(a.) Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an earlier demonstration binocular shapes were produced from monocularly shapeless, random-dot stereo images.
(2) A week ago, the plane was a shapeless lump of metal.
(3) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
(4) Around its foot is precisely the sort of shapeless, windswept, nothing place that we were supposed to have learned not to do in the 1970s.
(5) Early on in the evolution of cinema sound a number of theorists recognised this power and said the ability to manipulate sound creatively will redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise.
(6) In cells where no persistent nucleoli as such were noted, nucleolar material was observed to attach to the chromosomes in shapeless masses which moved with the chromosomes during anaphase.
(7) They are political, argues its founder, Deborah Coughlin, because they dress in shapeless cloaks so the audience can't judge them by their bodies, because they support each other, and because they sing about women's real lives, rather than fantasy.
(8) But those who have not lost the power to examine themselves will probably find something basically true in the prolix, shapeless study of a futile frustrated wretch, even if they do not get as far as extending much sympathy to him.
(9) Anxiety in this mode consists of an unspeakable terror of the dissolution of boundedness resulting in feelings of leaking, falling or dissolving into endless, shapeless space.
(10) Not imposing and shapeless, not heavy to the point of having drooped, but, rather, something with a bit of shape … A real chest is round, comfortable, welcoming, and one should be able to put one’s nose into the middle with jubilation.” The weekly L’Express complained under the headline “The macho-erotic thoughts of Edouard Philippe’s hero” .
(11) Clearly, not all men are like cliches from Nuts magazine and want women in skintight clothes, but I would wager that most men prefer it when women wear clothes that fit them as opposed to shapeless sacks.
(12) Studies of the effects of the anthelminthic agent albendazole on the tissues of D. latum in vivo showed large shapeless protrusions of the outer tegumental cytoplasm on the surface of strobila, the mitochondrial degeneration in the tegumental cells and their nucleolar material segregation.
(13) Touré had his moments, and Jesús Navas offered flashes of quality down the flank, but too much of the visitors’ approach was shapeless, lacking composure in the face of QPR’s bite and energy.
(14) Yet amid much slapdash, shapeless, helter-skelter stuff – for prolonged spells it seemed more like a Championship game – Fabricio Coloccini should have given Newcastle an early lead.
(15) Unlike 80s fashion, there was no sense of fun in it, just a jaded, "I'm too cool to try, and that's why I'm wearing my shapeless slip dress over my bad jeans".
(16) All a bit shapeless, but there's less than 30 seconds gone, so there's plenty of time.
(17) Instead, the game meandered along rather shapelessly, not helped by a raft of substitutions and ending with a half-hearted attempt at the Mexican wave and some of the fans behind one goal amusing themselves by batting around a beach ball.
(18) A science-fiction film released in 1958 depicts how the "Blob", a giant shapeless amoeba-like alien, takes over a small American town and defies every attempt to destroy it .
(19) Does anyone know where I can buy a shapeless hemp shift dress?
(20) Whether considering the meagre tally of 10 points from 12 games since Manchester City were beaten here in September, or assessing this shapeless performance against a team who started in the bottom three and set up to avoid defeat, the Villa manager has to stem a spiral that is dragging his team into another battle against relegation.
Without
Definition:
(prep.) On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.
(prep.) Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.
(prep.) Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage.
(conj.) Unless; except; -- introducing a clause.
(adv.) On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally.
(adv.) Outside of the house; out of doors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(3) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(4) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(5) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(6) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(7) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(8) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(9) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(10) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(11) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(12) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(13) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(14) Significant increases in acid secretion were observed without changes in cyclic nucleotides.
(15) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(16) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(17) The inhibition was not seen in longitudinal muscle without myenteric plexus.
(18) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(19) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(20) The epididymis appeared distended but without any visible sperms.