What's the difference between barbican and bridge?
Barbican
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Barbacan
Example Sentences:
(1) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(2) Three winners will each receive a pair of tickets to the Observer Ideas festival at The Barbican in London on Sunday 12 October 2014.
(3) A new strand, BBC Arts At ... will feature tie-ups with the Royal Academy of Arts , Opera North, the Barbican, the British Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland.
(4) It included Louise Jeffreys, director of arts at the Barbican, and Anthony Whitworth-Jones, a former boss of both Glyndebourne and Garsington.
(5) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(6) Or the planes that fly behind the towers of the Barbican against a cloudy blue sky; even the notebooks on the floor of my workroom, which stand out as coloured rectangles against the floor.
(7) A 1960s cultural complex, the Lincoln Centre is, like the South Bank and Barbican centres in London, based on the theory that it's a good idea to group several venues in one place, and had similar problems of awkward circulation and hard-to-use public spaces.
(8) The 1992 retrospective at the Barbican finally demolished the patronising view of Gill as a Catholic sculptor, setting him in the mainstream of modern British art.
(9) Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the architects behind projects including the Saatchi Gallery and Barbican Arts Centre, have been appointed to develop the wider plans.
(10) The big surprise of the tour though was the fact that the Barbican probably isn't Brutalist either."
(11) In a statement issued on Wednesday, Gergiev, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for more than 25 years, said: I am aware of the gay rights protest that took place at the Barbican last week prior to my concert with the LSO.
(12) · Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture is at the Barbican, London EC2, until May 21.
(13) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(14) I hope that when Lyndsey Turner’s Barbican production is officially unveiled to the press, it will not be judged simply as a test of Cumberbatch’s classical skill: Frankenstein alone proved he had the lungs for the part.
(15) Alternatively, they can listen to the soundtrack created specifically for the show by Scottish band Mogwai, who played at The Barbican Centre in London.
(16) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
(17) · Will Oldham is playing at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2 (020 7638 8891) on 24 November as part of Further Beyond Nashville.
(18) It's Saturday morning, three weeks into my research for Reading the Riots, and I get a call from a young man I interviewed a week earlier to say four more rioters are willing to meet, and are happy to travel from Stockwell to the Barbican to be interviewed.
(19) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
(20) I've done the same watching classical concerts at the Barbican or jazz in a basement club.
Bridge
Definition:
(n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
(n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
(n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
(n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
(n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
(v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
(v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
(v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(3) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(4) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(5) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
(6) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
(7) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
(8) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
(9) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(10) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
(11) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
(12) The cartilage of the concha is a valuable substitute of the bridge and the posterior wall of the external auditory conduct.
(13) It is shown from an analysis of the transient force responses observed after sudden changes in muscle length applied both at full and reduced overlap and during the rising phase of short tetani that these responses can be explained on the basis of varying numbers of cross bridges attached at the time of the length step.
(14) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
(15) The dynamic properties of cross-bridge movement were investigated in glycerol-treated muscle fibers under various conditions by analyzing tension responses to two types of length change.
(16) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(17) It is suggested that a general manner of folding may be a common feature of the heterogeneous population of kappa-chains: one bridge which folds an invariable stretch of the chain, another bridge which folds a stretch that varies from protein to protein, and a bridge at the C-terminus which is the interchain link.
(18) 1-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3- nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU) causes chloroethylation of DNA strand followed by cross linking through an ethylene bridge.
(19) Optimal staining of antigen rich tissue, such as frozen sections, with the peroxidase antiperoxidase method required low antiserum concentrations apparently to minimize the binding of both antigen-binding fragments of the bridging antibody to the tissue bound antiserum.
(20) The results provided information on the energetics of actin-myosin-ligand states that occur in the portion of the cross-bridge cycle where MgATP binds to myosin.