What's the difference between adorn and emblazon?

Adorn


Definition:

  • (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.

Emblazon


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
  • (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (2) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
  • (3) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (4) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
  • (5) Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.
  • (6) A month or so ago a whispering campaign, which at one point appeared to emanate from senior figures in Downing Street, suggested that Crosby had placed the usually sunny David Cameron into a straitjacket emblazoned with the words “long-term economic plan”, which he found frustrating.
  • (7) Officers were in low numbers and principally dressed in bright blue polo shirts emblazoned with “NYPD Community Affairs”.
  • (8) Once you’ve picked this out of thin air, you notice the large “River Island” emblazoned across the side.
  • (9) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
  • (10) They are filing towards the tree-lined square of Ulysses Place, where a red concrete wall waits to greet them, emblazoned with big bronze letters.
  • (11) The statement said a search of one gang member’s house unearthed a red duffel bag with an Italian flag that contained Regeni’s student cards, credit cards, mobile phones and a brown wallet with his passport in, as well as a second wallet emblazoned with the word “love” and other personal effects such as sunglasses.
  • (12) Ronald Koeman likely to dash Everton’s hopes by staying at Southampton Read more ¢ “Leading Saints into a new era,” read the headline on the cover of the Southampton matchday programme, emblazoned across the image of Virgil van Dijk.
  • (13) He wrote: “Emblazoned on the battlebus, both Leave and Remain wrapped themselves in the mantle of a strong and better funded health service.
  • (14) The group imposed a reign of terror, dressing up its violence with cult-like rituals: new members were initiated wearing faux medieval costumes, including plastic helmets and tunics emblazoned with red crusader crosses.
  • (15) And from the smart-looking website and book bags emblazoned with the academy's slogan, "Unlocking potential", it certainly seems like a slick operation.
  • (16) This is a huge general ‘Fuck off’.” On the hard right, Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-migrant Lega Nord, is also surfing the wave, describing Trump’s triumph as a strike against globalisation: “It’s the revenge of the people, of courage, of pride, of the desire for work and security; and it’s one in the eye for the bankers, the speculators and the journalists.” Salvini’s No referendum rallies have been “Trumpified”, accompanied now by supporters waving blue placards , emblazoned “Salvini Premier”, designed to imitate those familiar from American town hall meetings.
  • (17) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
  • (18) A few wore union flag T-shirts emblazoned with the motto: "Extradite me, I'm British".
  • (19) It was emblazoned with a photograph of Bernie Sanders.
  • (20) Life is indeed a learning experience, but the general appeared not to be reading the central message emblazoned in flashing neon lights ever since the first foreign troops arrived in southern Afghanistan.