(n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
(n.) The top; the thing most prized.
(n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
(n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
(n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
(v. t.) To deck with a garland.
Example Sentences:
(1) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(2) A mass lesion with ring or garland-like enhancement surrounded by brain edema was shown on the CT scans.
(3) The most characteristic microscopic features of the ovarian metastases were garland and cribriform growth patterns, intraluminal "dirty" necrosis, segmental destruction of glands, and absence of squamous metaplasia.
(4) The "garland" subtype had significantly more proteinuria than both the "starry sky" (p = 0.04) and "mesangial" (p = 0.003) subtypes.
(5) The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-White-Garland Syndrome) is a rare congenital malformation reported to occur in 0.25-0.5% of all congenital cardiac anomalies.
(6) Garland paid a terrible price for this success, as she became addicted to the pills given her to stay perkily awake, to get to sleep, to kill her appetite in order to slim.
(7) A native Chicagoan and Harvard graduate, Garland excelled in private law but chose to eschew fat salaries for the less lucrative but arguably more exciting world of public criminal prosecutions.
(8) Changes include (a) attenuation, (b) lytic attenuation, (c) garland-shaped widening of the GBM, (d) dome-shaped widening of the GBM, and (e) disruption of the GBM.
(9) "What I do is listen a lot during a session and try to pick up some little something from the musicians that might make the record more commercial" - a guitar lick by Hank Garland, perhaps, or a clipped piano figure from Floyd Cramer, whose Last Date (1960) was one of Atkins' early successes, along with Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go (1959) and Skeeter Davis's The End of the World (1963).
(10) King's Theatre , to Wed LG End Of The Rainbow, Northampton End of the Rainbow Returning one last time to the venue where it first began, Peter Quilter's play about the acting and singing legend Judy Garland at the end of her life as she attempts to make one last comeback at London's Talk Of The Town in 1968, certainly deserves its encore.
(11) Garland is expected to go to Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin meeting with senators face-to-face.
(12) Histologically, JOF is unique in showing a loose-fibroblastic stroma that contains garland-like strands of osteoid with entrapped osteoblasts, the latter feature not being observed in other fibro-osseous lesions.
(13) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
(14) 1997 Alex Garland, after the popular hit The Beach, managed to write The Tesseract but then hit a period of writer's block.
(15) However, a garland-shaped CT appearance, representing a subgroup of ring-shaped lesions, seems to be most typical for glioblastomas since it was observed in 19% of ring-shaped glioblastomas but in only one out of 172 metastases and in no case of an astrocytoma grade II or an abscess in our series.
(16) Only C16, C14 and C12 intermediates were detected in uncoupled mitochondria oxidizing [U-14C]hexadecanoyl-CoA in the presence of fluorocitrate and carnitine, providing evidence for some organization of the enzymes of beta-oxidation [Garland, Shepherd & Yates (1965) Biochem.
(17) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(18) The brothers have now played together 54 times, winning 31, since Nottingham in 2006, when Andy retired injured when they were 0-4 down to Stan Wawrinka and Justin Gimelstob – but they have had more garlanded performances than that, pertinently in this competition four years ago against Luxembourg in Glasgow, when they thrilled the home crowd with a commanding three-set win.
(19) In both, Bo is wearing a multicoloured Hawaiian garland, which he was wearing on his introductory White House visit.
(20) Yes, seems to be the answer – just as Angelina Jolie has been thrilled to accept a staggering total of humanitarian awards , most inaugurated just for her, when those who toil at the coalface of the problems to which she gives attention between making movies will never be garlanded in a million years.
Monarch
Definition:
(n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.
(n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.
(n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.
(n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
(a.) Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(3) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
(4) However the NCPO did prosecute 56 people for the crime of criticising the monarch, with one man sentenced to 60 years – which was later halved – for Facebook posts.
(5) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
(6) In June, Chen Feng, the founder of Hainan, appeared to confirm his interest in Monarch.
(7) Indeed, the word establishment is testament to its one-time importance: the term is likely to derive from the fact that the Church of England is the country's "established church", or state religion, with the monarch serving as its head.
(8) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
(9) Under a convention dating back to 1728, the monarch must consent to any parliamentary bill affecting the crown.
(10) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(11) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(12) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(13) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(14) If that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes that you don’t always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that’s the way I do it and that’s the best way I can explain it.” Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.
(15) During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
(16) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(17) "We will share a monarch, we will share a currency and, under our proposals, we will share a social union, but we won't have diktats from Westminster for Scotland and we won't have Scottish MPs poking their nose into English business in the House of Commons," said Salmond.
(18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
(19) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
(20) Since then, the crown estate has run the royal lands and paid all its revenue surpluses to the Treasury (a record £230m last year), although every new monarch has to decide whether to confirm this arrangement.