(n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.
(n.) A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.
(n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(2) Step by selfish step we have arrived at the latest item causing outrage: a bed of metal spikes inside an alcove of a fancy new development on Southwark Bridge Road in London.
(3) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
(4) Desai has identified a hospital back entrance that the patient will not recognise and organised a screened alcove to be equipped like a sitting room for waiting.
(5) KCBS’s reporter witnessed water pouring from the church ceiling above the outside alcoves from a height of about 30ft.
(6) Writers hid in alcoves as conversing cleaners and security guards walked past inches away.
(7) Legend has it that the three brothers who built this castle were told to sacrifice one of their wives, and the chosen wife was bricked into an alcove, which still remains.
(8) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
(9) He had an alcove in his dressing room that had a curtain over it and he would take you behind the curtain".
(10) There were no staff around in the room, just the girls in there and one or two other people so I suppose the privacy we got was from the curtain in the alcove but, I have no doubt that he went and told everybody else what he did afterwards".
(11) Top tip: After walking the main looped trail, stretch your legs another half a mile down to the Alcove House.
(12) Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed – Proverbs 19:17 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me – Matthew 25:35 St Mary’s cathedral, home of the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco , has been scrambling to explain itself after local media revealed that it had installed water sprinklers above its doorways that were dousing homeless people seeking shelter in the alcoves there.
(13) As the helicopter drones droned above them, Langdon and Sienna cowered in the secret alcove of the Pitti Palace.
(14) Guided tours climb ladders and crawl through tunnels to Cliff Palace and Balcony House, constructed in stone alcoves high above the canyon floor.
(15) Grafted animals showed an early, however, transient amelioration of behavioral deficits in a T-maze alternation task and they performed with a long-lasting improvement in the alcove-test.
(16) Rats were trained in three different avoidance tasks (uphill, step-down and alcove) and tested 24 h later.
(17) When the group gathered around a 13th-century Anatolian alcove, one man asked: “Is that Sunni?” “They didn’t have Sunnis and Shias back then,” responded an elderly woman.
(18) Indeed during the first few years of my life, one of those Perrot paintings, now in the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, was the sole representative of art in my little world, hung above the alcove in the sitting-room where I used to hide during Doctor Who .
(19) The wide street, lined on each side with garage-like concrete alcoves that serve for shops, was strewn with rubbish and, the Jocks discovered, eight separate IEDs.
(20) In a second small-box passive avoidance experiment, i.e., the alcove-avoidance task, opposite results were attained: Subreinforcing stimulation attenuated learning whereas neither suprathreshold stimulated animals nor control animals showed impairment of learning.
Area
Definition:
(n.) Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.
(n.) The inclosed space on which a building stands.
(n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.
(n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas.
(n.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
(n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area.
(n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(3) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(4) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(7) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(8) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(9) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
(10) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(11) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(12) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(15) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(16) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(17) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(18) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(19) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(20) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.