(n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.
(n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.
(v. t.) To put forth in the form of buds.
(v. t.) To adorn with gems or precious stones.
(v. t.) To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(2) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
(3) Of major significance in assessing the environmental risk impact of GEMs is an understanding of their survival and transport in soil and subsurface environments.
(4) It’s not just about the many gems he pitched, including a no-hitter in 2008 .
(5) Gems has a massive personality, Liz may have fallen down in that regard.” She went on: “If I think Liz Jones has got a face that looks like it’s just walked into a patio door then that’s the line she’s going to get.
(6) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(7) The island is big enough to cope with this, though, especially in the off season, and still contains some gems.
(8) According to several criteria, the microcosm system was stable and healthy throughout the experiment and the addition of the GEM did not affect the total number of extractable CFU (I. Wagner-Döbler, R. Pipke, K. N. Timmis, and D. F. Dwyer, Appl.
(9) "He couldn't beat a ten-year old with exactly the same kick," reports Costas Tsioras, who sends in this gem: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Oh dear.
(10) GEMs added at initial densities of 10(6) to 10(7) bacteria per ml of activated sludge declined to stable population densities of 10(4) to 10(5) bacteria per ml.
(11) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(12) Potencies for the induction of peroxisomal fatty acyl-CoA oxidase (FACO) and microsomal laurate hydroxylase (LH) were determined for clofibric acid (CPIB), ciprofibrate (Cipro) and gemfibrozil (Gem) in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes based on complete concentration-response analysis and determination of theoretical maximum inductive responses for Cipro.
(13) Their second album slumped in the charts, guitarist Gem Archer fractured his skull , and Liam Gallagher split with his wife, Nicole Appleton.
(14) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(15) Subgroup 2 fell between subgroups 1 and 3 including serovars dakota, naam, bogvere, birkini, smithi, ndambari, gem, ndahambukuje and mwogolo.
(16) So Zhou Enlai’s famous reply was actually quite banal – yet is now universally reinterpreted as a gem of sempiternal Chinese wisdom.
(17) The authors study the effects of severe sepsis due to pathogenic gems in large quantity an healing of the suture of the ileum in the rabbit.
(18) In this paper, we present the consensus statement from a national conference on research priorities and methodologies for studying geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) programs.
(19) There are so many little gems that are clearly mantras of people who have been through meetings.
(20) "It is an architectural gem and the artistic heart of Glasgow.
Lovely
Definition:
(superl.) Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
(superl.) Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
(superl.) Loving; tender.
(superl.) Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
(adv.) In a manner to please, or to excite love.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
(10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
(12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
(16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
(17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
(18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.