(n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
(n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) And that’s very unusual, for a so-called serious composer, to write a piece that people like so much, and they don’t care who it’s by.” Anonymity in your own lifetime – the ultimate accolade for a contemporary classical composer.
(3) But Y Polyn does win accolades for robust country cooking and down-at-home style.
(4) Their accolade came on the day they were announced as the headline act at the 2012 Olympics closing celebration concert in Hyde Park.
(5) The NFU Mutual, which won the accolade of being Which?
(6) For whatever accolades are dished out, the hard graft of science continues.
(7) Admittedly the winner was Bradley Wiggins, which somewhat takes the shine off the accolade.
(8) In spite of his life seeming superficially great, in spite of all the praise and accolades, in spite of all the loving friends and family, there is a predominant voice in the mind of an addict that supersedes all reason and that voice wants you dead.
(9) John Makumbe, a politics professor at the University of Zimbabwe, said of Mugabe's accolade: "I think it's ridiculous because Zimbabwe is one of the countries least used by tourists.
(10) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
(11) Because the Trail Blazers didn't make many major moves during the offseason, they started the season as an afterthought in the incredibly competitive Western Conference and their early success provoked more skepticism than accolades.
(12) After scoring four number ones with her debut album, Gaga was lauded as the new queen of pop with the industry queuing to lay accolades at her feet.
(13) The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901, and its receipt is widely regarded as one of the highest accolades in science.
(14) Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: They were nonimated for a Mercury back in 2005 (and lost out admirably to the mighty I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons).
(15) In Pakistan , news of the Nobel prize has led to an outpouring of accolades from official figures, led by the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who called her “the pride of Pakistan”.
(16) London isn’t the best city for hostels ( that accolade goes to Lisbon ) but that’s improving too with Clink , Generator , Wombats and the good ol’ YHA all offering family rooms.
(17) There have been accolades, including "publisher of the year" in May, but one thing that has not changed, despite Barnsley's best efforts, is HarperCollins's UK ranking – in fourth position behind Penguin, Random House and Hachette.
(18) But those of us who were lucky enough to have spent five minutes with him – or more – know that he never set out to attain any of these high accolades.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zaha Hadid walks out of a BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview Still, her projects have nonetheless been showered with accolades, twice receiving the Stirling prize – for the MAXXI museum in Rome and the Evelyn Grace academy school in Brixton – and she was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker prize more than a decade ago, making RIBA’s choice now seem a little like it is trying to catch up.
(20) His rivals weren't even born when he last won the accolade in 1984, but David Bowie saw experience triumph over youth as he was crowned best British male at the Brit awards.
Approbation
Definition:
(n.) Proof; attestation.
(n.) The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.
(n.) Probation or novitiate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experiments on animals have found the stabilization of the structure of approbated canned goods modified with phosphate starches, such as maze, amylopectin and potato (TY 18 RSFSR 279-73) ones, causes lowering of the biological value of the product by comparison with analogous native starches.
(2) New spin-labels based on iodine and hydrargirum containing imidazolids were approbated on the bovine serum albumin (BSA) molecule.
(3) The clinical approbation of the method gave similar results of the capacitance blood flow with the literature data and with the rheographic method of determination of the cerebral blood flow.
(4) Garthoff observes that "in the United States, there was almost universal approbation for President Kennedy's handling of the crisis."
(5) In the light of the mentioned data, the author considers it expedient to work out a programme of special researches for development of a method of prognosticating initial myopia and a correction of several ways for approbation of existing methods of prevention of progressive myopia.
(6) Clearly moved by the support his family and daughter have received, he said the attack, in which Malala was shot by a Pakistan Taliban gunman while making her way home on a school bus, had united his nation in approbation.
(7) It is established that urine from healthy control cigarette smokers and from non-smoking greenhouse workers contacting with a complex of different pesticides significantly increased frequency of chromosome aberrations in the approbated test-system.
(8) They made such strides against ignorance and the unknown, firm in their sense of divine approbation, it seems a belief in progress came naturally to them.
(9) In the process of approbation on clinical material the method revealed an elevated level of CIC in the sera of patients in comparison with their level in the sera of healthy donors.
(10) The approbation of her fellow peers means a lot to Trumpers, for she believes that it's the House of Lords, which she still attends every day when it's sitting, that has kept her going all these years.
(11) To receive Beijing's approbation is something of a novelty for Taiwan.
(12) The main results of the ALDA approbation are given account of, which demonstrated a high level sensitivity and specificity of the algorithm and its applicability to most USSR-produced computers.
(13) It was approbated in 23 patients with duodenal ulcers, postvagotomy syndromes, and gastroduodenitis.
(14) The method was approbated in experiment with 10 adult dogs and used in 3 patients with long-standing marginal fractures of the acetabulum.
(15) Comparison with an earlier study revealed that although the rate of approbation for mental and psychosomatic work-related illnesses (about 30%) is much lower than for all work-related illnesses (about 90%), there has been a considerable increase over the years.
(16) The data on the approbation of the diagnostic value of the enzyme immunoassay (EIA) system for the determination of diphtheria toxin in the blood sera of diphtheria patients and persons suspected for diphtheria are presented.
(17) Approbation of the system at industrial enterprises contributed to the improvement of the social-medical and social-economic effectiveness of the diet therapy under industrial conditions.
(18) The morphometrical index of viability of the conserved kidneys can be used in experimental transplantology for approbation of new solutions before their application in clinical practice.
(19) But while some medical interventions such as organ transplants to replace malfunctioning livers and kidneys, or vaccines to boost the immune system, command wide social acceptance, others invite moral approbation.
(20) The final approbation or disapproval of a drug after NDA approval (phase 4) will continue to be in the hands of the participating physician as long as he can establish scientifically that the drug is the best possible agent for him to use in healing the sick and comforting the dying.