(n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.
(n.) A long, arched building or gallery.
(n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was accomplished by use of a new coaxial infusion catheter-steerable guidewire system passed through the superior mesenteric artery and posterior pancreatic arcade.
(2) "I almost feel sorry for them," said Pauline Corton, who was checking out Radley bags in the County Arcade with 20%, 30% and 50% off.
(3) In the investigation, the arcade-shaped prisms typical of recent mammals were first seen in material from the Cretaceous period.
(4) Direct observations of adolescent proxemics and sex differences, and of various parameters of video games in 18 video arcades were made.
(5) Love and Peace, a game for mobile phones designed by the Hong Kong-based games company nxTomo , is like a complex, three-dimensional reinterpretation of the classic arcade game Snake – but with strong political overtones.
(6) Due to the possibility to trace clearly the perivascular plexuses of these vascular arcades by use of immunohistochemical techniques with antibodies to NSE and S-100 protein, the two submucosal nerve plexuses can be demonstrated with exceptional clarity.
(7) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(8) The southern stretch of London Road, a down-at-heel strip containing pound shops and amusement arcades, became the gang’s turf.
(9) They went for a walk in Hamburg’s amusement arcade.
(10) New vessels were most commonly found on the temporal arcades (48%) of the eyes and nasal to the optic disc (42%) but were significantly rare beyond the posterior pole (13%) (P less than 0.001).
(11) From the upmarket shops in the arcaded Victoria Quarter to the bargain-price stalls of Kirkgate market, every lure was set out in an effort to save one of the worst Decembers retailers can remember.
(12) Deliberate no more: Arcade Fire have actually made their fancy dress theme easy for you.
(13) Striking fundus features included typical maculopathy with a radiating stellate pattern surrounded by tiny vacuole-like pockets of retinoschisis throughout the posterior pole within the temporal vascular arcades.
(14) As result it was found that the vascular arcades along the greater curvature alone are insufficient for the blood supply of the gastric fundus.
(15) "Now we're producing this new game Ms. Pac-Man as our way of thanking all those lady arcaders who have played and enjoyed Pac-Man."
(16) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
(17) Arcade arterioles show a significant reduction of the adrenergic innervation compared to that of the thoracodorsal supply artery.
(18) This contrasted with the perfused isolated rat mesenteric artery arcade in which serotonin stimulated oxygen uptake by up to 130% in association with vasoconstriction in a dose dependent manner similar to the previously described norepinephrine induced vascular thermogenesis in this arterial preparation.
(19) The major differences in the microvasculatures of the two muscles are in the numbers of vessels in the arcade meshworks and the dimensions of these vessels.
(20) Frequency of contractions (per minute) tended to decrease during stress periods, but achieved significance only with the video arcade game in the control group (2.0 (0.6) v 1.2 (0.4); p less than 0.01).
Colonnade
Definition:
(n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets used to be lined with covered colonnades, providing shade from the sun and protection from monsoon rains, but they, too, were torn down.
(2) In 1506, Pope Julius had the old, rectilinear St Peter’s pulled down and a new one built that would be all curves, with its famous colonnade embracing the round world.
(3) At first, he refused to speak, preferring to communicate by eye contact alone You’d glimpse him around the Hotel de Paris: a shadow flitting between the marble colonnades.
(4) Kasrils and old comrades who fear that the ANC's elite are losing their working-class credentials will have found little consolation last week when Ramaphosa addressed the media in an Edwardian-era mansion framed by Tuscan colonnades and Palladian windows, built to entertain the mining Randlords of Johannesburg.
(5) The city’s sprawling colonnades and Tetrapylon remain , while Isis has repurposed its amphitheatre, using it to stage mass executions of its enemies.
(6) The house itself is a grand 1850s colonnaded mansion, where guests can enjoy a private plunge pool and a tropical garden for undisturbed sunbathing.
(7) It has a colonnaded porch and neatly trimmed topiary, but several aspects of the house are definitely in breach of the Celebration pattern book.
(8) Another is the arch of triumph on Palmyra’s ancient colonnades, or the Roman amphitheatre that dates back to the second century AD.
(9) The lawyers of Yangon could have done with a little divine intervention in their recent battle against the privatisation of the former high court and police commissioner’s office, a grand classical edifice whose ionic colonnade marches around an entire city block facing the waterfront on Strand Road.
(10) The plain red-brick building is in the shadow of the state capitol, a grand colonnaded white house at the top end of the broad avenue.
(11) The National Gallery’s colonnaded splendour radiates across Trafalgar Square a sense of the importance of art in Britain’s national life.
(12) He expected further destruction in the coming weeks, including the agora or meeting place, colonnades and burial grounds.
(13) 1 Bellevue Road, +27 21 434 1929, sweetestguesthouses.com Cascades on the Promenade Facebook Twitter Pinterest While Sweet Lemon is up the hill, this colonnaded boutique hotel is almost on Sea Point’s promenade, and you can see the ocean from several of the room terraces.
(14) One image shows a colonnaded porch filled with blood-stained blankets, clothes and mattresses.
(15) They smoke on the phone and in the rain, in doorways and under colonnades.
(16) Hundreds of mattresses have been laid out on the floor in the City Hall's main colonnaded room, and different stalls hand out food, medicines and donated warm clothes to those who want them.
(17) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
(18) I drove up a steep private drive, which curved around to an open lawn and a white colonnaded house.
(19) Former inmates told us that they thought they were hallucinating when they saw a colonnade of seven dwarves dressed warmly and elegantly, as if for a Shabbat stroll.
(20) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).