(n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following exposure, samples of flea eggs were processed for microscopic examination and seeded onto carpet swatches containing flea-rearing medium in order to assess egg hatch, and larval, pupal, and adult development.
(2) Swatch A third of the Swiss watchmaker’s sales are in mainland China.
(3) The posterior wall is reinforced with a second swatch of Prolene mesh to prevent herniation, which often results from future degenerative changes.
(4) I was lucky enough to find a pile of swatches of material in the office and have turned them into a mobile and three soft bricks – the only cost has been for some cotton and toy stuffing (£3.50 for a huge bag).
(5) As huge swatches of the community have lost the opportunity to work and earn an income, just over 4 in 5 Syrians now live in poverty,” the report said.
(6) She denies enjoying a jet-set lifestyle; he has described it as being more of a Swatch than Rolex lifestyle.
(7) By swatch-matching your urine colour to the Cleveland Clinic's diagram, you can see whether or not you are healthy.
(8) Both swatches of mesh are held in place in separate tissue planes by the body's internal hydrostatic forces.
(9) Viable bacterial populations persisted for 24 weeks at relatively high population densities on swatches of wool gabardine, cotton sheeting, cotton knit jersey, and cotton terry cloth exposed by direct contact and held in a humidity of 35%.
(10) Aged five, he joined Barnard Castle rugby club , his local team, and started playing tag rugby, where opponents try to swipe a swatch of cloth from their waistband instead of tackling.
(11) Cotton and woolen fabrics and fabrics of synthetic fibers were exposed by direct contact (pipette) and by aerosolization to poliovirus and to vaccinia virus in separate experiments, allowed to dry for 16 hr at 25 C in 35% relative humidity, and randomly tumbled with sterile swatches of the same fabrics for 30 min.
(12) Following treatment with trypsin, sheets of epithelium were removed from swatches of abdominal skin.
(13) This organism retained its virulence for Swiss mice after being recovered from wool gabardine swatches held 8 weeks in humidities of 35 or 78% and from cotton terry cloth swatches held 6 weeks in the same humidities.
(14) To quantitate leaching from treated clothing, studies were performed in which swatches of fabric impregnated with 14C-labeled permethrin were applied to the backs of rabbits for 1 wk.
(15) They then spontaneously transferred the matching concept to novel items, including three-dimensional objects and fabric swatches, without any experimenter-provided differential feedback.
(16) I thought it was a kind of Swatch.” The 68-year-old Belgian, a member of Fifa’s executive committee since 1988, did not appreciate the gift, insisted there was nothing untoward in its intentions, but was happy to return it.
(17) This organism retained its virulence for Swiss mice after being recovered from wool gabardine swatches held 4 weeks in 35% relative humidity and 6 weeks in 78% relative humidity.
(18) Additional swatches were agitated to resuspend Be particles inside a closed steel glove box.
(19) No difference was evident in fungus growth points on fabric swatches washed in tap water with and without Impregon.
(20) One hundred thirty-nine adults viewed 18 reproductions of faces, color swatches, and abstract designs and rated the emotional content of these visual stimuli.