What's the difference between fob and ornament?

Fob


Definition:

  • (v.t.) To beat; to maul.
  • (n.) A little pocket for a watch.
  • (v.t.) To cheat; to trick; to impose on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, excluding sinus tachycardia, during FOB is low and that lidocaine anesthesia probably exerts a protective effect against the development of major arrhythmias during the procedure.
  • (2) On one side stand the FOGs – the Friends of George – and on the other stand the FOBs – the Friends of Boris.
  • (3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
  • (4) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
  • (5) The fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB) plays an essential role in diagnosing respiratory infections in AIDS and is important in minimizing the need for open lung biopsies.
  • (6) Subsequent examinations included repeat FOB (five), open lung biopsy (five), needle aspiration (two), and autopsy (nine), establishing 49 diagnoses.
  • (7) In the context of hazard identification (i.e., testing for the effects of unknown chemicals) the FOB and motor activity may be expected to adequately detect neurotoxicity.
  • (8) With smart key fobs it will be possible to configure it to shut down every appliance linked to a smart plug, plus the heating, when you leave the premises.
  • (9) Subsequent FOB was performed first by the independent observer to record the DLT position and next by the investigators for improvement or correction of their positioning under visual control.
  • (10) This study suggests that declines in PaO2 after bronchoscopy can be avoided in most patients undergoing diagnostic FOB by using a diaphragm-modified 40 percent Venturi mask during and after the procedure.
  • (11) They are becoming more and more sophisticated, so if you have anything worth stealing, it’s worth it.” A video of his facility shows a client using a personalised fob and code through two doors to gain access to a reception where staff behind bulletproof glass identify clients as they give their biometric data to enter the vault.
  • (12) The two independent molecules, one SCN- ion and 97 associated water molecules were refined by molecular dynamics and annealing techniques to R = 19.6% (10,913 Fobs, resolution 5-1.7 A).
  • (13) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
  • (14) When comparisons can be made between effects detected with the FOB and other methods of measuring neurotoxicity (e.g., neuropathology), concurrent validity can also be established.
  • (15) Frequently, the FOB is used in conjunction with other measures of neurotoxicity, i.e., neuropathology or sensory evoked potentials.
  • (16) By using freshly isolated blood trypomastigotes of twelve T. cruzi wild type strains we have found eight strains sensitive to FoB and FoA, while four and one were FoA- and FoB-insensitive respectively to the drug-mediated growth inhibition.
  • (17) Hospitals are risking a repeat of the Mid Staffs care scandal by ignoring patients' complaints, fobbing some off with inadequate explanations of errors and even lying about mistakes, the NHS's ombudsman has warned.
  • (18) The debate on the future of defence in Scotland is too important to be ignored, or brushed under the carpet, or fobbed off with half-baked sound-bite policies which are financially and strategically incoherent.
  • (19) That applied equally to the working-class man who felt fobbed off by statistics about border guards when he was worried about EU immigration, and to the woman who works long hours in a small business.
  • (20) In a prospective randomized trial, we examined the value of routine postlobectomy fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) in preventing postoperative atelectasis.

Ornament


Definition:

  • (n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
  • (v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
  • (2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
  • (3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
  • (4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
  • (5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
  • (6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
  • (7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
  • (8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
  • (9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
  • (10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
  • (11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
  • (12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
  • (13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
  • (14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
  • (15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
  • (16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
  • (17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • (18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
  • (19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
  • (20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.

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