(n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
(v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Well, I'd be surprised if anyone actually believes it has the power to inspire Damascene conversions among the prejudiced.
(2) Always a good cook, she had a Damascene moment one day when, looking for a way to perk up a slightly flat pasta dish, she gave it a squeeze of lemon.
(3) Many Damascenes who oppose the regime, including most of the activists who organised the street protests of 2011, have left for Beirut.
(4) Ticciati has, however, played in a Prom before: as a teenager, with the National Youth Orchestra, in a concert of Sibelius's First Symphony conducted by Colin Davis – the Damascene experience that inspired him to pursue conducting.
(5) For those who believe that celebrity culture is anti-culture, and that any society that elevates random individuals and ignores the rest has nothing to teach us, any Damascene conversions on BBC1 will be a sigh in a storm, which will ebb to nothing when the celebrity returns to its natural habitat.
(6) I remember being called to see a patient who had fallen out of bed and vividly recall that Damascene moment of realising that for all the lectures, revision, exams and mnemonics that had characterised medical school, I had no idea what to do with this human being or how to solve the problem of her being on the floor.
(7) I worked at Mixmag for five years, a die-hard indie fan who had a Damascene conversion at the age of 20 in the unlikely setting of a rave on Margate pier.
(8) Unless Zuckerberg has had a truly Damascene conversion, it is unlikely Facebook and Google will lead the way, as their profits are so dependent on collecting user data.
(9) The report, called Women at the Top 2005, congratulates the Conservative Women's Organisation (CWO) for its recent Damascene conversion to all-women shortlists after standing opposed to the idea for a long time.
(10) Mark Lynas , an anti-GM protester in the late 1990s who now admits to a Damascene conversion to the merits of the technology in recent years, believes the protesters have misjudged the public attitude to GM this time round.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trio had been friends for a decade previously, and shared pivotal musical experiences (a love of Weezer 's second album, Pinkerton; a Damascene indie rock conversion via the Pixies ' Surfer Rosa).
(12) I’m looking forward to being an old artist and not giving a shit.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I had a Damascene moment when I realised that the masquerade of dressing up as a woman and getting away with it, or “passing”, as they call it in the tranny world, was a fairly unrewarding experience.’ Outfit by Central St Martins student Oto Kazumi.
(13) She said: "What is clear from today's statement is the secretary of state has not had a Damascene moment where the scales have fallen from his eyes, and rolled back key elements of his reforms.
(14) The report calls for the City regulators to report to parliament in two years' time on a new regime to allow new banks to set up with less capital and welcomes the government's Damascene conversion to open up the payments system to new players.
(15) The speed and reach of Rupert Murdoch's damascene re-conversion to the web emerged today after the News Corp chairman announced his first internet acquisition since the dotcom boom.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close • Some Damascenes expressed surprise at Assad's agreement to hand over chemical weapons, Jonathan Steele reports from the Syrian capital.
(17) The powerful ranks of oil and gas industry executives had not witnessed a Damascene moment.
(18) "For years they think we have been happy with tiny reforms; it is insulting," says one 30-year-old Damascene man who asked not to be named.
(19) Ann Farmer Woodford Green, Essex • Anglican bishops Desmond Tutu and George Carey have had Damascene conversions on euthanasia and now back the right of the terminally ill to end their lives in dignity.
(20) Martin Chulov, in Beirut, and Alec Luhn, in Moscow, report : Damascenes reported more checkpoints than usual in regime-held areas, but said the capital continued to function as it had during the past two years of ever more entrenched war.
Decorate
Definition:
(v. t.) To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
(4) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(5) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
(6) I also earned meals by decorating a wall in a local restaurant.
(7) CI evenly decorated the negatively charged surface of endothelial cells in the control brains, in contrast to markedly diminished iron binding capacity of endothelial cells in low pH-treated hemispheres.
(8) As expected, antibodies to actin decorated the microfilaments of the microvilli, giving rise to a very intense fluorescence.
(9) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(10) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(11) Richard Master is CEO and founder of MCS Industries, Inc, the leading US supplier of picture frames and decorative mirrors, with $170m in sales, 160 US employees and factories in Mexico and China.
(12) Microtubule depolymerization is associated with the binding of vinblastine in approximately molar stoichiometry to tubulin in microtubules with apparent low affinity, as determined by binding experiments with radiolabeled vinblastine and by the ability of vinblastine to inhibit DEAE-dextran decoration of microtubule surfaces.
(13) In fact, in keeping with its usual practice, the White House hasn't released any details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served or what Michelle Obama will wear and doesn't plan to until a few hours before Wednesday's event begins.
(14) He has decorated the former shop unit with a nautical theme.
(15) Ultra thin, even, and grainless tantalum films have been found effective in eliminating the charging artifacts caused by external fields, and the decoration artifacts caused by crystal growth as seen in gold films.
(16) Combined with gold-streptavidin, BHPP decorated the actin filament system at the light and electron microscopic level faithfully and with satisfactory density.
(17) The EPR data from [15N,2H]MTSL-S1 decorating fibers are combined with the fluorescence polarization data from the 1,5-IAEDANS-labeled fibers to map the global angular transition of the labeled cross-bridges due to nucleotide binding by an analytical method described in the accompanying paper [Burghardt, T. P., & Ajtai, K. (1992) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)].
(18) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
(19) Upon examination of the immunoreaction at the ultrastructural level, the ubiquitin antiserum decorated the cytokeratin filaments as well as MB filaments.
(20) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.