(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 ).
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.