(n.) A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
Example Sentences:
(1) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(2) "Obama's aide was in this tiny room, with a single bookcase – but from his door there was the Oval Office.
(3) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(4) Others will have a dual purpose and split between personal and business use, such as: • Mortgage interest (but not the capital repayment) or rent if you're a tenant • Running costs such as heat, light and water and TV licence if it's an essential tool • Repairs to your home or adding a desk and bookcase to an existing room • Council tax • Car or van – for a list of allowances for petrol and running costs go to the HMRC website "Don't be greedy by claiming 100% for business use or you will be liable for capital gains tax on that portion when you sell your home.
(5) My son was disconcerted when we moved back to the UK, and found that the "library" in his new primary school ("excellent", according to Ofsted) was a small bookcase halfway down a corridor.
(6) On my visit, pieces included a Keralan teak canoe upended to form a bookcase, and a Rajput palace window frame with a mirror inserted.
(7) But I reserve my deepest gratitude for the Billy bookcase, the Ikea icon.
(8) There is also a sofa based on the one that Darwin used while listening to his wife, Emma, reading extracts from popular novels, as well as a bookcase that includes a volume of Darwin’s favourite book, Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County .
(9) More than 30 years on, she can still list her haul that day: “Tura, a desk in white, a white bedframe with lots of cushions, curtains, a Billy bookcase …” When her dream came true and she joined the company in 1986, she bought two Klippan sofas, still going strong in her lounge, though she has changed their covers “at least 15 times”.
(10) Sometimes I wonder if the design task should be handed wholesale to the team behind the Ikea instruction manuals: if they can convey in pictograms how to put up a Billy bookcase anywhere in the world, they can surely tell someone in 10,000 years’ time not to dig in a certain place.
(11) You press a button, and the bookcase opens, like in Scooby-Doo.
(12) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian One room set has been stuck to the ceiling, and the Billy bookcases that line the walls have been whitewashed, as have all the books inside them – hacked maybe?
(13) Billy bookcases and the definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum Read more Rory Firth, 40, from Maidenhead, said: “It was just bedlam.
(14) Real books were certainly supposed to have been consigned to the secondhand shop – Ikea was even said to have redesigned its children’s bookcase in the light of the decline in books .
(15) The process by which Orwell has been remoulded into a fits-all-sizes paragon is long and twisted, and not without interest (indeed there are whole bookcases of literature on the subject).
(16) In a New York venue dressed as a front room, with sofas, bookcases and a flatscreen television, Kindle executive Peter Larsen unveiled a drinks coaster-sized black box whose processors he claimed were three times as fast as rivals.
(17) And I woke up as I was falling off the top of our bookcase in our living room.
(18) Above the enormous fireplace his copper pans of all possible sizes still hang in readiness; his paintings of brothers and friends (and of artichokes and tomatoes) are crowded on the walls; there is a barrel of vinegar, made from the dregs of favourite wines, that Olney insisted should be a staple of any kitchen, and a bookcase filled with editions of Olney's landmark books.
(19) For decades, Burmese officials have had a full bookshelf of repressive laws to pull down and use to justify political repression and criminalisation of basic freedoms to express views, hold protests, and establish organisations and groups, and it’s time to thin out that bookcase.” The Guardian view on Myanmar’s elections: a notable victory, but tough times still lie ahead | Editorial Read more On Wednesday, Aung San Suu Kyi invited the army chief, president and the parliamentary speaker to discuss the election and national reconciliation.
(20) Looking relaxed in a pink shirt and sitting in front of a bookcase, he is asked questions such as: "What exactly were your findings with regards to the MMR vaccine and autism?"
Prose
Definition:
(n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
(n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
(a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
(v. t.) To write in prose.
(v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
(v. i.) To write prose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
(3) In the first, span and free-recall measures were obtained for 24 subjects, each tested with four types of spoken material (nonsense syllables, random words, fourth-order approximations to English, and normal prose).
(4) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
(5) With prose that takes the English language and infuses it with inflections and a history that is uniquely Igbo, discernibly Nigerian and unmistakably African, Achebe's is a realism that ensures the enduring relevance of his fiction.
(6) It was concluded that CAs are more effective and more efficient than prose for teaching clinical decisionmaking.
(7) Young and old adults were tested for recall of ideas presented in a 641 word prose passage.
(8) "The inauguration address was poetry, and now people are looking for some prose," said Alden Meyer, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
(9) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
(10) He writes poetry and prose, he writes news reports and short stories.
(11) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
(12) These models account for a broad range of memory-related processes, including word recognition, sentence verification, prose comprehension, and sentence production.
(13) Various Voices: Prose, Poetry and Politics 1948-98 is published by Faber (£9.99).To order it at the special price of £7.99 plus 99p p&p, freephone 0500 600 102 or send a cheque payable to The Guardian CultureShop to 250 Western Avenue, London, W3 6EE.
(14) His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic Perhaps he was lucky.
(15) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
(16) Ada banyak prakarsa dari bawah ke atas, mulai dari usaha pengelolaan sampah hingga tingkat nol sampai proses pengelolaan air kotor secara komunal.
(17) Subjects suffering from persecutory delusions, psychiatric controls and normal subjects were required to recall immediately six passages of prose, half of which contained mildly threatening propositions.
(18) But given how addictive the prose was in Constellation, where Marra was lyrical but also drover quickly, those who loved the John Leonard Prize winner a couple of years back are certainly hungering for more.