(n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
(n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
(4) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
(5) On the other hand, a quick call to Karen and Babis will secure a lift up from the northern port of Loutraki, and most of your time in your room will be spent on the balcony admiring the views over to Skiathos, particularly as the sun sets.
(6) Dozens of pro-marijuana activists followed the debate from balconies overlooking the house floor, while others outside held signs and danced to reggae music.
(7) After publishing their work, the two were having a beer on the balcony of a 17th-century cafe overlooking a Brussels park.
(8) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
(9) Occasional banners on balconies calling for Eta prisoners to be moved to jails nearer to home show where some sympathies lie.
(10) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(11) Slowly and painstakingly, the Cadenas managed to erect basic walls that separate them from neighbours and to fence off a balcony that drops 70m down.
(12) The new set has raised viewing platforms on either side, a balcony and a giant video wall.
(13) The bottom floor of the three-storey warehouse is where the high-end Sorvete Brasil ice-cream brand is made, and individual cones can be bought at the balcony, with flavours like fig and nut or lychee, for £1.25.
(14) Richard Lavington, one of the architects of these developments, says that the aims were "to put a balcony on every unit, and to create a positive interface between private and public", by which he means placing family homes close to shared open spaces and streets in such a way that they might readily use them.
(15) Apprehensive about the general's likely utterances, Drapeau had the public address disconnected as De Gaulle waved to the crowds from the city hall balcony.
(16) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(17) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
(18) Lhakpa and another Sherpa, Dorje, had previously lowered Norris down a line of rope attached to the mountain from a section at 8,500m known as "the balcony".
(19) To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.
(20) The bar is dark and friendly, and has a balcony for people watching and good local DJs playing at weekends.
Catamaran
Definition:
(n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
(n.) Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.
(n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.
(n.) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catamaran-style “waste harvester” uses a system of interchangeable barges and on-board storage to continuously harvest surface waste without having to frequently return to shore to unload.
(2) He would like to have $10m a year to charter a new boat, a 45-knot Australian-built catamaran ferry named HSV-2 Swift, which is two and half times the size of the Phoenix.
(3) After lunch the catamaran’s port-side engine failed.
(4) Just on the stretch of coast road from Kamaishi to Otsuchi city, there is a four-door saloon wedged in the third-floor window of a primary school, a 25-metre catamaran perched on a building half its size and a 6,000-tonne container ship, the Asian Symphony, rammed through a concrete sea wall and now blocking one lane of the road.
(5) It's the jagged rocks framing the cove that make it so special, and nothing blocks the view east to the island of Alonissos except for the ferries and catamarans that pass in the distance every half hour.
(6) Every day, dozens of cruise ships and high-speed catamarans ferry the crush of tourists and revellers bound for the constellation of Greek islands in the east Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
(7) The first boat to moor in Dikili was a chartered Turkish catamaran, the Nazli Jale.
(8) Alternatively, make like you're in St Tropez by drinking in the views of Poole harbour from the luxury of a skippered catamaran or powerboat.
(9) Using the catamaran boat "Canvas-Back" during May 1987, a whole-population ocular survey utilizing modern equipment and ophthalmic subspecialists was conducted on one of the atolls (Wotje) in the Marshall Islands.
(10) As a result, the 20-metre catamaran has cost several million dollars to construct and has taken three years to reach its current design.
(11) Eventually the harbourmaster at Hayman Island came to our aid as night fell – but catamarans were permanently struck off our holiday list that day.
(12) Sports students would play in three fixtures with local teams and would be given “traditional evening entertainment”, a catamaran cruise, the option of going to a water park, and a special sports tour kit, the letter said.
(13) To further highlight the oceans' plastic pollution problems, the 30-year-old environment crusader has designed a special catamaran with a hull made of frames filled with 12,000 plastic bottles.