What's the difference between decoration and devoration?
Decoration
Definition:
(n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
(n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
(n.) Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
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.
Devoration
Definition:
(n.) The act of devouring.
Example Sentences:
(1) As soon as Paterno’s familiar image appeared – shirt and tie, thick glasses and rolled-up pants – fans erupted and kept cheering as DeVore read from a statement highlighting Paterno’s commitment to student athletes and academics.
(2) Until now, Boxer's only announced opposition was DeVore.
(3) We used the whole cell patch-clamp technique in a previous study of these cells [D. C. Devor, S. M. Simasko, and M. E. Duffey.
(4) In Devor’s study, nine of the participants dropped out because of injury.
(5) When Steven Devor and his colleagues at Ohio State University assigned 54 men and women to a five-day-a-week crossfit programme for ten weeks, they saw big improvements in participants’ aerobic capacity (a marker of general fitness), a 3-4% fall in fat and increases in muscle, regardless of initial level of fitness.
(6) Crossfit generally produces improved results when in body composition and measurements of aerobic fitness compared to traditional weight lifting or aerobic exercise,” says Devor – mainly because you are constantly working at a high intensity, with few rests in between sets, he says.
(7) Transfer RNA from Escherichia coli C6, a Met-, Cys-, relA- mutant, was previously shown to contain an altered tRNA(Ile) which accumulates during cysteine starvation (Harris, C.L., Lui, L., Sakallah, S. and DeVore, R. (1983) J. Biol.
(8) We have previously shown that carbachol induces an oscillating K+ conductance in T84 cells [D. Devor, S. Simasko, and M. Duffey.
(9) Early in the second quarter in the match-up with in-state rival Temple, Beaver Stadium announcer Dean DeVore directed fans’ attention to two high-definition video boards for a two-minute video featuring highlights of Paterno’s career.
(10) Peripheral nerve section results in depletion of fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP) from the nerve terminals in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (Schoenen et al., '68) and this has been used in the past to map the termination field of individual nerves (Rustioni et al., '71; Devor and Claman, '80).
(11) In the normal dorsal horn the terminals of FRAP containing afferents form a thin band extending throughout the mediolateral extent of lamina II (Devor and Claman: Brain Res.
(12) Results presented tend to confirm the suggestion made previously by us (Devor et al., 1985) that patterns of transmissibility conform to a concept of "functional multifactorial complexes" operating in the body in a way analogous to the "field" concept of dental morphology.
(13) However, their conclusion that our data (Devor and Govrin-Lippmann, 1985) to this effect were methodologically flawed is based on an incorrect application of our counting method.
(14) Genetic studies of alcoholics, their families and controls have given credence to the idea that genetic influences in alcoholism exist, and set the stage for efforts to identify alcoholism-susceptibility genes (Devor and Cloninger, 1989).
(15) Before he became head coach in 1966, Joe Paterno spoke about recruiting more football players who were exceptional students,” DeVore said.
(16) A novel dead-end metabolite of Fusarium culmorum was isolated and characterized (Zamir, L. O., and Devor, K. A.
(17) Her entry into the race could present Boxer with her most formidable re-election challenge, but Fiorina first would have to survive a Republican primary against state assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has worked feverishly over the past year to court Republican voters.