What's the difference between gown and mown?

Gown


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose, flowing upper garment
  • (n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
  • (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
  • (n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  • (n.) Any sort of dress or garb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
  • (2) This training program served to further emphasize the importance of using proper aseptic gowning technique.
  • (3) Experimental subjects desired fewer changes in exam procedures than control subjects, indicating that the gown provided them with an overall more comfortable experience.
  • (4) There were 102 infants in the gowning group and 100 infants in the nongowning group.
  • (5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
  • (6) Of 110 blood contacts among surgeons, 81 (74%) were potentially preventable by additional barrier precautions, such as face shields and fluid-resistant gowns.
  • (7) The first lady resented the governor’s prohibition on using his donor lists to market her nutritional supplements, he testified, and she reacted with anger when an adviser told her that she should not accept Williams’ offer to buy her an Oscar de la Renta gown to wear to the governor’s inauguration.
  • (8) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
  • (9) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
  • (10) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
  • (11) He was a loving and caring young man according to his grandmother,” Johnson said in a Facebook post that showed Robinson smiling in a bright red graduation cap and gown.
  • (12) Isolation gowns have traditionally been used in health care situations to protect against microbial contamination.
  • (13) I got a Chewbacca, a Leia-in-the-white-gown and an orange-suited Luke Skywalker.
  • (14) Who cares who spent what on a pasta bake and whether or not you're allowed to claim for a dressing gown?
  • (15) Two thirds of the increase (64%) was due to rubber gloves and an additional 25% was due to disposable isolation gowns.
  • (16) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (17) It is quite satisfactory for preventing operators from soiling their feet and their gowns.
  • (18) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
  • (19) Eight NICU required routine gowning on entry, two restricted sibling visiting and four restricted visiting by relatives and friends.
  • (20) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.

Mown


Definition:

  • () of Mow
  • (p. p. & a.) Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (2) In two grazing experiments carried out in 1982 and 1983 the prophylactic effect on gastro-intestinal helminthiasis of a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after turnout was studied in animals which were turned out early on contaminated pasture and in calves which were turned out late on mown pasture.
  • (3) After thorough cleaning and decontamination of fecings and cages and burning of the mown grass during the period from August 1971 to April 1972, the park was repopulated with deer free from tuberculosis.
  • (4) Quickly the lights went on and different witnesses described the clear ripple effect of the crowd – “like a gust of wind through wheat” – as people were mown down by gunfire and rows of people dropped to the ground.
  • (5) And then the car just carried on up the bridge and I just looked around and was really in shock.” Radosław Sikorski, a former Polish foreign minister, saw at least five people lying on the ground after being “mown down” by a car.
  • (6) West Wittering, West Sussex The approach to these sands is through gorgeous, open Sussex countrysid and there are acres of neatly mown grass where visitors can park before heading for the beach – all 54 acres of it.
  • (7) Doing the same job, his grandmother had been mown down by automatic gunfire and his father blown to pieces by a suicide bomber in separate incidents with separate causes, seven years apart.
  • (8) (It took another three years for the United States to catch up, when an unfortunate pensioner was mown down by a horseless taxicab in New York .)
  • (9) A study was undertaken to ascertain the prophylactic effect on gastrointestinal helminthiasis of (1) a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after a late turnout on mown pasture and (2) two ivermectin treatments of calves 3 and 8 weeks after an early turnout.
  • (10) Any who pause to suggest some plans might be good for patients will be mown down in the stampede.
  • (11) Late turnout on mown pasture without anthelmintic treatment was not enough to prevent heavy infections.
  • (12) In an appendix catches of four spore types by the Hirst and Burkard (field model) spore traps operating over mown grass were compared.
  • (13) Yet the four clips released by CBS did not back up O’Reilly’s repeated claims in recent years that Argentinian forces had mown down protesters with live ammunition, and that O’Reilly himself had seen several demonstrators being shot and killed.
  • (14) They don't have to grow crops or keep animals on the land to get their money, but they do have to keep it mown.
  • (15) Productivity of the strain when inoculating the medium with the aerial-dry inoculum was studied as compared to the inoculation by the inoculum taken from the mown agar.
  • (16) There were shouts of “Murderers!” and “Resign!” as Valls and two other ministers left the seafront, where a huge crowd gathered to remember the 84 people mown down by the truck driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
  • (17) The single ivermectin treatment after a late turnout on mown pasture appeared to be an effective control measure for infections of Cooperia and, in particular, Ostertagia.
  • (18) Those who live in crowded flats, surrounded by concrete, mown grass and other people’s property, cannot escape their captivity without breaking the law.
  • (19) Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian Perhaps I was seeing things through Inoki’s eyes or maybe it was simply spring, with the waft of freshly mown grass and cherry blossom on the breeze, but I began to marvel at the grace of CMK’s broad boulevards.
  • (20) Then, in 2008, diggers were savaged by police dogs, mown down by helicopter machine guns or buried alive.

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