(n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
(2) George will be christened in a replica of the intricate lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
(3) There is no mention of the "shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather" of the Velvet Underground song, but Wanda's clothes are recorded precisely, the satins, the linens – above all, the furs.
(4) Non-coated specimens having a satin surface finish were also embedded in bone cement and tested.
(5) Charles's sombre but still-beautiful features, the waterfall of black curls, the exquisite lace at his throat, the satin and velvet of the royal vestments inspired the artists of the day to some memorable work.
(6) Lactation records (n = 86) from 60 does of four breeds (Californian, New Zealand White, Palomino and White Satin) were analyzed to assess the effects of breed, parity, day of lactation and number of kits on milk production.
(7) And the evening dresses in slippery satin, ruched and clasped with crystal reimaginings of the metal clips used in school dissection seemed vaguely sinister in origin – although, in true contradictory Kane signature style, these dresses were among the most elegant and desirable on the catwalk.
(8) A reproduction of a christening gown worn by royal babies since 1841, it's appropriately luxurious for its royal occupant – long and made of ivory satin and yards of delicate lace, it has little puffed sleeves.
(9) At Tony Soprano's Bada-Bing – used as a location in the series though actually named Satin Dolls – bored-looking Russian women in bikinis clustered around heavy-set Italian-American men to the sound of 70s rock.
(10) A sequel to The Stud, The Bitch continues the story of Fontaine Khaled, who has "an Arab millionaire among her yesterdays and hard-gambling Nico for all her tomorrows", as she "calls the shots from her plush limos and black satin sheets".
(11) I held up that first puppy, who I called Patient Zero,” she told me, “and I said, ‘I don’t know what this is gonna do to you, but you will live on a satin pillow the rest of your days.” The injection made the dogs infertile, but left them otherwise happy and healthy.
(12) In fashion, we have the mainstream fashion line and the modest fashion line,” says Malaysian designer Hazizul Abd Aziz of Aidijuma who favors cool satins and cottons.
(13) Do they also have black satin sheets, R Kelly playing on low volume and mirrors on the ceiling?
(14) Instead of Elsie Tanner in a too-tight skirt, it had everybody in satin-sheeted beds with everybody else (by 1985, there must have been more chlamydia than oil in them thar fields).
(15) The cover displayed a logo patch sewn on to a black satin jacket, while the inner sleeve depicted a desk cluttered with adolescent artefacts, including a 1976 KISS poster and a Chic single sleeve.
(16) Freddie's wearing tight oyster-grey satin pants, an antique market cream satin blouse and a scarlet velvet Victorian bed jacket.
(17) From the first look – a black satin knee-length dress worn with scarlet boots – it felt late night and louche, ready for Berlin's nightclubs.
(18) The kidnappers' demands were ably investigated by the bride, imperturbable in ivory satin, though the list of suspects (a brisk resumé of all the Braithwaites' aggrieved lovers) made her reconsider matrimony.
(19) Or just, not coral satin pants with suspenders, like the ones Sam Cooke, 28, from Manchester, was wearing in the Sun last Friday?
(20) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.
Sating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sate
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, in experiment 1 there were no differences between the groups when sated or during extinction and in experiment 2 the increased responding was restricted to the lever providing CR.
(2) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(3) Mouse killing induced by septal lesions, olfactory bulb lesions, or parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA) injections was compared with that of sated or food-deprived spontaneous mouse-killing rats in order to evaluate whether the experimentally induced killing corresponds to killing that occurs spontaneously, which tends to be viewed as predatory.
(4) One interpretation of these results is that naloxone attenuated the reward experienced by castrated and sexually sated males in the presence of an estrous female, thereby disrupting males' coital performance.
(5) Furthermore, neuroleptic-induced blockade of food-related motivational effects in food-deprived, but not in food-sated (non-food-deprived), animals suggests that the neural substrates of motivational events do not dissociate along the line between different rewarding stimuli but along the line between deprivation and nondeprivation.
(6) But, in truth, this was a victory fashioned outside the system, rather than because of it, and born of the grit, determination and talent of one man with a restless appetite for winning that is unlikely to be sated by his historic New York title.
(7) A burgeoning “No Palm Oil” movement is seeing some brands ditch palm oil altogether and state that on their packets, to sate the public mood.
(8) Our investigation seeks to establish a means to return sated leeches to their previous unfed, hungry state for reuse.
(9) Conversely, at sites of perfusion in the LH, insulin evoked the release of [3H]-NE when the rat was fasted, whereas 2-DG tended to induce mixed effects on the release of [3H]-NE under both sated and fasted conditions.
(10) They provide a solution to the age-old dilemma of what to buy your grandad once his need for socks and whisky is truly sated and provide an easy gift fix for long-distance friends and family.
(11) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
(12) The neuronal pattern of activity was studied during sated and fasted conditions as well as during a local glucoprivic challenge to the LH.
(13) Seven anatomically-defineD SFO subregions were discerned having metabolic activities that differed from one another by as much as 29% in water-sated Brattleboro rats.
(14) Yellow titles How visually sated are you right now?
(15) Measurements of glucose metabolism in individual components of the DVC, compared with those in Long-Evans rats, revealed that the area postrema was activated selectively both in water-sated and water-deprived Brattleboro rats, which have high circulating levels of angiotensin II.
(16) Here we report that the main compound in the SATES solution is a monosuccinyl ester of TES (MST).
(17) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(18) In contrast, binding in neural lobe sections of water-deprived, saline-treated, and water-sated homozygous Brattleboro rats was lower by 50%, 35% and 37%, respectively.
(19) Food-deprived decerebrate rats, like intact ones, ingested a taste substance they had rejected when sated.
(20) Also, it is suggested that our operations for eliciting stimulus-induced eating in sated subjects may be useful for future examinations of the psychological properties of craving.