(n.) A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
(v. t.) To honor or reward with a medal.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(2) Last month Kelli White, who won the 100 and 200 metres at the 2003 world championships in Paris, was banned for two years and stripped of her medals after admitting using THG.
(3) From Stranraer to Stornaway there is a fair chance every primary school child in the country will catch a glimpse of their heroine's gold medal at some stage, like it or not.
(4) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(5) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(6) In the men's double sculls Wells and Rowbotham continued the form that has seen them medal in every World Cup event.
(7) You have a secret hope but you like to keep it a secret because it sounds so arrogant to say I can win a medal and then don't get one."
(8) The unprecedented investment came to fruition in Beijing, with a medal count that the sports minister Hugh Robertson says was the ultimate proof of concept.
(9) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
(10) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(11) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(12) She was fifth in the world championships in Moscow last year, where she missed out on a bronze medal by 28 points, and such was her performance in Götzis that her crushing disappointment on being ruled out of the Commonwealth Games was especially understandable.
(13) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(14) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(15) It is trying to encourage people to register in their real names by adding a "medal of honour" for users who provide details for police checks.
(16) Given the paucity of British talent in the sport over recent decades, it is a tribute to Murray's remarkable consistency that in his last eight grand slam tournaments, he has reached three finals, four semi-finals and a quarter-final – not to mention overcoming Federer on Wimbledon's Centre Court to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
(17) Daley, who won a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics, said he wanted to reveal the news in a video because he didn't want his words to be "twisted".
(18) (Edinburgh) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fauja Singh is awarded a British Empire Medal.
(19) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
(20) "As a council we enjoyed great success with Jimi and HESCO Bastion working together with them to achieve a historic gold medal for the city at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and everyone who knew him will remember his quiet manner, good nature, and tremendous pride in being from Leeds.
Medallion
Definition:
(n.) A large medal or memorial coin.
(n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is presented of a Medallion intraocular lens that dislocated posteriorly into the vitreous cavity.
(2) Before it was known that polyamide tends to dissolve in tissue, nylon sutures were used to fixate 2-loop-Medallion-lenses to the iris.
(3) Fourteen eyes underwent cataract operation and implantation of an iris fixated (Medallion) pseudophakos.
(4) Eighteen traumatic eyes were inserted with Medallion lenses in a very complex operation procedure.
(5) And one day he gave me a small medallion stamped with SakOil.
(6) A boy aged 3 years had a Worst Medallion intraocular lens with loops made of nylon 6 implanted in his right eye after aspiration of traumatic cataract.
(7) Field has already irked the medallion stallion with some low blows before the bell has rung, but it looks doubtful whether punches will be pulled for the number crunchers.
(8) Don't matter what colour you are: white, black, Asian – they gonna treat you the same' Facebook Twitter Pinterest For all the street-level rawness of his subject matter, there has long been something Forbidden Planet-friendly about Ghostface: his 1996 solo debut Ironman was named after the Marvel superhero, while in 2007, he was immortalised as an action figure with 14-carat medallion, retailing for a cool $500.
(9) "She had big medallions on, a little skirt, giving it loads and not giving a shit," recalls Mel B.
(10) The process was stopped by performing a penetrating corneal graft and replacing the offending lens with a Medallion two-loop Medical Workshop lens.
(11) Also like Michael, I got as far as "the furniture buying stage" with a hunky Marine recruiter who successfully wooed me with a plastic medallion that read: "The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good Men".
(12) A series of 46 large circular loop Medallion lenses were implanted after intracapsular cataract extraction and compared with a series of 254 suture Medallion lenses.
(13) The medallion lens was fixed to the iris but was not attached to the Soemmerring's ring.
(14) A large series of cases of intracapsular cataract extractions with implantation of the recently introduced Medallion circular loop lens is reviewed.
(15) Based on our results, we believe that the large circular loop Medallion lens should not be used for implantation after intracapsular cataract extraction at this time.
(16) Intracapsular lens styles were the most often used, and the Worst Medallion lens was by far the most popular.
(17) One eye contained a medallion lens and the other an iridocapsular lens (implanted for 53 months and 39 months, respectively).
(18) Now the radio industry's efforts to encourage consumers to go digital is to be led by a bearded, medallion-wearing 1970s soul singer called D Love.
(19) Makes 4 portions sustainably sourced fresh prawns 8 large, in their shells cornflour to coat Sichuan peppercorns 1 tsp garlic cloves 2, thinly sliced dried red chillies 5 spring onion stalks 2, cut into medallions oil for frying salt to taste De-vein the prawns and remove their heads and feet but keep the shells on.
(20) Antonio Mendez was one of 50 officers awarded the Trailblazer Medallion from among all officers in the history of the CIA.