What's the difference between frilling and ornamentation?

Frilling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frill

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (2) The pace of growth for both Aldi and fellow German discounter Lidl has slowed over the past year, but Barnes said the no-frills chains would continue to take market share from traditional players such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.
  • (3) 5 Don't assume no-frills will be the cheapest option Always check which airlines are flying the route you are interested in – try Skyscanner.net .
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fancy that … Savages, a French-style cafe Fernando’s is a hole-in-the-wall no-frills Portuguese restaurant, just off Russell Road in Richmond Hill, with juicy chicken and prawns served straight from the grill.
  • (5) The spleens of a frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus was histo-anatomically studied.
  • (6) New Tesco House – the squat 1970s tower block on a grim industrial estate that the supermarket has called home for more than 40 years – used to be held up by former boss Sir Terry Leahy as a symbol of the “no-frills” corporate culture that was good for customers.
  • (7) They didn't seem to mind, but a group of young, well-dressed girls turned their noses up ... whether at us or at the no-frills service I wasn't sure.
  • (8) Baiano's no-frills bar existed several years before pacification and has become all the more happening since, attracting visitors from outside the favela.
  • (9) Three molecular forms of immunoglobulins: pentamer, dimer and monomer, were isolated from serum of the frill shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, the most primitive extant shark.
  • (10) The squeeze is encouraging shoppers to go to "no frills" chains such as Lidl and Iceland, which posted sales uplifts that were streets ahead of that of the big four supermarkets.
  • (11) At night, in Rome's no-frills Teatro Olimpico, on the banks of the Tiber, the playwright looks more like Humpty Dumpty than Italy's Prime Minister.
  • (12) As chairman of easyJet since 2010, he has been embroiled in rows with the no-frills airline's founder and largest shareholder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou .
  • (13) We discovered the no-frills Burmese Restaurant and Library (there is no library) in one of those moments.
  • (14) Was this always the plan, to go so ludicrously ballistic years ahead of the next general election, or has the scale of Corbyn’s support in the Labour movement and the novelty of his no-frills personality and raw unplasticated ideas thrown Tory spinmeisters into a panic?
  • (15) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
  • (16) Price: £9.95 Polar Gear travel mug from Robert Dyas This is a no-frills stainless steel travel mug – it will keep your coffee hot and your soft drinks cool.
  • (17) Picking up on Tory-run Barnet council's idea of running no-frills services like budget airline Ryanair, Miliband said: "The Ryanair model may be an OK way to run an airline but it is no way to run a hospital, a care home or any of our public services."
  • (18) KINDLE free Amazon's e-reader app narrowly gets the nod over Apple's own iBooks, with fewer visual frills but a large collection of ebooks, including regular discounts and offers.
  • (19) EasyBook could recruit the chair of the Booker judges, Stella Rimington , as CEO and offer a no-frills novel-reading experience that goes from A to B and does not tax the brain.
  • (20) No frills - we'll pick out all the most essential details you need to know.

Ornamentation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
  • (n.) That which ornaments; ornament.

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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