(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.
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Toe
Definition:
(n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
(n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
(n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.
(n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
(n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
(n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
(v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.
(v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
Example Sentences:
(1) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
(2) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
(3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(4) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
(6) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
(7) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
(8) Finally, secondary reconstruction techniques are presented, always compared with classical techniques (free 2nd toe transfer versus pollicization).
(9) An equal increase in the number of eroded joints in hands and toes was seen in the penicillamine and the gold group.
(10) Economic analyses were also adjusted for hatchery toe-clipping costs.
(11) The core temperature is taken from the rectum, the nasopharynx or tympanic membrane, and the peripheral temperature from the great toe.
(12) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(13) Computer digitization revealed that distal anastomotic intimal hyperplasia occurred exclusively at the heel and the toe of the graft and the floor of the host artery.
(14) These tests include measurement of the ankle-brachial systolic pressure ratio, a treadmill exercise test, a reactive hyperaemia test, and assessment of toe-pulse reappearance time.
(15) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(16) The forms of lutein in the toe web were diester (66%0, free alcohol (26%), and monoester (8%) and their sensitivity to aflatoxin followed the same order.
(17) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
(18) On other days, she dresses head to toe in bright pink.
(19) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
(20) The time course of the ionic outflow from the toe web was determined by conductance measurements in the fluid surrounding the web and compared with the visually observed phenomena.