(n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.
Example Sentences:
(1) When not at the palace, Edward stayed at Fort Belvedere, his bolthole in Windsor Great Park.
(2) After the family’s relocation to the north inner city, Joyce attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit-run school on Great Denmark Street.
(3) 360 fibre reinforced "Belvedere bridges" have been placed to date with a success rate of 98%.
(4) For the Earl of Belvedere, the only solution was to block it from sight by building a massive wall.
(5) Although nominally an "all-ability" school, according to this year's DfE performance tables almost 100% of Belvedere's pupils are in the middle to high prior attainment band, with far fewer pupils on free school meals than the surrounding area.
(6) It states: "The home secretary asks me to confirm the information conveyed to you orally … that you will arrange for the interception of telephone communications between Fort Belvedere and Buckingham Palace on the one hand and the continent of Europe on the other."
(7) Deliberately ruinous in style, this is the largest folly in Ireland and stands in the grounds of Belvedere House, where the same loathsome Earl locked up his wife for 31 years after accusing her of adultery with another brother.
(8) Born in Belvedere in Kent, the son of a foundry worker, he grew up partly with his grandmother in Swindon, where he went to Jennings school until the age of 15.
(9) Far from announcing plans for an emergency austerity budget, when – three days after the ONS released the growth figures – Cameron addressed a gathering of British business chiefs at the Belvedere hotel in Davos his line was that an incoming Tory government needed to show that it was serious about tackling the deficit but did not need to make "extensive" cuts.
(10) Late into the night in the main Belvedere hotel the networking went on.
(11) B is for Belvedere During the day the action in Davos is focused on the conference centre, an ugly 1970s building which has recently been modernised and extended.
(12) If you doubt that, take a look at the most fawned-over convert, the Belvedere academy in Liverpool, which came into the state sector almost 10 years ago.
(13) As they pretend to be the Apollo Belvedere or the Three Graces, Reynolds's people stand or sit in spectacular fictitious settings that weave a peculiarly British fairytale.
(14) Seized by a Nazi collector just before the outbreak of the second world war, the painting was for many years the proud possession of the national Belvedere gallery in Vienna.
(15) After hours, members of the WEF normally repair to the Belvedere, the hotel where all the best parties are held and where many of the dignitaries stay.
(16) Bedroom at Belvedere Hotel And the great thing about Scuol is that you're not made to feel a wierdo for doing this.
(17) Q is for queue Unless you are a head of state, there is no escaping the long lines to get into the conference centre – and the Belvedere – at peak times of the day.
(18) Life president, Federation for Detached Youth Work, Leicester and Chair of Trustees, Belvedere Community Activity Centre, Liverpool.
(19) Yet the paintings hung in the Austrian Gallery at Belvedere palace, in Vienna, with a placard inscribed: "Adele Bloch-Bauer 1907, bequeathed by Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer."
(20) Belvedere Hotel, Scuol I ski down to Ftan, noticing that the T-bar back up could do with an upgrade, and finally ski a 12km "dream run" to the village of Sent.
Cupola
Definition:
(n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.
(n.) A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.
(n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.
(n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
(n.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arthroplasty of the hip with a pair of locked cupolas uses a metal cupola and a polyethylene cotyloid cupola.
(2) The regression of the corpus luteum starts around the 16th day of the cycle, beginning at the capillary network of the cupola.
(3) The following stages in lymphoid patches (LP) development have been revealed: I-1-6, II-7-14, III-15-21, IV-22-30 days; during these periods lymphoid noduli with germinative centers, cupolae and internodular areas are formed.
(4) The highest dust exposures were found during furnace, cupola, and pouring ladle repair.
(5) The diaphragm and regions above and below it should be tested when there are deformations of the cupolae and radiological images in the pulmonary bases.
(6) Peculiarities of cytoskeleton in membranous cells and disposition of the latter in the cupola epithelium in aggregated lymphoid nodules++ (ALN) have been studied in the ileum of 5 rabbits.
(7) This appearance is made by precise adaptation of the opaque colonic mucosa depressed in the form of a "cupola" over the intraparietal gas bubble which results in the deformity.
(8) Beyond the room, to the left, we see a series of church cupolas — the highest structures in the Mexico City of the early 1920s.
(9) The author discusses his 15-year old experience of surgical prevention of vestibular atresia by means of incision of the mucosa at the apex of the nasal vestibular cupola.
(10) Relative physiopathology is considered, particularly as regards the thoracic dimension of large hernias of the cupola.
(11) Monoclonal antibodies to vimentin are selectively bind with a specific population of the ALN cupola epithelial cells.
(12) The echocardiographic features of CMS were revealed: the lack of a cupola-shaped diastolic curvature of the mitral cusp in part of patients, an insignificant narrowing of the left venous opening.
(13) On the one hand, they include instrumental modifications, namely spatial separation of the perimeter from its control panel, the introduction of step motors in order to increase the accuracy of setting of the stimulus coordinates, the tilting of the perimeter cupola and patient in order to increase stability and comfort of the latter, a fully automated fixation control system, the use of a magnetic-tape recording system, providing analytical programs for the computer and recording computer-answers at the same time.
(14) The cap region of the granulation is only attached to the endothelium over an area 300 microns in diameter; the rest of the granulation core is separated from the endothelium by a subdural space and a fibrous dural cupola.
(15) characterized by the anatomical shape of a stem coated with Al2O3 and by a spherical acetabulum in ceramic-titanium, stabilized to the acetabulum first by screwing of the titanium ring and then by bony ingrowth in the cupola covered with porous ceramic.
(16) While usually simple, this operation may prove difficult and complex when used on cysts of the cupola, since it may often be necessary to mobilise the liver to a large extent and employ damaging approach routes.
(17) These cells are regularly arranged in the epithelium of the cupola lateral part and they are absent in the epithelium of the intestinal crypts, villi and apex of the cupolas.
(18) In the lateral epithelium of the cupolas surface, nearer to their base vimentin-positive++ epitheliocytes make contacts with single interepitheliocytic lymphocytes, and nearer to the apex they surround compact groups of the interepitheliocytic lymphocytes.
(19) In the comparison of ten normal and two pathological visual fields, excellent agreement was found between examinations made with Octopus perimeters (types 201 and 500) and a prototype version of a new cupola-free perimeter (CFPP).
(20) Converse has been using 3D printers since 2004, which enables the shoe company to get more products to market more quickly, while Alessi has been able to improve it's best-selling La Cupola coffee-maker for 70% less cost and in a fraction of the time.