(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.
Conferring
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confer
Example Sentences:
(1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(3) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(4) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
(5) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(6) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(7) The data suggest that the presence of a bromoacetate group at the 12 position on cardiotonic steroids does not confer CS binding site directed alkylating properties on these drugs.
(8) It is possible that the formation of a mycetoma grain may limit a patient's exposure to antigens which confer specificity, an explanation which may also account for the variability in antibody responses seen.
(9) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
(10) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(11) Substitution of a single amino acid residue, proline for glycine-9 in [pGlu6]SP6-11, a hexapeptide analogue of substance P, confers on the peptide selective agonist activity toward the SP-P receptor subtype.
(12) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(13) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
(14) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(15) Furthermore, immunization of mice with persistently infected cells conferred resistance to tumor growth after challenge with the highly malignant NS20Y cells.
(16) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(19) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
(20) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.