What's the difference between necklace and neckwear?

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.

Neckwear


Definition:

  • (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
  • (2) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Stylish neckwear The design of The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps Anderson’s most ambitious effort yet and, true to impeccable form, the neckwear is not found wanting.
  • (3) A nyone looking back at the saga of the air hostess who wanted to wear a cross with her uniform, and has finally won by invoking EU law, might wonder why on earth there should have been such a fuss about an inconspicuous little piece of neckwear.
  • (4) Dressed up for the occasion in fedoras, fezzes and endless varieties of neckwear, from long woollen scarves to cravats, the heaving crowds packed the streets of Cardiff to watch the newest incarnation of Doctor Who, played by Peter Capaldi , walk down the red carpet and into the world premiere of the show's eighth series.
  • (5) Ever since the 4-0 win over Manchester United in the quarter-final of the Carling Cup the Israeli has made a point of removing his West Ham scarf and throwing it to supporters but the club shop was unable to keep up with his repeated need for a replacement and he was unable to wear his preferred type of neckwear for last weekend's trip to Goodison Park, where West Ham conceded a last minute equaliser.

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