(a.) Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
(a.) Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.
(a.) Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
(a.) Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
(a.) Mere; simple; plain.
(a.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.
(a.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(2) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(3) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(5) In addition, most of the major topoisomerase II cleavage sites closely corresponded to naked DNA hypersensitive sites for the prokaryotic enzyme, micrococcal nuclease.
(6) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
(7) They are rounded or oval bodies visible to the naked eye, and situated ventrolaterally in the posterior mesonephros.
(8) Sometimes naked images are taken of people without their knowledge or consent.
(9) The terminal of the lamprey was nakedly situated on the ventral surface, while that of the hagfish was always covered by the superficial glial layer.
(10) The structure of 7SL RNA has been probed by chemical modification followed by primer extension, using four substrates: (i) naked 7SL RNA; (ii) free signal recognition particle (SRP); (iii) polysome bound SRP; and (iv) membrane bound SRP.
(11) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
(12) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(13) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(14) If you come around, you can see that the trees are naked.
(15) Data obtained with naked RNA broadly confirm the secondary structure model proposed essentially by comparative sequence analysis, and allow identification of nucleotides involved in tertiary interactions.
(16) It doesn't surprise me that a man whose hit song sounded like an assault anthem and featured a video full of naked models would attempt to get back his wife via public pressure and a threatening music video.
(17) Differential binding specificities of MATy 1 and MATy 2 antibodies to the naked and capped LPS cores were further analyzed utilizing S. typhimurium polysaccharide fractions with different O-chain:core ratios which were obtained after separation by Sephacryl S-200 chromatography.
(18) One December morning the naked bodies of two alcoholics were found on an open place in the center of the city of Essen.
(19) While no difference in binding of factor was detected between wild-type polyoma enhancer and the enhancers of the PyEC mutants, PyF111 and PyF441, which had been selected for productive infection of F9 cells, definite differences between wild-type and mutants were observed in the digestion patterns of their naked DNAs with either DNAase I or exonuclease III.
(20) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
Unclad
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) During a series of three saturation dives to simulated depths of 1000, 1200, and 1400 fsw at the Ocean Simulation Facility, measurements were made to establish the rate of heat loss of unclad divers in helium-oxygen gaseous environments.
(2) Neoprene shields these swimmers from the cold, but it's not my cheapness that's keeping me unclad, it's my bloody-mindedness.
(3) Laser energy was focused into a fused-silica fiber optic (400 microns) for the Nd:YAG laser (12 W; 3 to 5 seconds), and into a single-crystal, uncladded sapphire fiber optic (250 microns) for the Er:YAG laser (7 to 8 mJ; 250 microseconds; 6 to 8 pulses).