(n.) A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.
(n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.
(v. t.) To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(2) The main shopping center, festooned with fading pictures of palm trees, is for lease, and includes a grocery store offering on-the-spot check cashing.
(3) A distal segment of the tubuli recti is found in bulls only and is characterized by a high epithelium which is thrown into folds giving the lumen a festooned appearance.
(4) At the time of his visit the streets were festooned with loyalist Red Hand of Ulster flags and union flags but the southern Irishman felt no hostility towards him or his Spanish wife, Teresa.
(5) Immunoelectron microscopy in the cytoplasmic or festoon type of HBsAg showed immunoreaction in the cisternae and on virus-like particles in the cisternae in patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) antigenemia.
(6) Nature, at least, is thriving: weeds festoon carcasses of abandoned pick-up trucks.
(7) The house is similar: full of happy, unapologetic chaos, it overflows with enthusiasms – music everywhere, books in all corners, baby clothes festooned across the kitchen fireplace – and the sense, children notwithstanding, of incipient freeform parties.
(8) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
(9) But we won’t forget.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The pavement in front of La Belle Équipe on rue de Charonne is festooned with flowers and candles.
(10) ✒ Two books which might interest you: my opposite number on the Times, Ann Treneman, has written Finding the Plot: 100 Graves To Visit Before You Die (Robson Press, £12.99), which is a lovely idea, festooned with good stories.
(11) Bastille 's recording studio of choice is festooned with fairy lights and platinum discs and located behind a Tesco Express, at the foot of a housing estate in south London.
(12) Tonight, after you've tricked and treated your way through Halloween festivities and thrown your elaborate costume in the bottom of your closet for another year, I'd be grateful if you could throw away whatever pink ribbon festooned memorabilia (or junk) you have gathered this month, too.
(13) Alongside the highway near the town of Ventersburg, at a rural settlement not yet reached by post-apartheid development, a knot of villagers had clustered: they were dancing and singing and clapping, and with the help of one or two vuvuzelas, cheering on the flag-festooned cavalcade of luxury cars ferrying well-heeled supporters down to the game.
(14) Characteristic features suggesting the possibility of hypothyroidism were edema, "festoons," and "secondary" bags.
(15) That hot June day in 1999, British troops were festooned with flowers, kissed and hugged along the road from the Macedonian border to Pristina.
(16) "Today when I came I heard the cheerful claps of the people," Modi told the 5,000-strong crowd in the town, which was festooned with flags from his Bharatiya Janata party.
(17) At St Wilfrid's in Pool-in-Wharfedale, even the graveyard was festooned with cardboard bikes.
(18) They arrive in a bustle with a crackle of paper bags and soon the meeting room table is festooned with salad boxes and plastic cutlery.
(19) Its hallways are festooned not with student art, but with printed banners exhorting self-improvement, done in a sassy corporate style as if Starbucks had taken over a school.
(20) His Facebook page is festooned with anti-Islamic materials, conspiracy theories, pro-militia content and even Donald Trump memes.
Jupiter
Definition:
(n.) The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.
(n.) One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(2) "They will drift apart after a couple of days but Jupiter will be visible for at least another two weeks."
(3) After the Trump campaign and Trump supporters repeatedly insisted Fields was lying, she filed a report with local police in Jupiter, Florida.
(4) Mail shots • The Royal Mail handles 75,000,000 items of post every day • Collects from 113,000 different points • Delivers to 28,000,000 addresses • Has 33,000 vehicles using 135,000,000 litres of diesel a year • Has an annual road mileage equivalent to a return trip to Jupiter • Has 12,000 retail outlets • Has annual carbon dioxide emissions of just under 1m tonnes a year, about 0.15% of all UK emissions • Has an annual electricity consumption that would power 112,000 homes • Produces annual landfill waste equivalent to over 2,200 buses • Has an annual water consumption equivalent to 28 litres for every person in the UK
(5) The last thing anyone wants to see is a conga line of pot-bellied fortysomethings drinking Red Stripe on Jupiter.
(6) The past few months alone have seen the box office failure of Disney’s Tomorrowland and the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, despite the presence of A-listers such as George Clooney, Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis on the cast lists.
(7) If they were, it might make sense to go on to an asteroid or one of the moons of Jupiter, but they're not.
(8) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
(9) There could be life in the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa.
(10) In ancient myth, Jupiter took the form of a swan to seduce Leda.
(11) Nights are a chillier story with frost likely by midweek, and clear skies in which the apparent cosying-up of Jupiter and Venus is currently a striking sight.
(12) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(13) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(14) Ian Fogg, senior analyst at Jupiter Research, said that as well as mobile communications, Apple is pushing forward in areas such as home entertainment.
(15) They could be iron-rich like Mercury, or mostly silicate rocks, or extremely icy, like the moons of Jupiter,” said Gillon.
(16) Here's the full piece: Just say no to drug giants - AstraZeneca did the right thing 11.09am BST Here's the full quotes from disgruntled Jupiter fund manager, Alastair Gunn : "We are disappointed the board of AstraZeneca has rejected Pfizer’s latest offer so categorically.
(17) "I'd really love to put a lander on the surface of Europa, the moon of Jupiter, that we feel is a place in the solar system most likely to have life.
(18) On Tuesday, police in Jupiter, Florida, charged the aide with simple battery after Lewandowski was accused by a reporter for a pro-Trump rightwing website of forcefully grabbing her at a rally.
(19) Robert Peston (@Peston) More than a quarter of all Royal Mail shares flogged by the government have been traded this morning October 11, 2013 11.52am BST The Financial Times reports that Jupiter Fund Management has purchased a sizeable amount of Royal Mail’s shares through the IPO.
(20) "I think trimming off a million filesharers from the total number in the UK would be a great measure of success for this letter campaign, but even that would be an unprecedented success in tackling global file sharing," said Mark Mulligan, a vice-president at analysts Jupiter Research.