(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.
Silver
Definition:
(n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5.
(n.) Coin made of silver; silver money.
(n.) Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
(n.) The color of silver.
(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; made of silver; as, silver leaf; a silver cup.
(a.) Resembling silver.
(a.) Bright; resplendent; white.
(a.) Precious; costly.
(a.) Giving a clear, ringing sound soft and clear.
(a.) Sweet; gentle; peaceful.
(v. t.) To cover with silver; to give a silvery appearance to by applying a metal of a silvery color; as, to silver a pin; to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury.
(v. t.) To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
(v. t.) To make hoary, or white, like silver.
(v. i.) To acquire a silvery color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(2) Sulphides, which possibly form on silver alloys, showed cytotoxicity.
(3) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(4) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(5) By contrast, SAP-35, the major surfactant-associated glycoprotein of molecular weight = 35,000, and other higher molecular weight proteins were not detected in significant quantities in the CLSE or surfactant-TA replacement surfactants, either by highly sensitive silver stain analysis or by immunoblot using monospecific antisera generated against bovine SAP-35.
(6) Average number of metaphase Ag-NOR chromosomes (calculated per diploid chromosome set) in haploid parthenogenones exceeded that in the control; in some cases all NORs were stained by silver.
(7) They continuously produced heteropolymeric G6PD and showed strictly additive patterns of silver staining of both parental sets of nucleolar organizing chromosomes.
(8) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
(9) The silver impregnated axons of these cells converge to a paired centrosuperficial tract forming terminal enlargements at the ventrolateral surface of the spinal cord.
(10) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(11) Some proteins stained with silver can be directly transfer, almost all proteins can be transferred comparably to non-stained controls.
(12) Treatment of the nucleoli with 80 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5) -- 0.15 M NaCl did, however, eliminate silver binding.
(13) Light microscope autoradiography revealed the development of specific silver grains in the medial layer of epineurial and perineurial arteries in sections of sciatic nerve exposed either to [3H]DHA or [3H]QNB.
(14) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
(15) In this study we confirmed this finding in two cases of PSP by using Bodian silver staining and immunohistochemistry with antibody to human tau protein.
(16) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(17) Several hundred polypeptides were resolved as seen by silver staining.
(18) The Bielschowski silver stain revealed intracellular, argentophilic deposits, which were birefringent when stained with Congo red and viewed in polarized light.
(19) Since no evaluation of the relative merits of electro and chemical cautery has been reported, a prospective randomized study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of electro-cautery and cautery with silver nitrate.
(20) The labelling intensity (as estimated by the number of silver grains per unit of cytoplasmic area) was maximum in cells having dense-cored vesicles whose mean diameter was between 130 and 170 nm, but decreased for cells with mean diameter of dense cores smaller than 130 nm, or larger than 170 nm.