What's the difference between decorative and inlaid?

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.

Inlaid


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Inlay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) TF1 was reconstituted from the five subunits, which catalyzed an ATP-32Pi exchange and an ATP-driven enhancement of fluorescence of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate, when adsorbed on proteoliposome inlaid with TF0 (TF3-vesicles).
  • (2) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
  • (3) This residue may be responsible for the fact that the 8 kDa protein is the first subunit of the whole reductase (consisting of 11 subunits) to be labelled by DCCD when the reductase is in free form or inlaid in phospholipid vesicles.
  • (4) The appearance of lymphoid-plasmocytic infiltration in the thyroid gland of the II generation is considered to be the result of congenital predisposition to the autoimmune thyroiditis inlaid in the memory cells and intensified during birth.
  • (5) When skin homografts were inlaid eccentrically into pouch skin isografts, so that they were in contact with host skin at one edge, rejection occurred.
  • (6) "The boy from Bassendean" is among more than 150 notable West Australians celebrated with a plaque inlaid in the footpath of Perth's St Georges Terrace.
  • (7) Sometimes fragments of the giant Reichschancellery, due to the recycling habits of East Germans, are seen: the walls and platforms of one U-Bahn station are inlaid with great lumps and plates of porphyry, fragments prised from the floors across whose glassy and obsessively waxed surfaces foreign dignitaries once had to pick their way into the Führer's presence.
  • (8) The authors have previously reported work demonstrating the superiority of vascularized vs. nonvascularized rib grafts, which were inlaid to bridge three vertebral bodies studied at 3 months postoperatively.
  • (9) To complement the light spacious rooms he created, he designed a great deal of graceful linear furniture which he enamelled white and often inlaid with rose and mother-of-pearl in stylised leaf or flower motifs.
  • (10) Following internal urethrotomy for treatment of strictures of the bulbous urethra, 11 patients had primary split skin grafts inlaid over the urethrotomy site.
  • (11) The exterior of the spore is inlaid with myriads of tiny rods which can be removed with xylene.
  • (12) Wooden benches covered with cushions are arranged around traditional Baghdadi tables inlaid with flowered ceramic tiles.
  • (13) The derivatized enzyme, inserted (inlaid orientation) into phospholipid vesicles, was titrated with spin probes, either Mn2+ or Gd3+, until the spin-label EPR spectrum was reduced in amplitude to its residual (limiting) value.
  • (14) The stars thickly inlaid in the night sky, like pulsating diamonds in an ink-black carpet.
  • (15) Hamster cheek pouch skin, transplanted to the side of an isogenic host's chest wall, retains its immunologically privileged status as evidenced by the prolonged survival of inlaid homografts of ordinary skin.
  • (16) The evidence indicates that D-beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase is an amphipathic molecule and as such is inlaid in the membrane, i.e.
  • (17) Nerve grafts were inlaid next to the intact sciatic nerve of the recipient.
  • (18) A mercury microelectrode formed by electroreduction of mercury on an inlaid gold microdisk is experimentally shown to be well modeled by oblate spheroidal geometry when the ratio of the semiminor axis to the semimajor axis of the protruding drop is less than 1.
  • (19) Now you see 14th-century-style devotional mosaics picked out in paillettes across a dress by Dolce & Gabbana, and Byzantine-style crosses inlaid on leather under the instructions of Donatella Versace.
  • (20) The instrument still gives many the screaming heebie jeebies, but its history is fascinatingly intertwined with that of the United States, and many of the exhibits, decorated, inlaid and veneered, are pure artworks in themselves.