What's the difference between bedeck and decorate?

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.

Decorate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (3) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (5) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
  • (6) I also earned meals by decorating a wall in a local restaurant.
  • (7) CI evenly decorated the negatively charged surface of endothelial cells in the control brains, in contrast to markedly diminished iron binding capacity of endothelial cells in low pH-treated hemispheres.
  • (8) As expected, antibodies to actin decorated the microfilaments of the microvilli, giving rise to a very intense fluorescence.
  • (9) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (10) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
  • (11) Richard Master is CEO and founder of MCS Industries, Inc, the leading US supplier of picture frames and decorative mirrors, with $170m in sales, 160 US employees and factories in Mexico and China.
  • (12) Microtubule depolymerization is associated with the binding of vinblastine in approximately molar stoichiometry to tubulin in microtubules with apparent low affinity, as determined by binding experiments with radiolabeled vinblastine and by the ability of vinblastine to inhibit DEAE-dextran decoration of microtubule surfaces.
  • (13) In fact, in keeping with its usual practice, the White House hasn't released any details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served or what Michelle Obama will wear and doesn't plan to until a few hours before Wednesday's event begins.
  • (14) He has decorated the former shop unit with a nautical theme.
  • (15) Ultra thin, even, and grainless tantalum films have been found effective in eliminating the charging artifacts caused by external fields, and the decoration artifacts caused by crystal growth as seen in gold films.
  • (16) Combined with gold-streptavidin, BHPP decorated the actin filament system at the light and electron microscopic level faithfully and with satisfactory density.
  • (17) The EPR data from [15N,2H]MTSL-S1 decorating fibers are combined with the fluorescence polarization data from the 1,5-IAEDANS-labeled fibers to map the global angular transition of the labeled cross-bridges due to nucleotide binding by an analytical method described in the accompanying paper [Burghardt, T. P., & Ajtai, K. (1992) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
  • (18) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
  • (19) Upon examination of the immunoreaction at the ultrastructural level, the ubiquitin antiserum decorated the cytokeratin filaments as well as MB filaments.
  • (20) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.

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