(n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
(n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
(a.) Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
(v. i.) To pain velvet.
(v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(3) The morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), choriocapillaris and Bruch's membrane (complexus basalis) have been studied by light and electron microscopy in the velvet cichlid (Astronotus ocellatus).
(4) Matthew d’Ancona : She’s a risk-taker, and a potentially transformative leader Theresa May may be a compassionate Conservative, but her arrival in Downing Street has been anything but a velvet revolution.
(5) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(6) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(7) On Tuesday, Obama was sworn in with his palm on the same velvet-covered Bible used by Lincoln in 1861, but he had no bible with him at the re-run.
(8) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(9) Part was the Velvet Underground and the Beats and all that stuff.
(10) Anyone who doesn't take pleasure in seeing Joe Pesci in a burgundy velvet three-piece suit is a person who possesses neither soul nor eyes.
(11) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(12) I was a Bowie fan, which meant that I had bought or borrowed Transformer when I was 13, and then someone handed me an acetate of Live at Max's Kansas City and then I was a Lou Reed fan and a Velvet Underground fan.
(13) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
(14) A new semidominant mutation in the house mouse, velvet coat (Ve), is described.
(15) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(16) Storage of the velvet pad in 0.9 per cent saline for 2 h at room temperature did not influence bacterial recovery significantly, in contrast to a significant decrease after storage in saline for 24 h or storage in a dry Petri dish for 2 h. The high and fairly constant efficiency of bacterial recovery of the velvet pad rinse technique suggests that it could be employed clinically.
(17) One of its surfaces is velvet-like and induces adhesions with the edge of the abdominal defect that will be responsible for the strength of the repair.
(18) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
(19) Tehran has repeatedly attacked PTV as an arm of the British government, which it accuses of seeking to foment a "velvet revolution".
(20) We propose that the initiation of late gene expression is regulated by velvet and controlled by a red light photoreceptor, whose properties are reminiscent of phytochrome-mediated responses observed in higher plants.
Velveteen
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further selection for radiation-resistant bacteria was obtained by irradiation of bacteria on velveteen in the replication process, thereby avoiding the toxic effect of irradiated media.
(2) The velveteen replica plate technique was used for inoculation of mitomycin C-induced colonies onto agar plates, and tetrazolium chloride was used to enhance detection of phage activity on replicated indicator plates.
(3) he repeated quietly, leaning back and running his fat manicured hand along the purple velveteen arm of the sofa.
(4) Replicas prepared using this block are of higher quality than those using the velveteen-covered cylinder.
(5) This is particularly apparent early on, in the tense, cinematic inter-cutting between the killers and their victims: as Herb, the rural patriarch, consumes his usual breakfast of an apple and a glass of milk, "unaware that it would be his last", and his daughter Nancy lays out her velveteen dress for church, "the dress in which she was to be buried", the two ex-cons are racing across the wheat plains of the Midwest in their black Chevrolet sedan, Hickock high on Orange Blossoms, Smith crunching handfuls of aspirin for his grotesquely injured legs.
(6) Read the speech in full Melissa Harris-Perry, Wellesley College, 2012 If you’ve read The Velveteen Principles, then you know that everything that you need to know about how to have an authentic, successful life is actually conveyed in the book The Velveteen Rabbit.