(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.
Texas
Definition:
(n.) A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(3) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
(4) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(5) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(6) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(7) An Associated Press analysis found no evidence that Texas authorities were investigating threats to pharmacies, though the Oklahoma attorney general said he was examining an alleged bomb threat to a pharmacy in Tulsa .
(8) The Mexican government has said that it “strongly rejects” the scheduled execution in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer .
(9) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
(10) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(11) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(12) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
(13) In this study, the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test was used as part of a health screening interview of patients attending a South Texas family health clinic.
(14) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
(15) Yet Texas’s big cities are some of the most diverse in the nation, and last year 7,214 refugees were resettled in the state – more than anywhere else in the country .
(16) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(17) Seven people have been reported dead in Oklahoma as a result of severe weather that has also badly hit Texas.
(18) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(19) Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.
(20) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.