(a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
(a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
(a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
(a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.
Example Sentences:
(1) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
(2) The first group represents cases treated with the conventional conservative technique for attic and middle ear surgery.
(3) I’ve lived in rooms in attics, and I worked till I was 70.
(4) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(5) Depending on the clinical background and on the aggressivity of the pathology, the posterior tympanotomy can be closed, and the attic and aditus cavities of the middle ear separated by a bony fragment leaving the protympanum open upwards to enable normal ventilation towards the attic, the aditus and the antrum, or much more rarely, these cavities can be completely closed.
(6) The mastoidectomy cavity in all the cases of simple suppurative otitis is totally aerated and that in over 60% of the cases of adhesive otitis, attic type cholesteatoma and adhesive type cholesteatoma is obliterated by a soft tissue density mass.
(7) Serous effusion occurred in the attic space within 2 days after surgery, whether or not the middle ear cavity (MEC) was artificially ventilated.
(8) It also helps if you have a house that neatly divides – a top floor or attic room with its own bathroom, for example.
(9) Procedures that use the posterosuperior chain approach the apex from the sinodural angle, the base of the zygomatic arch, the attic, or through the arch of the superior semicircular canal.
(10) He cooked it in his attic flat for a friend, an editor for the gourmands' bible Cuisine et Vins de France .
(11) Considerable attention should be paid to the configuration of the attic-antrum area, and in particular the presence or absence of Körner's septum (the petrosquamous suture).
(12) The second group represents cases on which the concept of 'radical attic and middle ear surgery' has been applied and an en bloc homograft has been used for reconstruction.
(13) Labelled the Caravaggio in the attic, France has put an export ban on the painting to stop it leaving the country while investigations are carried out.
(14) The only part of my house that can be easily rented out is the attic conversion, which comprises a separate bathroom and my bedroom.
(15) These results indicate that blockage of the ventilatory passages is not essential for formation of an attic cholesteatoma.
(16) Collections of this tick were associated with bat roosting sites in attics of houses.
(17) From rodent nesting materials found in the walls and attics of cabins where cases had occurred, infective Ornithodoros hermsi ticks were recovered.
(18) The epitympanum coincides with the attic (epitympanic recess).
(19) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(20) No improvement in attic retraction was achieved by insertion of a ventilation tube.
Seller
Definition:
(n.) One who sells.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(2) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(3) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(4) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(5) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(6) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(7) Property experts said a lack of new homes coming on to the market ahead of the general election squeezed prices upwards as sellers awaited the outcome of the vote.
(8) The IPCC held back from independently investigating the death, even after discovering witnesses had come forward to say they had seen Tomlinson attacked by a police officer, and photographs had emerged showing the newspaper seller lying at the feet of riot police.
(9) For the first time this year, the asking prices posted on the Rightmove website for homes in London fell by 0.5% in early June, compared with the month before, in part due to a rapid increase in sellers rushing to cash in on rising prices.
(10) Figures for Amazon are harder to obtain, but UK sellers believe Chinese sellers are leading the field in many product lines on its site, too.
(11) Turkey would be a risk too far when there are safe havens such as the US starting to offer a return on safe investments The nervous state of markets these days means there is generally either a surplus of buyers or a surplus of sellers; only rarely have we seen periods of calm with roughly equal numbers.
(12) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(13) "It's both a protest and a safety measure," said one tobacco seller.
(14) The simplicity and reliability of the fluorescent-antibody technique and the occasional serious complications of prophylactic anti-rabies measures make the diagnostic use of Seller's method at best undesirable and at worst dangerous.
(15) "We are not sellers; we are distributors," he said.
(16) Aortography demonstrated acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending, arch and descending aorta (DeBakey type I) as well as aortic valve regurgitation (Seller's II degree).
(17) Not only does this prevent sellers from evaluating buyers in the same way, but if a seller's rating is affected by detrimental comments, they are not allowed to know which buyer left these and are therefore unable to contest them.
(18) "New-seller asking prices are good lead indicators of the current mood of the market, and those who have put their property up for sale in the last month are obviously aware that potential buyers are thinner on the ground at this time of year and need to be tempted to act by cheaper prices."
(19) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(20) Because another top seller is the relaunched, reinvented Furby , which has returned, smarter and more likely to claim a year-long role at the forefront of your child's nightmares than ever.