(a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
(a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(2) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(3) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(4) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(5) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(6) The emails appear to show Heritage Oil’s attempt to use a tax loophole to avoid a huge capital gains tax bill.
(7) The National Heritage Memorial Fund found a further £10m and the National Galleries of Scotland £4.6m, with £2m from the Monument Trust and £1m from the Art Fund, while members of the public and private donors gave another £7.4m.
(8) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(9) Unesco will give its verdict on the proposal when the world heritage committee meets in June this year.
(10) I think it’s a wonderful heritage,” Evans said.
(11) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(12) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(13) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(14) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(15) One is a large multicultural school with a high proportion of British Pakistani-heritage pupils.
(16) We are emailing you both because we urgently need to re-domicile HGOL [Heritage Oil] to Mauritius primarily due to the double tax agreement between Uganda and Mauritius,” wrote the employee.
(17) We Britons are famously obsessive about our heritage.
(18) The major statistically significant intragroup differences in pain intensity and response are related to differences in generation, degree of heritage consistency, and locus-of-control style.
(19) In recent weeks, prominent conservative groups including the Heritage Foundation announced their opposition.
(20) The director general of the UN’s cultural agency called for an immediate end to hostilities in the Unesco world heritage site and for the protection of cultural heritage from direct targeting.
Veneer
Definition:
(v. t.) To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
(v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(2) All bridges were made of type-3 casting gold and heat-cured acrylic veneering.
(3) Porcelain veneer restorations including preparations, impression materials, cast materials, refractory casts, handling of porcelain, the try-in, and the final luting are discussed.
(4) The resulting data reported on labial enamel thickness of anterior teeth may offer guidance in the preparation of laminate veneers.
(5) Based on the viewpoint that stresses the importance of achieving natural colors and forms for veneer crown, four representative kinds of thermosetting resins were investigated colorimetrically in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the thickness and color of resins in opaque, dentin and enamel colors respectively.
(6) During irradiation light-cured veneer acrylics underwent shrinking by 2.2 to 4.8%.
(7) It is expected that porcelain veneer restorations will perform successfully in esthetic, conservative and abhesive dentistry.
(8) These veneers restored the worn palatal surfaces of the anterior maxillary teeth, protected them from further wear and controlled thermal sensitivity.
(9) In children porcelain veneers provide a simple means of splinting traumatised anterior teeth which have coronal fractures either for the immediate or the long term.
(10) Only one patient exhibited any change in veneer surface texture during the study period.
(11) The ceramic veneering had worse results only in the flexural strength test compared with the two bonding systems.
(12) There is talk of putting Corbynistas into some of the key positions on the national executive: that would do nothing but give a veneer of accountability to leadership fiat.
(13) It also confirmed that the strength of the veneer was not proportional to its thickness.
(14) Sports day is simply our “getting off the boat” moment – when the savage beneath the civilised veneer finally reveals itself.
(15) Too little use is made of veneer crowns in the anterior area with increasing age (Fig.
(16) Using a simple press-molding technique, well-fitting crowns, inlays, and veneers can be fabricated without an additional ceramming procedure.
(17) Labial veneering of the pontic with Vitadur-N significantly decreased the stability compared with that of the unveneered In-Ceram framework.
(18) The failure rates ranged from 2.4 to 7.8 per cent per year for the different crowns in order of: partial veneer less than full veneer less than metal ceramic less than porcelain jacket crowns.
(19) An in vitro model has been developed simulating a composite laminate veneer restoration, along with methods to mimic the environmental conditions to which these restorations are subjected in vivo.
(20) The disadvantages of these techniques were discussed and an alternative treatment with laminate veneers was provided.