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Arras


Definition:

  • (n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with an arras.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The streets have been filled with poster-sized photographs of a few of the 35,000 Allied soldiers from Britain, Australia, Canada and South Africa who died in the Battle of Arras , along with the flags of all the countries who took part, giving the town an unusually international feel.
  • (2) Ten minutes later the train stopped at Arras, where police arrested the shooter, described by French investigators as a 26-year-old from Morocco or of Moroccan origin, who was also armed with an automatic pistol and a box cutter.
  • (3) I'd written my graduate thesis and then a book on Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917.
  • (4) Whether Hugo is writing about the historical battle of Waterloo or the fictional journey to Arras, his scenes obey the same constraints: a mass of infinite detail, which coalesces to form a trap, an unstoppable destiny.
  • (5) It is the morning after the night before – when the voters of Arras closely matched the national result of the first round of the presidential election, giving Emmanuel Macron 24.6% and Marine Le Pen 21.49% – and residents and tourists who have come to honour the war dead are enjoying an early lunch in the pretty town hall square.
  • (6) The inspiration for the original came from Chilton's discovery of his father's name on a war memorial at Arras, in northern France.
  • (7) Donald Overall Donald Overall's father died of wounds near Arras, in 1917, leaving a widow and two young sons.
  • (8) Ezért az Európai Roma Jogok Központjával közösen arra vállalkozunk, hogy kiderítsük, milyen valójában az élet napjaink roma családjaiban a világ különböző pontjain.
  • (9) In Arras, stunned passengers waited to speak to police as the Red Cross distributed bottled water.
  • (10) "I don't want to exaggerate, but maybe 300,000, maybe more than that because there is no food in South Sudan and the rains start in this region in May, so people will come to Ethiopia to seek refuge," says Ayalew Aweke, deputy director of the Ethiopian Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (Arra).
  • (11) GS Chaplin, a military policeman who witnessed the execution at Arras on 31 October 1917, of Private JS Adamson, a 30-year-old soldier in the Cameron Highlanders, left this stark account in his journal.
  • (12) Arras and Shinnar conclude that "admirable goals should not be advanced by improper means."
  • (13) When I was married, my wife and I often went to Italy for our holidays, and my grandmother said to me one day, "When you're on your way to Italy, do you ever go near Arras?
  • (14) In the northern French town of Arras they have been commemorating the 100th anniversary of a first world war battle that resulted in almost 280,000 casualties.
  • (15) Unicef, together with Arra and the regional health bureaux, is supporting a mass immunisation campaign.
  • (16) Mayer writes that Charles’s court is “every bit as brutal as in the days when a twitching arras might signal a hidden assassin”.
  • (17) British troops go over the top during a daylight trench raid near Arras in March, 1917.
  • (18) It turned out that he didn't have a grave, but he was on the Arras memorial to the missing.
  • (19) A közelmúltban elterjedt történetek roma családokból kiemelt gyerekekről rámutattak arra, hogy a romák médiában való sztereotip bemutatásának elkerülése mennyire fontos.
  • (20) The soldiers who perished in the Battle of Loos in 1915 were found in 2010 during clearance work for a new prison near Vendin-le-Vieil, north of Arras, in France .

Array


Definition:

  • (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
  • (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
  • (n.) An imposing series of things.
  • (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
  • (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
  • (n.) The panel itself.
  • (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  • (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
  • (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
  • (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
  • (2) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (3) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
  • (4) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (5) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
  • (6) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
  • (7) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (8) Several characteristics of plasma membrane (caveolae, rectilinear arrays, intramembranous particles) and sarcoplasmic reticulum which show fiber type differences in the adult ALD and PLD muscles are compared in the developmental stages.
  • (9) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
  • (10) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
  • (11) Lens fibres were found to possess a varied array of well defined interlocking processes.
  • (12) The stimuli were presented in a spatial array so that the spatial (left-right) order never corresponded with the temporal (first-last) order.
  • (13) The isolated outer sheath was observed as a triple-layered, closed vesicle carrying a polygonal array by electron microscopy.
  • (14) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (15) Under conditions of chemotaxis with activated serum beneath the filter, the neutrophil population oriented at the filter surface with nuclei located away from the stimulus, centrioles and associated radial array of microtubules beneath the nuclei, and microfilament-rich pseudopods penetrating the filter pores.
  • (16) Nomograms for square planar arrays spanning the range from 3 X 3 cm to 10 X 10 cm were developed.
  • (17) The STM topographical arrays and the molecular dimensions obtained are in good quantitative agreement with the corresponding X-ray crystallographic data.
  • (18) Ultrastructurally, they consist of membranous arrays which often are of the "zebra body" variety.
  • (19) Each sarcomere position is stored in a three-dimensional (3-D) matrix array from which Fraunhofer light diffraction patterns have been calculated using numerical methods based on Fourier transforms.
  • (20) Absorbance changes were monitored with a 124-element photodiode array, while extracellular electrodes monitored activity of the 6 buccal nerves.

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