(n.) Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
(n.) That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity.
(n.) A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege.
(n.) That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank.
(n.) Fame; reputation; credit.
(n.) A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors.
(n.) A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation.
(n.) A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under Honorable.
(n.) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended.
(n.) Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.
(n.) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors.
(n.) To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.
(n.) To dignify; to raise to distinction or notice; to bestow honor upon; to elevate in rank or station; to ennoble; to exalt; to glorify; hence, to do something to honor; to treat in a complimentary manner or with civility.
(n.) To accept and pay when due; as, to honora bill of exchange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(2) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
(3) The Hollander test of gastric secretion in response to acute hypoglycemia is a time-honored method of evaluating vagal integrity.
(4) NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said as recently as January that the mascot is "presented in a way that honors Native Americans," and further claimed that nine of 10 Native Americans polled actually support it .
(5) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(6) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(7) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
(8) We’ve had over 100 years to honor her with our own actions.
(9) This article reflects upon five surgeons who have been recognized as worthy of this honor.
(10) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
(11) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
(12) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
(13) Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero,” Collins wrote.
(14) Honor & Folly ( honorandfolly.com , one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215, plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
(15) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
(16) "I did not see this coming," said Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan , tipping his hat to competitor House of Cards, the first online contender for top Emmy honors.
(17) Event recording during anesthesia depends upon the time-honored but inefficient handmade record of the anesthetist.
(18) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
(19) Yet, the time-honored theory of calcium-soap formation enjoys wide acceptance.
(20) In an executive order he ruled that young immigrants who arrived in the US illegally before age 16 and spent at least five continuous years here would be allowed to stay and apply for work permits, providing they had no criminal history and met other criteria, such as graduating from high school or serving honorably in the military.
Laurel
Definition:
(n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
(n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
(n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The detection rate for female carriers of haemophilia A was investigated by comparing the one-step method of Hardisty and Macpherson for biological activity of factor VIII with quantitative immunoelectrophoresis (after Laurell) for factor VIII-associated antigen.
(2) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(3) CH50 was titred accordingly to a modification of the Kabat and Mayer method, C1q, C1s, C3, C4, C5, INHC1, C3A and properdin were determined with specific antisera by Manani and Laurell's techniques.
(4) Plasma from these animals, when injected into 10 recipients, specifically raised Factor X levels when measured by four different assay: one-stage assay with bovine VII- and X-deficient plasma and Russell's viper venom; one-stage assay with human X-deficient plasma and thromboplastin; chromogenic substrate assay with Russell's viper venom; and an immunologic assay (Laurell technique).
(5) In England, Chelmsford won the laurels awarded in 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth’s own diamond jubilee.
(6) Using Laurell's method of immunoelectrophoresis for levels of alpha 2 M high levels of this are shown contrasting with progressively lowered antithrombitic action.
(7) So today is a cause for celebration for those of us trying to improve access to higher education, but we must not rest on our laurels – there is still more to be done.
(8) But, having last year decried the dearth of Scottish comedy on the fringe , I’d better give this year’s pre-Edinburgh sketch laurels to Burnistoun (Robert Florence and Iain Connell), the well-loved BBC Scotland sketch show now following up a sell-out Glasgow run with a first appearance at the fringe.
(9) On the basis of common bile duct pressure measurement (CBDP) in 18 patients of severe acute cholangitis, plasma endotoxin (ET) was determined by modified synthetic chromogenic limulus amebocyte lysate assay and plasma fibronectin (FN) was detected with Laurell's rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(10) Fifty-five hybrids were isolated and analyzed for the expression of serum proteins by Ouchterlony double diffusion and Laurell immunoelectrophoresis.
(11) During clinical treatment of 25 patients with bronchial carcinoma alpha-2 PAG was measured by the electroimmuno-diffusion method according to Laurell.
(12) The cross-reaction between laurel and Frullania, found in man, also occurs in guinea-pigs.
(13) The point is,” says Cruz, “we’ve gone from hyper-collectivity to hyper-privatisation, and nothing in between.” One of the challenges of a place like Los Laureles is that shift from a public to a private ownership of the land.
(14) Technics of Laurell, latex and electroimmunodiffusion are compared.
(15) alpha 1-antitrypsin phenotypes were determined in cord sera of 1,010 healthy term infants of black, white and Hispanic background, by the crossed immunoelectrophoresis technique of Fagerhol and Laurell.
(16) An assay method, involving electroimmunodiffusion according to Laurell, was developed for the measurement of the alpha 2 component of the antigen.
(17) It's a very weird phrase, isn't it, "claiming laurels"?
(18) Laurel Fisher reviews the combined anatomical, pharmacological and physiological evidence that supports a role for corticotropin-releasing factor in mediating the integrated endocrine, autonomic and cardiovascular responses to stress.
(19) The technique of reversed intermediate gel has been worked out and employed for the identification of the Laurell peaks and their localization in the pherogram.
(20) Several compounds containing the alpha-methylene-gamma-butyrolactone moiety have been tested on human volunteers and on guinea-pigs; the animals were experimentally sensitized by alantolactone, isoalantolactone and laurel oil.