(n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
(n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
(n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
(n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
(n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(3) A spokesperson for Staffordshire police said: “A detailed investigation is under way and the scene will remain cordoned off while the investigation continues.
(4) Police cordoned off the street and were allowing people to protest in groups of 50 for about five to 10 minutes before escorting them away.
(5) He had a private table on Dakota’s second floor that would often be cordoned off by a curtain upon his party’s arrival.
(6) Security experts have warned for years that they could be a target for terrorists because they are rarely cordoned off and have few or no bag checks.
(7) Members of the elite police squad wearing helmets came running out of the building and a police union representative at the cordon around the area shouted: "He's dead, he's dead."
(8) Photographs of the site in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero were released on Tuesday after a small group of journalists were taken behind a heavily policed cordon.
(9) The recent arrest of the brother, Liu Hui, may be particular retaliation for two incidents that broke the security cordon around Liu Xia and her isolation in her fifth-floor apartment in central Beijing.
(10) Just beyond the cordon, everyday life in one of the capital’s busiest areas for tourism and other commerce continued as best it could, with the addition of TV news crews gathered as close as possible to the scene, mainly by Lambeth Bridge, to the west of parliament, and just over the river on the South Bank.
(11) It’s a real shame.” 8.05am Facebook Twitter Pinterest A 500-metre cordon was set up around the rue du Corbillon.
(12) Then he fenced tamely outside his off stump at Plunkett, Jonny Bairstow pouched the ball and appealed with the slip cordon and Nigel Llong raised his finger.
(13) "Syrian security services quickly cordoned and searched the entire beach neighbourhood where the shooting had occurred," the embassy was informed.
(14) There are no police to unspool tape and cordon-off sensitive areas.
(15) But police allowed one family with three small children to pass through the cordon and go home.
(16) The force said officers had created a cordon around Tomlinson to give him CPR.
(17) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
(18) Amid reports that a large area around Qunu might be cordoned off for a funeral, she added: "I don't think that would be right."
(19) At the Green, where a local supermarket was set ablaze on Monday night, police kept the volunteers behind a cordon for fear of falling material from the building.
(20) More than 560 people were arrested across Toronto over the weekend after violence erupted between riot police and masked protesters as leaders of the G20 countries gathered behind the toughest security cordon in the history of the summit.
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Definition:
(adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
(adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
(adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
(adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
(adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
(adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
(interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
(prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
(a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
(a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.
(n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.