(n.) A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.
(v. t.) To adorn with a sash or scarf.
(n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.
(n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(2) In March 1990, in a ceremony in the new Congress building built by Pinochet in his home town of Valparaiso - 80 miles from the capital, Santiago, and intended to remain well out of mind of the real centres of power - a sombre Pinochet handed the presidential sash over to Aylwin.
(3) The extravasation of contrast medium was seen in a sash like fashion through arterial and venous phase.
(4) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
(5) The painting depicts him in crisp white military tunic with cap, spectacles and green sash, his hands gripping a rail as if surveying an adoring public.
(6) A sash-like cord used to strangle Grove was still knotted around his neck.
(7) Thinking they meant Sash!, a European dance act, he said no and was promptly beaten up.
(8) So the Zeiss girls turned up: blondes with big makeup and swimsuits with sashes saying Zeiss.
(9) The fight to make today better must become your central task.” *** A presidential sash with the pale blue and white stripes of Uruguay sits in a glass-topped box in Julio María Sanguinetti’s book-lined, sombre study in a house on a quiet street near Punta Carretas.
(10) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
(11) Zheng and her friends have natty red sashes and a large banner that says: "Honoured to take part in the election for the people's congress".
(12) Cervical spine injuries associated with three-point fixation lap-sash seat belts result from impact against the sash.
(13) Worn-out sliding sash windows can be replaced with double-glazed, draughtproofed ones.
(14) Sash (WshWsh) epidermis can support melanocyte differentiation and pigment production but lacks functional melanocytes.
(15) Then, as a final insult, he added a personal observation: that Marino, who wore a customary mayoral sash to his meeting with the pope in Philadelphia, “really looked like a fool”.
(16) The garish sashes were introduced to distinguish the non-uniformed militias from an enemy who favour the same get-up of traditional Afghan garb and AK-47 slung over the shoulder.
(17) The president and Mrs Reagan stood on a special platform on the South Lawn to greet Jackson, who wore a military jacket with sequins, plus floppy gold epaulettes and a gold sash, a single white glove with rhinestones, large dark glasses and full stage make-up.
(18) If success is measured by the quality of one's view, then Ekow Eshun has done very well: step out of the high sash window in his room at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and on to the roof, and a tourist's idea of London unfolds as far as the eye can see – Big Ben, parliament, the London Eye; the Mall, St James's Park.
(19) But though the window is heavy, and sometimes shudders in its frame, the sash slides smoothly upwards.
(20) But in July 2011, evidence of various unauthorised third-party deductions from beneficiaries’ bank accounts started to emerge, says Thandiwe Zulu, provincial director of Black Sash , a human rights organisation.
Sawmill
Definition:
(n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes the validity and reliability of a method to retrospectively assess exposure to antisapstain agents used in sawmills (chlorophenates).
(2) Wood-trimmers' disease, generally called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which affects workers in sawmills, is thought to be caused by fungal diaspores.
(3) It is concluded that the dust exposure in sawmills is associated mainly with restrictive type of pulmonary impairment in the exposed workers.
(4) The mortality of a cohort of 1290 sawmill workers was also studied in order to have a socially, geographically, and occupationally similar group without the exposures typical of the pulp and paper industry for comparison.
(5) Workers in five coastal sawmills were asked to complete a self-administered questionnaire about symptoms considered potentially related and unrelated to fungicide exposure, and about injuries commonly reported in sawmills.
(6) Four workers from a cedar sawmill who developed red cedar asthma are described.
(7) Exposure to a new wood preservative agent (Sinesto B), whose active ingredient is 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA), was determined by urinalysis of the parent chemical and its metabolites in workers employed in four Finnish sawmills.
(8) In a cross-sectional survey of 652 workers in a western red-cedar sawmill, we obtained data on symptoms, pulmonary function, immediate skin reactivity to common allergens, nonspecific bronchial responsiveness, total IgE level, and sensitization to plicatic acid conjugated with human serum albumin as measured by RAST.
(9) This was due to the excess of deaths from ischaemic heart disease found among the men at the sulphite, sulphate, and paper mills, maintenance department, and power plant, but not at the sawmill.
(10) Epidemiologic surveys were carried out on 1,138 white men employed in sawmills and grain elevator terminals in British Columbia.
(11) Patterson’s vision is something grander: Tchula as a manufacturing hub attracting factories providing stable if not particularly well-paid work, likethe clothing firm and sawmill used to do.
(12) Exposure to chlorophenols occurs in the vicinity of the lumber treatment area in sawmills and in subsequent work phases where treated lumber is handled.
(13) Oxygen intake for a given work load was similar in both groups, but cardiac frequency was elevated in the sawmill group.
(14) Local geology, ground water streams, and chemical analyses incriminated a local sawmill as the only plausible source of exposure.
(15) A group of 71 chlorophenate-exposed sawmill workers were identified as part of a group undergoing an extensive health and environmental evaluation in a pulp mill.
(16) A gas chromatographic (GC) method was developed for the determination of 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA), initially in the urine of animals, but subsequently in samples of urine from sawmill workers in order to evaluate their exposure to 2-EHA which is used as a wood preservative.
(17) Antibody levels to R. microsporus and P. variotii were higher in wood trimmers than in other sawmill workers whose jobs had an assumed lower exposure to mould spores.
(18) Within a few days it would be full to its 300-tonne capacity and would ply its way back upriver into Peru, just like a dozen other barges loading up at sawmills on this bend in the river.
(19) The concentration of urinary chlorophenol was assayed for 230 sawmill workers.
(20) The police know this and the wood passes through,” admits Felipe Portocarrero, a powerfully built timber merchant sitting shirtless on a deckchair at a sawmill on the Yavari river, which marks the border between Peru and Brazil.