(n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
(n.) A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(2) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(3) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
(4) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
(5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(6) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
(7) Paul Dryhurst, a relative, said she had been in the arena with her sister Claire Booth, 34 and Claire’s daughter Hollie, 11.
(8) John Londesborough Helsinki, Finland • We Finns are delighted to learn that Michael Booth is fond of us and would like us to rule the world.
(9) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
(10) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
(11) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
(12) Cherie Blair's sister Lauren Booth has a weekly programme, Remember the Children of Palestine.
(13) 2.46pm: Among the piles of new handsets littering the show booths of Barcelona, this new handset from Sagem caught our eye.
(14) Katharina Booth, chief of the sexual assault unit in the Boulder County district attorney’s office, which prosecuted the Wilkerson case, said she’s concerned about the “chilling effect” of the light sentences.
(15) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
(16) But recognition is the key when people enter the voting booth.
(17) But here he is, arranged in a booth, a glass of Belgian beer before him.
(18) It also has “press for champagne” buttons in each booth – lethal when you’ve already had one too many.
(19) The musculoskeletal complaints are likely the result of bending, reaching, and leaning out of the toll booth.
(20) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.
Tabernacle
Definition:
(n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
(n.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
(n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
(n.) Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
(n.) Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
(n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
(n.) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
(n.) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
(n.) A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
(n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
(v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Armistead Maupin will be talking to John Mullan for the Guardian Book Club this evening at 6pm at The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, London W11.
(2) Amistead Maupin will be the guest at the Guardian Review Book Club at 6pm on 15 February at The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, London W11.
(3) He also challenged Robinson to condemn remarks by Pastor James McConnell, the founder of the Metropolitan Tabernacle church on the shores of Belfast Lough.
(4) For Eppinger's congregation at the church of God's Tabernacle of Faith church in a suburb of Cleveland, Sunday began with his weekly service in which he didn't mince his words.
(5) Denise Bullock, 53, was on the bus from God's Tabernacle of Faith to the polling station in downtown Cleveland.
(6) Pastor James McConnell, who last month sparked controversy with a sermon at his Metropolitan Tabernacle church on Belfast's Lough Shore, said on Monday he told the two injured men, aged 24 and 38, there was "no justification for such an attack on any individual or their home whatever their religion".
(7) "Homosexuality," says Pastor Mario Manyozo of the Word of Life Tabernacle Church in Malawi, "is against God's creation and is an evil act, since gays are possessed with demons."
(8) Justin and Jaden Ramos watched as around 500 police motorcycles revved past Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens.
(9) In the first attack, the ground-level office of the three-story Metro Tabernacle church was destroyed in a blaze set off by a firebomb thrown by attackers on motorcycles soon after midnight, police said.
(10) The Metropolitan Tabernacle – a mega-church that welcomes Northern Ireland's first minister, Peter Robinson , among its congregation – said: "A very profitable discussion took place about how the pastor has reached out to all sides of this community for over 60 years and he will continue to do so."
(11) One of the headliners was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, though not all of its members were happy to perform.
(12) There's an additional poignancy to souls to the polls in Ohio this year that has made the congregation of God's Tabernacle of Faith take the drive to the polling station particularly personally.
(13) • Robert Harris will be in conversation with John Mullan at a Guardian book club event at 7pm on 15 October at the Tabernacle, London W11.
(14) He had Bible study books in his locker, which is rare for a police officer, but that goes to show you the type of man he was,” said Sergio Centa, an NYPD captain, before entering Christ Tabernacle Church.
(15) Inside the God's Tabernacle of Faith Church in Cleveland, Ohio.
(16) It destroyed Whitefield’s Tabernacle (since rebuilt on a smaller scale and today housing the American International Church), killing at least nine and damaging the surrounding buildings, many of which were never redeveloped.
(17) Date: Saturday 15 February Time: 6pm (doors open at 5.30pm) Venue: The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY Tickets: £12 Book tickets It is almost four decades since Armistead Maupin's much-loved Tales of the City saga began its life as a newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.
(18) There are no stained-glass windows and no tabernacle.
(19) Keith Waterhouse , Fleet Street columnist, wit, novelist, playwright and waspish social commentator who once described himself as "a tinroof tabernacle radical", has died at his home in London, aged 80, his family said .
(20) The event takes place on Thursday 5 February from 7-10pm at the Tabernacle, London, W11 with tickets at £15.