(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.
Open
Definition:
(a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.
(a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.
(a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
(a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.
(a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.
(a.) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.
(a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.
(a.) Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.
(a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.
(a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.
(a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.
(a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.
(a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.
(n.) Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.
(v. t.) To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.
(v. t.) To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
(v. t.) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
(v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.
(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.
(v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.
(v. i.) To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.
(v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.
(v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
(v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.
Example Sentences:
(1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(6) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(7) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(8) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(9) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(10) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(12) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(14) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
(15) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(16) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(17) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(18) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(20) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.