(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.
Whatnot
Definition:
(n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Would the new generation of MBM follower prefer an sms style of LOLs and whatnot?"
(2) We've all grown out of the excitement for eating the morning pre-dawn meal and getting invited to iftar meals and whatnot.
(3) "Way back when, in the days when the tournament was young, I posted something I'd figured out about penalty shootouts, extra time, attacking football and whatnot.
(4) Much was made about it because of her father and whatnot, but we had a simple relationship in my opinion.
(5) When we meet again at the Toronto film festival, where The Fifth Estate has just premiered, he is surrounded by a circus of publicists, people with clipboards, stylists and whatnot, but the easy, unguarded friendliness has somehow survived.
(6) Ayckbourn's early plays Christmas V Mastermind (1962) and Mr Whatnot (1963) were staged at the Vic.
(7) I’m about to wander round Mill Hill with PJ O’Rourke and get him to tell me stories about legendary US election campaigns whilst vaguely paying attention to Boris calling into wine merchants and whatnot.
(8) "I was concerned about my private jet travel and whatnot ...
(9) "We haven't seen the usual high and wide early shots and whatnot that we've had over the last few tournament when they introduce the newest helium-filled 99p beach fizz."
(10) "This sort of leisurely boffinry is just the ticket in these days of X Factor arsery and Made In Chelsea and whatnot."
(11) This is not a great way to spy on you in the bathroom and whatnot."
(12) He's making pigs run off cliffs, he's possessing people and whatnot.
(13) Music that he would respond to, music that reflects the world he’s living in, things he would have listened to growing up or whatnot.” He’ll play them in his trailer or driving to the set.
(14) Look, don't get me wrong about Affleck: he seems like a nice guy, and I was made up for him over that business with the Iranian hostage movie and the beardy Oscar and whatnot, even if best picture is an award also recently bestowed upon the likes of Crash and The Hurt Locker (huzzah for movies which dispense with yesteryear concepts like "stories" and "characters anyone could give a toss about").
(15) This is because Amazon is expected to subsidise the cost of the handset and the monthly price plan using the revenue from the vast amount of Amazon media, electronics and whatnot you are inevitably going to purchase with it.
(16) I want the simple Oxo gravy or Bisto, not this fancy rubbish with wine and whatnot in it.
(17) Just email your thoughts, questions, jokes and whatnot to Hunter.Felt@theguardian.com or tweet @HunterFelt .
(18) It’s great content on there: they want WAV files and whatnot.
(19) Everything here is rendered super-tempting with purées, caviar, truffle oils and whatnot, but for a hot day, try the red tuna sashimi with wakame followed by mandarin sorbet with vodka.
(20) Yes, of course it means that I can reach things on shelves and whatnot.