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Smock


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
  • (n.) A blouse; a smoock frock.
  • (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.

Stock


Definition:

  • (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
  • (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
  • (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
  • (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
  • (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
  • (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
  • (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
  • (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
  • (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
  • (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
  • (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
  • (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
  • (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
  • (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
  • (n.) Same as Stock account, below.
  • (n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
  • (n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
  • (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
  • (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
  • (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
  • (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
  • (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
  • (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
  • (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
  • (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
  • (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
  • (n.) A race or variety in a species.
  • (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
  • (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
  • (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
  • (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
  • (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
  • (v. t.) To put in the stocks.
  • (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
  • (3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
  • (4) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
  • (5) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
  • (6) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
  • (7) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
  • (8) Analysis of mice injected with helper-free P90A virus stocks demonstrates that the variants are generated during viral replication in vivo, probably as a consequence of error-prone reverse transcription.
  • (9) Born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, he has also served on the board of the Washington Post, General Electric, Waterford Wedgwood and the New York Stock Exchange.
  • (10) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (11) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
  • (12) First, the possibility of "vertical" transmission of the virus was examined, as the Papio stock in Sukhumi was genetically homogeneous.
  • (13) Results of trials designed to determine forage production at various stocking densities may not reflect the nutritive value of the forage, but instead the severity of parasite exposure.
  • (14) Shares in energy companies lost ground as the impact of the drop in oil prices rippled through European stock markets.
  • (15) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
  • (16) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
  • (17) World stock markets suffered another bout of heavy losses when trading began on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 falling 57 points within the opening minutes to 5879.
  • (18) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
  • (19) During the last ten years the stock of pigs in the Netherlands has doubled.
  • (20) Analysis by six enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase; alanine aminotransferase; malate dehydrogenase; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; phosphoglucomutase; and glucose-phosphate isomerase) showed that these stocks have identical enzyme profiles and form a distinct zymodeme grouping.