(n.) The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
(n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(4) In order to identify these anchorage structures, the non-DNA materials that remain firmly bound to chromosomal DNA under conditions that disintegrate the high salt-stable architecture of nuclei were investigated.
(5) The B-cell origin of this tumor was determined by its histological architecture, by immunophenotypic analysis, and by Southern analysis of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements.
(6) Review of the traditional medical hierarchy and its legal implications, architecture of health institutions, medical records systems, and the selection of medical students are other areas for specific attention.
(7) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(8) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(9) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(10) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(11) An age and prevalence study of the categorized disc showed that, with age, the disc undergoes an architectural transformation from WD through IM to ID.
(12) The architecture of this study was designed to be simple, effective, and repeatable with minimal complications.
(13) The architecture of the tumour margin is an essential feature for the histological diagnosis of certain neoplasms.
(14) We have developed the DUNE (Diagnostic Understanding of Natural Events) system architecture that organizes the knowledge around processing structures.
(15) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(16) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(17) We first present a model of the functional architecture of the cognitive calculation system based on previous research.
(18) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(19) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(20) True to her interest in art and architecture, Prada has set up a foundation to promote art exhibitions and off-the-wall projects like the Prada Transformer – a building by architect Rem Koolhaas in Seoul which changes shape depending on its function.
Moorish
Definition:
(a.) Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
(2) • The tangled, narrow street plans seen in many southern Spanish towns date back to Moorish times.
(3) It is easy to understand Alastair Campbell's verdict on the unmanly spectacle of the governor's departure on the lease-expired colony of Hong Kong, an event which matches the taking leave of Granada by Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Spain, for dramatic bathos.
(4) A battery of seven lectins and several conventional mucin histochemical techniques were used to identify the epithelial mucins of the gallbladder of ten species: man, rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, mammalia), hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, mammalia), chicken (Gallus gallus, bird), sparrow (Passer domesticus, bird), moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica, reptilia), ladder snake (Elaphe scalaris, reptilia), lake frog (Rana perezi, amphibia), natterjack toad (Bufo calamita, amphibia) and gilthead sea bream (Sparus auratus, fish).
(5) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian They had money to spend, and Chaplin fondly recalled the impact of their £40 outlay on the top floor flat, their couch and two armchairs, Moorish screen backlit with a yellow bulb and tasteful pastel of a female nude, “a combination of a Moorish cigarette shop and a French whorehouse.
(6) Our first day takes us into Italy's Piedmont region over the 2,868m Monte Moro pass, named after the Moors who invaded the Saas valley in 939AD, and left a legacy of Moorish place names (and, say locals, noses).
(7) Nearest airport: Lisbon (30km) What to do Explore the fairytale ramparts and towers of Sintra's Pena and National palaces and its Moorish castle, or soar through the treetops on a series of ziplines at Sintra Canopy ( parquesdesintra.pt ).
(8) Inside, neat lines of stone pillars rise to soft Moorish arches, creating beautiful walkways.
(9) Add in private palaces, Moorish patios, Roman columns here and there, and a golden tower.
(10) Mosaic paths wind over terraces leading to beautiful rooms decorated with Moorish woodwork and featuring traditional platform beds.
(11) Moorish architecture is defined by slender columns, horseshoe arches, serene courtyards and geometric patterns.
(12) A double clone of Trypanosoma platydactyli Catouillard, 1909, derived from a single trypomastigote from the blood of the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica, was grown in vitro.
(13) Some say the tradition of blacking up among morris (believed to derive from Moorish) dancers is racist, a charge vehemently denied by its adherents.
(14) Much of their savings have been made through basic energy efficiency improvements, such as installing cavity wall insulation where possible, Thermafleece natural wool insulation and replacing the aging night storage heaters that came with the property with a carbon neutral wood pellet boiler and solar collectors, says Moorish.
(15) While Paul found creative inspiration in his Moorish surroundings, for Jane, cut off from her American roots, Morocco became a cultural wasteland.