(n.) A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Fiji summit, delegates wearing Sulu va Taga, a type of traditional kilt, and floral shirts spell out the problems and what must be done.
(2) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(3) Also, Birdman = 21st century Kurgan June 19, 2013 I first read this as "Put Birdman in a kilt..." and almost auto-blocked you.
(4) "Supporting Pakistan or the Windies at cricket is no more evidence that someone has failed to integrate than wearing a kilt to a wedding is proof of Jacobite sympathies.
(5) Kilt-inspired skirts and dresses, sometimes in leather, also had a modern edge.
(6) "The slogan is from Scotland to the world, and it is not a sense of everything has to have a kilt in it.
(7) "As I came through Highbury & Islington tube station at lunchtime today, the number of be-kilted Scotsman who were queueing up for photos outside the Famous Cock Tavern with irony intent was surely greater than the most optimistic YES vote," reports Stuey X.
(8) The second model portrayed a topless Salmond wearing a kilt and sitting on a bucket of North Sea oil.
(9) I've been spraytanned, waxed, and in a kilt clutching roses trawled a Glasgow council estate trying to propose to Susan Boyle (I did.
(10) Where you can be Welsh and Hindu and British, Northern Irish and Jewish and British, where you can wear a kilt and a turban, where you can wear a hijab covered in poppies.
(11) He then spotted a Scot in a kilt, 51-year-old John McGurk.
(12) The day before he had given me tea and a boiled sweet, told me he admired my journey, laughed at a photograph of my father in his kilt and discussed Persian poetry.
(13) April 1962 Aged 13, moves to his father's old school Gordonstoun, in Aberdeenshire, later describing it as "a prison sentence" and "Colditz in kilts".
(14) Profile David McAllister proposed to his wife at Loch Ness, married in a kilt, he likes Irn Bru, shortbread, and porridge and takes milk in his tea.
(15) It's hard not to be surprised by his demeanour, perhaps because the image of Drummond fixed in the public imagination comes from the KLF's final, triumphant performance at the 1992 Brit awards, during which he lurched around the stage on crutches, smoking a cigar and wearing a kilt, then fired a machine gun loaded with blanks at the audience and dumped a dead sheep outside the after-party.
(16) So fringe is that policy – Reaganomics with a kilt on – that even the CBI in Scotland have been unwilling to endorse it.
(17) She has no partner, and lives with friends in Manchester, where she hand-makes kilts and finds support on the Facebook page of the Younger Breast Cancer Network .
(18) Michael Ghirelli Hillesden, Buckinghamshire • I can’t work out whether was it to antagonise the yes camp or the no camp that you let Fintan O’Toole loose on your pages ( Forget Braveheart, kilts and tribal nationalism, this is about democracy , 13 September).
(19) Trent Lott won the Celebrity Mongering award for putting on a kilt - nurse!
(20) Here's Denis Law sporting an excellent kilt on the way to the airport to be a pundit at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
Kiting
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
(2) The methods consist of arterial ligation in 6 cases, end-to-end anastomosis in 5 cases, prosthesis or autogenous vein grafts in 9 cases, "Flying Kite" technique by muscular embolism in 5 cases, vascular embolism by means of the spring-coil in 14 cases, direct operation combined with vascular embolism in 1 case, and breaking blood stream by the balloon catheter at first, then embolism by the spring-coil through retrograde catheterization and finally removal of false aneurysm in 1 case.
(3) Controversy seems to follow autism like the tail on a kite,” says an editorial in the journal by Bryan H King of the University of Washington and Seattle children’s hospital.
(4) The Float Beijing project gets people to build simple kites with air-quality testing equipment.
(5) To solve the quiz, viewers had to calculate every possible number within the kites - which were different colours - including numbers within other written numbers, and numbers within digital numbers (displayed as if on a calculator).
(6) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(7) Golnaz Esfandiari, who has a blog on the Radio Free Europe website, Persian Letters, writes in a recent post : "There were also gatherings for paintball, kite flying, and blowing bubbles.
(8) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
(9) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(10) Andy Thomas, who for the past 20 years has run Kites & Things, a toy and hobbies store a few hundred metres from the harbourside in the town's high street, said business had been difficult since 2008, when Northern Rock nearly went under.
(11) "Viewers then also had to work out the total of the numbers for the different coloured kites.
(12) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
(13) The most eye-catching of the kites that he flies – fixed-term parliaments, and a curbing of the power of the whips over the scrutiny of legislation – would make a big difference, but are wrapped in rather slippery language, so neither is a bankable pledge.
(14) The move comes after months of negotiations that have failed to persuade any major retailer to adopt the foundation's kite-mark standard.
(15) Case 1: A 12-year-old male suffered a severe headache followed by a generalized convulsion after he turned his head when he was flying a kite.
(16) The report calls for better conservation, especially following successful schemes to reintroduce or bolster populations such as the red kite and large blue butterfly.
(17) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
(18) Even by the standards of the hardline Taliban, famous for their tight control on everything, from kite flying to music, when they ruled Afghanistan , the uniformed squads are oppressive, said Michael Semple, a fellow at Harvard University, an expert on the Taliban.
(19) Direct cutaneous arteries provide blood supply to the kite flap when the only dorsal metacarpal vessel of the first web space is in a deep situation.
(20) Critically, this will lead to a system of kite marking practice authority and expertise which has been successfully applied to working with the most at-risk children and families.