(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.
Staircase
Definition:
(n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(2) An unidentified Moscow police official told the Interfax news agency that the group used “an internal staircase” to reach the top floor of the building and then used “special equipment” to reach its spire.
(3) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(4) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(5) This report describes an inexpensive ramp generator which produces multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli ("staircase-type" wave forms).
(6) Ibotenate lesioned rats, despite having larger lesions than the quinolinate, showed no deficits in eating or drinking in the home cage, or reaching or grasping disabilities in the staircase test.
(7) The potentiation during a staircase decreased with increasing frequency of stimuli, but the potentiation 30 sec after the 100-sec staircase was the same at all frequencies.
(8) At the end of the corridor is a presentation room, the walls bedaubed with exhortations to “Never, Never, Never Give Up”; up another staircase is a run of seminar rooms, in one of which a class of fledgling baristas are learning their trade.
(9) These abnormalities of the staircase phenomenon disclose disorders of the contractile function of the examined muscle.
(10) Detection thresholds for phenylethyl alcohol were measured separately in each nostril using a forced-choice staircase procedure.
(11) Second, in looking up the staircase on the 1.00 lattice plane we see that the stereocilia are ordered into parallel rows.
(12) We measured 73.5% correct just noticeable differences (JNDs) in bar orientation with the method of constant stimuli and with a Wetherill and Levitt staircase procedure, using a total of 25 cats.
(13) Evidence is reported that indicates that adaptation of the Schroder staircase is affected by attention.
(14) After 15 days of treatment followed by 21 days of recovery, the PTD rats showed significant deficits for DNMTS accuracy at retention intervals (RI) that ranged from 3.0 s to 15.0 s, the RIs that produced 75% accuracy on DNMTS in staircase training, and the rate at which a novel radial arm maze task was learned.
(15) Some critical remarks on the interpretation of staircase and potentiation phenomena (rabbit heart muscle).
(16) However, the direction of the molecules in each layer is slightly twisted relative to the layer below so that multiple layers of molecules stack up to form a helix, a bit like a spiral staircase.
(17) The staircase behavior appeared to be due to changes in the initial rate of recovery of the ability to contract.
(18) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
(19) Seeing a sign for a bar, I hiked up an iron staircase to the Esquire Tavern (155 East Commerce St), and felt as if I'd stepped on to the set of a Sam Peckinpah film.
(20) May 15, 2014 Morrissey's newfound social networking voice comes as he gears up to release his latest album, World Peace is None of Your Business , featuring almost self-parodic titles such as Earth Is the Loneliest Planet and Staircase at the University.