(n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
(n.) The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
(n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in the presence of a sufficient excess of APS kinase, APSe is completely converted to PAPSe.
(2) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
(3) Paul O'Brien, chief executive of the Association for Public Service Excellence Paul O'Brien has been the chief executive of the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) for the past 10 years.
(4) It really felt like a pioneering thing when we first arrived,” she says, sitting in the living room of her home, which nestles behind the foundry apse like a cosy Hobbit cave, its porthole windows looking down on the bronze-pouring action below.
(5) The German nostril was larger in size, flatter in shape, and the apse line closer to the sagittal plane than the Japanese counterpart.
(6) Beneath one richly patterned apse sit two women, carving cosmic symbols into freshly cast ceramic bells, while a second group pours molten bronze into sand moulds under another dome nearby.
(7) He has overall strategic responsibility for the management and development of all APSE's activities in the United Kingdom.
(8) At pH 8.0, 30 degrees C, the specific activities (units x mg protein-1) of the most highly purified sample are as follows: ATP synthesis, 370; APS synthesis, 23; molybdolysis, 65; APSe synthesis or selenolysis, 1.9.
(9) Story of cities #36: how Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist 'utopia' Read more The ultimate masterplan, which is currently being digitally modelled in 3D for the first time by visiting workshoppers, looks a little like a city-sized cathedral, except with the apses, which would usually face the inwards, flipped to face the surroundings.
(10) With passive environmental design at the core, the buildings were south-facing, their thick concrete apses oriented to soak up the winter sun, while providing shade during the sweltering summer.
(11) The inclination of the apse line was calculated from the phase of the second term.
Aspen
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Asp
(a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The private company Aspen Medical, which won a $20m contract to build an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, gave $30,000 to the Liberal party.
(2) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
(3) Speaking at an address to the Aspen Institute of India, Ramesh hailed the alliance between the Basic countries as a "watershed" moment that highlighted the growing influence of emerging economies in general and China in particular.
(4) Of the 734 adult tibial fractures treated in Aspen, Colorado, from 1968-1978, follow-up results were obtained on 527 (72%).
(5) A cDNA clone (Ptomt 1) encoding a lignin-bispecific O-methyltransferase (OMT) was isolated by immunological screening of a lambda gt11 expression library prepared from mRNA of developing secondary xylem of aspen (Populus tremuloides).
(6) The yeast flora of the majority of studied plants is diverse and comprises 10--20 species (in cabbage, potato, linden, aspen, and pear trees).
(7) Earlier in the Aspen discussion, for example, he talked about the Stuxnet worm – which was used to destroy centrifuges in the Iranian nuclear programme – as something that was obviously created by a nation-state, but affected not to know that the US was one of the nation-states involved.
(8) He told reporters at the Aspen Security Forum: “It was not part of the discussion.” Davutoğlu, when asked if the agreement with the US to use Incirlik base included the long-time Turkish demand of creating a safe haven in northern Syria, said it took into account Turkey’s considerations.
(9) The prime minister said the government would provide up to $20m for an Australian company, Aspen Medical, to run the UK-built medical centre in Sierra Leone until mid next year.
(10) Lyndon Haviland, a senior health fellow at the US-based Aspen Institute, said: "Children have high mortality.
(11) The Aspen Institute's New Voices Fellowship , launched this year with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, is one attempt to start figuring out an answer by providing both media coaching and contacts for development experts from Africa and, eventually, other parts of the developing world.
(12) My personal journey to the iPad began around 16 years ago in Aspen, Colorado.
(13) Palin acknowledged that he is usually painted as the villain for squashing the idea of a stage tour after the Aspen festival, but he was cautiously supportive of the adaptation.
(14) This culture also readily fermented hemicellulose hydrolysates obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of either hydrogen fluoride treated or steam exploded Aspen wood.
(15) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
(16) The inner microflora of blood-sucking mosquitoes genus Aedes inhabiting different biotops of aspen-birch woods of the Tomsc Priob region has been investigated.
(17) The Aspen Art Museum designed by architect Shigeru Ban.
(18) A biphasic pattern of gene expression and enzyme activity for OMT was observed from xylem samples of aspen during the growing season which suggests linkage between gene expression for a monolignol biosynthetic enzyme and seasonal regulation of xylem differentiation in woody plants.
(19) The regular occurrence of Giardia cysts in Aspen and Snowmass water was associated with lower rates of giardiasis acquisition than reported during outbreaks of waterborne giardiasis.
(20) The influence of acetone extract vapours of pepper, poplar buds, linden and aspen was tested.