(n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
(n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's said that she and her ladies appeared on the battlements, dusting the places where the enemies' stones had fallen – though that particular story may be as apocryphal as the events in this film.
(2) But the setting was spectacular : the Disney domes of St Basil’s Cathedral loomed over Nemtsov’s left shoulder, the Kremlin’s russet battlements over his right.
(3) The nightly experience of seeing the ghost of his fictional father walking the battlements proved too much for the actor, troubled as he was by his unresolved relationship with his own dead father, the poet laureate Cecil Day Lewis.
(4) It was announced last year by prime minister Manmohan Singh in his annual address from the battlements of Delhi's famous Red Fort, the bastion of the Mughal emperors.
(5) I stared at the fortress he was building as my laptop purred, loading details: the towers and battlements and a giant front door.
(6) Only the free market, in the shape of Branson, can bust the battlements of elitism and let the (mega-rich) masses come rushing in.
(7) Only four years ago, it was easy for a traveller to stand on the battlements and imagine how those who held it exercised control over hundreds of miles of the surrounding fertile land.
(8) At the capture of Troy, though this is not told in The Iliad, Andromache's child is thrown from the battlements of the conquered city by the Greeks, and she is carried off into captivity.
(9) Miriam and I haven't had to move into some battlement in Whitehall.
(10) Leaving Copenhagen you sail out past the Little Mermaid, along the coast by the Louisiana Art Gallery and Elsinore Castle, where you may glimpse the ghost of Hamlet’s father stalking the battlements.
Cop
Definition:
(n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
(n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
(n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
(n.) Same as Merlon.
(n.) A policeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
(3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
(4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
(5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
(6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
(7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
(8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
(10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
(11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
(13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
(14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
(16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
(17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
(18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.