(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.
Inlaid
Definition:
(p. p.) of Inlay.
Example Sentences:
(1) TF1 was reconstituted from the five subunits, which catalyzed an ATP-32Pi exchange and an ATP-driven enhancement of fluorescence of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate, when adsorbed on proteoliposome inlaid with TF0 (TF3-vesicles).
(2) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
(3) This residue may be responsible for the fact that the 8 kDa protein is the first subunit of the whole reductase (consisting of 11 subunits) to be labelled by DCCD when the reductase is in free form or inlaid in phospholipid vesicles.
(4) The appearance of lymphoid-plasmocytic infiltration in the thyroid gland of the II generation is considered to be the result of congenital predisposition to the autoimmune thyroiditis inlaid in the memory cells and intensified during birth.
(5) When skin homografts were inlaid eccentrically into pouch skin isografts, so that they were in contact with host skin at one edge, rejection occurred.
(6) "The boy from Bassendean" is among more than 150 notable West Australians celebrated with a plaque inlaid in the footpath of Perth's St Georges Terrace.
(7) Sometimes fragments of the giant Reichschancellery, due to the recycling habits of East Germans, are seen: the walls and platforms of one U-Bahn station are inlaid with great lumps and plates of porphyry, fragments prised from the floors across whose glassy and obsessively waxed surfaces foreign dignitaries once had to pick their way into the Führer's presence.
(8) The authors have previously reported work demonstrating the superiority of vascularized vs. nonvascularized rib grafts, which were inlaid to bridge three vertebral bodies studied at 3 months postoperatively.
(9) To complement the light spacious rooms he created, he designed a great deal of graceful linear furniture which he enamelled white and often inlaid with rose and mother-of-pearl in stylised leaf or flower motifs.
(10) Following internal urethrotomy for treatment of strictures of the bulbous urethra, 11 patients had primary split skin grafts inlaid over the urethrotomy site.
(11) The exterior of the spore is inlaid with myriads of tiny rods which can be removed with xylene.
(12) Wooden benches covered with cushions are arranged around traditional Baghdadi tables inlaid with flowered ceramic tiles.
(13) The derivatized enzyme, inserted (inlaid orientation) into phospholipid vesicles, was titrated with spin probes, either Mn2+ or Gd3+, until the spin-label EPR spectrum was reduced in amplitude to its residual (limiting) value.
(14) The stars thickly inlaid in the night sky, like pulsating diamonds in an ink-black carpet.
(15) Hamster cheek pouch skin, transplanted to the side of an isogenic host's chest wall, retains its immunologically privileged status as evidenced by the prolonged survival of inlaid homografts of ordinary skin.
(16) The evidence indicates that D-beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase is an amphipathic molecule and as such is inlaid in the membrane, i.e.
(17) Nerve grafts were inlaid next to the intact sciatic nerve of the recipient.
(18) A mercury microelectrode formed by electroreduction of mercury on an inlaid gold microdisk is experimentally shown to be well modeled by oblate spheroidal geometry when the ratio of the semiminor axis to the semimajor axis of the protruding drop is less than 1.
(19) Now you see 14th-century-style devotional mosaics picked out in paillettes across a dress by Dolce & Gabbana, and Byzantine-style crosses inlaid on leather under the instructions of Donatella Versace.
(20) The instrument still gives many the screaming heebie jeebies, but its history is fascinatingly intertwined with that of the United States, and many of the exhibits, decorated, inlaid and veneered, are pure artworks in themselves.