from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An ornament or badge made of ribbon or silk that is pleated or gathered to resemble a rose and is used to decorate clothing or is worn in the buttonhole of civilian dress to indicate the possession of certain medals or honors.
- n. A roselike marking or formation, such as one of the clusters of spots on a leopard's fur.
- n. Architecture A painted, carved, or sculptured ornament having a circular arrangement of parts radiating out from the center and suggesting the petals of a rose.
- n. Botany A circular cluster of leaves that radiate from a center at or close to the ground, as in the dandelion.
- n. An ornamental circular band surrounding the central hole of an acoustic guitar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, used especially as an ornament or a badge.
- n. An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
- n. A red color.
- n. A rose burner.
- n. One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- n. A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- n. Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- n. A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- n. A floral pattern in latte art.
- n. A clustered formation of tumor cells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
- n. An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
- n. A red color. See Roset.
- n. A rose burner. See under Rose.
- n. Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
- n. A flowerlike color marking.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Any circular ornament having many small parts in concentric circles, or regularly arranged around the center.
- n. Specifically— In architecture, an ornament of frequent use in decoration in all styles. In Roman architecture rosettes decorate coffers in ceilings and soffits of cornices, and appear as a central ornament of the abacus of the Corinthian order. In medieval architecture rosettes are abundant, and consist usually of a knot of foliage inscribed in a circle, trefoil, or quatrefoil. See also cut under patera.
- n. A knot of ribbon or a bunch of colored worsted used as an ornament of costume, especially one of the two bunches of ribbons attached to the loops by which an officer's gorget was suspended on his chest.
- n. Any object or arrangement resembling in form a full-blown rose.
- n. Same as roset.
- n. In zoology and anatomy, a natural formation of parts resembling a rose. See rose, 9.
- n. A curve whose polar equation is r = a + sin m
θ, which presents a great variety of forms symmetrical about a center.
- n. Nautical, a form of knot.
- n. In metallurgy, a disk or plate formed by throwing water on melted metal. See rosette-copper, and compare quenching, 2.
- n. In electricity: A cluster of glow-lamps or of sockets arranged for the mounting of such lamps.
- n. An electrical fixture used when a branch is to be taken from the main wires. It consists, usually, of a porcelain base, which is fastened to a ceiling or other support, and a porcelain cover through a hole in which the branch wires run. Removing the cover disconnects the branch wires from the mains.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
- n. circular window filled with tracery
- n. an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
- n. rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
-- It is worked at the same time both round the bosom and sleeves. 1st round: * 1 double in the centre purl of the 1st scallop of the rosette, which we will call the _first rosette_; 5 chain,
In the second example the rosette is substituted for the inner curves of the spiral, and the intermediate space is filled in with the true lotus motive.
The rosette is Egyptian; and the honeysuckle, which Mr. Petrie has identified as a florid variety of the lotus pattern, (44) is also distinctly Egyptian.
The spiral in combination with the rosette is first found, as a decorative design, on a ceiling in one of the tombs at Beni-Hasan, as in the following illustration; and in another
The name-tag rosette was worn on either side of the costume, depending on whether the owner was right- or left-handed.
The show will spotlight the classic Bunny costume, one of the most recognizable outfits of all time, complete with bursting cleavage, name-tag rosette and a tail that Norman Mailer once called "the puff of chastity."
Draw up very tightly the cotton over which you work, so that the circles form a rosette, which is closed by sewing together the two corresponding purl of the first and last circle.
Work a wheel in the centre of the rosette, which is ornamented with a circle of chain stitch, as can be seen in illustration; take up one thread of the wheel with every other chain stitch.
• A rosette, which is thrown over the edge of the boat.
The cells he identified ― called rosette-stage NSCs (R-NSCs) ― are different from other neural stem cells in the way they look, express genes, and in their special needs for growth.