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Refurbish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To furbish anew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
  • (2) Our aim is to complete the second phase of our redevelopment [the Front of House refurbishment] by then, which will require my full focus.
  • (3) Thompson said its sale "represents another milestone in the way the BBC is changing" from a number of broadcasting bases to key HQs in the capital and around the country, including the newly-refurbished Broadcasting House in central London and BBC North in Salford.
  • (4) Berrimah, built 35 years ago, has been beset by reports that it is too harsh an environment for children – particularly young female offenders, who will be housed in the former maximum security wing – and is falling apart, despite $800,000 worth of refurbishments.
  • (5) Public outrage is such that the Congress party is prepared to pay the price of potentially breaking their alliance with the DMK to refurbish their image," Paranjoy Thakurta, a respected commentator and journalist writing on corruption, told the Guardian.
  • (6) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
  • (7) He changed the logo, moved the design studio from Paris to Los Angeles and started to refurbish the stores, decisions that were viewed with suspicion.
  • (8) Statue at New York Public Library , US TC Boyle , author Facebook Twitter Pinterest Refurbishment of the Rose reading room at New York Public Library.
  • (9) I think now in the the East End they are pinpointing a lot of the money into new flats and new housing estates and refurbishment of areas.
  • (10) He's planning next season's transfer strategy, he's involved in planning the refurbishment of Finch Farm" 4.07pm BST Top-notch mixture of fiction, straw-clutching and self-sacrifice here from Mark Judd: "I’ve never watched Game of Thrones so know little of what I talk about but if Wayne Rooney is advised to avoid weddings I’ll get remarried to anyone and invite him to the wedding if it ultimately gets him off the pay-roll at Old Trafford."
  • (11) We have seen continued investment in the playing squad; the expanded main stand; the new flagship retail store opening later this year; fully refurbished retail stores in Liverpool and Belfast; and we are consulting on a proposed development at our academy in Kirkby to bring together the first team and our young players.
  • (12) The hotel is adding 39 new rooms, due to open in June, as well as a refurbished fitness centre.
  • (13) A few years ago, he bought Lord Byron's old country estate in Hampton Court, and by all accounts the refurbishments would make Versailles look modest.
  • (14) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
  • (15) Revenues grew in the UK, however, where all its stores have been refurbished.
  • (16) So a rider was added to the contract at the end of 2013, authorising SETE not to refurbish the east lift or redevelop the area at the foot of the tower.
  • (17) His desire, he says, is to refurbish what he calls the "human rainbow.
  • (18) Culture secretary Maria Miller, communities secretary Eric Pickles and the prime minister's special representative for the centenary, Andrew Murrison, will unveil plans to spend more than £50m, including a substantial grant towards refurbishing the first world war galleries at the Imperial War Museum and a grant to make HMS Caroline, the last surviving warship from the battle of Jutland, into a floating museum.
  • (19) Like all cities in the UK, Leeds is already suffering from the effect of the coalition's first round of cuts over the summer: the end of Labour's £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme has hit the refurbishment or rebuilding programmes of more than 20 schools; funding has been culled from housing projects; school swimming pools and eco-towns plans, and plans to build 10 playgrounds are on hold.
  • (20) Local officials say 34 houses in the village of about 800 were too badly damaged to be refurbished.

Vamp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To advance; to travel.
  • (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
  • (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
  • (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main suppliers were VAMP (78 practices), AAH Meditel (46), and AMC (23).
  • (2) A study of 32 patients receiving cyclophosphamide (CY) and verapamil (VER) in addition to the drug combination vincristine, adriamycin and methyl prednisolone (VAMP) was made in which the clinical response and growth of clonogenic myeloma cells (MY-CFUc) from bone marrow aspirates were compared.
  • (3) Chaplin himself wrote about this process: "Sometimes a musician would get pompous with me, and I would cut him short: 'Whatever the melody is, the rest is just a vamp.'
  • (4) Median duration of aplasia following hyper-VAMP was 13 days with CM-CSF and 29 days without GM-CSF.
  • (5) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
  • (6) Collection was started 8-10 days after the end of L-VAMP therapy (3 cycles).
  • (7) RIP November 14, 2015 It was later confirmed that Marie Mosser, a 24-year-old who worked with band The Vamps, had been killed alongside Thomas Ayad.
  • (8) These studies suggest that intensive chemoradiotherapy (eg., VAMP-TBI), if given relatively soon after diagnosis and before development of progressive disease, improves long-term survival for patients with advanced neuroblastoma.
  • (9) VAMPs are synaptic vesicle-specific proteins composed of a carboxy-terminal hydrophobic membrane anchor and an approximately 100 amino acid domain oriented towards the cytoplasm.
  • (10) HDMP produced short responses in 25% of patients with less toxicity than VAMP.
  • (11) To determine whether GluT4 vesicles are related to synaptic vesicles, rat adipocyte low density microsomes (LDM), which are rich in GluT4 vesicles, were screened for the synaptic vesicle proteins synaptotagmin, synaptophysin, SV2, p29, rab3, and VAMP (synaptobrevin) by immunoblotting.
  • (12) A total of 110 patients with high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) not previously treated by chemotherapy or by radiotherapy at more than one site of disease underwent a regimen comprising an intensive 6-week initial, induction phase using vincristine, adriamycin, methotrexate, and prednisolone (VAMP) followed by the non-cross-resistant combination cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and vindesine (EEE).
  • (13) Comparison of these data with our previous study of patients receiving VAMP alone, suggests that the addition of CY to the regimen may increase the tumour cell kill.
  • (14) A 41-year-old male was diagnosed as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in November, 1982 and partial remission was obtained by a combination chemotherapy of LVP, DVP ABOP and VAMP.
  • (15) The amino-terminal 24-28 amino acid residues which comprise the proline-rich head are only about 50% homologous between the different VAMPs, yet the proline-rich character is maintained.
  • (16) Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 1 is a 120-amino acid protein which co-purifies with cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the marine ray Torpedo californica.
  • (17) It is concluded that verapamil may be a useful adjuvant to VAMP chemotherapy and that busulphan may provide an alternative to melphalan in patients whose myeloma cells are melphalan resistant.
  • (18) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNAs predicts proteins which are 84 and 75% homologous to Torpedo VAMP-1.
  • (19) This from the suburbs of Bristol, and another trade long steeped in such sharp practice: "Self-employed hairdressers are required for a busy, newly opened and re-vamped Beauty Salon."
  • (20) Its message in bovine brain encodes a 116 amino acid protein whose sequence reveals it to be the mammalian homolog of Torpedo VAMP-1.

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