(n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
(v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
(6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
(7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
(9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
(10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
(11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
(12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
(14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
(15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
(16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
(17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
(18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
(20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
Spang
Definition:
(v. t.) To spangle.
(v. i.) To spring; to bound; to leap.
(n.) A bound or spring.
(n.) A spangle or shining ornament.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had a theory that the spangly new Premiership, with its cerebral French managers and its pony-tails and its dietary regimes, is a more comfortable environment for the new Adams than the old First Division would have been.
(2) It would be funnier if they showed him decked out in full 70s glam gear throughout, being led to the gallows in a big spangly costume with shoulder pads so huge they get stuck in the hole as he plunges through.
(3) "Even the shadows cast by the spangly roof don't suit a 5.15pm kick off," says Brad McMillan.
(4) 7.31pm GMT I think Iveta is supposed to be the alien out of Mars Attacks in a spangly leotard, but not sure about Mark.
(5) The ever-exuberant rapper took to the stage tonight to perform a much-anticipated duet with Florence Welch, dressed in a suitably spangly silver mini dress.
(6) The vulnerability of the heart towards current has been thoroughly investigated by several authors (Walter, 1969; Dalziel & Lee, 1969; Nickel & Spang, 1965; Kugelberg, 1975).
(7) By our own experiences with 471 stomach resections (gastric ulcers) we have found, that the so-called special situation of ulcer in the old age--from Spang firstly defined--has to be critically discussed.
(8) 'Pay for Christmas presents twice over, with some money left over to spend on Hogmanay celebrations' Stewart Kirkpatrick, head of digital at Yes Scotland , said: "For some things only internet slang is appropriate, thus ... *spang* [the sound of hitting yourself in the shovel in a facepalm style]."
(9) It also reminded me of the colourful, spangly outfits I wore with Slade.
(10) Anybody that's been talked into a corner by someone off their spangly little tits on Es will have shuddered at the thought of an hour-long exploration of the subject.
(11) Who tests us more than Donald Trump?” The decommissioning began with a local school band – 46 students in spangly costumes and tasselled blue and white uniforms – parading through the office, playing The Washington Post march , which was composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889.
(12) The anguish over these two high-profile male presenters focused on their professional merits, unlike the other big TV presenter story of the week, a minor furore generated by Susanna Reid, host of ITV's spangly reboot of Good Morning Britain.