(n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.
(n.) Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tapestries would frame the space and create a sort of open-air building, though members of the Eisenhower family have gone so far to protest that the metal scrims remind them of Communist imagery or chain-link fences at a Nazi concentration camp.
(2) The results showed that a scrim wipe was the best for this purpose and also indicated that the non-ionic detergent Cetomacrogol 1000 B.P.C.
(3) It consists of a basal knitted scrim with strongly entangled ultrafine polyester fibers, lined with a fine velour of entangled ultrafine fibers that provide high ravel and tear resistance, a perfect matrix for preclotting, and an anchor for cell adhesion.
(4) But not unlike that avian display gone wrong, behind the shimmering scrim of spectacular billboards remain inconvenient truths.
(5) It's a sign of that disturbing migration of the middle to the far right that some critics don't even bother to put a scrim of compassion over their green eyeshades.
Scrip
Definition:
(n.) A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.
(n.) A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.
(n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.
(n.) Paper fractional currency.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the Great Depression, many towns and cities across the USA issued what would become known as stamp scrip .
(2) Share buybacks could start in the middle of next year as the bank attempts to control the number of shares in issue because 30% of its shareholders, particularly in Hong Kong, receive their dividends in shares (known as a scrip dividend) rather than cash.