(n. pl.) Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the present degree of accoutrements abscesses in thoracal part located close to spine couldn't be cited by this method of research.
(2) North Korea has focused on boosting tourism, providing the impoverished country with the accoutrements of a "civilised" nation and, most visibly, encouraging a broader interest in sports.
(3) Both circumvent the bind by employing the life-style solution, a strategy that attempts to heal by covertly filling the empty self with the accoutrements, values, and mannerisms of idealized figures.
(4) But Wenger could take heart for the battles ahead in the manner of the response to Saturday’s 3-2 loss at Stoke City, which had come with all of the usual accoutrements of a bad Arsenal loss.
(5) In some ways Co-op has all the accoutrements of big business: a swanky new £100m head office in central Manchester, glass-fronted and cylindrical, and big pay cheques for its bosses.
(6) On a good day, all Layla required was her normal preemie accoutrement: a central line IV that started in between her fingers and ended near her heart, and required her arm to be immobilised by what looked like a splint made of lolly sticks and gauze; a nasal cannula that delivered a steady flow of oxygen, the pressure of which would change depending on how many times she stopped breathing that day; a blood oxygen monitor attached to her foot; four or five wires that measured her heart rate; and the feeding tube inserted through her throat or nose.
(7) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.
(8) Kim Jong-un "clearly has a penchant for the modern accoutrements of life", he said.
(9) The costume made her an anonymous test subject and stripped her of the accoutrements of sexuality or eroticism.
(10) The navy gave him a home and a wage – an unroyal accoutrement that was very much needed.
(11) There are horse-drawn carts filled high with hay and in the villages of bare-brick homes, whose only modern accoutrement appears to be the satellite, many live close to their animals tethered in adjacent muddy courtyards.
(12) To posture as a superpower, we had to possess a superpower's accoutrements.
(13) Fans in Seattle fill an NFL stadium, march to games and mimic the accoutrements of ultras culture from Europe and South America.
(14) 9.21pm BST 63 min: And now Lampard has a yellow card to go with his arm accoutrement, for sliding in rashly on Martin.
(15) As many have pointed out, it beggars belief that Sharapova and her huge entourage – all the machinery and accoutrements of modern sport from IMG to Nike, and her own medical and support staff – could have missed the fact that a drug she had been taking for a decade had been made illegal.
(16) In her campaign for the governorship, she easily outwitted her male opponent, a traditional Texan Republican with cowboy accoutrements.
(17) All the accoutrements of a modern major sporting event were present and correct – the sponsors’ branding, the all but sold-out stands, the painted faces and the garish wigs – but there was also an impatience to get under way and park the concerns of the buildup.
(18) Just as students today are burdened if they don’t have home Internet—and at the university where I work, that is true of some of our commuter students, much as people might find that hard to believe—there will be an expectation that successful living as a human will require being equipped with pricey accoutrements… Reflecting on this makes me concerned that as the digital divide widens, people left behind will be increasingly invisible and increasingly seen as less than full humans.” • Beware the Internet of Things
(19) The great Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness noted in 1925 that Reykjavik had finally acquired all the accoutrements of modernity: “not only a university and a movie theatre, but also football and homosexuality”.
(20) From here also issue other accoutrements of statecraft: the national debt, Bank of England and budget.
Appurtenance
Definition:
(n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The appurtenance of the isolates to the same electrophoretic type together with epidemiological data allows the examined cases of rotavirus gastroenteritis to be considered as nosocomial ones.
(2) PAP method with monoclonal antibodies may be used in both hematologic and cytologic laboratories for determining the histogenetic appurtenance of the cells in dubious diagnostic cases.
(3) The diagnosticums produced by the amidole method show higher specificity and facilitate the determination of the type and subtype appurtenance of epidemic and inter-epidemic influenza virus strains.
(4) Specific features of the cytologic picture were studied and the criteria of the cytologic verification of the tumor type and genetic appurtenance defined in cytologic studies of puncture biopsy specimens, removed tumor impressions, scrapings off, and histologic sections in the patients with malignant tumors of the synovial tissue.
(5) Mr Dombey, her father, is one of Dickens's emotionally cauterised men of wealth and power, rich in worldly appurtenances and poor in any concession to humanity.
(6) A method for preparation of erythrocyte antibody diagnosticums capable of differentiating in PHA test the type and subtype appurtenance of influenza virus strains was developed on the basis of amidol sensitization of erythrocytes with immunoglobulin preparations and the use as a stabilizing agent of nonionic detergent triton X-100.
(7) In the patients' group, it was found to depend to a greater measure on the stage of anorexia nervosa, whereas in the relatives, on the nosological appurtenance of the syndrome in their children.
(8) The authors wanted to demonstrate in their present paper that forensic medicine and its modern methods can help to elucidate some historical findings not only as regards mechanisms of injury but in the first member's of the dynasty of Premysl also by evidence of group appurtenance using the two-phase and two-circle system.
(9) After measurement, mean values; standard deviations (SD); and trendograms of SBP, DBP, and HR are printed out by means of an appurtenant, miniature analyzer measuring 5 X 7.5 X 15 cm.
(10) The literature data and the results of a study of genetic blood markers of the ABO system in pulmonary tuberculosis patients and in 1947 donors (control group) are given in relation to the ethnic appurtenance.
(11) In order to specify the histogenetic appurtenance of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberance, the ultrastructure of cells from three tumors was studied.
(12) Originally created by Sivadon in the context of relative freedom due to appurtenance to the private sector, this experience has been developed through addition of a variety of therapeutic structures to end up with a comprehensive System of social psychiatric deserving a catchment area.
(13) Nine strains having neuraminidase of subtype N1 and two strains in which the appurtenance of neuraminidase to subtype N1 was determined in the course of the study were examined for the antigenic specificity of the functional center of the enzyme in the cross neuraminidase activity inhibition test.
(14) As a result of evident appurtenance to G. latus--complex, P. asotus seems to be the "wrong" host.
(15) Accordingly, the histogenetic (cytogenetic) appurtenance of a tumor depends not upon its development from one to another type of differentiated cells but upon further direction of differentiation of transformed cells.
(16) The same MCA were used as primary and detecting antibodies in the test system specific for HA of the H1 serosubtype, whereas in the test system specific for influenza A serosubtype H3 virus MCA of different epitope appurtenance were used as primary and secondary antibodies.
(17) The remaining cell lines had the isoenzymatic characteristics corresponding to their species appurtenance.
(18) The appurtenant current generator can deliver more than 5000 A to the coil.
(19) The results of this investigation confirm the importance of the evaluation of type-subtype appurtenance of reference and laboratory strains used in experiments.
(20) Resistance to rimantadine in influenza viruses correlated in X-7 and X-9 recombinants to the strain appurtenance of fragment VIII.