(n.) Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
(n.) That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.
(n.) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
(n.) The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.
(n.) An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
(n.) To exult with joy; to rejoice.
(n.) To boast; to be proud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(2) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(3) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(4) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
(5) Harold Ramis, who helped catch phantoms in Ghostbusters and directed Bill Murray to glory in Groundhog Day , has died at the age of 69.
(6) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(7) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(8) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(9) What promised to be a day of utter humiliation had turned into yet another day of glory.
(10) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(11) And which glory-seeking, peacock-proud youth does not want to stand in the middle for hours and be admired?
(12) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(13) In 1948 it was a battered and exhausted London that played host, knowing that the days of imperial glory were gone for ever.
(14) His players gave everything to overcome José Mourinho's team and will always be convinced that a night of incredible volume and high drama could have led them to glory rather than the crushing inevitability of Cristiano Ronaldo inflicting the final blow.
(15) The authors suggest that morning glory disc and optic pit share similar anatomic features, differing more in degree than in kind, and that the porous nature of the poorly differentiated tissue herniated around the optic nerve into the subarachnoid space in these conditions makes several sources of subretinal fluid possible.
(16) The NHS is Labour’s crowning glory, showcasing the party’s founding principles of people before profit.
(17) There is currently evidence of developmental delay and right-sided visual impairment due to Morning Glory syndrome.
(18) But Jeff Koons, as hard and as skilfully as he may try, will never trump Blackpool prom in its full illuminated autumn evening glory.
(19) As you walk out of the forest, the beach is right in front of you in all its glory.
(20) So much for the macro picture but at micro level German glory will prompt individual prosperity.
Halo
Definition:
(n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
(n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
(n.) An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
(n.) A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
(v. t. & i.) To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sec-alpha-halo-nitro compounds are active antibacterial and antifungal agents, and the sec-bromo derivatives are the most active and stable.
(2) For conservative treatment of injuries of the cervical spine, two different methods are available: The HALO fixator and the collar.
(3) Thickening of the gallbladder wall, a subserosal "halo" of edema, pericholecystic abscess, and marked gallbladder distention were consistent findings in AAC.
(4) An Mr 15,000 protein was produced at higher levels by halo variants than by nonhalo-producing cells.
(5) Management intervention was identified as the cause of deterioration in four of 134 patients undergoing operative intervention, in three of 60 with skeletal traction application, in two of 68 with halo vest application, in two of 56 undergoing Stryker frame rotation, and in one of 57 undergoing rotobed rotation.
(6) PRL or its solvent were administered at different time points (0, 4, 8, and 12 hours after light onset = HALO) during 5 consecutive days.
(7) A peripheral halo with delayed enhancement was noticed in 12 patients (42.8%) Histologic correlation in hepatocellular carcinomas showed that the degree of contrast enhancement corresponded to tumor vascularity and that the peripheral halo corresponded to fibrous capsular structure.
(8) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
(9) These cases suggest that a halo sign does not guarantee a benign process.
(10) The correction by halo-up-Extension runs on an average of 35% of the total correction.
(11) When cultures were overlaid with an acridine orangedeoxyribonucleate-agar (ADA) mixture, incubated for 1 to 3 hr, and observed under ultraviolet light, clear halos developed around colonies that produced deoxyribonuclease.
(12) In the light of these results and of recently published reports a rational diagnostic approach to hypoechoic lesions without halo in echogenic livers varies, depending on such factors as known primary malignancy or site of the lesion.
(13) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
(14) A significant number of Alzheimer patients exhibited a more extensive smooth "halo" of periventricular hyperintensity when compared with controls (p = .024).
(15) (b) Positioning of patients for operation, including those with a halo vest, is efficiently carried out with safety and ease.
(16) Based on a personal series of 47 cases of aberrant papillae and a review of the literature, the authors stress the relative frequency of this anomaly and the almost constant possibility of making the diagnosis by means of intravenous pyelography on the basis of the following signs: regular, round or oval filling defect, surrounded by a fine opaque halo which separates it from the surrounding urine; or a notch with a regular arc-shaped border prolonged towards the exterior at its two extremities by a small spur.
(17) 2) A halo peak appeared in group II and showed the trend of disappearance in group III, however, no peak shift was observed in all groups.
(18) The halo brace has presented the neuroscience nurse with a new challenge in the care of victims of cervical spine trauma.
(19) Skull traction and a halo-vest were intermediate in patients with loss of motion, and the degree of loss of range was essentially equal.
(20) At the end of the third reperfusion day, an atypical form of bouton degeneration was found, consisting of massive occurrence of enlarged (greater than 4 microns) boutons encircled by a clear halo.