(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.
Embrasure
Definition:
(n.) An embrace.
(n.) A splay of a door or window.
(n.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The correction or improvement of incisal guidance, incisal planes, root proximity, and embrasure spaces will enhance long-term stability and successful prognoses.
(2) This was a parallel stratified study which examined the effect on gingival health of a new floss holder and applicator, designed to deliver a 25 microliters dose of 0.1% chlorhexidine solution to each interdental embrasure during the flossing procedure.
(3) At three positions equidistant around the periphery of the egg, narrow, tongue-shaped extensions (the embrasures) from the anterior hydrophilic region project posteriorly into the hydrophobic region.
(4) The finish of the opposite embrasure margin and of the gingival margin was imperfect, regardless of the instrument used.
(5) A properly designed and positioned connector area should allow separation of the units by permitting the development of natural appearing labial embrasures.
(6) The lingual embrasure spaces are usually wider than on the buccal, and with adequate reduction of the mylohyoid ridge, greater access for oral hygiene procedures is provided.
(7) Key factors such as margin placement, tissue damage during tooth preparation, the role of the provisional restoration, tissue injury during impression procedures, crown contour, pontic design, and embrasure design are covered in detail.
(8) Cure-Thru reflective wedges were placed in the gingival embrasure of half of the specimens.
(9) In a closed row of teeth, an adequate finish was obtained at the embrasure margin where the burs rotated toward the tooth surface and into the cavity.
(10) Back at the frontline, first lieutenant Osman said morale was high among his men, who were posted along sandbagged embrasures or who sheltered under tarpaulins from the afternoon sun.
(11) The unfavourable microclimate conditions are determined by the technological process specificity, the area's climatic characteristics and the presence of vast embrasures and openings in the shop building.
(12) Eggs in rafts are maintained in polygonal rosettes by the interlocking of these filaments and hooks and the surface tension of menisci between contiguous embrasures.
(13) Use of an embrasure clasp demands attention to proper clinical preparation and to laboratory procedures as well.
(14) The interdental brush was found to have an excellent effect both in the central part of the interdental space and on the embrasures.
(15) In this clinical case, after removing the old prosthesis, it is observed that the position of the screws is unsuitable, as one of them emerges into the embrasure.
(16) Previous studies showed that interlocking into the embrasures was required for adequate adhesion of Barricaid.
(17) Along these embrasures, progressing posteriorly, the tubercles change in form from flattened and bladelike to finely tapered, then, at the extension's posterior two-thirds, to long filaments with well-developed terminal hooks.
(18) If a space was visible apical to the contact point, then the papilla was deemed missing; if tissue filled the embrasure space, the papilla was considered to be present.
(19) Measurements of the contact and embrasure areas of adjacent extracted teeth set in plaster blocks were made before groups of dentists undertook preparations on them.
(20) The abutment teeth were widened by shifting the embrasure into the edentulous space, thus creating more esthetic proportions.