(n.) A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leverkusen had their goalkeeper Bernd Leno to thank for a fine late save from Léo Baptistão but their night ended on a sour note when Tin Jedvaj received a second booking in injury time.
(2) Leno's audience, admittedly, is never very hard to excite – you get whoops and cheers just for being Vin Diesel or Jessica Alba, never mind the president of the United States – but frequently they rose to their feet, applauding wildly.
(3) Asked about Mourdock's comment on The Tonight Show, Obama told host Jay Leno: "Rape is rape.
(4) On his first live TV appearance in the US (on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show) he played up the confused foreigner shtick, picking holes in the concept of “African-Americans”.
(5) As Jay Leno remarked about the Bill Cosby situation this week: “You go to Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man; here, you need 25.” Even so, you can’t be too careful.
(6) Jokes about him abounded on late night comedy shows well into the following decade – Letterman, Leno and even on Saturday Night Live.
(7) Asked about the issue by Jay Leno on his Tonight Show, Obama added: "I think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently."
(8) Obama's long-awaited visit to the Los Angeles studio of NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno was a highly non-traditional venture for a serving president.
(9) In February, longtime rival Jay Leno turned over the Tonight Show to current host Jimmy Fallon.
(10) ("We were going to have vice-president Biden come on and say a few words," Leno quipped, "but, you know, it's only an hour show.")
(11) Since Leno’s departure in February, which saw Jimmy Fallon take over at the Tonight Show, Letterman has been in second place in the ratings to Jimmy Kimmel’s LA-based late night show which airs in the same slot.
(12) Roma picked up where they left off after half time and a scintillating run by Gervinho required another good save from Leno, but the keeper was helpless when Pjanic curled his free kick over the wall.
(13) That snub saw Jay Leno take over from Carson and started a late night ratings war which raged throughout the 90s and saw Leno dominate for the most part.
(14) The irony is, for decades we’ve hankered after a Brit answer to Leno or David Letterman.
(15) The Leverkusen captain was shown a straight red card and Pjanic beat Leno from the spot.
(16) If either were to get the job, they would be up against Jimmy Fallon, newly installed in Jay Leno's The Tonight Show chair at NBC.
(17) Counterattacking at pace, Salah’s shot beat Bernd Leno after he was played in by a superb pass from Dzeko on two minutes.
(18) By then, Noah had become a frequent contributor and had also appeared as a guest on the Jay Leno and David Letterman shows.
(19) Asked about the announcement by Jay Leno, Obama looked unfazed and appeared unlikely to rise to the bait.
(20) Noah, who has appeared on Jay Leno and David Letterman, was the subject of a 2011 documentary film by David Paul Meyer, You Laugh But It’s True, which followed his career in post-apartheid South Africa.
Lino
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine labelled with 14C linoleic (lino-PE, lino-PC) and arachidonic acid (ara-PE, ara-PC) at the 2-position were used as substrates.
(2) You climb the crumbling concrete steps, where dried weeds still poke through the cracks, to enter a small room with a lino floor and low suspended ceiling.
(3) Raffaele Claudio Carbosiero, known as Lino, has styled the hair of the rich and famous for decades and is known for cutting the prime minister's hair with a left, rather than right-hand, parting in 2010.
(4) • The picture caption was amended on 13 January 2014 because the original said Lino Carbosiero was now a CBE.
(5) Lino-PE was hydrolysed most strongly by homogenates of the distal cauda epididymis but the testis, vas deferens and caput and corpus epididymis also contained hydrolytic activity.
(6) The H1 (now renamed fliC; lino et al., 1988) alleles specifying antigenically different Salmonella flagellins are identical at their ends but differ greatly towards the middle, where there are two hypervariable segments (regions IV and VI).
(7) Her own designs are handprinted in the UK and retain the texture of lino block prints, resulting in an intentionally uneven effect.
(8) "This is by far the biggest group of Greek cases," says the court's Greek judge, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos.
(9) "I've made lino prints throughout my career, so it felt like the right direction for me to explore," she says.
(10) The only disadvantage is that the larger prostheses require large amounts of Lino-type metal which is very heavy.
(11) Thus, the order of effectiveness is MgCl(2) > LiCl > NaCl > KCl > NH(4)Cl, and LiCl > LiNO(3) > Li(2)SO(4).
(12) If that should give any woman reluctant to describe herself as a feminist pause for thought, the naff exchanges between Gray and the reporter Andy Burton about whether the "lino" was "a looker" suggests discrimination in Sky's football department may have spread way beyond two middle-aged dinosaurs.
(13) Chromatofocusing of testis homogenate resulted in the appearance of two active forms of PLA2 with different pl-values (6.5 and 5.6) when lino-PE was used as substrate.
(14) Unfortunately for him the referee and lino were incompetent, decided the tackle was in the box.
(15) Burton said "apparently, a female lino today, bit of a looker", with Gray responding: "A female linesman?"
(16) The actor Amanda Holden kicks off the list of testimonials on his website : "A day without Lino, is like a good meal without wine.
(17) "As a 'showbiz' stylist, Lino's renowned skills of celebrity hair-cutting and styling are recognised throughout the world," his website says.
(18) Ara-PC and lino-PC were hydrolysed by homogenates of the cauda epididymis and testis.
(19) Ian Phillip's lino prints of coastlines are also wonderful, I think.
(20) Sessions, attended by up to 20 participants at a time, have included silk painting, lino printing, glass painting, sketching and clay work.