(n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.
(n.) A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The singer called off seven concerts, including gigs in London and Liverpool, to give Frank "Poncho" Sampedro time to heal a broken hand.
(2) Nine patients slept in the Poncho for two consecutive nights, negative extrathoracic pressure being applied during the second night.
(3) According to the singer's long-time guitarist, Frank "Poncho" Sampedro, the ageing band may soon need to call it quits.
(4) She has shed a drenched beret and a wraparound poncho-ish garment and has the time-honoured look of an attractive hippy: white cotton shirt, silver and coral bracelets.
(5) Trenchcoats, monogrammed scarves and check blanket ponchos, all made in Britain, underpinned sales growth during the financial year ending 31 March.
(6) In the second half of the financial year, Burberry said accessories were popular, in particular scarves and ponchos, as well as the new season “runway rucksack” and Banner bag.
(7) The increase in FRC was obtained by applying a constant negative extrathoracic pressure (NEP) with a poncho-type respirator.
(8) Burberry’s finance chief, Carol Fairweather, said: “We’ve got this absolute focus on our heritage icons, there is a lot more to come from the scarves and poncho story as we move forward this year.” The trenchcoat, made from fabric woven in Keighley in Yorkshire and sewn nearby in Castleford, now uses cotton grown on Burberry’s sustainably managed plantation in Peru.
(9) On the other hand, our results demonstrate that the poncho wrap ventilator is poorly tolerated by patients with severe COPD in a typical outpatient setting.
(10) In a randomized clinical study on 55 patients with AD and 31 healthy controls, we investigated the irritative capacity of poncho-like shirts made of 4 different materials (A: cotton; B, C, D: synthetics of different fiber structure).
(11) As a very self-motivated girl – I had, only the other week, made myself a poncho out of a tablecloth – I wanted to find out something about sex that I could get moving with.
(12) Those seeking evidence for such assertions could point to the announcement that the popular PlayStation Plus subscription programme, which brings benefits such as discounted and even free games, plus cloud saves, will carry over from the pS3 to the PS4 as is, and will give PS4 owners immediate access to Drive Club PS Plus Edition when the console launches, plus three free download games – Don't Starve, Outlast and Secret Ponchos – in the three months after launch.
(13) They had to change into "rain ponchos" (cellophane, we call it in my house) and combat trousers in the open air.
(14) The normally festive parade had turned into a mess of ponchos and crying children.
(15) Back in August, Young called off seven British and European gigs to give Crazy Horse guitarist Frank 'Poncho' Sampedro time to heal his fractured hand, before scrapping the rest of their world tour.
(16) Orders are being placed for thousands of ponchos so that spectators queuing to get through security checks remain dry and schedules examined to determine how hockey and beach volleyball matches could be rescheduled if they are unable to take place due to violent storms.
(17) Inside there were some wellies, a rain poncho, wet wipes, glow sticks, a torch, tissues and other such things.
(18) The case of a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis in the phase of chronic respiratory failure (PaO2 34 mmHg and PaCO2 61 mmHg, breathing ambient air) is presented in which, following the failure of negative pressure mechanical ventilation ("poncho"), positive pressure ventilation was tested with a silicon made-to-measure nasal mask as the access via.
(19) Pulmonary inflation was achieved by applying a continuous negative extrathoracic pressure into a Poncho type respirator.
(20) There’s an opening ceremony on 24 January involving dancing robots, eight Finnish hot tubs, a re-enactment of the Woodstock festival and 18,000 people dressed in shiny aluminium ponchos (free, more details at mons2015.eu ).
Shrug
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
(v. i.) To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
(n.) A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
Example Sentences:
(1) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
(2) As for the liberals who are today pointing at an atlas and shrugging for the cameras, back then their parents were probably writing letters to the Times about the need for greater economic efficiency.
(3) He shrugs in bemusement at what is, to him, a meaningless compliment.
(4) Updated at 6.55pm BST 6.51pm BST Asked whether Bayern might bottle it because of the expectation on them tonight, Thomas Muller shrugs and says: "Except for the game against Barcelona, there hasn't been a situation where Bayern weren't favourites."
(5) We can’t let ministers just shrug their shoulders | Peter Tatchell Read more After returning to the podium at the Methodist central hall in Westminster, he told the audience Thornberry had clearly expressed Labour’s opposition to the war in Syria and had called for an end to the conflict.
(6) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
(7) Boris Johnson has shrugged off calls for an urgent review of cycling safety in London after a man killed on Wednesday night became the fifth cyclist to die in the capital in nine days.
(8) If they have a position, he believes it is more likely to be “let’s just get on with it”, mirroring the shrugged-shoulder response of Julie Bishop, who declared that she had “no concerns” about marriage equality.
(9) His performance was encapsulated by the shrug that was his simple response to a Celtics fan who threw beer on him after the game .
(10) Yet, ultimately, the film honours Dengler's good humour, his resilience, his overwhelming desire to live; after describing the many horrendous tortures the Viet Cong inflicted on him, he shrugs and says: "They were always thinking up new things to do to me!"
(11) The show has shrugged off the bonds of mere TV, and garnered a cultural presence rarely seen since the shows of the 1970s – the so-called “golden age” of television.
(12) If you love football, you love Rosicky,” Wenger shrugged afterwards.
(13) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
(14) Yves, a quiet, soft-spoken heavy metal fan with a penchant for band T-shirts and political protest, gives what can only be described as a Gallic shrug.
(15) Asked if it helped with negotiations, she shrugged.
(16) Tory cuts are criticised but accepted with a shrug, while the rank incompetence of leading cabinet members, most notably Jeremy Hunt , slips by unremarked upon, almost as if Miliband is too polite to mention it.
(17) In the unaired version – which was later passed to the Mirror – the presenter then appears to recite the children's counting rhyme and use the N-word under his breath before pointing at the Toyota and shrugging: "Toyota it is."
(18) At this point, you might shrug your shoulders and walk away from this green fantasy land.
(19) Though located in a given abdominal organ, such abscesses find it hard to recognize this as their exclusive setting and attempt to shrug off these traditional confines.
(20) But her principal outlet is her blog, Atlas Shrugs , named after the philosophical novel by the arch-conservative Russian emigre, Ayn Rand, which promoted "the morality of rational self-interest".