(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.
Mezzanine
Definition:
(n.) Same as Entresol.
(n.) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The studio flat in Kentish Town, north London, has a "mezzanine-style" sleeping area.
(2) From the first mezzanine, the timing is off, the jokes are awkward, the delivery is wooden.
(3) He explains that, as a resident of the first mezzanine, I am not permitted to walk downstairs and potentially bother the A-list.
(4) Photograph: Supplied Chris York, who was sitting in the mezzanine section on 2 July, recounted what happened on his Facebook page, and news of the audience member’s behavior was getting wider attention on Tuesday.
(5) Jeff Bridges's standing ovation reaches all the way to the top mezzanine.
(6) A search of rental websites yielded several examples of rooms where a "mezzanine sleeping area" had been erected - in practice a large shelf, usually little more than a metre from the ceiling, with room for a mattress – making the room large enough to let to a couple.
(7) Steyer’s group hired a mezzanine in Galt House hotel – the same facility rented by Paul on the banks of the Ohio river – to hang banners reading: “Senator Paul, Young Voters Won’t Be Fooled.” Meanwhile, a conservative nonprofit unveiled a of TV ad railing against Paul over his support for nuclear negotiations with Iran.
(8) Kathryn Bigelow's standing ovation covers the entire hall except, for some reason, the top right of the first mezzanine, where I am sitting, where we remain sitting and clap politely.
(9) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(10) Bayswater £802 pcm Bayswater flat, £802 pcm "A charming self-contained double studio with mezzanine sleeping gallery" and a "cute open plan kitchenette, cushy sofa and dining table", says the agent of this studio flat near Bayswater tube station.
(11) Every surface is covered in primary-coloured splodgy paintings, there are giant papier-mache objects leaning against walls and a small spiral staircase leads to a beanbag-covered mezzanine whose function I can only guess to be "nap time".
(12) By opening them up, and creating a new mezzanine level, the gallery has created a spectacular new space that is showered in daylight.
(13) Cadence Performance, Crystal Palace, London Relaunched this January with a new mezzanine floor for its cycling fitness studio, Cadence is an all-in-one venue for people who take their cycling, fitness and gear seriously.
(14) The most conservative total occupational-dose-equivalent rate in the center of the ALS mezzanine, 39 m from the ALS center, was found to be 1.14 X 10(-3) Sv y-1 per 2000-h "occupational" year, and the total environmental-dose-equivalent rate at the ALS boundary, 125 m from the ALS center, was found to be 3.02 X 10(-4) Sv y-1 per 8760-h calendar year.
(15) The Kodak Theatre has a ground floor and, above that, three mezzanines.
(16) I decide that I will persuade the inhabitants of the mezzanines to rise up as one and to storm the stairs, like in Titanic.
(17) A mysterious sleight of hand with the internal layout, using staggered “mezzanines” around a central atrium, means the building can claim to be just one storey tall – despite rising 50 metres into the air.
(18) He lives in a mezzanine apartment full of technology and toys in a 101-year-old warehouse – his studio is an identical one next door – in the endless light-industrial sprawl of downtown Los Angeles, now in the first throes of gentrification.
(19) Will’s so smooth he still listens to Sade and has a mezzanine level in his flat.
(20) But even though this "mezzanine-style sleeping area" seems best suited to a rather narrow rental market of petite Cirque du Soleil performers, lettings agent Alex Marks said it had received 50 to 60 inquiries about the property, due to its sought-after location half a mile from trendy Kentish Town in north London .