(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the St George Hotel in Darlington, where they were billeted for the group stage, there was endless confusion at orders of rice and soy sauce for breakfast.
(2) Were she honoured in Stockholm, it would also be a generous and welcome boost to the morale of all those struggling manfully to honour Frau Merkel’s confident ‘Yes, we can’ by coping practically with the asylum seekers billeted daily on their towns and villages.
(3) The misogynist masterpiss billets half the population to the whorehouse.
(4) The measured (3)JHNHalpha coupling constants and the intensity of the intraresidue HN-Halpha NOEs agree well with the solution structures of three of the proteins, using the existing parametrization of the Karplus curve (Pardi, A., Billeter, M. and Wuthrich, K. (1984) J. Mol.
(5) The nucleotide sequences (13 to 26 nucleotides) and map positions of these oligonucleotides were known from previous work (Billeter, M. A.
(6) Supplier relations Since Adelca’s demand for scrap metals is greater than the supply – and recycled scrap costs less than imported billets – the company has invested in building up its network of recyclers, including donating metal cutting equipment, offering loans, providing and paying for training and promising the best price for the scrap metals provided.
(7) According to Isabel Meza, head of integrated management at Adelca, by importing fewer billets, they are saving $12m (£7.6m) on the 20,000 tonnes of steel they produce every month.
(8) Untreated beech waste -- forest billets -- showed a low digestibility (5.6%) and that of zero fibre was somewhat higher (12.6%).
(9) Occasionally it is alleged that the billet began to totter during the stroke and that the left hand responded to this stimulus by an unwilled movement to the billet.
(10) Objects were beech-billets with relatively big cross-section areas.
(11) A map of the large T1 oligonucleotides of the RNA of Prague Rous sarcoma virus, strain B (Pr RSVb) has recently been established (Coffin and Billeter, submitted for publication).
(12) Rozanne used to bicycle from what she describes in wartime slang as her "billet" with a working-class couple, the Dickenses, in Fenny Stratford.
(13) Those billeted on the other side of the building will look out at the intriguing, if bizarre, sight of a huge deserted, cylindrical former hotel in a typically bold Oscar Niemeyer design.
(14) Clearly running Centrica – or SSE or npower, both of which have also changed their chief executives in the past year or so – is not the easiest billet in the commercial universe.
(15) 246, 5003-5024) and the cognate nucleotide sequence recently determined in our laboratory (C. Escarmis and M. A. Billeter, unpublished results).
(16) Seven young soldiers, billeted in their house, made a mascot of young Alfred, who was profoundly impressed by the encounter.
(17) Complete sequence-specific assignments of the 1H NMR spectrum of bungarotoxin were reported in the previous paper [Basus, V.J., Billeter, M., Love, R.A., Stroud, R.M., & Kuntz, I.D.
(18) The working assumption is all billets are going to be open by the end of the year,” he said.
(19) She has always hunted out old letters from antique markets, little scraps of billets-doux and deeds of sale, faint tracings of forgotten human hope in copperplate, the ink faded to brown and grey.
(20) If Clegg returns to the Cabinet Offices, where the deputy prime minister is billeted, and insists that the terrorism laws are indeed changed in line with the wishes of his party conference, I will take all this back.
Ornament
Definition:
(n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
(v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
(6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
(7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
(9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
(10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
(11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
(12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
(14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
(15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
(16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
(17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
(18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
(20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.