated, "corkscrew" pattern was present and corresponded well to the perivascular fibrosis noted histologically.
(18) Class 3 units responded maximally to pinch with serrated forceps but also were activated by light touch and pressure.
(19) The sinuses of smooth contour are usually smaller than those with serrated contour, and in case of the first ones, the left one is missing.
(20) Nociceptive stimulus was applied to the skin of adult cats by pinching with a serrated forceps or by radiant heat with Pain meter.