(n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
(n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
(n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
(v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
Example Sentences:
(1) With an armamentarium of clinical observation, dermatologists may suspect a hypomelanotic cutaneous diadem overlying a palpable dermal mass to be a visual vignette of a sarcoidal montage requiring diagnostic biopsy.
(2) Electron microscopy of ejaculated spermatozoa demonstrated the characteristic diadem pattern of craters in the equatorial region of the head.
(3) His Christmas radio broadcast in 1953, in which he quoted Macaulay's description of the Puritans ("Their palaces were houses not made with hands: their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away") moved many listeners to tears.
(4) It was a strikingly odd object, 12g of gold so large that it would only fit on a gloved thumb, ornamented with a peculiar spiky head wearing a diadem, and a Latin inscription reading: "Senicianus live well in God".
Headband
Definition:
(n.) A fillet; a band for the head.
(n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.
Example Sentences:
(1) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(2) Hamas members with black face masks and green headbands handed him over earlier today to Egyptian mediators before he was taken by helicopter to Tel Nof airbase in central Israel and re-united with his family.
(3) In order to study how the efficiency of the halo vest is affected by different lengths of the vest, an experimental headband was devised that allowed the head of a normal person to be held securely in the halo attachment.
(4) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
(5) A comparison between counting rates under the derived time-activity curves showed significantly lower values on headband application (p less than 0.01).
(6) Static scintigrams consisting of the first 300,000 counts recorded after bolus release with and without headband application show a clear delineation of the headband position with prevention of "halo" appearance about the cranial cavity.
(7) They talked of sleeves that would slide over paralysed limbs, headbands that would do the work of a brain chip, smartphones that would do what the computer did now.
(8) This research investigated the influence of the user's work-related movement and variations in headband compression force and earcup cushion material (liquid- or foam-filled) on the frequency-specific noise attenuation achieved with earmuffs.
(9) She has gloss-coated lips, and her yellow headband, holding back long hair, glows in the lamplight along Juscelino Kubitschek Avenue, which connects the city to the Castelão arena, one of the venues for the 2014 World Cup .
(10) An implantable magnet is now available for patients who have received the standard Nucleus 22-channel cochlear implant and who are not able to wear the headband satisfactorily.
(11) Theoretical aspects of headband force as well as the implications of attenuation measurements for test room recommendations are discussed.
(12) Six men wearing jackets, despite the wet heat, and red headbands.
(13) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
(14) RunPhones integrate a set of headphones into a comfy headband that won’t move or come lose when you’re really going for it.
(15) Clothing that will get you noticed by street photographers is the name of the game, so expect an eclectic high-low mix of neon sweaters from Scott and couture headbands from Maison Michele .
(16) Dressed in a pink headband and a black jacket, she clutched a white plastic bag containing cash the family had collected to bury her brother, who died in a local hospital on Sunday.
(17) As a simple aid for exact localization of such processes a "rod headband" is presented, which consists of a leather strap with exchangeable plastic rods and can be put on the patient's forehead for a CT examination.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Young women wear headbands with Joaquín Guzmán’s name, during a march to call for his freedom in his home state in the north-west of Mexico.
(19) This year we'll be selling socks, headbands, handbags and hats with bells on."
(20) Right out of the gate she was getting slammed for the pantsuits, the hair, the headbands, her appearance, her life choices, and everything she said was so heavily scrutinized.