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Amphitheater


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Amphitheatre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speaking to a packed amphitheater of developers here, Alphabet’s flagship company on Wednesday unveiled a hot-rodded personal assistant it says will let people control their homes, book movies, search the internet, ask follow-up questions about an Italian restaurant and sort through dog pictures using voice commands.
  • (2) The abdominal cavities of 50 patients were explored in a specially constructed intraoperative radiotherapy operating amphitheater at the Medical College of Ohio.
  • (3) Nine patients were operated in the COMROC IOEBRT operating amphitheater and five were found to have disease sufficiently limited to allow for IOEBRT.
  • (4) Charcot suggested the name "Parkinson's disease," although he could not resist the comment in his amphitheater lecture series at the Salpêtrière that French physicians (unnamed) had probably described the disorder before 1817.
  • (5) Camping is available seasonally at Ghost Ranch and year-round up the road at Echo Amphitheater.
  • (6) It's not much more than a grassy knoll amphitheater: you'll need to bring a blanket or a chair, and perhaps sneak in your own booze.
  • (7) One hundred fifty-one tumor fragments were collected in the neurosurgical operating amphitheater immediately after removal.
  • (8) At Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, park rangers last September confiscated an unmanned aircraft after it flew above 1,500 visitors seated in an amphitheater and then over the heads of the four presidents carved into the mountain.
  • (9) Check listings for details Zoo Amphitheater Photograph: Michael Durham It's an unlikely pick, but if planned properly, a concert on a lawn with Asian elephants at your back can be a magical evening out.
  • (10) The Microsurgical Laboratory of Paris Hospitals' Anatomy Amphitheater has been organizing an initiation into microsurgery since 1976 and the University Diploma of Microsurgical Techniques of Paris VI University since 1977.
  • (11) Twenty-five patients with a diagnosis of unresectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were explored in the Clement O. Miniger (COMROC) IOEBT operating amphitheater at the Medical College of Ohio.
  • (12) A newly recognized confined space, the environment of the surgical amphitheater in which the surgical patient undergoes general anesthesia, has been added.

Amphitheatre


Definition:

  • (n.) An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
  • (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
  • (2) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
  • (3) Behind him rise the steep, stone-hewn seats of a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon where, later tonight, Sting will play to a packed crowd of French fans as part of his Symphonicity world tour.
  • (4) There is an open-air amphitheatre on the banks of the lake called Rabindra-Sarobar, which is a great venue for concerts, theatrical performances and a variety of cultural and religious festivities.
  • (5) They’re in the business of selling you the $11 beer to you once you’re inside the stadium.” Today’s athletic amphitheatres last just a few decades before being thrown away for more lustrous replacements.
  • (6) One of these is the Parque de los Deseos , a stone plaza with fountains that doubles as an outdoor amphitheatre for film screenings.
  • (7) The city’s sprawling colonnades and Tetrapylon remain , while Isis has repurposed its amphitheatre, using it to stage mass executions of its enemies.
  • (8) Tony Harrison writes: For Jocelyn's 80th birthday, I wrote a poetic toast that listed all the wines we had toasted each other in on what she called, with an always undiminished enthusiasm, our "adventures" - our collaborations on theatrical projects in the ancient stadium of Delphi, a Roman amphitheatre on the Danube, and back to a mountainside in Greece with a chorus of concrete-mixers.
  • (9) Highlights include the Snowmass Mammoth music, brews and chili festival in June and the Global Dance festival at the picturesque Red Rocks Amphitheatre in July.
  • (10) Another is the arch of triumph on Palmyra’s ancient colonnades, or the Roman amphitheatre that dates back to the second century AD.
  • (11) • The complex is an easy day trip from Agra: take a bus or train to Fatehpur station, 1km from the site Pula, Croatia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images The amphitheatre of Pula is the only Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers and all three levels preserved.
  • (12) That night I go to watch Sting performing in a large amphitheatre just off the beach in Juan-les-Pins.
  • (13) Under the new contract the name of the amphitheatre was again changed to Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre and then to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre.
  • (14) The Surgical Amphitheatre, patterned after the earlier model of Anatomists, came into being in the 17th century and served the purpose of teaching the anatomy of operation to surgeons, but without hospital connections.
  • (15) Visitors can go to the amphitheatre to watch them head for the skies each evening, just before sunset.
  • (16) Three days before he plays the boat, Caribou headline Dimensions’ opening party at a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre in Pula.
  • (17) In the area between Kabul and Peshawar, one fifth-century Chinese traveller counted no fewer than 2,400 such shrines – as well as a scattering of well-planned classical cities, acropoli, amphitheatres and stupas .
  • (18) "M y life would be very puzzling to most people if they had to follow me around for a day or two," says Brad Paisley during a break from rehearsals in Virginia Beach, Virginia, ahead of his summer tour of American amphitheatres and outdoor venues.
  • (19) Everything was quite civilised in the vertiginous rows and aquarium light of the amphitheatre at the Guardian's fringe event in Birmingham – until the BBC's deputy political editor stuck up his hand.
  • (20) Motherhood is riven with insults and fear; it takes place in a solitary room and an amphitheatre where people shout curses or praise.

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