(n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.
Example Sentences:
(1) In news set to shake the music industry to its very foundations, the two boybands are to merge and go full portmanteau with a tour in 2014.
(2) Lifestyle is a convenient portmanteau term which, in relation to the causes of cancer, has come to mean all aspects of the way people behave, whether determined voluntarily or imposed by economic, cultural, or geographic circumstances, including reproduction but arbitrarily excluding occupation.
(3) I am guessing that “makery” is a portmanteau for “made-up bakery”.
(4) Trump’s supporters, like Brexit supporters before them, will say that these are merely the bleatings of the sore losers – the Remoaners, the Grimtons, or whatever portmanteau is conceived next.
(5) We may have only just been given a great new portmanteau term for the type, but the lumbersexual has been here for a while.
(6) Kashiwa Reysol The Sun Kings Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sanfrecce is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San, and an Italian word frecce or arrows.
(7) - One is the ability of digital disrupters (in this case, even within the same company) to take one bit of a newspaper and do it with a conviction, range, depth and passion that a portmanteau print-based newspaper cannot match, especially in digital form.
(8) Most – preferably all – portmanteau words should be banned by newspapers and other media organisations, especially “mansplaining”.
(9) Sunderland (an estimated 13,000) and Southampton (14,000) against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in 1996-97 and 1998-99 are two of the more famous examples; the latter led to the portmanteau "Dellhurst Park".
(10) He was also the co-creator of the supernatural portmanteau film Dead of Night , to which he contributed the much-imitated yarn about the tormented ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) and his demonic doll.
(11) Also, the portmanteau of square eggs is squeggs, and does that sound like something you should be eating?
(12) I’ve got a few better portmanteau words up my sleeve, such as “frackricide”: the lawful killing of someone who refuses to stop talking about fracking; “deathicit”: a plea to be used in mitigation for executing someone who refuses to stop talking about the GERS figures: “My client pleads not guilty to the charge on the grounds of involuntary deathicit.” A “bamsplainer” is a foolish person who insists on using the word “mansplaining”.
(13) It should also be noted that in current Hungarian political usage “liberal” doesn’t have the connotations of “civilised”, “enlightened” or “generous”, it’s a portmanteau for leftwing conventions.
(14) A former banana-ripening warehouse, it had been bought by Albery's father Donald as a rehearsal space for Margot Fonteyn (Donmar is a portmanteau of their first names), then used by the RSC as its London pied-à-terre in the late 70s.
Tan
Definition:
(a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
(n.) See Picul.
(n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
(n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
(n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
(n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
(n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
(v. i.) To get or become tanned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(2) In t(7;9)(q34;q34.3) translocations from three cases of T-ALL, the breakpoints occur within 100 bp of an intron in TAN-1, resulting in truncation of TAN-1 transcripts.
(3) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
(4) Both internalized and cellularly enveloped hexamethylenediisocyanate-tanned dermal sheep collagen degraded by the detachment of fibrils.
(5) This demonstrates that a UVA tan provides photoprotection against acute UVA exposure.
(6) In this study the efficacy of preserving microvascular heterografts with glutaraldehyde tanning was investigated.
(7) A comparative study of tanned cell hemagglutination (TCH) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE), two easy and reliable methodes for the routine detection of antibodies against nuclear antigens was performed.
(8) Mackay confirmed following Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Newcastle United that a resolution had been reached over the issue but Cardiff's players are reportedly no longer happy for Tan to be in the dressing room on match days.
(9) Reversible binding of BAN and TAN had Ki values of 1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-10) M, respectively as determined by log probit plots.
(10) These findings are relevant to the risk-benefit analysis of sunscreen preparations, especially in skin type II, as they provide evidence that a 5-methoxypsoralen-induced tan is protective against the DNA-damaging effects of solar UV radiation, and thus has the potential to reduce the carcinogenic risk of exposure to such radiation.
(11) Modified human umbilical vein allografts tanned with glutaraldehyde and encased in a polyester mesh were used as arterial substitutes in 13 femoropopliteal reconstructive procedures.
(12) Patients with polymorphic light eruption who intend to obtain a tan by sunbathing should not, therefore, be treated with sunscreens which may worsen their rash, but should be advised to sunbathe without sunscreens for a shorter time.
(13) At higher concentrations, O2 and TAN sensitize the fast-stage damage by a fixation reaction that competes with its repair; in contrast, misonidazole appears mainly to operate by reaction with an earlier, ever shorter form of oxygen-dependent damage.
(14) I asked if they had a black baby face, and my mother even asked if they had a “tan” baby (since my husband is white and our child will be biracial), but the sales woman told me that their babies only came in black and white.
(15) The potency and selectivity of D,L-4-(3,4-dichloro-benzoyl-amino)-5-(dipentyl-amino)-5-oxo-pen tan oic acid (CR 1409) as a cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist was investigated on motor responses of the longitudinal and circular muscles of the guinea-pig isolated ileum.
(16) This article examines the indoor tanning industry, the effects of ultraviolet-A radiation, and public education.
(17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
(18) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
(19) All tumors occurred as solitary, soft to firm, solid, tan, and ulcerated masses in the digits of dogs aged 11 to 15 years.
(20) Anti-hTG titers far below those detected by the tanned-red cell hemagglutination test had very large effects, to the point where measurements of hTG could not be made, when a cross-reactive precipitating antiserum was used.