(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.
Rococo
Definition:
(n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The castle used to occupy the most prominent spot in Unter den Linden, opposite Berlin's neo-rococo cathedral and pleasure garden.
(2) Over the last three hours, I've learned about the role of The Royal Society in shaping art, and the difference between baroque and rococo architecture – baroque drew upon elements of the Renaissance, while rococo is basically what Donald Trump's bathroom looks like.
(3) Saddam's palace in Basra was turned into a museum, despite housing what one general called "vulgar, awful imitation rococo interiors".
(4) Addison's shock at receiving praise is convincing, almost as though – after five years in The Thick Of It – he'd been expecting Malcolm Tucker to belabour him with rococo abuse for being too honest.
(5) Rolfe's pope is as cussed, rococo and autodidactic as his author, praying in Greek, dabbling in astrology and smoking in office.
(6) If there’s a Brexit winner, then maybe it’s Gadheim.” Jürgen Götz, the mayor with responsibility for Gadheim, said he hoped the news would encourage more investment and tourism to the area, whichboasts one of the finest rococo gardens in Germany and a medieval pilgrimage site.
(7) It had, he said, ghastly gauche decoration and "vulgar, awful imitation rococo interiors".
(8) The theatre itself took on a feeling of rococo mockery and devilment, too hot, a snake-pit of stabbing jewellery, hair-pieces, hobbling high heels, stifling wraps and unmanageable long frocks.” Osborne on the first night of The World of Paul Slickey “Archie [Rice] leapt off the page at me and he had to be mine.” Laurence Olivier on The Entertainer “Osborne has had the big and brilliant notion of putting the whole of contemporary England on to one and the same stage.
(9) At the age of four I could distinguish a baroque building from a rococo one, and by the age of 13 I loved [Venedikt Erofeev's profanity-filled novella of alcoholic rumination] Moskva-Petushki and Limonov [the nationalist opposition activist known for sexually explicit writing].
(10) On a song called "Rococo", Butler sings of "the modern kids" who "build it up just to burn it back down" and who "seem wild but they are so tame".
(11) Then Mikel presents the ball to Matuidi, but the resulting rococo ramble takes France nowhere.
(12) Antonio Berardi did something different again: his collection, inspired by Rococo interiors and Italian sculpture, was less about trends than about the beautiful clothes that the formidable, fabulous woman who wears Berardi will want to buy.
(13) Having spent time with Peter Mitchell, I finished Tuesday by meeting Jennifer at the Rococo independent coffee house in the city centre.
(14) On the one occasion Bob Paisley’s side managed to scrape a last-minute win, in April 1982, Liverpool still suffered the indignity of conceding one of the greatest team goals of all time , Mick Channon putting his name to a move of such rococo brilliance that it made Clodoaldo, Pele and Carlos Alberto look about as elegant as the Three Stooges.
(15) It's the steampunk-lite fantasy of a pub; nooks, crannies, an apothecary and antlers fixed on rococo papered walls.
(16) Lolita is an incredibly elaborate fashion fad in Tokyo, wherein the wearer dons layers of frilly dresses, bonnets and parasols until they resemble some sort of rococo porcelain doll version of Little Bo Beep – a wonderful contrast to Kitade's bratty, punky music.