What's the difference between decorative and hanging?

Decorative


Definition:

  • (a.) Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.

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.

Hanging


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hang
  • (a.) Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
  • (a.) Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
  • (a.) Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
  • (n.) The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
  • (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
  • (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
  • (2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
  • (3) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
  • (4) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
  • (5) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
  • (6) Same-sex marriage: supreme court's swing votes hang in the balance – live Read more The court heard legal arguments for two and a half hours, in a landmark challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage that is expected to yield a decision in June.
  • (7) His photographs are hanging all over my house today.
  • (8) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
  • (9) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
  • (10) 68 min: Ronaldo gets booked for hanging out of Ginaluca Zambrotta.
  • (11) At the time of the most recent follow-up, the success rate was 64% in the hang-back group and 85% in the conventional group.
  • (12) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
  • (13) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
  • (14) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
  • (15) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (16) Sixteen percent of the treatment sample were found to be abusive pattern drinkers; that is, persons who report not only drinking heavily but also spending a great deal of time hanging out on the street, getting high, and consuming many other additional drugs.
  • (17) Ellen White: It depends what group you hang around in.
  • (18) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
  • (19) And they should also remember the alternatives to medically assisted dying: botched suicide attempts, death by voluntary starvation and dehydration, pilgrimages to Switzerland and help from one-off amateurs who have the threat of prosecution hanging over them.
  • (20) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.