(a.) Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sea turtles lay about 100 leathery-shelled eggs in a 25 cm diameter chamber carefully excavated about 50 cm deep in a nesting beach, where the eggs exchange gases (at approximately 28 degrees C) during their 60-day incubation period.
(2) An ancient woman with leathery skin sat behind the desk.
(3) Active coronal caries was present in only 11.6% of the subjects, whereas active (soft or leathery) root caries lesions were present in 31.5% of the subjects.
(4) Punk rock lives on through a network of leathery stoners and their dogs.
(5) Erythrodermic mastocytosis is a rare variant of diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis in which the skin becomes red, thickened, and lichenified and has a doughy consistency with multiple small papules on its surface, giving a leathery appearance to the skin.
(6) There are the black eyes, once compared to tiny oil wells, and the massive, leathery hands that erupt from his sleeves.
(7) The cutaneous manifestations of this syndrome include leathery thickening of the skin, hyperpigmentation and hypertrichosis.
(8) Within a period of 2-6 months all lesions had changed from soft, greasy and yellowish to leathery or hard, darkly discoloured tissue, indicating a gradual transition from active into inactive stages of caries.
(9) Burnett helped create Donald Trump – the man, the myth and the legend, all neatly wrapped into one leathery package.
(10) " His face creases up and he emits a deep, leathery laugh.
(11) He has the leathery complexion of someone who has spent long hours outdoors, and what looks like a black eye.
(12) We set up a prospective study to establish a hypothesis which could explain the formation of the typical leathery crust.
(13) The characteristics of chronologically aged skin should be differentiated from the features of photoaging, which is marked by yellowed, leathery, sagging, wrinkled, elastic skin, as well as underlying connective tissue damage and various benign, premalignant, and malignant neoplasms.
(14) They are large bipeds with big leathery wings, horns on their head and tails.
(15) We leapt up, inflated by Robin Cook ’s ethical foreign policy – only to come crashing down crotch-first on Blair’s hypocritical and leathery realpolitik.
(16) Lower down on the list of significance, many older people with leathery skin now regret their sun worshipping youth and their refusal of any sun block prophylactic.
(17) A 34-year-old woman presented with leathery thickening and haemorrhagic lesions of several finger- and toe-nails as first symptoms of an HTLV-I infection.
(18) The Caribou frontman may resemble a nerdy tour guide but here at Croatia’s Dimensions festival he’s as revered as any leathery DJ legend.
(19) Many species of skates and ray and some sharks reproduce by laying leathery eggcases, which remain on the seabed or attached to seaweed for several months while the embryo develops into a miniature version of the adult.
(20) Among countless bars offering loud rock, a fistful worth checking are Cool Arrows (1025 Nogalitos Street) and Saluté International Bar (2801 N Saint Mary's), both featuring Tejano bands and DJs; Casbeers , founded in 1932, has recently shifted to 1150 South Alamo St and offers fine food and leathery singer-songwriters; Cowboys Dancehall (3030 North East Loop 410) lives up to its name, with everyone wearing Stetsons and line dancing to slick country bands.
Texture
Definition:
(n.) The act or art of weaving.
(n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
(n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
(n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
(n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
(v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
(2) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(3) The prognostic significance of nuclear texture features has to be proved by further studies in which clinical data of the course of the tumor disease must be included.
(4) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(5) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
(6) Our results force a reexamination of the process of human texture segregation and of some recent models that were introduced to explain it.
(7) If young children know this association, they should attend to texture as well as shape in classifying objects with eyes.
(8) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
(9) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
(10) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
(11) Pressing was regulated in order to get maximum pressing force effect for 0.1 s, 30 s and 60 s. Textures of side of compressed forms as well as edge and middle of surface of compressed forms were investigated by scanning electron microscope.
(12) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
(13) The general scheme of mapping spatial distribution of cytoplasm texture parameters, realized using computed microscope LEITZ-T.A.S., allowed the imaging of geometrical relationship between yolk granules in the Rana Temporaria fertilized egg.
(14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(15) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
(16) The surface texture was also dependent upon the temperature of the preparation and polymer used.
(17) A textured figure moving across a stationary textured background ("texture bar" stimulus) often elicited vigorous neural responses, but, on average, the responses to texture bars were significantly smaller than to solid (uniform luminance) bars.
(18) Using a 3-MHz transducer, no discrete alterations in the echo texture of the livers were seen to correspond to the regenerating nodules.
(19) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.
(20) Neuronal texture discrimination in the cat striate cortex was investigated by measuring the responses of single cells to different pattern structures.