(v. t.) To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.
(v. i.) To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I wish he were alive so that I could hear his mellifluous voice at the other end of the phone offering me congratulations in his courtly way."
(2) "Congratulations to the Greek government," newscaster Antonis Alafogiorgos said toward the end of ERT's main TV live broadcast.
(3) It sounds like self-congratulation for disbelieving incorrect forecasts of rain, then proudly stepping into a hailstorm without an umbrella.
(4) 4th Round roundup If the MLS sides who negotiated the 3rd round of the US Open Cup were congratulating themselves on the assumption that normal service would now be resumed, there were a few red faces in Round 4.
(5) Congratulating Mr Rabin and Mr Arafat on having the courage to change, a Clintonite speciality, he went on: 'Above all, let us dedicate ourselves to your region's next generation.
(6) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(7) Breivik, for instance, congratulated himself in his manifesto for becoming a “self-financed and self-indoctrinated single individual attack cell”.
(8) Steffen Seibert, the German government spokesman has tweeted: "Gluckwuensch an die EU zum Friedensnobelpreis" - congratulations to the EU for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
(9) • The Department for Education says plans to “change the way the performance tables are calculated” will deter schools from doing this in the future Congratulations to all the students and teachers who picked up their results today – and the best of luck with whatever you hope to do next.
(10) UN Libya envoy Martin Kobler was quick to congratulate the Presidential Council on nominating a new cabinet.
(11) 3.41am GMT David Lengel checks out David Lengel (@LengelDavid) Congratulations to the Boston #RedSox#WorldSeries champions!
(12) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
(13) Cameron sought to build bridges by insisting earlier that there would be "no celebrating, no congratulations" if the British public rejects AV.
(14) He congratulated the citizens on defending themselves from the "inyenzi" (cockroaches) and told them to keep up the good work.
(15) 10.13am BST This from Gerard Kelly, editor of the Times Educational Supplement Firstly, we congratulate all schools and pupils who have worked hard and secured fantastic results today.
(16) I congratulate the Observer on the campaign to allow more visiting time for family members, friends and carers on behalf of those with dementia when admitted to hospital (“ Giving a voice to UK’S dementia sufferers and their loved ones ”, last week).
(17) So while the Turkish parliament congratulated itself on a long night’s defence of democracy, many wonder why its members connived in the decline of the rule of law.
(18) Schools in Hampshire had had one of their most successful years academically, with 84% of schools judged good or outstanding, and the authority had been congratulated by the prime minister for its work with schools in neighbouring authorities.
(19) He revealed he had since been sent a letter by Aitken congratulating him on his award.
(20) "More than anything I want to congratulate the players.
Plume
Definition:
(v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
(v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
(v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
(v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
(v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
(v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
(v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
(v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.
(v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 19th century, Newtown Creek was a centre for oil refining and other industries, which left behind a massive oil plume.
(2) On computer screens, the plume showed up as a patch of sky where levels of ash were above 200 micrograms per cubic metre.
(3) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.
(4) Papillomavirus DNA has been reported recently in the vapor (smoke plume) derived from warts treated with carbon dioxide laser; this raises concerns for operator safety.
(5) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(6) Polar conductivity data substantiate the fact that small air ions of one polarity in the plume are elevated while those of opposite polarity are suppressed compared to background concentrations found in the rural environment.
(7) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(8) These "plume cells" are about 30-40 microns long and have an extremely irregular nucleus in their expanded terminus.
(9) Plumes of smoke rose above Kathmandu as friends, relatives and others gathered by the river to quickly cremate their loved ones’ remains.
(10) The fire also burned two vehicles and a US Forest Service garage and sent an enormous ashy plume over the mountains.
(11) Using satellite imagery, researchers could map the areas of coral covered by plumes of sediment released by the dredging process.
(12) The results allow the following changes in the germ counts in the plume of a wet cooling tower to be expected: 1.
(13) May 31, 2017 Images posted on social media showed a huge plume of smoke in the sky.
(14) A large plume of smoke rises from what is said to be Baiji oil refinery in Baiji, northern Iraq.
(15) It released a video of a vehicle driving away down a road, followed later by a plume of smoke rising in the distance.
(16) The city, one of the largest Kurdish bastions of resistance to Isis in northern Syria, was shaken by heavy shelling from the advancing militants at dusk on Friday, sending plumes of smoke skywards and more refugees scrambling across the border into Turkey .
(17) This surplus was interpreted as due to dry deposition from the plume, and deposition velocities were estimated at 0.02-0.10 m s-1.
(18) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(19) We have calculated washout factors for locations where there are data on deposition, rainfall and air concentrations during the passage of the Chernobyl plume.
(20) were detected in one-third of the samples and low numbers of Campylobacter jejuni were found in the sewage and plume.