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Slasher


Definition:

  • (n.) A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
  • (2) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
  • (3) Sure, they have watered-down, sexualized soaps such as Teen Wolf and the TV version of 90s slasher flick Scream, but Scream’s premiere garnered only a million viewers, compared to 10.1 million for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead .
  • (4) It can also be revealed that a tape found in Bridger's video player when police raided his home was paused at the point of a rape and murder scene from the slasher film The Last House on the Left.
  • (5) Even as his foes caricature him as a slasher of the state, he seeks – unashamedly – to colonise the political centre-ground and to claim the support of working people.
  • (6) But I think we've made something more elevated than a straightforward slasher movie.
  • (7) On becoming chief executive of Aer Lingus his decision to axe 2,500 jobs at the loss-making airline earned him the nickname "slasher Walsh" – another label he professes to find mystifying.
  • (8) jumping from a height and hanging were compared with 19 wrist-slashers.
  • (9) The lineup included a strand of 80s frighteners with certified gay appeal , including The Lost Boys and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2; an indepth talk on queer slasher history; a tongue-in-cheek feminist house-of-horrors installation called Killjoy's Kastle ; and Monster Mash , a short about gay gorehounds hooking up at a Halloween party.
  • (10) Many people hate slasher movies because they rely on the psychopathic male gaze.
  • (11) The reality is that Grayling is making the most of exploiting the legal profession's image problem as cover for his real priority – demonstrating to his own backbenchers his credentials as a budget-slasher.
  • (12) The 50 Shades adaptation seems to be conscious of this trait with its casting of Jamie Dornan, whose quiet portrayal of a bloodthirsty therapist in The Fall means there's hope for the story yet – provided he's allowed to bring notes, and avoid the genre's other pratfall, namely rigidity, as so ably demonstrated in Mark Wahlberg's 1993 school slasher The Substitute.
  • (13) But as with all slashers and burners, he hadn't the bottle to name what specific cuts he meant.
  • (14) After Slasher Walsh's battle with BA cabin crew, a similar showdown with Spanish staff was anticipated.
  • (15) Cable said the Tories were trying to present their economic team as "'Slasher' Osborne and the Hard Men".
  • (16) And then there's my own personal favourite: those Worcester-based jokers Analogue Domestos , who are about to release a single entitled I'm Mental, and do weekly slots at the voguish London club Byte Slasher.
  • (17) Sigourney Weaver is in talks to reunite with director Ridley Scott, architect of her breakout role in the 1979 slasher in space classic Alien, on his forthcoming biblical epic about the life of Moses .
  • (18) Male subjects viewed either two or five R-rated violent "slasher," X-rated nonviolent "pornographic," or R-rated nonviolent teenage-oriented ("teen sex") films.
  • (19) The farmer and his sidekick, both wearing blood-stained white smocks, like two mad dentists from a slasher movie, hoisted the deer in a kind of metal cradle and, in just a few seconds of mesmerising knife-work, removed its hide entirely.
  • (20) He is happy to be both a Tea Party-style slasher of taxes and public works projects, unilaterally killing a decades-in-the-making new tunnel under the Hudson River, as well as an ardent advocate of big government in the form of Hurricane Sandy relief.

Yarn


Definition:

  • (n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
  • (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
  • (n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (2) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
  • (3) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
  • (4) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
  • (5) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
  • (6) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (7) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (8) Grafts were woven from polypropylene yarn into conduits 4 mm I.D.
  • (9) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
  • (10) Yarn preparation areas (opening through fine spinning) were studied at two cotton textile mills which had been studied 5 years previously in Shanghai.
  • (11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
  • (12) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
  • (13) After decortication of the graft, posterior arches of C1 and 2, and microsurgical excision of the cartilage of the C1-2 lateral joints, the graft was imbedded into the entire C1-2 space, fixed, and tightened using a braid of "nylacap" yarn.
  • (14) Limited environmental sampling, performed using a vertical elutriator in yarn preparation and weaving areas, indicated that exposures were similar to those reported in other parts of the developing world.
  • (15) Risk increased significantly with duration of employment in: production of synthetic yarns, plastic packaging, and miscellaneous chemical compounds; fabricating structural metal and stationary tanks; body factories; electrical plants; and retail sale of paint and wallpaper.
  • (16) On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year’s production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.
  • (17) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
  • (18) An influenza-like illness appeared recently among workers in a plant processing synthetic yarn.
  • (19) You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
  • (20) It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson , an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.

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