(n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
(n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(2) One ringlet on a handle has been offset to facilitate retrieval of the needle holder from a flat surface.
(3) The ringlet configuration of the splayed scissors conforms to the normal resting posture of the hand.
(4) The purpose of this study was to develop orthodontic ringlets from polyurethane which have maximum flow resistance.
(5) The ringleted far-out Mona Ramsey is on a quest to find herself when the answer is right beneath her coke-dusted nose.
(6) Neither intact phage nor ghosts were seen in any of the preparations, although ringlets of two different diameters, which appeared to correspond to the diameters of the sheath and inner core, were observed.
(7) Side by side on the shelves near us are two framed photographs: on the left is Melanie in a white dress, with a cascade of blond ringlets; and on the right is Tom, still the same bright blue eyes, but with a boy’s short hair.
(8) Writing about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh in 1978, Lorna Sage drew attention to the "slump" in its reputation after the success it had first enjoyed after its 1856 publication: at first, she argued, it seemed to have successfully liberated the epic form from a male monopoly; subsequently, though, a ringletted Barrett Browning morphed into "almost the archetype of the powerless, fey poetess".
(9) A Hasidic Jewish schoolboy with ringlets and a limp.
(10) Soluble rCR2, visualized by high resolution electron microscopy, was shown to be an extended, highly flexible molecule comprised of ringlet domains, each approximately 24.1 A in length, which likely correspond to the short consensus repeat motif deduced from the CR2 cDNA nucleotide sequence.
(11) PMC formed 15 times as many epithelial ringlets or "stomata" as PMVEC.
(12) In addition, surgeons can apply greater force to the splayed scissor ringlets than that which could be applied to the ringlets of conventional scissors.
(13) The abnormalities were predominantly confined to the posterior pole and ranged from many small (100- to 200-microns) subretinal black ringlets to single large (2- to 3-disc diameter) geographic lesions.
(14) Brown bodies, formed by coelomocytes surrounding foreign material, accumulated in the posterior region of the animal around the cloacal suspensors; these eventually were eliminated through a ringlet of ducts connecting the coelomic cavity with the external environment.
(15) Ringlet numbers increased by 354% while marbled white counts rose by 503%.
Tress
Definition:
(n.) A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
(n.) Fig.: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cavorting in Grantchester’s meadows, Brooke told the naked Gardner: “You’ve rather a beautiful body.” Gardner, letting her hair down, offered to dry him with her tresses, with “why shouldn’t we be primitive, now?” Her desires were obvious, but his were tormented.
(2) Recently, W. Tress has made re-commendations to mediate between both spheres by applying so-called "socio-empirical markers".
(3) Similarly anything non-solid (big, flowing tresses of hair) or clothing that conceals spaces hidden from the camera – skirts or high heels – can result in strange forms and growths.
(4) This paper is a response to Tress' methodological attempt in this journal (1988).
(5) These findings tress the importance of interacting intrinsic-hereditary and extrinsic neurogenic influences for the initiation of primary hypertension.
(6) The role of operative and other traumas, the character of preceding diseases and application of immunodepressive therapy in the reduction of the immunological reactivity of the organism is tressed.
(7) Slimane has introduced black tresse ouverte grosgrain ribbons, black boxes with a grain-de-poudre texture, and contrast of black matt and gloss on the label's bags and boxes.
(8) The decision tress allows not only the calculation of the strategy with the highest expected utility, but also threshold analysis, sensitivity analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
(9) (1) Protein synthesis in dendrites takes place mainly in the proximal parts although a slight synthetic activity can be observed along the whole dendritic tress as well.
(10) The design for the wearable ambulation unit to control the 22-channel stimulator and electrode tresses with helix electrodes has been completed.
(11) On the cover, a satanic figure grips a silky-tressed damsel in distress.
(12) A generation of postwar cinephiles rhapsodised over her earthy voluptuousness, her hourglass figure, her "bedroom eyes", her cascading brunette tresses.
(13) Male profile writers tend to refer to her "raven tresses".
(14) For evaluation of the effect of several drugs on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis during stress, after testing various tress stimuli (swimming, restrain) the 15 min exposure of rats to novel environment was chosen.
(15) It is tressed that Kalii preparations, aldosterone antagonists and diets are not sufficient.
(16) The epidemic was unusual in that the infections apparently occurred as the result of adults tending their gardens and children playing under and about the tress of the area.
(17) It said: The Special Rapporteur also tresses the obligation on the part of all competent authorities, including the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and dissident armed groups, to respect the right of internally displaced persons to seek safety in another part of the country, to leave their country and to seek asylum.