What's the difference between decorative and quilt?

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.

Quilt


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.
  • (v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
  • (v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.
  • (v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Southampton are in their not-particularly-popular all-red number, while Liverpool sport their not-particularly-popular purple-white-and-black quilted shirt.
  • (2) The territories of the motoneurones are arranged in a quilt-like pattern closely resembling that already found for the receptive fields of sensory cells on the skin.
  • (3) Here we describe a variation of Gerlach's quilting technique to overcome the problem and this modification has proven to be both simple and effective.
  • (4) In the first six cases, split-thickness skin was quilted onto the muscle.
  • (5) 18 secondary perforations were seen with the quilt-plasties.
  • (6) In most cases, asthma occurred in winter, due to seasonal use of bed quilts or clothes filled with silk.
  • (7) ITN has called for a single contract to cover all of England rather than a "patchwork quilt" of regions.
  • (8) The influence of structure (pressed sheets or loosely quilted materials) and exposition (single, piled or between sheets of plaster) was represented.
  • (9) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
  • (10) I remember getting my first quilt with my own quilt cover and just walking around this children’s home wrapped up in it.
  • (11) It was Caitlin Moran who said that feminism should be a “massive patchwork quilt”; we should all fight the battles that are important to us, and bring our individual ideas and strengths to the movement.
  • (12) But this is a very big country and cannot be run by a very much smaller civil service in London and a huge, disparate patchwork quilt of local authorities all pulling in different directions," he says.
  • (13) Since the use of silk waste for the filling of bed quilts a great number of patients suffering especially from silk-asthma could be observed.
  • (14) Blanket, or quilt, insulation is easy to lay yourself and available at DIY stores – try B&Q 's sustainable rockwool, from £5 a roll – in stores on 21 October.
  • (15) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
  • (16) For others, it's a symbiotic process; a campaigning idea might be expressed through craft – let's say you're making a patchwork quilt out of embroidered vulvas, to protest against female genital mutilation – and then in the act of crafting, the idea finds new expression.
  • (17) Even with the quilt it gets pretty cold, but exercise helps."
  • (18) In each case a quilted, split-skin grafted pectoralis major muscle flap was used.
  • (19) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
  • (20) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).