(n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
(n.) To sport or keep festival.
(v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two new feather mite species of Aralichus Gaud (Pterolichoidea, Pterolichidae) are described from the white-capped parrot Pionus senilis (Spix): Aralichus elongatus and Aralichus menchacai.
Maud
Definition:
(n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistical evaluation of 41 occurrences of lesion among 1,517 mice of the various strains indicated that significant differences in the frequency of MAUD were associated with differences in genetic background and in the H-2 type.
(2) Cameron will be accused of attempting to pack the Lords with reliable supporters including Kate Fall, his deputy chief of staff, James O’Shaughnessy, a former head of policy at No 10, and Simone Finn, Francis Maude’s former special adviser.
(3) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(4) Information issued by the Cabinet Office suggests that some consultants have been costing the taxpayer more than £600,000 a year, though the Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, admitted that the figures "were a bit rough and ready".
(5) "The problem is that, in the US and UK, most people who want to sign up for Facebook have already done it," said new media specialist Ian Maude at Enders Analysis.
(6) But Maude will claim that his strategy of intensifying pressure on the Unite union, which is threatening to hold a fuel tanker strike by 23 April, will have paid off if industrial action is averted.
(7) Francis Maude has written to every acute hospital in England, inviting them to explore leaving the NHS to become just such a “mutual”.
(8) • A new "efficiency and reform" group, to be co-chaired by Laws and the cabinet minister Francis Maude, to scrutinise departments and ensure they are implementing the cuts announced today.
(9) Maude and Cable's statement says: "The government has a keen interest in the resilience of critical industrial infrastructure.
(10) Balfe's role has now been usurped by key ministers – including Francis Maude and Oliver Letwin in the Cabinet Office, and Danny Alexander in the Treasury – and finishes after the Conservative party conference next month, when he will deliver a memo to Cameron on his recommendations for the future.
(11) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
(12) Facebook scams are also used to gain access into organisations – this is where the big money is and these targeted ‘watering-hole attacks’ appear to be on the rise,” says James Maude, senior security engineer at Avecto.
(13) In 2011 cabinet office minister Francis Maude set out some high hopes for the future of public service delivery – by 2015 he wanted as many as one million public sector workers to be co-owners of their organisations.
(14) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(15) It is the first time since the publication of the government civil service reform white paper earlier this summer that Maude has acted in his commitment to seek policy insights from outside the civil service.
(16) The Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude , said: "Allegations about trade union industrial intimidation tactics, including attempts to sabotage businesses supply chains and harass employers' families are deeply concerning.
(17) Maude said the incident raised questions about the way in which the internet was accessed from government and its use recorded, and about social media policies in departments.
(18) The Daily Mail's unattractive attack on Ed Miliband's late father has damaged the paper and revolted many people, the senior Conservative minister Francis Maude has said.
(19) In a fresh sign of the coalition's frustration at the civil service, the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will announce today that he is commissioning research into how foreign governments make civil servants personally contractually accountable to deliver ministerial objectives.
(20) "He said: 'Maude, I dreamed last night I died and nobody came to my funeral.'