(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.
Turret
Definition:
(n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
(n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
(n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
(n.) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(2) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).
(3) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(4) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(5) In July 1965, he escaped from Wandsworth prison, "the hate factory" in south-west London, through the ingenious use of a rope ladder and a furniture lorry with a specially constructed turret that had been parked outside the jail.
(6) Accessible only on foot, the Needles section of the Canyonlands national park has pink and creamy turrets, chimneys, gullies, mysterious canyons and weird formations.
(7) The Turret nebuliser proved to be the most efficient, but several other brands would also be acceptable if used with a powerful compressor.
(8) A method of measuring the amount of slack inherent in the system of Edgewise brackets and archwires is presented, and some related problems concerning the use of turrets discussed.
(9) We started behind Helghast lines, at the top of a cliff, looking down on a forest in which a pall of smoke indicated a downed aircraft which we had to reach; another objective involved disabling anti-aircraft turrets.
(10) This new work was described by the author as "an evening of high drung and slarrit" which, "with its turrets and its high-jointed gables, should have a particular appeal for anyone approaching it for the first time with a lasso".
(11) Due to limitation of measuring diaphragm of turret in the microscope, some extra large cell could not be included in it and was excluded from the measurement.
(12) Britain’s previous prime minister was uneasy, a sentiment that was felt – it later turned out – all the way up to the highest turrets in the land.
(13) Ten years ago the National Trust bought the redbrick house studded with romantic details including turrets, stained glass, window seats, a miniature minstrels' gallery and a well, and opened it to the public for the first time.
(14) Our understanding of the daily realities for LGBT people in the UK does not emanate from a 14-year-old in Motherwell, or a still-closeted retiree in Penarth, but from metropolitan professionals depicting gay life from a turret of privilege.
(15) The highlights of AML major wartime projects are presented: development and production of breathing oxygen equipment, including pressure breathing for use above 50,000 ft; evaluation of insulative and electrically heated flying clothing, useful for confined cockpit space and for use at first in B-17 gun turrets; development and evaluation of anti-G suits for the new, high-performance, fighter aircraft; the role of anthropometry in design of aircraft cockpits and personal flying equipment; Laboratory tests of human tolerance to explosive decompression in new Air Force pressurized bombers (B-29) and future fighters (P-80 series), and actual flight tests in the Lockheed Constellation and Boeing C-97.
(16) Rats receiving milk from cows fed Turret RSM developed larger thyroid than those receiving milk from control-fed cows.
(17) Bunkrooms are bright and spacious, double rooms are available, and the fetching rooftop bar overlooks red-tiled roofs and Habsburg turrets.
(18) These differences may be ascribed partly to the smaller droplet size from the Turret system and partly to the higher nebulisation rate from the more powerful Maxi compressor.
(19) • Katie Mulgrew is at the Turret, Gilded Balloon, until 24 August.
(20) The site remains filled with gradually decaying Santa figurines, rusty reindeer rides and crumbling candy cane turrets, making it feel more eerie than festive.