(n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
(n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In that process I didn't see many blue lanyards, I didn't see many Gatwick people.
(2) The high-pitched squeal of F1 engines and lanyard-wearing, flag-waving fans have melted away in Melbourne to be replaced by what is becoming an annual debate in the Victorian capital – do we really want or need the Australian Grand Prix?
(3) Careful measurements and overlay construction of the wounds relative to the magazine catch, lanyard ring, magazine chamber, and butt of a 32-caliber Eistegui Hermanos fibar (España) automatic pistol led to the conclusion that either the alleged weapon or one identical to it caused the fatal injuries.
(4) Inside are three booths, in each one a lanyarded-up, clipboard-wielding Kiss employee on a stool.
(5) The idea became the focus of many trust board meetings; lanyards and badges with the logo were produced; reminders popped up in clinics, on computer screensavers and trust intranets; chief executives began to blog about the campaign, and it was a frequent topic of conversation at many healthcare conferences.
(6) As I walk in to conference, blue “Conservative Friends of India” lanyard around my neck, I endure the rather novel experience of being called “Fucking Tory scumbag!” As I turn to confront my detractors, one man continues to angrily jab the air, yelling, until he realises he’s only causing collateral damage.
(7) The former chief secretary to the treasury and shadow everything produces her lanyard with dazzling insouciance and continues to fish-dance her way in.
(8) Twitter was briefly awash with speculation that some athletes hid their security pass lanyards bearing the Atos logo as they entered the stadium.
(9) That’s $700 just to walk around conference rooms with a lanyard, pressed khakis and a titanic sense of entitlement to American hegemony.
(10) And who can forget Ed Balls, locked outside Bilderberg, fumbling through an entire suitcase full of papers looking for his lanyard .
(11) The IPC president also defended the involvement of Atos, the IT giant whose name adorns the lanyards of all accredited Games athletes and staff but has been criticised by disability rights campaigners for its involvement in assessing whether benefit claimants are "fit for work".
(12) Ed wasn’t comfortable in his own skin.” On the beach, close to the Metropole, three young women are relaxing in their Girlguiding uniforms and Labour conference lanyards.
(13) At the gates of St George’s hospital in Tooting in south-west London, doctors handed out leaflets, turquoise stickers and lanyards with the caption “one profession”, while some passing motorists beeped in support.
(14) They’ve either got a table reservation or they’re wearing a lanyard.
(15) Keogh was, he pointed out, born at the hospital that was later replaced with the Armadale health campus, where he addressed the media on Tuesday with Plibersek, the WA senator Sue Lines, an assorted crew of lanyard-wearing hospital workers and, briefly, a bus – happily marrying his two of his three campaign platforms of health cuts and public transport investment.
(16) This week we found that even the lanyard set are impressed by the fact that protests and direct action are constraining Donald Trump’s capacity to act.
(17) West’s record label has since pulled the audio, so that particular video now features middle-managers swinging their lanyards to deathly silence.
(18) Thus, for example, the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust's concern about infections on its wards was unanimously deemed by the judges to qualify its duty to respect nurse Shirley Chaplin's wish to wear religious jewellery, and management's rejected suggestion that she could tie her cross to her staff ID lanyard was an adequate workaround.
(19) ParalympicsGB, was adamant there was no protest: it was windy, and the lanyards had been tucked away to stop them rattling.
(20) Workers will wear lanyards around their necks, fitted with miniature cameras.
Necklace
Definition:
(n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.
(n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.
Example Sentences:
(1) I like American names and I always wanted to live in the US.” David Miliband: Trump refugee ban threatens west's global reputation Read more On their necks, Nimr and his wife wore necklaces with little metal crosses.
(2) When 15 small sections were transplanted to the omentum in a "necklace" fashion, good uptake and preservation were seen after six months.
(3) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
(4) It’s a new book, a slogan on his necklace and, he believes, a real possibility.
(5) Taking the observed similarity between SDS and the aromatic surfactant in the binding and the gel electrophoresis into consideration, the present results strongly suggest that SDS also binds to protein polypeptides in the form of micelle-like clusters under the conditions of SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoreses, and support our "necklace model".
(6) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
(7) Primary and secondary cilia share the following qualities: 1) Membrane regions above necklace strands can differ quite drastically from those below the strands.
(8) During her marriage to Thornton, the pair wore necklaces containing vials of each other’s blood.
(9) We do have clients who if they are going out for dinner will come to the facility and put on a necklace, and then come and bring it back the next day.” High-value customers are increasingly using vaults because they fear aggravated burglary in their own homes, he added.
(10) Much better agreement was obtained with a helical dipole necklace model.
(11) Comparison with other systems suggests that primary cilia resemble flagella of eukaryotic flagellates and spermatozoa of some invertebrates with respect to their number of necklace strands.
(12) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.
(13) In its final report, it observed that "although the official policy of both the UDF [the broadly-based United Democratic Front] and the ANC was to condemn necklacing, the public statements of the leadership of these organisations were sometimes ambiguous and appeared to give tacit, and sometimes overt, approval to the practice."
(14) Hillary Clinton accepted $58,000 in jewelry from the government of Brunei.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton gave the necklace from the queen of Brunei to the US government, in accordance with US law.
(15) We’re not wild about her loveheart necklace or plastic handbag, but then we’re not eight years old, so what do we know?
(16) Results are consistent with an extended chromatosome-linker "necklace" model for the unfolded, low-salt fiber and with a solenoidal model of edge-stacked chromatosomes for the condensed fiber at high salts.
(17) The authors study "pearl necklace" arteries (PNA) in vascular nephropathies with acute renal insufficiency.
(18) Transmission electron micrographs showed the ciliary membrane to contain electron-dense beads which corresponded to the ciliary necklace seen in freeze-fracture replicas.
(19) The properties of the NN appear to resemble those of the nucleolar necklaces of amphibian oocytes.
(20) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.