(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.
Crenulated
Definition:
(a.) Minutely crenate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distinctive microwear features such as furrows, crenulations, stress lines and deep grooves, are interpretive tools that can be used in a biomechanical approach.
(2) One of these, Strigorhysis, gen. nov., possesses broadly basined molars with highly crenulated enamel which probably indicates a good deal of tough vegetable matter in its diet.
(3) Early crenulation of the acrosome could be induced by cold shock (5 degrees C, 25 minutes), but this did not decrease the incubation time required (at 37 degrees C) for completion of the normal reaction.
(4) Some of the boutons were spherical or crenulated as in the adult.
(5) In transmission electron micrographs, affected cells had intracytoplasmic and intranuclear Heinz bodies, a variety of abnormal cytoplasmic vesicles, degenerate mitochondria, absence of circumferential microtubules, abnormal shape, and crenulation of the plasma membrane.
(6) After eight, 10 and 14 days, many retinal ganglion cells displayed a chromatolytic response with dispersed Nissl granules, eccentric nuclei and the cells appeared crenulated.
(7) The acrosomes of motile fresh epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa became crenulated after cold shock, and the percentage of spermatozoa with crenulated acrosomes increased with longer periods of cold shock and was higher when spermatozoa were cold shocked in serum than in saline.
(8) When epididymal spermatozoa were cold shocked after incubation for 4 h at 37 degrees C, the acrosomes on spermatozoa which had not undergone an acrosome reaction became swollen and elevated instead crenulated.
(9) The striated ducts consist of tall cells interlocked in a complex fashion near their bases, with numerous vertically-oriented mitochondria lodged in their basal crenulations.
(10) The reaction involved either swelling and elevation or crenulation and fragmentation of the acrosomal cap.
(11) Crenulation with subsequent fragmentation of the cap was observed during normal reactions.