What's the difference between cordon and ribbon?

Cordon


Definition:

  • (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.

Ribbon


Definition:

  • (n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
  • (n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
  • (n.) Same as Rib-band.
  • (n.) Driving reins.
  • (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
  • (n.) A silver.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The "hexagonal ribbon" model proposes that hexagonal profiles are true cross-sections of elongated hexagonal ribbons.
  • (2) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
  • (3) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
  • (4) Description and differentiation of the ribbon shaped vascular muscle cells from cardiac muscle cells, and the potential for confusion of the two in older animals, was addressed.
  • (5) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (6) Differentiated ribbon synapses are found after 8 days in vitro, the time at which they normally appear in situ.
  • (7) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
  • (8) When negatively stained with uranyl acetate, LPSI was ribbon-like but LPSII exhibited hexagonal lattice structures.
  • (9) synaptic ribbon (SR) and synaptic spherule (SS) numbers, was explored in 6 different stocks and strains of laboratory rats, viz.
  • (10) In the astrocytes, the residual bodies were extremely polymorphous and contained inclusions with bilamellar ribbon-like structures.
  • (11) These labeled amacrine cells received conventional synaptic contacts from other unlabeled amacrine cells and ribbon synaptic contacts from unlabeled bipolar cells, in both the proximal and distal inner plexiform layer.
  • (12) Regular patterns of actomyosin interactions arise when ribbons are aligned with myosin thick filaments, because the repeat distance of the myosin lattice (429 A) is an integral multiple of the subunit repeat in the ribbon (35.7 A).
  • (13) All underwent implantation of a ribbon electrode through a small laminotomy, under general anesthesia.
  • (14) We have reported that meso-hexestrol, a synthetic estrogen, inhibits microtubule assembly and induces microtubule proteins into twisted ribbon structures.
  • (15) The first is characterized by afferent synapses to the brain with, in the sensory pedicle endings, structures similar to the presynaptic ribbons noted by some authors in photoreceptors of arthropods.
  • (16) Presynaptic ribbons could be observed in cone cells on E.E.
  • (17) The other part was processed for electron microscopy to quantify synaptic ribbons (SR).
  • (18) A possibility of reorganization of the tubular structures into the ribbon-like ones and vice versa is shown.
  • (19) Some tied yellow ribbons and bows to the Eccles Cross while others stood quietly, reflecting on what had happened to someone who, according to the local paper, was an "extraordinary man who we can be proud to call one of our own".
  • (20) At the apposition of the ribbon to the hair cell membrane, presynaptic densities are formed and the ribbon appears to become anchored.