(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.
Motif
Definition:
(n.) Motive.
Example Sentences:
(1) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(2) We have generated a series of mutants in the two copies of this motif present in human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
(3) An additional 14 leader peptides in this collection (all of those that contain an arginine at -10) conform to this motif.
(4) In addition, region III has some structural features similar to a conserved motif found in complement receptor 1, the human C3b receptor.
(5) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
(6) The same RNA-protein motif is used, through iron-dependent degradation of transferrin receptor mRNA, to decrease synthesis of the receptor and cellular iron uptake.
(7) Comparison of the human and mouse repeats revealed a highly conserved Glu-Asp core in each unit, implicating the functional significance of this motif.
(8) The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
(9) Sequence comparison programs suggested the presence of domains related to the RNA recognition motif found in other RNA-binding proteins, and deletion analysis revealed that the carboxyl-terminal 195 amino acids of the recombinant PTB was sufficient for specific binding to pre-mRNAs.
(10) Since similar loop conformations form similar "words", the structural sequence facilitates the search for common structural motifs in a family of loops.
(11) A new repetitive DNA region was identified in the non-transcribed spacer of human rDNA, namely a long (4.6 kb) sequence motif (Xbal element) was present in two copies.
(12) X-ray analysis of these crystals will permit direct visualization of the specific structural motifs and chemical features that underlie phospholipase neurotoxicity.
(13) Information about the three-dimensional structure or function of a newly determined protein sequence can be obtained if the protein is found to contain a characterized motif or pattern of residues.
(14) For PPD-specific TCCs, a possible biased usage of V beta 8, as well as possible preferential usage of a CDR3 motif, were found.
(15) This phenomenon was observed by using wheat-germ RNA polymerase II and a series of double-stranded template polymers containing palindromic repeating motifs of 6-16 bp, with regulatory alternating purine and pyrimidine bases such as d[ATA(CG)nC].d[TAT(GC)nG], with n = 1, 3 or 6 referred to as d(GC), d(GC)3 or d(GC)6, respectively.
(16) A sequence between residues 302 and 320 homologous to a metal-binding "finger" motif is therefore not required for origin-specific binding.
(17) In this report, we examined the functional significance of these six motifs for the UL9 protein through the introduction of site-specific mutations resulting in single amino acid substitutions of the most highly conserved residues within each motif.
(18) These sequences have a number of similar motifs at, or immediately following, the end of the coding regions, motifs that may be involved in their S mRNA transcription termination processes.
(19) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
(20) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.