(n.) A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.
(v. t. & i.) To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(2) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(3) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(4) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(5) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(6) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
(7) André de Magalhães Gomes said he had always previously backed the Seleção (Brazilian team) but today he joined the demonstration wearing an Argentina shirt.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(9) The best scenario used in the new YATR strip each Sunday wins a shirt to the value of £50 from Kitbag .
(10) Local men taking a stand against sexual violence – the "V-men" (after Ensler's feminist V-Day movement) – make themselves visible with special T-shirts.
(11) The 27-year-old has put pen to paper on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Emirates – he will wear the No23 shirt at the club – though confirmation that the deal had been ratified by the Premier League did not come until just before 5pm tonight.
(12) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An activist sprays T-shirts during a training protest organised by NoG20 Rhein-Main.
(14) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(15) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(16) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
(17) Or the checked shirt of the “hipster Labor lawyer”, as the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, described him.
(18) "We're trying to get Sting to wear a Pussy Riot T-shirt at his concert tonight," he'd told me the day before.
(19) Sadly, there was probably no other way to get rid of Tantawi as minister without Morsi losing his shirt (or his head.
(20) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
Singlet
Definition:
(n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantitative singlet-singlet energy-transfer measurements were carried out to determine changes in the distance between the two Met-84 H4 sites within the same nucleosome following conformational transitions which we have reported earlier.
(2) In neutral or basic aqueous solution guanine, guanosine, deoxyguanosine, guanylic acid, deoxyguanylic acid, thymine, and uracil reacted with singlet oxygen.
(3) This broad singlet does not appear to be a tyrosyl radical.
(4) The ESR spectrum exhibited a singlet (g = 2.0021) with a 5.4-G peak-to-peak linewidth.
(5) While hydroxyl radicals produce DNA strand breaks and sites of base loss (AP sites) in high yield and react with all four bases of DNA, singlet oxygen generates predominantly modified guanine residues and few strand breaks and AP sites.
(6) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
(7) This has been demonstrated using a separated-surface-sensitizer system for generating chemically pure singlet oxygen, eliminating most of the complications that arise with singlet oxygen generation by conventional photosensitization.
(8) Since all the sulfhydryl groups of beta-crystallin are known to be exposed on the surface of the protein (Andley et al, 1982, Biochemistry 21, 1853), these results suggest that the pronounced changes in conformation of beta-crystallin by singlet oxygen may be due to a rapid loss of the protein tertiary structure by oxidation of the sulfhydryl groups.
(9) The quantum yields for singlet oxygen formation via energy transfer from triplet alpha-terthienyl have been obtained from time-resolved measurements of its IR phosphorescence: these yields are in the 0.6-0.8 range in non-polar and polar (hydroxylic and non-hydroxylic) solvents.
(10) Attempts with various chemical sources of singlet oxygen to determine whether this species inactivates DNA did not give an unequivocal answer.
(11) The near IR emission at 1270 nm following pulsed laser excitation of methylene blue in deuterium oxide, was used to study the interaction of a singlet molecular oxygen (1O2) with (i) 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and its oxidation products, and (ii) biosubstrates of relevance in Parkinson's disease.
(12) This differs from results obtained with native enzyme, where pterin acts as a sensitizer via efficient singlet-singlet energy transfer to FADH2.
(13) Chemiluminescence appears to result from a side reaction involving singlet oxygen attack on the alpha-methene bridge, yielding a dioxetane.
(14) In acetonitrile, diphenylamine was oxidized by singlet oxygen to form N-phenyl-p-benzoquinonimine.
(15) This information combined with the fluorescence quantum yield data account for the low values for singlet oxygen production.
(16) Other roles of carnosine, such as chelation of metal ions, quenching of singlet oxygen, and binding of hydroperoxides, are also discussed.
(17) Tests for the ability of singlet oxygen to induce lambda prophage in E. coli K12 also proved negative.
(18) The light-dependent reaction appears to be mediated by singlet oxygen.
(19) Superoxide anion (O-2) and singlet oxygen (1O2) were estimated but undetectable during the dopa-tyrosinase reaction.
(20) Evidence is presented for three mechanisms of inhibition by extendible nucleotides (of dhp and ara types) exhibiting frequent internalization: araATP acted as a simple pseudoterminator of alpha and beta polymerases, but was easily extended past singlet sites by Herpesviridae polymerases and only stalled at sites requiring two or more araATP insertions in a row.