(a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
(v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Fry, a 27-year-old occupier from Ohio and the very last protester to turn himself in after intense FBI negotiations, appeared in federal court in Portland on Friday, wearing a green anti-suicide smock.
(2) After apparent outside pressure on the brig due to my mistreatment, I was given a suicide prevention article of clothing called a "smock" by the guards.
(3) There were MPs (Hilary Benn and family), a smattering of celebs, a lot of public sector workers, Unison stewards in smart purple smocks.
(4) Although I am still required to strip naked in my cell at night, I am now given the "smock" to wear.
(5) Glastonbury has a record of incubating trends – Hunter wellingtons, the "backstage Barbour" jacket, smocked dresses and floral crowns all developed there.
(6) And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.
(7) But if the meaning was a little vague, the clothes were pretty, and played the good-guys in this dystopian vision, with butter-wouldn’t-melt artist-smock shapes in dreamy chambray and broderie anglaise.
(8) The nearby village where Tolstoy tried to educate peasant children in the 1860s still exists – now, as then, something of a dump; yet so evocative is the atmosphere that it wouldn't be surprising if Tolstoy himself burst from the lime trees wearing his peasant smock.
(9) I'd always played girls, so acting 11 was no particular challenge; the Edwardian smocks usefully concealed any bust line.
(10) Donated clothes, food, medicines and other essentials were piled high on tables in a room the size of a basketball court on Monday night as volunteers in brightly coloured smocks and t-shirts bustled, arranging goods and tending to the migrants.
(11) Bit off, I think, for you to bring smocks and overalls into the equation, as if corporate suits were only another type of necessary professional uniform.
(12) It was close to 1am by the time Madonna finally came trundling on to Melbourne’s Forum stage on Thursday, dressed in a bright yellow clown smock, riding a tiny tricycle and waving to a sea of 1,500 competition winners.
(13) I recommend a good dose of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience , possibly an act of random kindness or two, and certainly a nice chintz smock.
(14) However, the brig now orders me to wear the "smock" at night.
(15) Bearded young men grew their hair long, wore floral chintz smocks, and declared themselves "the Apostles of the Newness".
(16) Photograph: Felix Clay Seated in a bare interview room last month, wearing a blue smock and plucking at a wristband stamped with his detention number and ordained destination – Mexico – Mendoza was sombre, soft-spoken and weakened from two weeks of fasting.
(17) An imam, donning a plastic smock over his white robe, prepared to wash them while another man began cutting cotton shrouds for the day's burials.
(18) Her hair is long and grey, and she's wearing a loose-fitting linen smock.
(19) The Pentagon has now said that it allows Bradley Manning to wear a garment at night, which his lawyer described as a smock.
(20) Under the terms of his detention, he is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, checked every five minutes under a so-called "prevention of injury order" and stripped naked at night apart from a smock.
Sock
Definition:
(n.) A plowshare.
(n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
(n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
(n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off."
(2) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
(3) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(4) But people who don't, they'll pick that sock up from off the floor.
(5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
(6) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
(7) A database of fast MP and BP was compiled from intraoperative recordings collected from epicardial sock arrays in man.
(8) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(9) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(10) The city of free love has passed laws banning public nudity, which men get around with a carefully hung sock.
(11) I followed him to a room on a ßoor which I didn't know existed and he told me to take off my shoes and enter alone in my socks.
(12) Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills.
(13) Her feet, swollen by bad circulation, were clad only in socks as she heard the ruling delivered at the House of Lords.
(14) Our brothers, with their cool logic (despite their penchant for mismatched socks), and our ruthlessly honest best mates.
(15) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
(16) In no case did an accessory pathway fail to conduct following sock placement.
(17) They are wearing all blue, while the Socceroos are in their gold shirts, white socks and, thank goodness, green shorts.
(18) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
(19) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
(20) • 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).