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Round, flat sequins A close-up of a gold sequin-covered shoe.. A sequin (/ ˈ s iː k w ɪ n /) is a small, typically shiny, generally disk-shaped ornament.. Sequins are also referred to as paillettes, spangles, or diamanté (also spelled diamante).
Shiny may refer to gloss (optics), the ability of a surface to reflect light in a specular way. Film and television "Shiny", an episode of the TV series The Pinky ...
Plural archegonia. A multicellular haploid structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants, producing and containing the ovum or female gamete. The corresponding male organ is called the antheridium. archegoniophore
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".
polish (/ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ʃ /): to create a shiny surface by rubbing; a compound used in that process Different pronunciations Scot: a native of Scotland: scot: a payment, charge, assessment, or tax Scotch: from or relating to Scotland, or a form of whisky: scotch: to put an end to something (especially rumours); also the form of whisky
Welsh has two systems of grammatical number, singular–plural and collective–singulative. Since the loss of the noun inflection system of earlier Celtic, plurals have become unpredictable and can be formed in several ways: by adding a suffix to the end of the word (most commonly -au), as in tad "father" and tadau "fathers", through vowel affection, as in bachgen "boy" and bechgyn "boys", or ...
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.