(n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
(n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
(n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
(n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
(n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
(n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
(n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
(n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
(n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
(v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
(v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
(v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
(2) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
(3) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
(4) The cell shape varied greatly and included dendritic, stellated and strap-shaped forms as well as multinucleated giant cells, similar to those of juvenile melanomatas.
(5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(6) To be effective, strapping must adhere to the entire abdominal wall rather than to the edges of the incision; it must also be permeable to body fluids and well tolerated.
(7) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
(8) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
(9) Rare is the interview that concludes with the subject pinging one’s bra strap.
(10) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
(11) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
(12) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
(13) It’s easy money for cash-strapped African treasuries.
(14) These eventrations are enormous in Africa because the post-partum women do not make active movements to develop again the abdominal strap.
(15) Two hundred consecutive patients with arthrographically verified rupture of one or both of the lateral ankle ligaments were allocated to treatment with either an operation and a walking cast, walking cast alone, or strapping with an inelastic tape - all for 5 weeks.
(16) The dermal-subdermal plexus is continuous across the midline and this contralateral pathway is supplied chiefly from branches of the superior thyroid artery, facial artery, and myocutaneous perforators of the strap muscles.
(17) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
(18) The extra cost of the deployment is estimated at $35bn, at a time when the US is strapped for cash because of the recession.
(19) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
(20) Ever since I first strapped a radio to my bag, people have been warning me that the cycle courier is an endangered species.
Thong
Definition:
(n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The guy walking [by me] had on nothing more than a thong and a pair of platform snakeskin boots.
(2) Fifty percent of Pong Nam Ron children had antiHAV antibodies at the age of 8-9 years and at the age of 12-13 years of Bo Thong children.
(3) Forty-two percent of the population at Pong Nam Ron and fifteen percent at Bo Thong went to drug-stores or groceries when they developed minor illness, while 85.2% of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong went to the local health center.
(4) Certainly, Gagaʼs thong flash seemed mild in comparison to Cyrusʼ over the top follow up act, but it was still a totally gratuitous bit of self exploitation in an otherwise interesting and well put together number.
(5) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(6) The two layers of subunits are held together largely by the apolar COOH terminus, a helical thong, which inserts into a hydrophobic pocket formed by two neighboring subunits on the opposite ring.
(7) Rihanna has treated her fans to Instagrammed selfies of her enjoying the view at a strip club, of her buttocks barely concealed by a tiny denim thong and of her posing with two oversize cannabis joints while in Amsterdam.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When Minaj released the artwork for her Anaconda single – a striking image of a squatting Minaj in a hot pink thong, squatting on the floor with her ample backside facing the camera – she did so with a message.
(9) The girls favour bikinis the size of Dairylea triangles with thongs that could cut their own slice of cheese, while boys see no shame in skimpy white briefs that look like they were bought from Versace Junior.
(10) splashed across the chest – and has outraged people for selling thongs for children with "wink wink" printed on the front, and last year for selling "push-up" (its description) bikini tops for girls as young as seven .
(11) One of the Sábado Gigante’s best-known segments, for instance, is Miss Colita (roughly translated, it means Miss Ass); a pageant in which women parade around the stage in thongs while Don Francisco comments and audience members vote for their favorite buttocks.
(12) While 10 years ago the stockings, the tincy thongs, the half-cup bras were only available here, in the past decade Agent Provocateur's kink has gone mainstream – this year high-street chain Peacocks reports sales of "sexy lingerie" increasing by 73% on last year.
(13) A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 253 local inhabitants during the beginning of the transmission season in July 1989 at Bo Thong District, Chonburi Province, Eastern Thailand where malaria transmission was likely to be moderately high.
(14) She shook everyone's hand ("That's new," remarked the lighting producer, sotto voce), gave me a selfie and then said to her people, "Do we have a thong?"
(15) Plus: moving on Argentina: Playboy model Cinthia Fernández – ex-partner of San Lorenzo's Jonathan Ferrari, Racing's Iván Pillud and self-styled "Queen of Thongs" – says having twins with Huracán's Matías Defederico will change her.
(16) Jackie St Clair was dressed in a tiny thong and high heels, Sinitta undid her top, and Cowell smoked and watched as the two women wrapped themselves around him and fondled his crotch.
(17) A high resonance frequence in thong-minded trained was not observed, only one time a normal, 63 times a reduced arterial resonance frequence.
(18) Ninety-four percent of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong and eighty-seven percent at Pong Nam Ron gave a history of having used ya-chud in the past.
(19) Ryan Shapiro, CEO of JPay, drawn by prisoner Thong Vahn Louangrath.
(20) Like the original one-step Hypaque-Ficoll procedure (Ferrante and Thong, 1978), a single centrifugation at 500 X g for 30 min resulted in the formation of two distinct leukocyte fractions.