Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a synthetic polyester fabric or the fiber from which it is made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a brand of polyester textile fiber, or the wrinkle-resistant fabric prepared from it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun trademark
polyethylene terephthalate , as made into thread or cloth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a kind of polyester fabric
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Examples
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I could talk to you about other things like Terylene -- I think you call it Dacron over here.
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On that occasion, surgeons were required to repair the main aortic valve with a synthetic material called Dacron - an operation with a success rate of just 30 per cent.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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On the outside of the ring-like valve, there is a sewing cuff made of Teflon and Dacron, through which the surgeon runs the thread that connects the device to human tissue.
Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011
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The patch is made out of a, sort of, fuzzy Dacron material so the lining of the heart grows over that and makes it nice and smooth.
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There was sugarless chewing gum, power steering, Dacron suits—America was expanding, spending, and innovating.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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He filed a report on the reporters themselves — "groups of wilted Dacron and damp mustaches" — who had converged from around the world to cover the crisis.
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I went hang gliding in North Carolina and found the warning label on the Dacron sail, the way your center of gravity moves up to your chest when you pick up the kite, the way everyone runs a few more steps after their feet leave the ground.
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Our aircraft is an Aventura II —it's amphibious, like the A5, but made of aluminum tubes covered with fiberglass, Dacron , and Kevlar .
The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski 2008
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Match the rod with a LARGE-ARBOR REEL taking at least 100 yards of 20-pound-test Dacron backing.
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"And you live there why, sweetheart?" one of them once asked me with an openmouthed squint, his neck thrust forward from the V of a ratty cardigan so that he looked like a Galápagos tortoise with a wool-Dacron argyle shell.
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