(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.
Pendant
Definition:
(n.) Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.
(n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features.
(n.) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase.
(n.) A pendulum.
(n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
(2) Regarding the pendant phenyl ring, diverse substitution patterns were investigated.
(3) As the number of basic amino acids on the pendant is increased from one to five a 4.7 fold enhancement in the adsorption capacity is seen for arginine while a 9.3 fold enhancement is obtained for lysine.
(4) We evaluated this pendant conserving nasal cannula (PNC) in seven hypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
(5) Two types of polycations with pendant active groups were synthesized: one is polymethacrylate containing pendant biguanide units, and the other is poly(vinylbenzyl ammonium chloride).
(6) Model building allows a structure that could stack to form a tunnel with a lipophilic exterior and hydrophilic interior and flexible internal arms formed by the pendant C-terminal glutamine residue.
(7) The calculated complex stabilities of two hitherto unsynthesized covalently constrained DTPA-derivatives and a DOTA-derivative bearing phenoxy groups as pendant arms indicate that these may form Gd(III) complexes with sufficient stability for use in magnetic resonance imaging techniques.
(8) She points to her chest, where she is wearing a post-it note, right under her heart-shaped pendant, bearing Mladic's name.
(9) The polymeric material incorporates the heparin segments as pendant moieties such that their essential functional groups and structural features for specific binding with the selective serine protease coagulation factor inhibitor antithrombin III are preserved.
(10) The photographs in this exhibition showing young Italians in north London or the Jewish woman holding the family pendant she hid in her shoe while in Auschwitz broaden our understanding of the migratory patterns that have energised Britain beyond that particular wave at a time when so much of the immigration is now from Europe.
(11) When patients do PLB they may not receive full oxygen-saving benefit of the pendant.
(12) Love and Treasure follows a peacock pendant on its path from Salzburg in 1945 to present-day Budapest and Israel, then back to 1913 Budapest.
(13) P3FFA, in which fluorines are substituted at the end of the pendant alkyl ester, showed poor mechanical properties.
(14) The apical dendrites of the normal pyramidal cells grow by monochotomous branching on random segments and have much more spines on the first order segments, the apical dendrites of the improperly oriented pyramidal cells grow by branching on pendant arcs (terminal growth model), and have fewer spines.
(15) Oligomers containing pendant isocyanate groups were synthesized from various vinyl monomers, m-isopropenyldimethylbenzyl isocyanate (TMI), and 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate (IEM).
(16) By inverting the applicator, the samples are brought into close vicinity to the gel surface and the pendant droplets expand by capillary attraction into the slits between the glass and gel with resultant even distribution across the lanes of 2.5 or 7 mm width.
(17) Mourners at the farewell for Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, who died last month aged 84 , had been asked by his son not to wear black "or carry any offensive or aggressive jewellery", and if there were any of the knuckleduster pendants that have appeared at some recent criminal funerals, they were hard to spot.
(18) Her mother, Donna, who wears a photo of Vicki on a square pendant around her neck, and 18-year-old brother, Matthew, were present at the hearing.
(19) The enzyme also degraded glucuronoarabinoxylans derived from maize cell walls to yield a major oligomeric species containing a single glucuronosyl side chain and a single unsubstituted beta 1----4Xyl pendant terminal.
(20) The viscosity measurement of the mixture of Thiokol LP-2, lead monoxide, and di-butyl phthalate was performed at the rates of shear ranged from 10(1.5) to 10(3.9) sec-1 at 20 degrees C. The viscosity of the mixture progressively increases after spatulation of the materials but yield value does not appear for the time being before setting, that is, the infinite network forming via the pendant SH groups could not take place until the most of SH groups were consumed, attributed to low concentration of poly-functional prepolymer in the liquid polymer.