(superl.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
(superl.) Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
(superl.) Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(2) Attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing this week, Barack Obama wore, along with other participants, a bright purple silky Chinese-style shirt .
(3) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
(4) Thirteen isolates from one golden pheasant and three white silky fowls, three black silky fowls, three Japanese long crowers, and three Japanese bantams produced herpes-like cytopathic effects (CPE) in the CEF cultures.
(5) Basque specials include grilled kokotxas (gelatinous, subtly flavoured hake glands, an acquired taste) in green sauce, silky red piquillo pepper stuffed with oxtail, grilled scallop and spherical steak croquetas .
(6) We sail through the checkpoints without trouble – Rashid has no English but he’s proud of his ability to negotiate these checkpoints with silky smooth ease.
(7) Shorts are not exactly news but it was this summer that they really went mainstream, with every high-street shop in town doing silky summer shorts, Chloe-esque scalloped shorts and Rihanna-style sporty shorts, and these were simply the norm.
(8) Built by IBM , Watson, as the computer is known, can answer questions in a silky digital voice and knows a hell of a lot of trivia on everything from children's fiction to archaeology and the musical oeuvre of Maurice Chevalier.
(9) Interview with Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 2009 In other words "An international reputation for his silky intermingling of hybrid movement forms an emotionally intense theatre."
(10) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(11) Tonight, dressed in a thick tweedy, collared waistcoat, his hair tied back with a silky ribbon, he is an unmissable presence; the ruddy-cheeked pig farmer up to the city for the night.
(12) Iberian lynx: back from the brink of extinction ... and run down by cars Read more The silky sea mammal, native to the west coast of California and off the Guadalupe islands of Mexico, has now moved from the “near threatened” to the “least concern” category, largely thanks to the enforcement of laws such as the USA Marine Mammal Protections Act, it said.
(13) The Spurs outscored the Heat 36-17 in the final quarter, putting a silky gloss on the scoreline that belied just how close this contest was.
(14) Long’s ethereally light, yielding chips, which deliver a proper potato flavour, live up to the hype – as does the impeccably fresh haddock, which falls apart in firm, silky flakes.
(15) 6 Uncover and boil off almost all the liquid to give a silky sauce.
(16) It's sort of My Little Pony gone wrong … There was nothing wrong with Frank Lampard's goal during practice for last week's Ireland friendly and Robin van Persie showed off his silky skills during a childrens' tournament in the Netherlands.
(17) The hair became longer, lighter, softer, and silky, and it was occasionally discolored.
(18) The alkyl moieties in wax esters and alkyl diacyl glycerols from the liver of the dogfish, soupfin shark, and silky shark are almost exclusively saturated and monounsaturated, the main alkyl moieties being the C(16) and C(18) chains in both lipid classes.
(19) There was his silky style, his daunting courage and his principled stance – but what made them tangible was his transporting charisma, the gift of being able to touch people, amuse them, make them feel just a little bit more alive.
(20) Thus the colonization or noncolonization of the organs of the Silkie fowl embryo by melanoblasts seems to depend on environmental cues.
Texture
Definition:
(n.) The act or art of weaving.
(n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
(n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
(n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
(n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
(v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
(2) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(3) The prognostic significance of nuclear texture features has to be proved by further studies in which clinical data of the course of the tumor disease must be included.
(4) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(5) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
(6) Our results force a reexamination of the process of human texture segregation and of some recent models that were introduced to explain it.
(7) If young children know this association, they should attend to texture as well as shape in classifying objects with eyes.
(8) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
(9) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
(10) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
(11) Pressing was regulated in order to get maximum pressing force effect for 0.1 s, 30 s and 60 s. Textures of side of compressed forms as well as edge and middle of surface of compressed forms were investigated by scanning electron microscope.
(12) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
(13) The general scheme of mapping spatial distribution of cytoplasm texture parameters, realized using computed microscope LEITZ-T.A.S., allowed the imaging of geometrical relationship between yolk granules in the Rana Temporaria fertilized egg.
(14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(15) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
(16) The surface texture was also dependent upon the temperature of the preparation and polymer used.
(17) A textured figure moving across a stationary textured background ("texture bar" stimulus) often elicited vigorous neural responses, but, on average, the responses to texture bars were significantly smaller than to solid (uniform luminance) bars.
(18) Using a 3-MHz transducer, no discrete alterations in the echo texture of the livers were seen to correspond to the regenerating nodules.
(19) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.
(20) Neuronal texture discrimination in the cat striate cortex was investigated by measuring the responses of single cells to different pattern structures.