decorating
present participle ofdecorate
| 单词 | decorating |
| 释义 | decorating present participle ofdecorate decorate verb uk/ˈdek.ə.reɪt/us/ˈdek.ər.eɪt/decorateverb(MAKE ATTRACTIVE)B1[T] toaddsomething to anobjectorplace,especiallyinorderto make it moreattractive: They decorated theweddingcarwithribbonsandflowers. B1[IorT]mainlyUK(USusuallyredecorate) topaintthe inside oroutsideof ahouseor putpaperon the insidewalls: We're going to decorate thekitchennextweek. Ihatethesmellofpaintwhen I'm decorating. to decorate a room, house, etc.
Decorating or making something attractive
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Building: interior decoration decorateverb(HONOUR)[T] torewardorhonourapersonby giving them something,especiallyamedal: They were decoratedfortheirpartin therescue. Praising and applauding
Examplesofdecoratingdecorating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Dissonance spreads through the harmony, though the strings push on optimistically, the pianodecoratinguntil it picks up the reel itself - wonderfully catchy writing, this. From theCambridge English Corpus Creativity is crucial to pattern design that is widely used in the area of textiles anddecorating. From theCambridge English Corpus Others could have been used as or thostats to form composite narrativesdecoratingthe facades of public buildings. From theCambridge English Corpus Generating trees in this way corresponds to selecting a random tree structure anddecoratingit with labels according to this fixed distribution. From theCambridge English Corpus Nature walks around the lake, fishing, and, this year, pumpkin picking anddecoratinghelp continue the relationships that were forged in camp. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, the senses of 'decoration' include a military badge of honor, an ornament and the nominalization sense, which means the act or process ofdecorating. From theCambridge English Corpus The open-mouthed serpent headsdecoratingthe temples differ from building to building and on the columns versus the balustrades of the same building. From theCambridge English Corpus The majority of workers were employed in the clay and potting shops and relatively few indecoratingand glazing ware. From theCambridge English Corpus Cases are divided between workers in the dipping house and those employed indecoratingshops. From theCambridge English Corpus A tradition ofdecoratingone's home, if one has a son, with a display of dolls and carp streamers. From theCambridge English Corpus The annotated terms are produced bydecoratinga type-inference tree. From theCambridge English Corpus These arches, with see-through fasciae and tympanums ornamented with elements of various colours constitute the maindecoratingfeature. From theCambridge English Corpus Distant children sometimes took the opportunity of a stay with parents to help withdecoratingor household repairs and sometimes took parents home with them for short breaks. From theCambridge English Corpus The sequents are also decorated with proof terms, and equivalence of proofs is then axiomatized in such a way that proofsdecoratingequivalent concurrent computations are identified. From theCambridge English Corpus While these senses are logically related in that a physical decoration is often the result of some instance of 'decorating', we do not explicitly represent these relations. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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