(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.
Outdoor
Definition:
(a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
(2) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(3) As far as the subjective experience of children is concerned, analysis of the answers of a total of 1200 primary school children (answers classified by sex, age and period of outdoor school) proved the primary correlation with age and thus also with the level of adaptation mechanisms.
(4) Her experience includes roles as strategic marketing director for both Google and ITV, and as CMO of Clear Channel Outdoor.
(5) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(6) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(7) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(8) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(9) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(10) The survival of infective larvae of Ancylostoma caninum on outdoor grass plots was studied in 40 experiments over 1 year.
(11) Skin tests to seasonal outdoor aeroallergens were negative, as were inhalation challenges with two insecticides used inside the building during the honey pack.
(12) A case of bilateral lesions of this type is reported in a 61-year-old male patient who used to work outdoors, and the clinical diagnosis was followed by bilateral surgical removal of the two lesions.
(13) For subjects exposed to UV lasers in a laboratory setting, the relative risk may increase to a value comparable to that of people with an outdoor profession.
(14) Six outdoor artificial streams were designed to simulate natural stream environments.
(15) From May 1968 to May 1969, 28 462 containers of water-located in approximately equal numbers indoors and outdoors-were investigated.
(16) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(17) The hotel itself offers studios with sea views above a breakfast terrace that also hosts a large pool and an outdoor Jacuzzi.
(18) maculatus complex studied prefered to feed on animal rather than on human, and tended to bit human more outdoors than indoors, and thus exhibiting a zoophilic and exophagic behaviour.
(19) Airborne particles from living rooms which were heated by stoves, or by fire places, and from outdoors were collected simultaneously.
(20) Unique hourly activity profiles are specified for each population group; group members are assigned each hour to one of up to 10 different indoor and outdoor microenvironments.