(v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
(v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
(v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
(v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
(v.) The roof of a passenger car.
(v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
(v.) A heap or store.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(2) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
(3) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) In Streatham, south London, for example, one user is offering her garden for £20 a night – and there are even deck chairs provided.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) Altogether 23% of deck officers serving throughout the study and 43% of engine-room ratings had one or more absences.
(8) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) Christina was killed in a random attack on the top deck of a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school.
(11) If ergonomic adaptation of the flight deck is impossible, anthropometric limits for pilot selection have to be employed.
(12) Thus, with the qualifications that college students were tested instead of pilots and that they performed monocular laboratory tasks imstead of binocular flight-deck task, it is concluded that 24-h rhythms in accommodation responses need not be considered in setting visual standards for flight-deck task.
(13) Use of the various areas of the pens was determined during a 24-h observation and by a videotape recording of the double-decked pens during the daylight hours.
(14) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
(15) "With those stakes, the response must be all hands on deck.
(16) Decked in red shirts, the handful of supporters – mostly relatives – have tried to keep up the pressure with daily protests.
(17) Or it takes her much longer to shuffle the deck of cards than you thought."
(18) They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck.
(19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
(20) Its giant playing area for handball and volleyball is now decked out with campbeds.
Earring
Definition:
(n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes a new method of reconstructing acquired complete and incomplete cleft earlobes which are elongated and have lost their normal bulk due to the wearing of heavy, dangling earrings.
(2) "Learning from school is useful for everybody, but making earrings is not that useful for everything."
(3) Patients' failure to use the recommended pressure earring and alteration in endocrine balance were noted in three of the four patients with recurrent keloids.
(4) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
(5) Only one patient (who underwent earlobe keloid excision) has greatly improved keloids after only 9 months follow-up, but this patient needs to wear pressure earrings continuously.
(6) We report an unusual cause of localized cutaneous argyria, due to the cutaneous implantation of a silver earring back.
(7) The patient is instructed to wear the earring for 4 to 6 months.
(8) A simple method of repairing a complete or incomplete cleft of the earlobe with preservation of a hole for an earring is described.
(9) (An early profile described his secretary as "a busty hippy in a skintight, purple mini-dress, with filigreed white stockings, lace-up boots and funkily mismatched earrings".
(10) Chandelier earrings Sparkly, gobstopper styles worn by celebrities ranging from Kim Kardashian to Keira Knightley.
(11) Films financed by Ingenious include Avatar, Die Hard 4 and Die Hard 5 and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
(12) So I started wearing big hoop earrings and scraping my hair back and dressing like they did.
(13) Several roentgenologic examinations revealed a small, closed earring in the stomach.
(14) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
(15) At the same time, 62% of 735 young schoolgirls were found to have dermatitis of their earlobes and all regularly wore cheap earrings.
(16) He wears only a little ochre-coloured cloth and small hooped earrings, and smears his body in ashes.
(17) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
(18) Gold hoop earrings, a black and white colour palette, cropped tops and red lipstick are becoming signatures .
(19) Earrings from the ACHICA Downton Abbey jewellery collection.
(20) We report here an 9-month-old boy who swallowed an earring.