(n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
(n.) To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds.
(n.) To trim up, as trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(2) His running here was unstinting and he doubled his tally with a clinical finish after a first touch too smart for Pogatetz, preening perhaps after giving Boro a sniff of reprieve.
(3) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(4) What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz.
(5) He remembers Obama's incoming cabinet posing for portraits in the White House during the height of the crisis: “what a weird and preening thing for us to do while the world is burning”.
(6) 'Jonathan Saunders, Preen, Berardi, Kane and JW Anderson are on fire' Those are the names you will be raving about now.
(7) Romney's event is being organised by Scott Preen, a London company that specialises in high-profile political fundraising parties.
(8) If the Packham show emphasised a disconnect between the fashion industry's quest for trends and pure red carpet dressing, then the Preen show later in the day underlined how a move to the US can give a British label a healthy dollop of slickness.
(9) At best, these corporate-dominated panels are mostly useless: preening sessions in which chief executives exercise messiah complexes.
(10) Total lipid was extracted from chicken (Gallus domesticus) epidermis, leg scale, claws, feathers and preen glands and analyzed by quantitative thin-layer chromatography.
(11) Comparatively higher activity was observed in the extent of ambulation and rearing at 5 weeks old, rearing and preening at 7 weeks old, and preening and defecation at 11 weeks old in the Sprague-Dawley rats compared with the Wistar rats.
(12) In his preening, know-it-all professional arrogance, Cruise thinks he's bulletproof, but the mouse roars, and the hitman pays (incidentally, when casting a soullessly efficient, emotionally unavailable professional, could there be a more perfect candidate than Cruise?).
(13) The animals showed depressed response of preening on day 2 and 6.
(14) In 1909, the American illustrator Rose O’Neill drew a comic strip about “kewpies” (taken from cupid) – preening babylike creatures with tiny wings and huge heads, which were handed out as carnival prizes and capered around Jell-O ads (to this day, Kewpie Mayonnaise, introduced in 1925, is the top-selling brand in Japan).
(15) Trichobilharzia ocellata cercariae attach readily to the foot skin of their duck host, but poorly to preen-gland contents.
(16) Jane, a journalist in her 40s, thinks so: "I won't stay long in the weights room," she says: "The men are preening themselves.
(17) In the short-term, times spent feeding, drinking and preening decreased.
(18) Daily decrease was observed in ambulation, rearing and preening responses, with maximum decrement on the seventh day of Dimecron intoxication.
(19) From day 9, the preening response exhibited a continuous increasing pattern until the last day of the experiment.
(20) Power is meaningless unless it’s displayed, enacted: hence Vladimir Putin’s bare-chested preening or his sessions of bone-crushing judo .
Swank
Definition:
(imp.) of Swink
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ramzan Kadyrov is joined by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank at his birthday party in Grozny in 2011.
(2) Comparison of the Bentley PFS-127, Fenwal 4C2417, Johnson & Johnson Intersept, Pall Ultipore, and Swank IL200 filters led to the conclusion that the Fenwal 4C2423 was both a significant improvement over the previous Fenwal design and comparable to the most efficient of these filters for both the removal of microaggregates during massive blood transfusion and for the blood flow rates obtained.
(3) Hilary Swank plays a resilient, lonely singleton who enlists Jones’s crabby claims jumper to help her escort three mentally ill women back to civilisation.
(4) There were 5 control puppies and 5 for which a Swank filter was placed in the arterial perfusion line.
(5) These changes did not occur in patients transfused comparable amounts of blood through Dacron wool (Swank) filters or in patients transfused less than 20% of blood volumes.
(6) Interposition of Dacron wool (Swank) blood transfusion filters prevented these changes.
(7) Weinberg claimed the actor had "no current plans to attend" the party; later the same month, YouTube footage showed Swank eulogising her host.
(8) Obviously it has taken me some time to digest this, and obviously it will take some more time,” Swank said.
(9) "This is a solid neighbourhood, everyone looks out for each other," Ben Swank, Third Man's co-founder, had explained to me on my tour.
(10) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(11) These can be prevented by microfiltration--the Swank IL200 transfusion filter made of Dacron wool is perfectly suitable.
(12) So the party was seriously amaze, we had like these interns you could actually SIT on, tray Gatsby & the entire theme was "bags", non-swank my idea, everyone was going OMG it is like something out of Truman Patootie, then there is this shouting, the doormen are like, couple of liggers shall we eject, I'm like *sigh* let them in but make him do up his shirt & do not let her out of your sight?
(13) Apparently, the Swank blood filter protects the lung by removing leukocytes and damaged platelets from the circulation.
(14) The efficacy of the Fenwal filter, the Swank filter, the Biotest filter and the intersept filter was practically the same, but the Intersept filter provided the best output with an equal filtration capacity.
(15) On the basis of this research, we conclude that polyester mesh micropore blood transfusion filters are not as effective as Dacron wool (Swank) transfusion filters in removal of micro-aggregates from stored human blood.
(16) It has also been demonstrated that rises in Swank screen filtration pressure in an in vitro test circuit are due to the presence of platelet aggregates.
(17) At one point in the film Swank and Jones' characters are confronted by a Pawnee raiding party and have a horse stolen, but Jones rejected any suggestion that he had "stereotyped" Native Americans in his film.
(18) These effects are due to microemboli that pass the filters and are prevented by use of Dacron wool (Swank) micropore transfusion filters.
(19) Microaggregates, detected by the Swank screen filtration pressure technique, were found in blood leaving the columns during three of the four perfusions with each column.
(20) No rises in Swank screen filtration pressure, which detects the presence of cellular aggregates in blood, were observed.