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Shrank


Definition:

  • () imp. of Shrink.
  • (imp.) of Shrink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Levothyroxine therapy lowered the monoiodotyrosine and diiodotyrosine levels, ameliorated all her endocrinopathies, started her periods, and shrank the goiter.
  • (2) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
  • (3) The Greek consumer prices index shrank by 2.9% in November, showing deflation accelerated after October's reading of minus 2.0%.
  • (4) All revisions indicated that the devascularized necrotic segment shrank to form a minute fibrous tissue residue, anastomosis was patent and continence was retained for colo-proctoanastomosis.
  • (5) In experiment one, 144 zygotes shrank to 32-36% of their initial volume in 1.0 M SPBS within 30 min.
  • (6) His brief grew and then shrank with his appointment as the BBC's "teen tsar" overseeing BBC Switch, axed as part of director general Mark Thompson's strategy review last year.
  • (7) MR cells shrank about 23% when all chloride was removed from the outside (mucosal) bathing solution.
  • (8) The sharp fall is partly due to the extra bank holiday in June (for the Diamond Jubilee), so could be a one-off... ...and as the data isn't as bad as feared, it might suggest that the original estimate that the UK shrank by 0.7% in the last quarter will be revised a little higher.
  • (9) As the programme got going most of the problems shrank in size whilst the problem of changing their practice routines to meet certain guidelines for quality of care imposed by the programme grew.
  • (10) Spain's economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter, putting it back into recession and with a long downturn in prospect as the government cuts spending in an attempt to wrestle down its budget deficit.
  • (11) Greece is expected to raise as much as €6bn this week to address its borrowing needs – including a much-discussed €3.2bn bond which matures later this month ( this FT piece has more details ) Updated at 10.45am BST 10.02am BST ITALIAN RECESSION CONTINUES Just in: Italian GDP shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2012.
  • (12) Although the extracellular space (ECS) shrank by approximately 50% during anoxia, the possibility that the increase in K+o and decrease in K+i were mainly caused by shrinkage of the ECS and swelling of intraneuronal space was excluded to a great degree because the changes in K+i and K+o during anoxia were relatively very large.
  • (13) Light cells shrank when NMG+ replaced Na+, supporting predictions of a Na(+)-dependent volume control system.
  • (14) RIF-1 tumors shrank to approximately half the volume at the start of therapy after only 3 days of treatment; mammary tumors took longer to respond, not reaching half the starting volume until after 11 days of treatment.
  • (15) But in April 2014, his show was taken off the air as the opportunities for criticism of authorities shrank.
  • (16) Tours was transformed, he says, when its high-speed service shrank the journey from Paris to just over an hour in 1989.
  • (17) Official figures will reveal on Thursday whether the economy shrank for a second successive quarter, from January to March, marking a triple-dip recession – unprecedented in living memory.
  • (18) The new data show that during the recent downturn the economy shrank by 6.0%, rather than the 7.2% previously estimated.
  • (19) The Japanese economy shrank by 1.3% in the last three months of 2010, and there are fears that its recovery could be knocked off course.
  • (20) Economists were most alarmed by data from France, where manufacturing activity shrank at the fastest rate in almost three years.

Wardrobe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
  • (v. t.) Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.
  • (v. t.) A privy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (3) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
  • (4) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
  • (5) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
  • (6) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
  • (7) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
  • (8) In these cases, the woman’s wardrobe must feature subdued tones.
  • (9) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
  • (10) Nobody goes out and buys a winter wardrobe these days,” he said.
  • (11) Furnished flats came with wartime utility furniture, cheap government-designed beds and wardrobes and chests of drawers that no one else wanted.
  • (12) Ideally they should also possess the sort of clipped tones that make vulgarities sound like Virgil and the sort of wardrobe that dresses up deviousness as a gentleman's sport.
  • (13) When I heard the gunfire, I slipped out of bed and hid in the wardrobe.
  • (14) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
  • (15) They asked what sort of work I could do but I can’t do anything physical because of my tremors … I can’t hold the wardrobe handles to get my clothes out in the morning.” That image might be one for George Osborne to pause on as he talks of cutting sickness benefits as an “incentive” for people such as Brehaut to get a job.
  • (16) Movies spanning the quality spectrum from Risky Business to Annie Hall to Roman Holiday all famously affected people’s actual wardrobes (respectively, Ray-Bans, men’s tailoring on women and full skirts and head scarves.)
  • (17) Monsters died in their beds, with their medals still hanging from the uniform in the wardrobe.
  • (18) When you are informed that 200 children are missing, you don’t go to dinner until you have got to the bottom of it Wole Soyinka “I get a feeling sometimes that some of these candidates were just locked in their wardrobes and they were told: ‘Just take selfies in there and don’t come out until you’ve finished the entire wardrobe.’ All kinds of postures.
  • (19) Her wide-shouldered, sequined wardrobe of the 80s has been tossed.
  • (20) So I could fret about the fact that my dog has a capsule wardrobe and worry about being a crazy dog lady and blah blah blah.