(v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
(v. i.) To determine; to make an award.
(v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
(v. t.) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the 18-month period from January 1988, 652 awards were made, consisting of 426 (65%) brand and 226 (35%) generic drugs.
(2) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(3) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
(4) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(5) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(6) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(7) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
(8) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(9) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(10) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
(11) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
(12) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
(13) Since leaving the group last April – taking home a reported £3.1m in salary, compensation and future share awards – the work has not stopped.
(14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(15) Both athletes and technicians awarded higher scores to risk than to efficacy for any substance, although 42-67% of athletes and technicians regarded amphetamines and anabolic steroids as efficacious.
(16) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(17) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(18) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
(19) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
(20) Despite winning Chelsea's player of the year award for the past two seasons, Mata has found his opportunities restricted since Mourinho's return to Stamford Bridge last summer.
Crown
Definition:
() of Crow
() p. p. of Crow.
(n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
(n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
(n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
(n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
(n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
(n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
(n.) The part of a hat above the brim.
(n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
(n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
(n.) Same as Corona.
(n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
(n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
(n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
(n.) The dome of a furnace.
(n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
(n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
(n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
(n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
(n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
(n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
(n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
(n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
(n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
Example Sentences:
(1) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(4) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(5) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(6) The force is liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service over its inquiry.
(7) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
(8) "But it is necessary to collect tax that is owed and it is necessary to reduce tax avoidance and the crown dependencies and the overseas territories need to play their part in that drive and they need to do more."
(9) His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Crown Prince is a leading champion in the Middle East for improving child health.
(10) In this experiment, 64 crown preparations were made in four primates.
(11) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(12) The involution of crown odontoblasts after primary dentinogenesis in teeth of limited eruption is discussed.
(13) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(14) With equal cementing conditions and points of measurement for all crowns, the PFM crowns were found to be significantly superior to the other crown types.
(15) Just this week, we heard the outrage pouring from many Americans over the crowning of an Indian Miss USA .
(16) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(17) May pointedly highlighted the latest reform effort, Vision 2030, promoted by the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, the hawkish defence minister who oversees the Saudi campaign in Yemen.
(18) The maximum stresses and strains in porcelain for the crowns with a conventional coping thickness (0.3 mm) and a reduced coping thickness (0.1 mm) were not significantly different.
(19) However, the small residual pressure indicates that these internal back pressures appear to play a limited role in preventing a complete seating of a crown.
(20) The occurrence of marginal spaces between the resin facing and gold alloy framework in 176 crowns and bridge retainers was studied.