(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.
Velvety
Definition:
(a.) Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
Example Sentences:
(1) On peptone dextrose agar plate, the growth is white and velvety to cottony.
(2) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(3) On the surface posterior to the ventral sucker, the tegumental processes were bandlike in the metacercariae, cobblestonelike in the flukes 2 days postinfection (PI), and velvety at 3 days PI.
(4) Cystoscopic examination revealed a bladder tumor, well-demarcated, white and velvety lesion with slight elevation.
(5) They come for a taste of the unknown, something most have never tasted – the sweet, cold, velvety embrace of ice-cream.
(6) Also, M. audouinii formed microconidia and macroconidia in velvety growth cultured on SCCGA containing NaC1.
(7) Sweet-toothed regulars come for a bowl of the velvety purple açaí juice (£4), an Amazonian berry usually served overly sugared but offered pure or with guaraná syrup here.
(8) It wasn't until very recently, sipping on a malted milkshake – the velvety thick, heart-stopping American kind that comes by the jug – that I rediscovered malt.
(9) The presence of a velvety, cauliflower-like growth on the surface of a long-standing pressure sore should alert the surgeon to the possibility of malignant degeneration.
(10) During the past 18 months we have studied 36 biopsy specimens taken from 11 young men ranging in age from 21 to 36, each of whom had multiple, reddish to violaceous papules, some distinctly verrucoid or velvety on either or both the shaft and glans of the penis.
(11) South Beach, Tenby, Pembrokeshire The velvety sand on all three of Tenby's beaches is the stuff of tropical islands.
(12) The BBC are introducing the velvety charms of Thierry Henry, Milan boss Clarence Seedorf and Rio Ferdinand, if he can stop tweeting for five minutes.
(13) Like a Rolls-Royce of self-regard, Lord Baker's vanity is truly a wonder and a joy to behold – a velvety, turbo-charged vintage purr of unabashed self-congratulation.
(14) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(15) The gastric mucosal rest presented as a velvety red patch with a distinct border, varying from a few millimeters in diameter to complete encirclement of the esophagus, was occasionally paired, and was found either at or just below the upper esophageal sphincter.
(16) The art of Jack Napthine is a powerful mix of boldly outlined locks, light bulbs and snatches of text; Julian Martin’s thick pastels give a dense velvety texture to his drawings; and Terry Williams’ soft sculptures of fridges, helicopters and video cameras are flamboyant and witty.
(17) Up a floor, from another improvised rooftop, we looked in the opposite direction to where the Tijuca rainforest climbs up the hillside in a carpet of dark velvety green.
(18) The black lesion with a velvety surface consists of very large cells packed with melanin granules of abnormal and variable density, structure and size.
(19) R. canada is typically rod-shaped, being delimited with a three-layered wall having a velvety coating adsorbed to its exterior surface.
(20) A broad spectrum of iris abnormalities was observed: the daughter had aniridia with persistent pupillary membrane strands traversing the anterior lens capsule; the iris of the mother and son had a velvety surface with no detailed crypts, but did have some persistent pupillary membrane tags extending from the collarette.