(n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
(n.) The fool's club.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
(2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(3) Baubles and tinsel lose their shine Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sales of Christmas baubles fell.
(4) As if the past 50 years had never happened, as if one's own sexual destiny were a meaningless bauble, to be hung off the first john with a bank account who shows an interest.
(5) Marks & Spencer is offering fruit juice laced with glitter and smoked salmon topped with gold leaf; Sainsbury will be selling edible glistening Christmas baubles made from chocolate; while Asda is offering a glitter-topped version of the traditional pudding.
(6) An industry bauble, however deserved or appreciated, is unlikely to tempt her back into the spotlight.
(7) Will they reach for the How to Spend It supplement of the FT, looking for luxury baubles?
(8) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(9) Istiklal made Broadway look like a neon bauble, and the Champs Élysée seem insipid.
(10) He wasn't at Stamford Bridge long but they won the FA Cup to give him yet another bauble for his bulging trophy room back in Florida, where he had moved with his wife, Clar, who grew up in a Jamaican family in Brooklyn, and their three children.
(11) Meanwhile, up the road, the actor Joanna Lumley wants a different bauble.
(12) Many struggling newspaper groups would not look askance at an offer to become such a bauble in such difficult times and rumours still flourish that Lebedev could buy the Independent.
(13) The only problem is, by indulging their excitement, we're nurturing in them the same mindless-drone impulse that leads us to work like dogs in order to buy baubles with bubbles in.
(14) The Christmas tree was knocked over, the man stumbled and fell amongst the glass baubles which had fallen with the tree.
(15) Their pleasure is to be found in having their lovely friends measuring the weight of their baubles, and being awestruck."
(16) Hundreds of delicate bamboo baubles hung from the walls.
(17) To be alive on Planet Earth is to be pinned by an unseen gravitational force beyond your control to the surface of an almighty bauble of death cluttered with sharp objects, death traps, diseases, disasters and killers concocting new and exotic means of inflicting agony upon your person, all of it revolving silently in an infinite and eternal vacuum, the sheer insensate vastness of which is simply too ghastly for the human mind to contemplate.
(18) He'd broken the office Christmas tree and stamped on the glass baubles.
(19) In doing this, he latterly admitted to adding baubles and colouring.
(20) Earlier, the London flyweight Charlie Edwards, a decorated amateur, became a seven-fight professional champion when he won all 10 rounds against the 27-year-old Belfast Cockney Luke Wilton to win the vacant WBC international “silver” belt, a bauble which might prove useful as a negotiating chip to bigger things.
Natural
Definition:
(a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
(a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
(a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
(a.) Conformed to truth or reality
(a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
(a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
(a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
(a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
(a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
(a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
(a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
(a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
(n.) A native; an aboriginal.
(n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
(n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
(n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(3) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(5) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(6) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(7) To investigate the immunomodulating properties of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP), we studied the drug's effects on natural killer (NK) lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
(8) Examined specific relationships, as they occur in nature, between particular dietary variables or groups of variables and specific MMPI subscales.
(9) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
(10) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
(11) The present study was undertaken to find out the nature of enzymes responsible for the processing of DV antigen in M phi.
(12) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(13) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(14) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(15) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(16) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(17) Natural killer cells (CD8+CD57+) as well as activated T cells (CD3+HLA-DR+) were significantly increased in patients with sarcoidosis.
(18) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(19) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(20) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.