What's the difference between melton and overcoat?

Melton


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were arrested at their homes in Stafford, Telford and Melton Mowbray, respectively, and taken to local police stations where they were questioned by SFO investigators.
  • (2) Lomas, from Eye Kettleby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, raised more than £86,000 for Spinal Research, a charity which funds medical research around the world to develop reliable treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck.
  • (3) A 340-nucleotide sequence has been identified in Vg1 RNA that directs its vegetal localization [Mowry, K. L. & Melton, D. A.
  • (4) While Melton Mowbray pork pies and stilton cheese alone provide an estimated £65m boost to sales and tourism in the Melton area.
  • (5) This novel cytokine, the vgr (vegetal related), is homologous to the vegetal (Vg1) gene of Xenopus (DL Weeks and DA Melton, Cell, 51:861-867, 1987).
  • (6) "It is a relief to know that we can now collaborate openly and freely with other scientists in our own university and elsewhere, without restrictions on what equipment, data, or ideas can be shared," Melton said in a statement.
  • (7) Michael Barrymore came out, on stage, there in 1995 – I was a child in Melton Mowbray and can still remember my mum gasping at the telly!
  • (8) Harvard stem cell institute co-director Doug Melton will apply for federal grants to research ways to turn stem cells into heart cells, pancreatic cells to treat diabetes, and neurons that could someday yield a cure for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
  • (9) Building societies including Skipton, Melton Mowbray and Cambridge all offer 95% mortgages, with rates generally falling between 5.5% and 6%.
  • (10) People walking with food shopping in Atlanta Photograph: Audra Melton But over the past half century, most of Vine City's minimarkets have scaled back or shuttered completely.
  • (11) A large general practice serving the entire population of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK.
  • (12) We wished to determine whether there is any specific sequence downstream of the start point of the SP6 promoter which is required for its function in the plasmid pSP64 (Melton et al., 1984).
  • (13) Meanwhile, the Melton building society has an advance payment three-year discounted rate of 4.89%, up to 75% loan-to-value.
  • (14) The health and social status was assessed by interview for all people aged 75 years and over, living in and around Melton Mowbray.
  • (15) A cross sectional, prevalence survey of eye disease in the population over 75 years old of Melton Mowbray has been used to examine the accuracy and completeness of the Blind and Partially Sighted Registers.
  • (16) So, a big day for England – it'll be our first chance to enjoy the card-waving charms of our very own Howard Melton Webb.
  • (17) Leicester’s Claudio Ranieri proves nice guys do not always come second Read more The Leicester players celebrated the greatest night of their footballing lives at Jamie Vardy’s house, in Melton Mowbray, where they gathered to watch the Spurs match .
  • (18) The methods of Hedlund and Gallagher, Melton et al., and Davies et al.
  • (19) The use of serum fructosamine in diabetes detection was investigated during a diabetes survey performed with a modified oral glucose tolerance test (MOGTT) on 742 residents of the Melton Mowbray area aged between 65 and 85 years.
  • (20) (Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) Barrie Thomas Rutter.

Overcoat


Definition:

  • (n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
  • (2) "It is a blue overcoat, made by Gieves & Hawkes , and their label is on the inside pocket," he says.
  • (3) Later, in the Adelphi's huge tearoom, the leaders of the overcoat brigade compared everything from songwriting styles to their appearances in photos (Morrissey's chin grows larger, Mac's recedes – both are horrified by the results).
  • (4) Outside a block of humble flats on Centre Street, two women in long overcoats jump out of a taxi, avoiding the torrents of rainwater pouring along the gutter as they carry a large plastic bucket.
  • (5) Photos of the event show Wilson in sandals, a short-sleeved shirt, and really quite short shorts while the gentlemen of the press (and they are all men) cluster around in ill-fitting suits and, bizarrely, overcoats.
  • (6) A glass cabinet containing the brown overcoat, trilby hat and tracksuit of Bob Stokoe from the time of the 1973 FA Cup triumph offers a nod towards history.
  • (7) Plastic-covered mattresses were almost completely free from mites, but foci were found on soft furnishings and on the jackets and overcoats of hospital workers.
  • (8) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
  • (9) We are given mouldy overcoats that are so damp they're virtually liquid, and a cup of Soviet coffee – coffee with no coffee in it, made from barley.
  • (10) Vincent “was the very best dancer in Bay Ridge … he owned 14 floral shirts, five suits, eight pairs of shoes, three overcoats, and had appeared on American Bandstand ”.
  • (11) "Last week my overcoat was taken from the members' cloakroom, where it was left over a weekend on my peg," writes mournful Tory Richard Benyon.
  • (12) Someone has spied him, bundled in an overcoat on the street outside.
  • (13) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
  • (14) And he is keen to avoid misunderstanding, for the House abounds with overcoats of lesser quality.
  • (15) His scarf is long and stripy, his trainers a kaleidoscope of fluorescent colour and when he takes off his knee-length overcoat it is clear he thinks of his body in the same way Michelangelo used to think of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
  • (16) Crombie, the fashion house whose trademark tailored overcoats have enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to bands such as the Specials, is in talks to buy its British rival Aquascutum.
  • (17) The adult daily intake of tin was about 17 mg per day in 1940, but it has now decreased to about 3.5 mg, due to improvements in technique of tinning with enamel overcoat and crimped lids to minimize exposure to tin and lead solder.
  • (18) Grainy, newsreel black-and-white, stiff shop awnings, sky as interesting as tea crisscrossed with overheard tram wires, one or two parked cars, shuffling overcoats and - a beacon in all of this - the exotic promise of the Scala cinema on the right, advertising The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.
  • (19) "I want to wear sweaters, a scarf, the overcoat, the whole thing, like a Winona Ryder movie.
  • (20) Clad in a smart overcoat and hat, Jackson, now 70, remains a formidable presence and a compelling speaker.

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