What's the difference between bedeck and bejewel?

Bedeck


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sitting behind his flag of St George-bedecked pie and mash stall further along the seafront, owner Tim Kelly, 50, complained of an "awful summer" in terms of business and said that he was tired of receiving promotional letters from Carswell's constituency office.
  • (2) Trump appeared alongside a table bedecked with scores of files which he said represented each of his many assets that were now being separated from him.
  • (3) Black-clad stadholders and fur-bedecked Haarlem merchants brush against the rising middle class, such as a shipbuilder and his wife who commissioned Rembrandt to paint an extraordinary double portrait.
  • (4) WEEKEND GETAWAY Verbier TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL A bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal champagne costs SFr450 ($490) at Kronenhalle, a venerable Zurich restaurant bedecked with Picasso paintings.
  • (5) He adores her, he covers her in gold and jewels, and she becomes an ancient Egyptian queen, bedecked in precious stuff for an eternity in the tomb.
  • (6) Most people know that skirts in the office should end just on the knee and that jeans bedecked with hardware and rips are not ideal.
  • (7) It's just around the corner from the fortnightly title's Carlisle Street offices, a ramshackle converted townhouse bedecked with dusty old papers and cartoons on the wall, where the identities of its many contributors (between 150 and 200 payments are sent out for each issue) are closely guarded.
  • (8) Walking from the centre of Bilbao, take the Calle Iparraguirre, and it will lead you straight to the entrance of the Guggenheim, guarded by Jeff Koons' flower-bedecked "Puppy", another toy that points to the real role of Frank Gehry's extraordinary structure.
  • (9) They married on 25 June 1999 in a twilight ceremony on board Murdoch's garland-bedecked yacht, the Morning Glory, in New York Harbor.
  • (10) The Empire State Building tweeted that it was bedecked in red, white, and blue for the occasion.
  • (11) We cross the river on hairy high bridges bedecked with streaming prayer scarves, then up through steep woods to a clearing for a first view of 8,848m Everest.
  • (12) Spear-carrying guardsmen, warriors bedecked in chainmail, gleaming golden helmets and even a few fake moustaches thrown in for good measure.
  • (13) In one respect, it is essentially the SNP election manifesto for 2016 - bedecked with attractive policies.
  • (14) Ohio in particular is bedecked with the stars and stripes.
  • (15) The young North Korea leader, Kim Jong-un just over a year in the job, is shown surrounded by attentive medal-bedecked generals.
  • (16) Minutes later Trump walked out to face the world’s media in a ballroom dripping in gold leaf, bedecked with three giant chandeliers and four white cherubs.
  • (17) Recording under her father's nickname for her, GooGoosha, her videos show her as an Arabian Nights fantasy princess bedecked in diamonds as big as the Kremlin against the skyline of Samarkand with a Lamborgini thrown in for good measure.
  • (18) Now the town’s giant concrete Ouagadougou conference centre is bedecked with black flags.
  • (19) Another 7,000MW of solar is out for tender across the country and the rooftops of Delhi are to be bedecked with panels under a new scheme.
  • (20) The 26-year-old woman who comes to work in a cropped T-shirt bedecked with a slogan about how much she likes to party all night will likely cause some consternation to the boss in his three-piece suit.

Bejewel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I will put prices up if I suddenly want a velvet cloak or a bejewelled cock ring.
  • (2) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
  • (3) And with that she clutches a bejewelled hand to what is famously the most unreal part of her anatomy.
  • (4) Luton points to the loss of Bejeweled producer Giordano Bruno from Popcap to Tilting Point, as well as the departure of the Playfish founders .
  • (5) The wealth gleaned from that plunder was siphoned back to Belgium to fund beautiful stately architecture and impressive public works, including arches and parks and railway stations – all the markers of development that adorn Brussels today, the bejewelled headquarters of the European Union.
  • (6) So a night that was intended to be a coronation before hundreds of bejewelled guests in the ostentatious, Versailles-style ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, fell a little flat.
  • (7) Where that game was a Bejeweled-style match-three puzzler, this is essentially a rewrite of another game, Peggle, firing balls to destroy pegs.
  • (8) My highlight was a dress bejewelled with computerised LEDs.
  • (9) "Real" gamers play Halo or Call of Duty, not The Sims and Bejewelled.
  • (10) In 1949, he played Alfieri's Orestes for the first time, in a production which was one of Visconti's most extravagant exploits - with a full orchestra back stage and its hero dressed in a fabulously bejewelled costume.
  • (11) He was generous to his Duchess, too, over the years commissioning a collection of bejewelled insect brooches, which she wore pinned to ribbons as they left quite dreadful holes in frocks.
  • (12) Zuma, Bejeweled and Jewel Quest work in exactly the same way.
  • (13) Winners included Knights & Dragons, Bejeweled Blitz, The Hobbit, Ingress and Samurai Siege for games, and Duolingo, Movies by Flixster, YouTube, NewsHog and SwiftKey Keyboard for apps.
  • (14) Altmejd's collectors are probably rhinestone-bejewelled toads from another galaxy who keep humans as pets.
  • (15) PopCap Games , whose highly entertaining and child-friendly game Plants vs Zombies was nominated for a Bafta last year, feature "player profiles" on their website, including "Barbara Simpson, 36 – Connecticut mom plays Bejeweled Blitz with a baby on her lap" and "Ann Hough, 48 – Mother, daughter bond over Plants vs Zombies".
  • (16) In one of the sessions an 11-year-old girl creates a bejewelled sword from polystyrene, which, she says, is magic because it knows who is good and bad and can only harm the bad.
  • (17) Titles like Farmville, Bejeweled and Cafe World, quickly drew in a vast user-base of female gamers, and even more elusively, older female gamers.
  • (18) The central one, bejewelled and in a leopard skin, is drinking from a metal vessel that obscures his face.
  • (19) They have even become fashionable, with celebrities wearing them in the form of bejewelled brooches, cufflinks and rings.
  • (20) I was trying to forget for a while – forget glittery, bejewelled writing, forget modernism, forget postmodernism – let's just be with these four people."

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