What's the difference between article and centrepiece?
Article
Definition:
(n.) A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.
(n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
(n.) Subject; matter; concern; distinct.
(n.) A distinct part.
(n.) A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
(n.) Precise point of time; moment.
(n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
(n.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
(n.) To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
(n.) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
(n.) To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.
(v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(2) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(5) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(6) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(7) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(8) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(9) The strengths and weaknesses of each technique are described in this article.
(10) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(11) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(12) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(13) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(14) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.
(15) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
(16) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
(17) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
(18) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(19) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
(20) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
Centrepiece
Definition:
(n.) An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chancellor said the 2.5% cut in VAT to 15% would last for 13 months and form the centrepiece of a recovery programme which will pump £9.2bn into the economy in 2008 and a further £16.3bn in 2009-10.
(2) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(3) With them he performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, a revue show with Bird playing Tim Henman its centrepiece.
(4) Trump is an isolationist so the Chinese are going to see that as an opportunity to keep strengthening their position and their role in the region.” Delury said Trump was also likely to ditch the highly contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which under Obama had been “a centrepiece of an American resurgence of its role in Asia”.
(5) Defoe and Bradley were the centrepieces of a major offseason makeover by Toronto that also included the acquisition of Brazilian goalkeeper Júlio César on loan.
(6) An extra £5bn of capital investment, funded by spending cuts elsewhere, will form the centrepiece of an overall £30bn national infrastructure programme due to be announced by George Osborne on Tuesday as part of an attempt to prevent the country from sliding back into recession.
(7) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
(8) Its centrepiece – tax cuts for small and middle-size businesses that gradually spread out to big businesses over the years – will delight the corporate world.
(9) Hunger and nutrition are the centrepiece of the IF campaign, launched in January by a coalition of 100 UK NGOs and faith groups, to lobby David Cameron, the prime minister, to use Britain's presidency of the G8 to push for an end to hunger.
(10) For one so self-conscious in his career choices, he's remarkably unself-regarding to talk to; almost as rackety and frank as Freddie Quell, his character in Paul Thomas Anderson's film – our movie of the year, of which his performance is the centrepiece.
(11) Ministers have described the bill, the centrepiece of claims to be "the greenest government ever ", as likely to generate £110bn in investment in low-carbon and efficient energy infrastructure in the UK in the biggest shakeup of the market since privatisation in the 1980s.
(12) The proposal – an unabashed extension of the flagship Thatcherite right-to-buy policy – was a centrepiece of the Tory general election manifesto.
(13) The centrepiece of the summer budget was the introduction of a national living wage — a sharp increase in the statutory minimum wage for over-25s, from the £6.70 an hour rate that will apply from next month to £7.20 in January and 40% of the median wage by 2020 — expected to be more than £9.
(14) The centrepiece of health secretary Andrew Lansley's plan to reform the NHS is to transfer power to GP-led consortiums that will commission hospital and community care.
(15) Zaha Hadid, best known in the UK for the London 2012 Aquatics Centre , the architectural centrepiece of the summer games, has taken first place in a competition to design the new Tokyo National Stadium.
(16) Electricity generated from coal in old power plants without carbon capture would be banned in a proposal that will form the centrepiece of the Liberal Democrats' commitment on the environment in its general election manifesto.
(17) With all the original timbers fitted into a steel frame that will recreate its full length and form, the ship will be the centrepiece of Viking, an exhibition opening at the Danish national museum in June , before being transported to London to launch the British Museum's new exhibition space in 2014 .
(18) The centrepiece of the legislation gives ministers a veto over any move to change the articles of association of the bank, including the five governing principles that require it to fulfil a green remit.
(19) In what is seen as a centrepiece of Labour's public service reforms, the manifesto promises a big expansion in the use of takeovers and school mergers to help drive up standards.
(20) The issue of falling commodities has replaced Greece and Chinese equity volatility as the centrepiece of the capital markets.