(n.) The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino opens with a lengthy sequence in a stagecoach as it tries to beat an incoming blizzard to the nearest shelter, Minnie's Haberdashery.
(2) "They run into a southerner named Chris Mannix on the road, and three of them, along with their driver – a living prisoner and three dead bounties strapped to the roof – arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard.
(3) On arriving at Minnie's Haberdashery, we encounter an elderly Confederate general (Dern), and three suspicious-looking characters, a near-silent Madsen, an Englishman (Roth) who claims he's the new Red Rock executioner to whom Tamblyn will be delivered, and a Frenchman who claims to be running the place for the absent Millie and her husband.
(4) The Hateful Eight reportedly opens on a sweeping Wyoming vista but soon moves indoors to a stagecoach and a haberdashery.
Thread
Definition:
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.