(n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
(v. t.) To beat with a stick.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(2) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(3) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(4) The results show that the proposed improvements were mostly realised as far as such administrative measures as the procurement of disinfectant dispensers, throwaway towels and suitable disinfectants were concerned.
(5) The body cavities and reflected skin surfaces were lightly dried with absorbent paper towels and the body loosely packed with cotton wool.
(6) "The two surviving children were in the bath and mum turned her back to get some towels and turned round to find one of them trying to drown the other one.
(7) When wide spread of infection caused by Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was recognized in 1981 our strategies were set up of water faucets with footpedal, frequent to wash of hands and use of disposable paper towels.
(8) folds up its comedy deckchair, presses mute on the trombones and drapes a hand towel discreetly over Mark's crotch.
(9) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(10) A towel with blood and a rope were found in the hotel-room safe.
(11) Stephen “Tea Towel” Duffy mentioned Nick Drake.
(12) Maybe it was a bad omen for Los Angeles to hand out white towels to the fans in the stands.
(13) Mean costs per cow per year in herd for mastitis prevention were: $10 for paper towels, $3 for nonlactating cow treatment, and $10 for teat disinfectants.
(14) Norton brushed aside claims that this year's contest would be marred by political bloc voting by east European countries – a phenomenon that prompted Wogan to throw in the towel after 38 years as the UK's commentator.
(15) Labour accused the government of "throwing in the towel" over cracking down on bankers' bonuses after the coalition announced a long-awaited deal – Project Merlin – between the banks and the coalition to lend £190bn to businesses and restrict pay at the bailed-out banks.
(16) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
(17) He charges into the room and is soon bouncing off the walls, decorating the room with paper towels, urine dipsticks and purple gloves.
(18) Storage of the used and unused disposable towels was in the main unsatisfactory.
(19) Constant changes to pensions means employers and employees are much more likely now to throw in the towel and stick closer to the minimum savings required.
(20) Then last year the OFT threw in the towel on its price-fixing inquiry as it had uncovered "only limited evidence of potential price-fixing, much of which is contradicted by other material" and had other higher priority investigations to pursue.
Trowel
Definition:
(n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
(n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
(n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) In organ culture systems using the Trowell setup, morphogenetic differentiation (which largely mimics the development reached in vivo within 2--3 days) can be obtained in limb buds of mouse embryos during a culture period of 6 days.
(2) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(3) Anything, really, to trowel vaseline over the lens for a soft ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown segment.
(4) Molar tooth germs from 17-d-old mouse embryos were cultivated in a Trowell-type culture, and different culture media were tested for their ability to support enamel formation.
(5) Based on the morphologic and physiologic findings, it became evident that this organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium at 25 degrees C can be successfully used as an in vitro experimental model for as long as 24 h. The organ culture system could be a useful tool, from the structural integrity of ceca observed in this study, in investigating mucosal function and mucosal response to drugs, carcinogens, trophic factors, and pathogens.
(6) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
(7) We incubated mouse calvaria explants in Trowell-type organ culture dishes for one h and then added [14C]-glycine for two h. We dissected the interparietal sutural tissues for collagen solubilization by limited pepsin digestion.
(8) This rate is similar to that reported for Trowell's-type cultures with IMEM:F12 medium and 1% FBS.
(9) Colons from chickens, four weeks old, can best be maintained for 48 hours in a serum-free organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium-agar sheet at 25 degrees C. As determined by light microscopy as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopies, mucosal architecture involving classical ultrastructure of chicken colonic mucosa was preserved.
(10) Both series were incubated in BGJb medium according to the Trowell method.
(11) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
(12) Finance minister Mathias Cormann lays it on with a trowel.
(13) Pancreatic explants from perinatal or 1-week-old rat circumfusion organ cultured with an insulin-free variant of Trowell's Medium T8 survive functionally, as judged from tissue amylase content, for about 3 days.
(14) We used Trowell's T8 medium and conventional Hank's balanced salt solution to obtain high yields of islets with morphologically-intact cells.
(15) This study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of cyclosporine to prolong islets isolated by collagenase in Trowell's T8 medium and Ficoll gradient separation.
(16) In this study, explants from 19 canine prostate glands were cultivated for a minimum of 9 days in Trowell's T-8 medium.
(17) The blood drips off Netanyahu's trowel and oozes between the laid bricks, like wet concrete.
(18) The six concrete floor test pads with different surface treatments (fine and coarse sand, fine and coarse broom, wood float and steel trowel) were evaluated for friction coefficient (skid resistance value) using a British pendulum tester both before and after pig tests.
(19) Results reveal that the islets isolated by Trowells T8 medium were less fragmented and had better fine-structural integrity than those isolated by the conventional medium.
(20) He wasn't even sure the bone was human until he carefully scraped away with his trowel, found a second, parallel bone, and knew he had a pair of buried legs.