(n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Host John Oliver made fun of Tony Abbott, Jaymes Diaz and Stephanie Banister, but my favourite bit was about Peter Dowling’s sexting scandal : You do not pair a penis with red wine.
(2) In the model initially proposed by T. W. Calvert, E. W. Banister, M. V. Savage, and T. Bach (IEEE Trans.
(3) But these men wore western jackets, walked quietly and stayed close to the banister.
(4) Twenty-five patients with congenital uterovaginal agenesis underwent neovaginoplasty according to the McIndoe and Banister technique.
(5) The English ophthalmologist Banister was the first to establish the connection between increased tension of the eyeball and glaucoma.
(6) Like most people, Susanna Reid has legs, but unlike most people, her legs aren't merely articulated flesh banisters used for transporting her from one tiny section of planet to another, but emblematic totems by which she must be judged.
(7) The rooms are set around a series of courtyards with dangling potted plants, and are accessed via stone stairways with wooden banisters.
(8) It turned out to be for the scene where we slide up and down the banister.
(9) Dr Emma Banister is a senior lecturer in consumer research at Manchester Business School.
Newel
Definition:
(n.) A novelty; a new thing.
(n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.
Example Sentences:
(1) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(2) Mike Newell , who made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire , directed Great Expectations, but there was no big-budget largesse this time.
(3) In June, Holliday and Newell were told that Jessica has Leigh’s syndrome , an inherited neurological disorder that was already causing lesions in her brain.
(4) Updated at 7.16pm BST 3.31pm BST This is Jim Newell in Washington.
(5) They’re wanting to try and park large sums of money – I’m talking from £25m [US$38.5m] to £150m,” Newell said.
(6) Newell has been in priso n since the late 1980s, serving a life sentence for murdering a neighbour during the course of a burglary.
(7) As was found by the hybridization technique, 43 strains among 92 studied strains of the yeast Rhodotorula glutinis belong to Rhodosporidium diobovatum Newell et Hunter (Ustilaginaceae, Basidiomycetes).
(8) "If it is the time between first and third goal, the record is, incredibly, held by Mike Newell, who scored a hat-trick in nine minutes for Blackburn against Rosenborg in the 1995-96 season.
(9) It’s disappointing, but it’s part of this business.” 2.16pm BST Good morning, this is Jim Newell from Washington.
(10) The approach into the Emirates is rather less dangerous than that to Rosario Central’s Estadio Gigante De Arroyito, where Pochettino played for the local rivals, Newell’s Old Boys, in his native Argentina.
(11) Pablo Migliore was detained on Sunday night on the pitch after police sealed off the stadium where only hours before the club had lost 0-1 to Newell's Old Boys.
(12) They have learned, for instance, that the smiles from their daughter, so rare that Newell describes them as “gold dust” could be infrequent because her body is conserving energy.
(13) And reduced prominence for the telescope could impact on the 120,000 visitors who take the Telescope Road exit off the Newell Highway each year.
(14) In an earlier study, Stinson, Newell, Castle, Mallery-Ruganis, and Holcomb (1989) identified a number of characteristics deemed important for comprehension, based on interviews with deaf professionals.
(15) Mike Newell, then Luton Town's manager, said publicly that bungs were rife.
(16) A native of Rosario, Sante Fe in central Argentina, Garay made his way to Benfica via Newells Old Boys, Racing Santander and Real Madrid.
(17) "Have Newell's Old Boys ever played Young Boys of Berne?"
(18) If we went through the natural route, they could never tell us if another baby would be affected,” said Newell, 42, director of High Wycome Cricket Club.
(19) Pochettino blazed his kick over the crossbar but Newell’s still won an epic shootout 11-10.
(20) After a 1-1 first-leg draw, the 20-year-old Pochettino headed Newell’s in front before the Colombians scored a late equaliser and penalties ensued.