(n.) A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter.
(n.) A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Ed Milliband himself went to a comprehensive, when he sacked the comprehensive-educated Diane Abbott from the front bench he replaced her with an old girl of Haberdashers' Aske's.
(2) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
(3) The CV Born February 14 1945 in London Education Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, BA Econ at Christ's College, Cambridge, MBA from Harvard University Career 1970-74 Worked for Mark McCormack, founder of talent agency IMG 1975-77 Personal financial adviser to food entrepreneur James Gulliver 1977-1985 Saatchi & Saatchi group, finance director 1985 Takes stake in Wire and Plastic Products, wire baskets maker, to build a marketing services company 1986-present Chief executive of WPP 1999 Knighted Family Married for second time in April.
(4) The "hinging" property of the Haberdasher's Puzzle, which Dudeney had made out of mahogany and bronze, has fascinated and delighted mathematicians for more than a century.
(5) And to those who want to get in the way, I have just two words: hands off," he said in a speech at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, an academy in south-east London.
(6) Last year, his mother asked that he be withdrawn from rugby at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire, but she was told her son couldn’t “pick and choose” his lessons and he left the school.
(7) You can transform any polygon to any other polygon of equal area through a Haberdasher's Puzzle-style hinged dissection.
(8) When the Halawis, a family of Syrian haberdashers, wanted to get from Greece to Macedonia on Wednesday, they took a direct coach from Athens to the last hotel before the border.
(9) The son of an electronics retailer who attended the private Haberdashers' Aske's school in north London, and Christ's College, Cambridge, Sorrell is a former finance director of Saatchi & Saatchi and counts the historian Simon Schama among his friends.
(10) I asked about the Haberdasher's Puzzle and the applause he received.
(11) She explains to the room her vision for a haberdasher's that also offers bespoke outfits and sewing lessons.
(12) Lucas was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, which charges parents around £10,000 a year; David Walliams went to Reigate Grammar, which rates itself as "one of the top independent co-educational day schools in the country".
(13) I had the choice of outstanding schools, such as Merchant Taylors' and Haberdashers' near my home in London.
Needle
Definition:
(n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
(n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
(n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
(n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
(n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
(v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
(v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(2) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
(3) Needle insertion close to the midline is the safest technique.
(4) The intra cellular free amino acid concentrations of skeletal muscle were determined in tissue specimens obtained before operation and on the third postoperative day using a percutaneous needle biopsy technique.
(5) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(6) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(7) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
(8) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(9) Nuclear DNA distribution in fine-needle specimens from 112 breast carcinomas and 45 prostatic tumours was studied.
(10) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(11) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(12) One to 6 needles were used on each occasion in a maximum of 3 treatments.
(13) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
(14) One hundred thirty-two of 397 consecutive percutaneous fine needle aspirations done at the University of Virginia between January, 1979, and December, 1984, for pulmonary lesions showed no evidence of cancer on cytological examination.
(15) The method can be successfully applied to richly cellular needle aspirates.
(16) During the surgery for the purpose of removal of the tumor, needle type-O2 sensors were inserted into femoral artery and in brain tumor to measure PaO2 and intratumoral O2 pressure.
(17) Consequently the puncture site becomes small (a balloon-catheter may be introduced through a 16 G catheter needle) allowing punctures proximal to lesions (e.g.
(18) The results of 1245 amniocenteses performed by the "free hand needle" technique and ultrasonic control are discussed.
(19) Various methods have so far been used to treat pneumothorax, including rest, needle exsufflation and blind drainage.
(20) This article demonstrates the importance of the use of immunocytochemical methods on fine-needle aspirates to diagnose metastases to the breast.