What's the difference between garnish and ornamental?

Garnish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • (v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • (v. t.) To furnish; to supply.
  • (v. t.) To fit with fetters.
  • (v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.
  • (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
  • (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
  • (v. t.) Fetters.
  • (v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Up to 80% of inmates’ earnings, however, can be garnished to go toward room and board, victim restitution, child support and mandatory savings.
  • (2) Even where meat or fish appears it is not as the star of the show but, in a neat reversal, more as a garnish.
  • (3) Garnish the squares with the whipped cream and pecans, if you like.
  • (4) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
  • (5) In January, the WA corrective services minister, Joe Francis, described serving jail time to pay down fines as the “soft option” and announced “tougher” penalties, including the option of garnishing welfare payments to pay off unpaid fines.
  • (6) The Heritage Assessment Tool, in combination with questions relating to health and illness beliefs and practices was helpful in helping informants remember events in their childhood and also in garnishing health and illness beliefs and practices.
  • (7) Looking at it, there was nothing special about this one – a plain roll in a plastic package, no salad or garnish, a little too much mayo.
  • (8) Sprinkle on top of your curry as garnish and serve with rice.
  • (9) Divide between plates and garnish with a little lick of extra virgin olive oil, if you like.
  • (10) He said the state government was also in talks with the federal government about “having the authority to garnish wages from welfare”, saying “that may be one way of trying to get money off people”.
  • (11) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
  • (12) Photograph: Zaytoun Roast parsnip and carrot salad with freekeh and a yoghurt dressing Recipe by Jane Baxter Serves 4-6 500g parsnips 500g carrots 30g butter melted 1 tbsp Zaytoun olive oil 100g smokey freekah Dressing: 200ml yoghurt juice and zest of 1 orange 1 clove garlic crushed pinch ground cumin and cardamom 75g pitted dates finely chopped 1 red chilli finely chopped 1 tsp honey 1 tbsp chopped mint Bunch of watercess Salt and pepper To garnish: pomegranate seeds , extra mint and za’atar Pre–heat oven 190C.
  • (13) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
  • (14) 8 To serve, flood four plates with the sauce; put two red mullet fillets on each plate, skin-side uppermost, and garnish with sprigs of rosemary.
  • (15) Here are a few ideas to get you started sautéed courgette flowers chorizo with potatoes shredded chilli-smoked chicken slow-cooked pork confit of pork poached and shredded chicken, cooked in mouthwatering moles stuffed chillies beans gently cooked with spices and aromatics grilled fish Arrange the table with taco fillings, salsas and garnishes of your choice.
  • (16) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
  • (17) Top with the broad beans and garnish with the remaining chopped mint.
  • (18) Dishes are delicately garnished with flavour-packed herb snippets and bright pink or purple edible flowers.
  • (19) Everything else is garnish, and all of it leaves you feeling either one-dimensionally frenetic or complicatedly wretched.
  • (20) There is a batter base, an obligatory cabbage filling and quite strict garnishes – but otherwise, the rest of the ingredients come down to what's at hand.

Ornamental


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.

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.