(n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
(n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.
(n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
(n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.
(v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.
(v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(2) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
(3) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
(4) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(5) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(6) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(7) Some antennae were equipped with an external cooling jacket.
(8) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
(9) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(10) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
(11) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(12) As Rush began to speak, he took off his jacket to reveal the hoodie, which has become a symbol of solidarity with Martin.
(13) For real.” A resident in a green puffer jacket emerged from the shelter with her 10-year-old son.
(14) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
(15) Sometimes he puts on a leather bomber jacket and talks tough, but it doesn't become him.
(16) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
(17) Monáe sits with her back to me on a high stool, jacket removed, braces crisscrossed over an immaculate white shirt.
(18) Yorkshire swine were anesthetized and their flanks were protected by flak jackets.
(19) In vain I argued that Robin Day seemed to wear the same jacket and shirt every week, and fled back to radio."
(20) The man in the wool jacket said, 'We will allow him to walk to Chacharan.
Waistcoat
Definition:
(n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
(n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-six Wistar rats were subdivided into 4 group: 1) control; 2) "waistcoat" plastic surgery; 3) plastic surgery using a vicryl prosthesis.
(2) But a staff member wearing the telltale red ID pass but dressed in a shirt and tie rather than high-vis waistcoat – he would only say his role was "management" – took a different view.
(3) While the residents are invisible, their staff can be seen: cleaning golf clubs with a hose in front of one house; wearing a black waistcoat and ironed white shirt to polish a bronze door handle; walking tiny dogs.
(4) In the video, Voteman finds himself in bed with a group of women before donning a leather waistcoat and jetting off on a pair of dolphin waterskis to assault non-voters all the way to the polling station, decapitating one while he eats breakfast.
(5) "I do still have one of those waistcoats with patches all over it, and a Motörhead skull on the back.
(6) Tonight, dressed in a thick tweedy, collared waistcoat, his hair tied back with a silky ribbon, he is an unmissable presence; the ruddy-cheeked pig farmer up to the city for the night.
(7) George Osborne dons a hi-viz waistcoat and wanders around Ebbsfleet .
(8) It doesn't help that the natty little waistcoat she is wearing makes her look a bit like the Artful Dodger and that she has tucked her size-three feet under her bottom in the chair, halving her 5ft frame.
(9) Instead, I found myself designing pieces that are the cornerstones of Sicilian style: pinstriped or velvet suits, coats, waistcoats, white shirts and the flat cap known as the coppola.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Friends of the designers, Linda Evangelista, left, and Naomi Campbell backstage at a Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan.
(10) What’s worst, however, is the bit when our girl and her boyfriend, a waistcoated, blond lump of “Yah”, go shopping for vinyl.
(11) Not that it always works in their favour – by the mid-90s, Merchant-Ivory had became something of an inverse snobbery insult, signifying something stuffy and dull, all starched waistcoats and askance glances across the class divide, of interest only to Laura Ashley fans.
(12) • £125, +30 27360 31488, kythirarooms.gr Where to eat Zorbas This grill house is so old-fashioned the waiters still dress in white shirts and black waistcoats.
(13) They went to fee-paying London schools and now they're all about heels and waistcoats and hoedowns.
(14) When the insurgency started, he returned to his home town, and now he looked every inch the fighter, with a flowing beard, irregular fatigues, and a waistcoat with pockets for knives and ammunition.
(15) He comes to the door in a pale grey suit with waistcoat and orange tie, and settles in a sofa facing me, affably, in his book-lined sitting room.
(16) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
(17) Armed men in masks threatened staff before making off with Cézanne's Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet's Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughters, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh's Blooming Chestnut Branches , Zurich police said.
(18) If all I have to do, these days, is carry around forever in my waistcoat a baby stiletto for "opening things better" – toothbrush packaging, lying "easy-open" biscuits – and stutter a bit on the phone (it's improving), then I've fallen lucky.
(19) You'd look quite good in a big helmet and a Nordic waistcoat.
(20) Englishness became a parody of itself (and it was pretty parodical to start with); little more than a series of bowler-hatted funny walks.I couldn’t stand stout John Bull with his union jack waistcoat and pointing finger.