(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.
Nave
Definition:
(n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
(n.) The navel.
(n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(2) The list includes Refaii Hamo, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Detroit in December, and Saudi-American army veteran Naveed Shah, reflections of the president’s effort to resettle 10,000 refugees and his opposition to anti-Muslim sentiment .
(3) The chapel, where in the last series Sister Bernadette struggled to reconcile her vocation with her love for widowed GP Dr Turner, is being turned into a spectacular four-bedroom, four-bathroom flat, using the central nave and west cloister corridor lit by a glass atrium.
(4) Brother Naveed posts YouTube video showing boxes of special food family bought online for Ashya and a power charger for his feeding unit and strenuously denies any allegations of neglect.
(5) Miliband, who employed Khan as shadow justice secretary when he was the party’s leader, was on the front row of the nave.
(6) Naveed wrote on Facebook to accompany the video: “Pictures and words can only go so far.
(7) She stared while moonlight got past the clouds to the holed and broken walls, onto a low newer church inside the nave of the old.
(8) Naveed, 32, who works in IT in Manchester, recalls one girl who had one fake profile she used to attract men initially, before showing them her real profile.
(9) The temple originally had a sunken nave flanked by seven symbolic pairs of pillars leading to the altar, a ritual well and raised seating on either side.
(10) said Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, chairman of the Pakistan Minorities Alliance.
(11) When the Dalai Lama came to collect his cheque at a ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral, eight Buddhist monks sat chanting in front of the high altar as the nave filled up.
(12) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(13) A woman at the back of the nave shouted something inaudible but clearly theological and angry.
(14) The eldest, Naveed, 23, is a pharmacist in the local area whose wife is due to give birth imminently to the family's first grandchild.
(15) The nave of the minster was filled, but the side aisles were lined with empty chairs.
(16) But in the press gallery, where we could not see the subtitles projected on screens around the nave, it was only the giggles that were clearly audible.
(17) In an earlier version we incorrectly attributed comments by Marie-Cécile Naves to another analyst, Virginie Martin.
(18) Winner Sardar Naveed Haider: “Whatever happened during the election was bad, but it’s in the past now.
(19) In the nave are two rows of columns – 22 in all – that were taken from ancient Roman sites.
(20) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.