Festooned vs Decorated - What's the difference?
festooned | decorated |
(festoon)
An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
(architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
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(astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
(entomology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
(technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
To hang ornaments, such as garlands or chains, which hang loosely from two tacked spots.
To make festoons.
To decorate or bedeck abundantly.
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(decorate)
To furnish with decorations.
To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
(computing) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
As verbs the difference between festooned and decorated
is that festooned is (festoon) while decorated is (decorate).festooned
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Verb
(head)festoon
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(wikipedia festoon)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces
Verb
(en verb)- A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement.
Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents", (The Guardian) :
- Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.
decorated
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Verb
(head)decorate
English
Verb
(decorat)- It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.
