(a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
(a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.
(n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
(n.) An unpolished, rustic person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(2) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(3) It is the kind of homespun talk that could win over voters, but they don't appear to be listening to her or McCain.
(4) The pastoral address ignored the culture wars and instead veered between piety, homespun advice and laughs – including a line about mothers-in-law.
(5) Hodgson, by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who , because: “I fear I have this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant , and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer.
(6) Labour's very accusation, though, illustrated the huge commercial power, translating surely into political influence, that has been built from a pastime as homespun as watching football on television.
(7) That’s a dog.” I tell him about my quest: a search for the perfect funky small American town, a place with a buzzing homespun coffee shop and a great little deli, a town with some youthful exuberance and a shared passion for the great outdoors – plus, of course, friendly bookshops such as his.
(8) Television host and opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak compared him to Batman for his reputation of fighting evildoers and called him a "strong Russian guy" in reference to his brawny physique and homespun charm.
(9) Using a homespun remedy favoured by demonstrators, the man treated his bloodshot eyes with a towel soaked in apple cider vinegar.
(10) By the time Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone kept breaking their promises to abolish the income tax (one of the few things they agreed on), the homespun capitalism of the 18th century had already given way to a more organised form of capitalism.
(11) With its cosy homespun charm, this is the perfect spot to finish the trek, but in the morning I have one more treat in store.
(12) Homespun values … Obama and Robinson Obama went on to quiz the novelist on her family and upbringing, and on the “certain set of homespun values of hard work and honesty and humility” held by her parents.
(13) "At first, I respected him for his homespun politics, his spit-and-sawdust grit and his passion," said Danczuk.
(14) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
(15) And then there was the opposition between the homespun, handcrafted vision of art for Morris and the bloated global money-laundering business of it, which many of those oligarchs have bought into.
(16) Building on what seems an uncontestable and homespun truth, he made the moral claim that because “every single pound of public money is private earning… what is morally wrong is [a] government spending money like it grows on trees”.
(17) But this reliance on homespun wisdom can also fuel a worryingly anti-intellectual streak in public life, a sense that empirical discovery and a spirit of inquiry are somehow to be sneered at.
(18) The rather homespun website set up by her parents had 80m visits in the first three months after her disappearance.
(19) And there's a plain, homespun quality about him that's reminiscent of that other great Jimmy, the patron saint of small-town American life: Jimmy Stewart.
(20) Everywhere you look, there are signs of homespun innovation, of the defiant brand of resilience that Cubans have shown repeatedly over a long history of oppression: Take away our fuel supply and, yes, we will go back to buggy whips and gallop past you in your rent-a-car on our pothole-riddled roads.
Tight
Definition:
() of Tie
() p. p. of Tie.
(superl.) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.
(superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
(superl.) Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.
(superl.) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
(superl.) Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.
(superl.) Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.
(superl.) Handy; adroit; brisk.
(superl.) Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.
(superl.) Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.
(v. t.) To tighten.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
(2) The expression of the Pgp isoforms appears to be tightly regulated and, at least in some cells, under complex hormonal control.
(3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(4) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(5) These data indicate that topoisomerase I and RNA polymerase I are tightly complexed both in vivo and in vitro, and suggest a role for DNA topoisomerase I in the transcription of ribosomal genes.
(6) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(7) Investigations have been made to determine the identity and binding characteristics of the pterins that are bound tightly to dihydrofolate reductases which are isolated from vertebrate sources by a well established procedure.
(8) At all times, a tight inverse correlation exists between ATP and IMP concentrations.
(9) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
(10) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(11) In contrast, interchange of the histones and tightly bound non-histone protein DNA complexes from hormone-withdrawn and estrogen-stimulated chromatins during reconstitution did not affect the level of mRNAOV sequences produced.
(12) Using microelectrodes and various microscopic techniques active Na+ absorption as well as K+ secretion has been localized to the principal cells, while Cl- absorption was found to proceed largely, though not exclusively, through the tight junctions between cells.
(13) The successful establishment of a postcrisis SV-40 T antigen transformed epithelial cell line, 1HAEo-, which retains tight junctions and vectorial ion transport, is described.
(14) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
(15) In contrast, after incubation with 0.5% DOC, the core microfilaments are no longer tightly bundled yet the lateral arms remain attached with a distinct 33-nm periodicity.
(16) The data collected by several approaches reveal that assembly and maturation of vaccinia involves a tightly coupled sequence of interrelated events including the assembly of the envelope, post-translational cleavage of several virion polypeptides, and induction of the core enzymes.
(17) The tight coupling between neuronal activity and oxidative energy metabolism forms the basis for the use of cytochrome oxidase as an endogenous metabolic marker for neurons.
(18) 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.
(19) Some antibodies and other proteins bind tightly to nitrocellulose and dissociation of these proteins by Tween 20 is barely detectable.
(20) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.