(n.) A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(2) A student at the Glasgow School of Art who lost her entire portfolio in the fire that engulfed the college in May, has created a commemorative artwork using the ashes of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.
(3) Smoke billows into the air as a firefighter douses the fire at the Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.
(4) But, in a gallery a few steps away, the courage and creativity of students whose biggest moment was wrecked by the fire that rampaged through Charles Rennie Mackintosh's great building last month makes for what must be the most moving of this summer's graduate exhibitions.
(5) Other popular Mackintosh designs in his home town of Glasgow include the Lighthouse, the Willow Tearooms and House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park.
(6) 6.00pm BST Summary With the fire under control and fire crews beginning the long task of assessing the damage, here's a summary of today's very gloomy events: • A major fire has torn through Glasgow School of Art's famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh building , a landmark in the city and considered one of the nation's most beautiful architectural creations .
(7) It's an iron framed, stone clad building, so you might expect the shell of it to remain, but of course the whole thing about Mackintosh is all those fabulous painted timber interiors.
(8) Each layer will then be transferred to the Mackintosh museum, where items for salvage can be properly identified.
(9) Maloco gathered ashes from the Mackintosh building for her new piece, called Negotiation of Space (A Door Opening and Closing).
(10) January 31, 2013 11.26am GMT Sky are saying that Fulham's chief executive Alistair Mackintosh is locked in his office.
(11) The result was greeted last night by a cheering crowd of Gibraltarians, waving union flags, gathered in front of giant screens outside the referendum centre in John Mackintosh Hall.
(12) The Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh building before the fire.
(13) "We are all delighted to welcome René to Fulham," said the club's chief executive, Alistair Mackintosh.
(14) As for the library, Mackintosh was not famous for working in precious materials.
(15) Students and staff were in tears as the 200-strong fire crew fought to save the listed Mackintosh building, which was built in 1897.
(16) The destruction of the Mackintosh building would send out shock waves worldwide, he said.
(17) It’s the most famous art school building in Britain ... It’s also the masterpiece of [Charles Rennie] Mackintosh.” He added: “I really like the idea of using charcoal from the fire.
(18) In Barcelona, the likes of Antoni Gaudí or Domènech i Montaner were surely artists as well as builders, as were Otto Wagner in Vienna or Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow.
(19) The building was constructed over a decade from 1897 after Mackintosh, the celebrated Glasgow-born architect and designer, won a design competition.
(20) Across the three metre-high debris that is banked around the door of the library is a solitary Mackintosh chair where the famous periodicals desk used to stand.
Waterproof
Definition:
(a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
(n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
(n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.
(v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the thickness of the waterproofing sheath is not a very sensitive variable, assuming the thickness is between 0.5 and 2.0 mm.
(2) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
(3) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).
(4) The BBC sessions version of Hey is one of my favourite ever songs and to hear that, as the sun was trying to break through, almost made me forget the fact I'd lost my waterproof and was walking about sopping wet in a glorified bin-liner.
(5) In the meantime, clinicians should be aware of this problem and may choose to prevent these errors by wrapping the connection with waterproof tape.
(6) He issues instructions home for new boots, a waterproof sheet, a lamp, field glasses and a camera.
(7) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
(8) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(9) Below this is a very thin waterproof layer of wax and 'sclerotin' continuous with the contents of the tubular filaments, which is readily removed by adsorptive dusts.
(10) British mountaineer Kenton Cool was sitting in the check-in lounge at Gatwick airport last Thursday with a locked waterproof box that, if all goes according to plan, will not leave his side until he reaches Everest's summit for a 10th time this spring.
(11) He has kitted us out in our super-modern waterproof gear that makes us look like a family of Scandinavian traffic cops, but about which even the teenager doesn't complain.
(12) Let's hope he's not brought his brolly along this time, but invested in a nice waterproof jacket instead, a mac maybe.
(13) Waterproof footwear and clothing should be worn to minimize skin contact.
(14) Make sure you take a waterproof bivvy for your sleeping bag, plenty of warm layers and hot food and drink.
(15) It is also waterproof and would be perfect to use in hydrogen reservoirs.
(16) After struggling into a dry suit, I grabbed a handful of waterproof gear bags and headed down to the beach.
(17) Motorola is promising “all-day battery life” for the Moto E, and has fitted it with features such as Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 and P2i’s waterproof nano coating (which makes the phone splash-proof) that are found only on smartphones costing twice as much as the Moto E. As with the Moto G, Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android for the Moto E, something that cannot be said for most of the other smartphones in its class.
(18) Bedding has been constructed with a vapour-permeable waterproof fabric that is impermeable to house dust mite antigen (Der p1).
(19) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
(20) Try a waterproof picnic blanket, much cheaper and easy to keep clean.