What's the difference between decoration and streamer?

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.

Streamer


Definition:

  • (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
  • (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
  • (n.) A searcher for stream tin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Sertoli cells possessed a "streamer" like formation of strong TPPase activity spreading from basal to apical portion.
  • (2) One happy online user described the marinades thus: "Turns ordinary, boring, everyday chicken into a Festival of Chicken, complete with chicken-skin streamers and party giblets".
  • (3) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.
  • (4) A class of aggregation pattern mutants called 'streamers' have been isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum and analysed genetically.
  • (5) In her wake will travel a flotilla of 1,000 boats decorated in streamers and flags, their crews resplendent in their finest rigs.
  • (6) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
  • (7) Streamer F mutants have been found to be useful tools for studying the pathway of signal transduction leading to chemotactic cell movement.
  • (8) The growing tips and fine spike-like sprouts called 'streamers' were also highly stained with laminin immunoreactivity.
  • (9) The total number of complementation groups giving the streamer phenotype is estimated from statistical calculation, based on the frequency of allelism, to be between seven and nine.
  • (10) Still 0-0 1.16am GMT 48 mins The most exciting thing to have happened in this second half so far are the enormous number of streamers that descended on Jimmy Nielsen and the KC goal area.
  • (11) "Twitch remains a lot more 'wild west', with streamers often playing music in the background without thinking too much about copyright law.
  • (12) "It is customary to welcome the team in Argentina with a display of fireworks, bombardas (small bombs that make a big noise but do not actually explode) and confetti - plus paper streamers that are mostly rolls of toilet paper.
  • (13) Measurements in streamer F mutant cells reveal that cGMP likely plays a role in the regulation of the cAMP-induced hyperpolarization.
  • (14) If your daughter has a pink bike with streamers on the handlebars, and those elements are understood as distinctly feminine, then you're far less likely to hand it on to your son.
  • (15) Bacterial colony counts and quantitative estimation of vaginal epithelial cells were performed on urine collected by 18 female volunteers using conventional clean-catch technics and on urine collected by the same 18 women using the Clean Streamer.
  • (16) There might still be a few empty seats, but someone at least thought to bring a massive yellow streamer and launch it out onto the field near the left sideline.
  • (17) Characteristic features of pattern alopecia included: the presence of miniature or vellus follicles; a marked enlargement of the sebaceous glands and arrectores pilorum muscles; the presence of connective tissue streamers beneath the vellus follicles; and the thinning of the dermis.
  • (18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "At the start of the Copa Libertadores final at Boca Juniors, the fans converted their stadium into a garbage dump by covering the playing field in litter and draping paper streamers over the goal posts with no attempt to clear the debris," noted Ian Simpson, way back when.
  • (19) Bleeding is a major consideration; surface tension tends to keep venous blood oozing along surfaces, whereas pulsatile arterial blood forms droplets, streamers, and clouds, depending on the force of the bleeding.
  • (20) This isolate produced copious amounts of extracellular polymer at 10 C in the laboratory and was considered to be the primary source of polymer in the "acid streamer" slime matrix.