(v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
(n.) A broker.
(n.) An upholsterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
(2) In June 1988, 110 dust samples from carpets, cushions, mattresses and upholstered furniture were collected by vacuum cleaner in 33 municipal nursery schools.
(3) Traditional isn't really very specific but gives everyone a kind of well-upholstered, wood-panelled sense of well-being.
(4) People tend to wince at the cost of having furniture reupholstered, but when you think about how long it should last (a well-upholstered chair should be good for 30 years) there's nothing throwaway about it.
(5) Acarosan and liquid nitrogen, were found to be effective in the treatment of mattress, pillow, upholstered furniture and heavy curtains.
(6) But then I have to remind myself that the chair I'm sitting on – which I inherited from my aunt – is the one I've upholstered, with horsehair, and covered in a fabric of my choosing.
(7) Inside the glass-fronted reception of the state-of-the-art hospital are rows of upholstered chairs.
(8) Away from the pitch, in the expensively upholstered lobbies and meeting rooms where the business of global sport is discussed in hushed tones by men in grey suits, he has been altogether more successful.
(9) Burn related deaths (1977-86) and injuries (1986) from the Health Statistics Services hospitalisation records were examined to identify cases in which upholstered furniture and bedding were implicated and analysed to describe the situation.
(10) Across the country, inmates have a hand in building desks, molding dentures, grinding lenses for glasses, stitching flags and upholstering chairs.
(11) Today, when I meet Wood in the upholstered plushness of a central London hotel, he looks essentially the same as he did three decades ago – a bit more weather-beaten, perhaps, but still sporting an identical Worzel Gummidge hairstyle and spray-on skinny jeans that seem to have been beamed in directly from the 1970s.
(12) Upstairs in "extended recovery", where clients who had been less than 12 weeks' pregnant are taken after surgery, a sick-bowl and a box of tissues are carefully arranged next to each of the five sleek reclining chairs upholstered in BPAS purple.
(13) The qualitative and quantitative species composition of fungi in carpets and upholstered furniture dust found in the living-rooms of nine Dutch dwellings was examined in a pilot study.
(14) Upholstered furniture is considered by governments in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and New Zealand to be a potentially hazardous product.
(15) Characteristics of upholstered furniture available in New Zealand during the 1987 production year were identified through responses to a questionnaire sent to manufacturers, wholesalers and importers of this type of furniture.
(16) Your cosy phrase "the upholstered apocalypse" gestures, rather worryingly, towards an imaginative and critical impasse of sorts, doesn't it?
(17) Some of the relevant seat characteristics concern back rest, seat base, arm rests, upholstering, individual adaptation and integration into the environment.
(18) Bedding, mattresses and bedroom furniture were reported more frequently than upholstered furniture.
(19) Using a hand-held vacuum especially equipped with a removable micropore filter, a 2-m2 area of carpet was vacuumed for two minutes and an identical sample was collected from the major upholstered piece of furniture in the room.
(20) The best results are achieved by sanitation of carpets, less favourable results are obtained by treating matresses and upholstered furniture.
Webbing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Web
(n.) A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
(2) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(3) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(4) Effects of 4-aminomethyl-1-benzylpyrrolidin-2-one-hemifumarate (WEB 1881 FU), a novel pyrrolidinone nootropic, on acetylcholine (ACh) receptors and adrenoceptors were investigated using crude membranes of the rat brain.
(5) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(6) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.
(7) The rank order of potency was WEB 2086 congruent to L-652,731 greater than BN 52021 and was the same for the two cell types.
(8) Both responses were blocked by the PAF receptor antagonist WEB 2086.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
(10) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
(11) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
(12) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
(13) 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.
(14) Cooper said the Guardian had led the field with the Web We Want series, but said it wasn’t just journalists who were targeted.
(15) The former Friends star Lisa Kudrow won the Webby for outstanding comedic performance as the star, co-writer and co-producer of online show Web Therapy.
(16) Turkey arrests 1,000 and suspends 9,100 police in new crackdown Read more It cited a law that allows it to block access to individual web pages or entire sites for the protection of public order, national security or the wellbeing of the public.
(17) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
(18) The lung eosinophilia was not prevented by the cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin or PAF antagonists (WEB-2086 and L-652731) but was inhibited by methylprednisolone, the 5-LO inhibitor, U-66858 and a series of structural analogs of LTB4, U-75302, U-77692, U-75485 and U-78489.
(19) If a web has a low apex angle and the skin is elastic, the length-width ratio may be as great as 1.5:1.
(20) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.