What's the difference between cornice and ledge?

Cornice


Definition:

  • (n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two victims had fallen down a rock face after the breaking off of a cornice and had come to rest in the uppermost part of the accumulation area.
  • (2) Some houses have bulbous bulls’ heads, accessorised by grapes, jutting out above their front door; others have busts of Greek gods peering over the skylight, moustaches lovingly carved; others complex cornices, ideal for storing 120 years of grime.
  • (3) Helvellyn's Striding and Swirral Edges and Pinnacle Ridge on St Sunday Crag, from where Blackpool Tower can be seen, were for a short time corniced with frosted snow.
  • (4) The wavy furrows and ridges were repeatedly formed and appeared just like a cornice.

Ledge


Definition:

  • (n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  • (n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  • (n.) A layer or stratum.
  • (n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  • (n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
  • (2) The continuous ledge will be covered with a cast continuous bar, intended to restore the lingual crown morphology.
  • (3) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
  • (4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
  • (5) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
  • (6) All the determinants for ledging were not identified with this study, and further research is indicated.
  • (7) In the outer and middle layers of the spiny deposits, the Ca, P, and Mg concentrations were all significantly higher than those of the ledge-type deposits.
  • (8) Calculus components of the ledge-type deposits contained crystal types quite similar to sandy grain-shaped hydroxyapatite (HAP), plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP), and hexahedral Mg-containing whitlockite (WHT).
  • (9) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
  • (10) Ridge POAMES occurred most frequently, followed by combined, ledge and the nodular exostose types.
  • (11) The edges of the breaks appear clinically as glassy ridges or ledges and are also called Haab's lines.
  • (12) 15 had a significantly higher incidence of ledging.
  • (13) Hypoplasia of the labial enamel of 15 out of 19 teeth from sheep killed after recovery from the infection was classified according to the extent and depth as pits, grooves or larger areas of missing enamel with ledge-formation cervically.
  • (14) Immature spores in the strain studied had a ledge which disappeared during maturation.
  • (15) Shaping effectiveness of the tested files was qualitatively evaluated in terms of respect for conservation of the apical constriction and the presence or absence of ledging, specially in the apical third of the root canals.
  • (16) By following the continental ledge in search of sardines, sardinella, and mackerel, it hopes to catch 3,000 tonnes of fish in a four- to six-week voyage before it offloads them, possibly in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
  • (17) This preliminary study suggests that such a wheelchair feature might improve the safety of wheelchairs in conditions involving inadvertent loss of caster support, as when they drop off a stair or ledge.
  • (18) A complicated system of low lying slanting, diagonal mucosal ledges forms between the tall longitudinal folds.
  • (19) Ten of the 107 had small enamel fractures, primarily occurring on cingulum ledges.
  • (20) Each of the nine objects was placed on a ledge inside a dummy television screen next to the video screen, the food items alternating with the neutral objects, and 20 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 20 female controls matched for age were asked to adjust the size of the video recording to that of the real object.