(n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
(n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
(2) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
(3) Hunt embellished it with a sad little joke about his repeated failure to interest James in his own pet projects: superfast broadband and local TV.
(4) There were occasional literal and verbal paraphasic errors, but no completion phenomenon, embellishment or significant echolalia.
(5) But the main focus will be attempts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks along the lines of the 2002 Saudi initiative, as developed recently by King Abdullah of Jordan and embellished by Obama.
(6) By now, Galeano had an established voice as a writer, and he soon settled down to write a series of books that embellished the formula that had proved so successful with Open Veins, combining contemporary observations with historical anecdote.
(7) So if he embellished this, how can you believe the rest?
(8) Some analysts suspect political players have deliberately leaked information amid the jockeying for position; and that details – such as a claim that the two young women were wholly or semi-naked – may have been embellished for maximum damage.
(9) Thus both the selective loss of entire branches and the selective embellishment of others occur during the development of these somatosensory cortical structures.
(10) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
(11) He embellished the party line with his own metaphors and rhetorical swirls.
(12) The general has a (perhaps embellished) reputation for monk-like asceticism, eating once a day and banning alcohol from his headquarters in Kabul.
(13) Survival and event-free rates in long-term follow-up period were markedly embellished by the types of prosthesis.
(14) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(15) The style even included high-collared blouses with "ties" that were inch-wide strips of material that clipped around the neck and were often embellished with a single fabric flower.
(16) The club denied it and a Ukip spokesman said he had played for the Tranmere schoolboy and youth teams, adding that the embellishment was an “innocent mistake” by a press officer.
(17) Third, the argument is embellished with emotive claims about how this ruling will fragment, chill, choke, censor, or somehow damage the internet.
(18) The embellishment comes from telling it over and over again, letting your brain seek out the funny.
(19) West Ham came close to embellishing their lead on the half-hour when Vaz Tê skittered down the right and cut the ball back to O'Neil, whose curling shot from the edge of the area forced a fine save from Marshall.
(20) He appears to be intolerant of workers who choose to embellish their bodies with works of art, however small or innocuous.
Sequence
Definition:
(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
(2) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(3) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(4) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(5) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(6) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(7) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(8) (dG-dA)n, but not to other homocopolymeric sequences such as (dC-dG)n .
(9) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(10) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
(11) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(12) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(13) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(14) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(15) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(16) Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNAs for asparagine synthetase (AS) of Pisum sativum has uncovered two distinct AS mRNAs (AS1 and AS2) encoding polypeptides that are highly homologous to the human AS enzyme.
(17) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
(18) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(19) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(20) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.