(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.
Velvety
Definition:
(a.) Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
Example Sentences:
(1) On peptone dextrose agar plate, the growth is white and velvety to cottony.
(2) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(3) On the surface posterior to the ventral sucker, the tegumental processes were bandlike in the metacercariae, cobblestonelike in the flukes 2 days postinfection (PI), and velvety at 3 days PI.
(4) Cystoscopic examination revealed a bladder tumor, well-demarcated, white and velvety lesion with slight elevation.
(5) They come for a taste of the unknown, something most have never tasted – the sweet, cold, velvety embrace of ice-cream.
(6) Also, M. audouinii formed microconidia and macroconidia in velvety growth cultured on SCCGA containing NaC1.
(7) Sweet-toothed regulars come for a bowl of the velvety purple açaí juice (£4), an Amazonian berry usually served overly sugared but offered pure or with guaraná syrup here.
(8) It wasn't until very recently, sipping on a malted milkshake – the velvety thick, heart-stopping American kind that comes by the jug – that I rediscovered malt.
(9) The presence of a velvety, cauliflower-like growth on the surface of a long-standing pressure sore should alert the surgeon to the possibility of malignant degeneration.
(10) During the past 18 months we have studied 36 biopsy specimens taken from 11 young men ranging in age from 21 to 36, each of whom had multiple, reddish to violaceous papules, some distinctly verrucoid or velvety on either or both the shaft and glans of the penis.
(11) South Beach, Tenby, Pembrokeshire The velvety sand on all three of Tenby's beaches is the stuff of tropical islands.
(12) The BBC are introducing the velvety charms of Thierry Henry, Milan boss Clarence Seedorf and Rio Ferdinand, if he can stop tweeting for five minutes.
(13) Like a Rolls-Royce of self-regard, Lord Baker's vanity is truly a wonder and a joy to behold – a velvety, turbo-charged vintage purr of unabashed self-congratulation.
(14) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(15) The gastric mucosal rest presented as a velvety red patch with a distinct border, varying from a few millimeters in diameter to complete encirclement of the esophagus, was occasionally paired, and was found either at or just below the upper esophageal sphincter.
(16) The art of Jack Napthine is a powerful mix of boldly outlined locks, light bulbs and snatches of text; Julian Martin’s thick pastels give a dense velvety texture to his drawings; and Terry Williams’ soft sculptures of fridges, helicopters and video cameras are flamboyant and witty.
(17) Up a floor, from another improvised rooftop, we looked in the opposite direction to where the Tijuca rainforest climbs up the hillside in a carpet of dark velvety green.
(18) The black lesion with a velvety surface consists of very large cells packed with melanin granules of abnormal and variable density, structure and size.
(19) R. canada is typically rod-shaped, being delimited with a three-layered wall having a velvety coating adsorbed to its exterior surface.
(20) A broad spectrum of iris abnormalities was observed: the daughter had aniridia with persistent pupillary membrane strands traversing the anterior lens capsule; the iris of the mother and son had a velvety surface with no detailed crypts, but did have some persistent pupillary membrane tags extending from the collarette.