(a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The herringbone pattern was associated with a more favorable prognosis than the malignant fibrous histiocytoma pattern.
(2) Modelling and conformational analysis of single chains using the virtual bond approach lead to two possible models for the crystalline helix: 'herringbone' versus 'comb-like'.
(3) Ultrastructurally, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is marked by characteristic features such as herringbone, prismatic and tufaceous patterns which are typically encountered within oligodendrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) and in Schwann cells (PNS).
(4) Ice structure in collagen gels consisted predominantly of long, parallel crystals in the herringbone pattern.
(5) A gentle introduction is the ride to the chapel of Saint Laurent in the neighbouring hamlet of Maâ, past typical Landais houses built in a herringbone-pattern brick, with a gently sloping roof that almost touches the ground.
(6) The actin polymer, like the thin filaments of muscle, is known to be polarized as demonstrated by the well known "HMM decoration" technique to give a "herringbone" pattern pointing in one direction.
(7) Invariant aromatic residues close-pack at the bottom of the binding-site beta-barrel with their ring planes oriented perpendicularly in the characteristic "herringbone" packing mode.
(8) The lead foil of dental x-ray film packets may cause a number of artifacts; especially well known are the "tractor treads" and "herringbone patterns" following a backward filmpositioning in the patient's mouth.
(9) In a herringbone milking parlour, teat cup liners were deliberately contaminated in turn with Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus agalactiae and Sterp uberis.
(10) An electron microscopic examination of the accumulated metachromatic lipid granules showed various structures such as concentric lamellar, tuffstone, herringbone and hexagonal honeycomb appearances, and some ultrastructural differences between the nervous system and other organs.
(11) The characteristic storiform cellular arrangement of DFSP was replaced by long, gently sweeping fascicles of spindle cells that intersected at various angles, forming the so-called herringbone pattern.
(12) The collagen of the horns is organized into discrete bundles that are separated from one another by loose connective tissue septa, while that of the body is arranged in a "herringbone" pattern; no septa are present in the body.
(13) A processing artefact is described that is similar in appearance to the tractor-tread (or herringbone) pattern seen on an intra-oral dental radiograph that has been exposed the wrong way round in the mouth.
(14) The previous timber floors would have been removed and replaced with herringbone oak floor with inset rugs, and stone walls replaced with white Carrara marble.
(15) herringbone road marking, flashing beacon, chevron, and post delineator) were evaluated in a driving simulator.
(16) The apparatus developed to effect this back-flushing for a particular herringbone parlour is described, with details of its routine use during milking.
(17) The hairpin molecules pack in the crystal in herringbone columns in a manner that accounts well for the observed relative crystal growth rates in a, b and c directions.
(18) The solid spindle growth pattern assumed various configurations, including fascicular areas, storiform and herringbone formations, angiofibroma and hemangiopericytoma-like areas, synovial sarcoma-like areas, and neural-type palisading, thus simulating a variety of soft-tissue neoplasms.
(19) The resultant polymers showing both decorated and undecorated portions were examined and found to consist of a large majority of "spears" i.e., the added undecorated polymer extended in the direction opposite to that direction pointed by the "herringbone" pattern.
(20) Highly cellular tumors with a herringbone-pattern must be differentiated from primarily extrahepatic fibrosarcomas or myosarcomas, and highly cellular solid or medullary tumors from metastasis from a carcinoma or lymphoma.
Twill
Definition:
(v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
(v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
(v. t.) A fabric women with a twill.
(v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(2) "If United do get Louis van Gaal, twill be like getting a hybrid of Guardiola and Mourinho - Guardiola's methodology and Mourinho's arrogance and occasional (everytime) madness."
(3) Heavier-weight fabrics, such as denim and twill, are better barriers.
(4) The fabrics were 4.8-ox twill weave Nomex aramide, 4.5-oz stabilized twill weave polybenzimidazole, 4.8-oz plain weave experimental high-temperature polymer (HT4), and 4.8-oz plain weave Nomex aramide (New Weave Nomex or NWN).
(5) She's also making chocolate caramel twills which she will fill with truffles.
(6) The twill fabric was a better barrier to transmission than the plain fabrics.