(v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
(n.) Adornment.
(a.) Adorned; decorated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(3) As I walked through the reception area and into the locker rooms and saunas themselves, I spotted old magazines littered on mid-century coffee tables and pictures of Finnish pin-ups adorning the wood-panelled walls.
(4) On the other side, underlining that this is a battle that is likely to be partly played out in public, deepening the divide between player and president, the sports supplement of the newspaper La Razón opened with a front-page photograph of Ramos celebrating a goal by lifting his hand to his heart, where Madrid’s badge adorns the shirt.
(5) The exercise yard is adorned with poignant children's paintings in response to school trips here.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artwork by feminist Linda Stein adorns the waiting room of Choices Women’s Medical Center in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York.
(7) Another stop on the Cocteau trail is the town hall's register office (Place Ardoïno), which Cocteau adorned with wall and ceiling murals.
(8) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(9) There were fans too, around 2,000 of them waiting in the sunshine, where a platform had been built on the pitch adorned with the trophies Casillas won during a 17-year career here.
(10) Team GB has a motto, which has adorned the back of thousands of souvenir shirts at the park and beyond, "Better never stops".
(11) Despite the arrival of the Argentinian Ulloa also for a club record fee, it was Leicester’s Thai owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, whose face adorned the matchday programme on their return to the top flight.
(12) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
(13) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
(14) Pittsburgh's airport has been adorned with signs bearing the word "welcome" in the language of every G20 nation and the city is keen to show off its own hi-tech economic revival from the ashes of a once-thriving steel industry.
(15) Sitting in the storeroom in the Treasury that has now been transformed into his office, adorned with his choice of striking contemporary art, Myners insists that the £16.9m pension pot initially handed to former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin had been "cooked up" before he got involved in the brutal negotiations that fateful October weekend.
(16) Overnight, Cuba’s flag was quietly added to the others that adorn the lobby of the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom.
(17) She has been a member of the American star’s fan club for six years and was lucky enough to meet her idol in 2012 – a signed T-shirt and framed picture of the pair together adorns her bedroom wall.
(18) But after being mauled in the media for sartorial crimes – including a bright pink blazer and white shirt adorned with heart motifs – Hatoyama will be buoyed by the news that a Shanghai-based shirt-maker is selling copies of his most infamous garment as a tribute to his "individuality" .
(19) Overnight, hundreds of new pieces adorned the walls of the underpass where Bieber had left his mark.
(20) The sounds he discovered on his guitar, refined during hours of solitary tinkering in his home studio, adorned records by Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and thousands of other artists, both country and pop.
Crescent
Definition:
(n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
(n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
(n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge
(n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
(n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
(n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.
(n.) Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
(n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
(a.) Shaped like a crescent.
(a.) Increasing; growing.
(v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
(v. t.) To adorn with crescents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histopathological observations demonstrated that OB-5 inhibited the incidence of crescent formation, adhesion and fibrinoid necrosis in the glomeruli by the 41st day.
(2) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
(3) ANCA-associated vasculitides can be categorized into a number of distinctive clinicopathologic categories, eg, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, pulmonary renal syndrome, microscopic polyarteritis nodosa, leukocytoclastic angiitis, and necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis.
(4) The second renal biopsy revealed cellular crescents with linear IgG deposition along GBM, a finding similar to the first one.
(5) The purpose of this experimental investigation was to quantify and evaluate the results of different microsurgical techniques in crescentic resection of a corneal wedge.
(6) In CT diagnosis for this type of dissection, cautions should be employed not only in an inhomogenous density area in the mediastinum and pleural cavity but also in the presence of deviation of intimal calcification and relatively high density area of crescent shape in aortic wall on plain CT.
(7) Crescent-shaped Balbiani's vitelline body consists of ribonucleoproteins, lipoproteins, and phospholipids.
(8) There is a crescent-shaped low density area extending forward from the high density area.
(9) The size and the angular tilt of the dark crescent appearing in the subject's pupil are derived as a function of five variables: the ametropia of the eye (Dsph, Dcyl, axis), the eccentricity of the flash, e, and the distance of the camera from the subject's eye, dc.
(10) Air crescent signs were seen in 40% of patients during or after bone marrow restitution.
(11) Coffee bean shaped or crescent shaped yeast-like elements are characteristic of Trichosporon and useful in differentiating Trichosporon from Candida but such histological features are less efficient than the immunohistochemistry in identifying mixed fungal infection.
(12) In group 1, predominant infiltration of macrophages and cellularly crescents were obtained in the glomeruli 7 days after the administration of the cultivated cells.
(13) On the other hand, when BC were ruptured, mononuclear inflammatory cells, mainly LeuM3+ and IoT15+ cells accompanied by significant number of T4+ and T8+ cells, constituted the glomerular crescents.
(14) There was a significant correlation between the intensity of each C3c and C9 deposition in glomeruli and the degree of glomerular adhesion to Bowman's capsules and crescent formation in patients with IgA nephropathy.
(15) The Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) is really one of the few actors left on the ground, along with a handful of national NGOs.” “The LRC volunteers are doing a fantastic job despite the difficult and challenging environment but at some point they will need support,” he said, adding that assessments were ongoing and a potential deployment by federation members from Tunisia was under consideration.
(16) Even though the Xenopus egg does not form a classical gray crescent, due to its particular pigment distribution, the reorganization process which specifies the future embryonic axis resembles that of the Rana egg.
(17) The shapes of false lumina assessed by enhanced CT scans at the time of discharge were categorized in three types; 21 patients (group A) without false lumina of the aorta, or with a small crescentic false lumen in the thoracic aorta (type a), six patients (group B) with intimal flaps and two contrast-material-filled lumina in the thoracic aorta (type b), and nine patients (group C) with expanded false lumina or a false lumen whose margin was convex towards a true lumen in the thoracic aorta (type c).
(18) In living spores posterior vacuole crescentic, in fixed ones it is strongly deformed together with hind pole of spores.
(19) These are the interstitial bodies, which are aggregates of extracellular material, and a kind of fibril or tubule, embedded in a fibronectin matrix and mainly found in the endophyllic crescent.
(20) This density was crescent-shaped in longitudinal sections, and a continuous band in cross-sections.