What's the difference between waistcoating and yarn?
Waistcoating
Definition:
(n.) A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-six Wistar rats were subdivided into 4 group: 1) control; 2) "waistcoat" plastic surgery; 3) plastic surgery using a vicryl prosthesis.
(2) But a staff member wearing the telltale red ID pass but dressed in a shirt and tie rather than high-vis waistcoat – he would only say his role was "management" – took a different view.
(3) While the residents are invisible, their staff can be seen: cleaning golf clubs with a hose in front of one house; wearing a black waistcoat and ironed white shirt to polish a bronze door handle; walking tiny dogs.
(4) In the video, Voteman finds himself in bed with a group of women before donning a leather waistcoat and jetting off on a pair of dolphin waterskis to assault non-voters all the way to the polling station, decapitating one while he eats breakfast.
(5) "I do still have one of those waistcoats with patches all over it, and a Motörhead skull on the back.
(6) Tonight, dressed in a thick tweedy, collared waistcoat, his hair tied back with a silky ribbon, he is an unmissable presence; the ruddy-cheeked pig farmer up to the city for the night.
(7) George Osborne dons a hi-viz waistcoat and wanders around Ebbsfleet .
(8) It doesn't help that the natty little waistcoat she is wearing makes her look a bit like the Artful Dodger and that she has tucked her size-three feet under her bottom in the chair, halving her 5ft frame.
(9) Instead, I found myself designing pieces that are the cornerstones of Sicilian style: pinstriped or velvet suits, coats, waistcoats, white shirts and the flat cap known as the coppola.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Friends of the designers, Linda Evangelista, left, and Naomi Campbell backstage at a Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan.
(10) What’s worst, however, is the bit when our girl and her boyfriend, a waistcoated, blond lump of “Yah”, go shopping for vinyl.
(11) Not that it always works in their favour – by the mid-90s, Merchant-Ivory had became something of an inverse snobbery insult, signifying something stuffy and dull, all starched waistcoats and askance glances across the class divide, of interest only to Laura Ashley fans.
(12) • £125, +30 27360 31488, kythirarooms.gr Where to eat Zorbas This grill house is so old-fashioned the waiters still dress in white shirts and black waistcoats.
(13) They went to fee-paying London schools and now they're all about heels and waistcoats and hoedowns.
(14) When the insurgency started, he returned to his home town, and now he looked every inch the fighter, with a flowing beard, irregular fatigues, and a waistcoat with pockets for knives and ammunition.
(15) He comes to the door in a pale grey suit with waistcoat and orange tie, and settles in a sofa facing me, affably, in his book-lined sitting room.
(16) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
(17) Armed men in masks threatened staff before making off with Cézanne's Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet's Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughters, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh's Blooming Chestnut Branches , Zurich police said.
(18) If all I have to do, these days, is carry around forever in my waistcoat a baby stiletto for "opening things better" – toothbrush packaging, lying "easy-open" biscuits – and stutter a bit on the phone (it's improving), then I've fallen lucky.
(19) You'd look quite good in a big helmet and a Nordic waistcoat.
(20) Englishness became a parody of itself (and it was pretty parodical to start with); little more than a series of bowler-hatted funny walks.I couldn’t stand stout John Bull with his union jack waistcoat and pointing finger.
Yarn
Definition:
(n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
(n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
(n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
(2) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
(3) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
(4) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
(5) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
(6) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
(7) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
(8) Grafts were woven from polypropylene yarn into conduits 4 mm I.D.
(9) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
(10) Yarn preparation areas (opening through fine spinning) were studied at two cotton textile mills which had been studied 5 years previously in Shanghai.
(11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
(12) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
(13) After decortication of the graft, posterior arches of C1 and 2, and microsurgical excision of the cartilage of the C1-2 lateral joints, the graft was imbedded into the entire C1-2 space, fixed, and tightened using a braid of "nylacap" yarn.
(14) Limited environmental sampling, performed using a vertical elutriator in yarn preparation and weaving areas, indicated that exposures were similar to those reported in other parts of the developing world.
(15) Risk increased significantly with duration of employment in: production of synthetic yarns, plastic packaging, and miscellaneous chemical compounds; fabricating structural metal and stationary tanks; body factories; electrical plants; and retail sale of paint and wallpaper.
(16) On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year’s production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.
(17) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
(18) An influenza-like illness appeared recently among workers in a plant processing synthetic yarn.
(19) You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
(20) It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson , an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.