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Candelabra


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Candelabrum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
  • (2) Meanwhile, Dom (no relation) starts planning his own venture, a piri-piri chicken restaurant (drool), then goes cruising in a bath house where he meets Scott Bakula – hot off his Emmy-nominated performance in HBO's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra , and looking unfeasibly buff for a 59-year-old.
  • (3) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
  • (4) They ranged from tiny dagger size to elaborate, candelabra-esque weapons with multiple ports.
  • (5) 11.21am BST In stark contrast, here's a fabulous little trailer for Behind the Candelabra , Steven Soderbergh's too-gay-for-Hollywood biopic of Liberace.
  • (6) September 23, 2013 Updated at 4.00am BST 2.04am BST Award: lead actress in a miniseries or movie Laura Linney, The Big C: Hereafter 2.04am BST So all the comedy awards have been dealt and it's time to do the first round tally for internet v television 2013 : Network - 3 Netflix - 0 Cable - 3 Updated at 2.05am BST 2.00am BST Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, the stars of the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra , are on hand to introduce Elton John, who has written a new song that reminds him of Liberace.
  • (7) He pointed to a facsimile of King Arthur's chain-mail crown apparatus, resting on a candelabra in his foyer.
  • (8) Tbh we'd normally be like yawn, energy + Northern = major boringsnoringness but Mummy is right, some of the bribe money has to end up as luxe goods, more if Bolesy can fix the planners *crosses fingers* which would be marv because she still 1,000 statement candelabras to shift from Christmas plus I am so excited for these adorbs Shopping & Fracking notebooks, cobalt lambskin & gold letters, I ordered the minute Dave said shale was going to be a thing?
  • (9) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
  • (10) Along the river are two very approximate reconstructions of historic buildings, and several oversized government headquarters, all within an idiom of Corinthian columns and mirror glass that has been absent from most European cities since the late 1980s; they are linked by bridges lined with golden candelabras and yet more statues.
  • (11) However, the two were no match for HBO's TV movie Behind the Candelabra, which beat both to be named best movie or miniseries.
  • (12) HBO has the second biggest haul of Golden Globes TV nominations, nine, including four for Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra.
  • (13) By the end of the season they are eating hamburgers alone from a white tablecloth with candelabra, while everyone calls them ‘sir’.
  • (14) Chromogranin A immunostaining in the cell bodies and processes reveals the characteristic candelabra morphology seen in Golgi preparations of these cells.
  • (15) Douglas has this year been widely applauded for his role in Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra , as well as helping to raise public consciousness about links between the HPV virus and cancer .
  • (16) January 13, 2014 Michael Douglas is still a bit homophobic when he talks about portraying Liberace Let's move on to Michael Douglas's acceptance speech for his leading role in Behind the Candelabra, the HBO movie about Liberace.
  • (17) Directed by Steven Soderbergh for American TV , Behind the Candelabra is a tart, terrific biopic of Liberace and his lover Scott Thorson , who doubled as the pianist's brocaded chauffeur.
  • (18) The elaunin and oxytalan fibers in black skin are not disposed in candelabra-like formations.
  • (19) These included small and medium-sized pyramidal cells, whose apical dendrites often ramified in layer I; bipolar and bitufted cells with polarized, sparse dendritic arbors; small smooth or sparsely spinous multipolar cells with radiating dendrites and small dendritic fields; spinous multipolar cells, whose large dendritic fields had more extensive apical than basal arbors; large sparsely spinous multipolar cells with smooth, robust apical dendrites; tufted multipolar cells with highly developed apical dendrites and some dendritic appendages; and extraverted multipolar cells with a broad, candelabra-shaped dendritic configuration, and with most dendrites oriented at right angles to the pia.
  • (20) Behind the Candelabra, he says, arrived at the perfect moment.

Chandelier


Definition:

  • (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
  • (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (2) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
  • (3) The human temporal cortex contains a type of interneuron, identified by Golgi impregnation which, like the axo-axonic or chandelier cells found in animals, establishes Gray's type II synaptic contacts exclusively with the axon initial segments of pyramidal cells.
  • (4) The axon initial segments are normally densely covered by GABAergic synapses derived from a specialized type of interneuron, the chandelier or axo-axonic cell.
  • (5) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
  • (6) The genius of The Great British Bake Off Read more Viewers have seen contestants throw pots blindfolded, and create objects ranging from bone china chandeliers to decorated tiles and bathroom sinks.
  • (7) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
  • (8) During the course of an in vivo intracellular labeling study, a chandelier (axo-axonic) cell was completely filled with biocytin in the CA1 region of the hippocampus.
  • (9) In the Dolce & Gabbana store - with its chandeliers, black mirror walls and stainless steel D&G logo - a young man is trying on a leather jacket.
  • (10) However, we find that parvalbumin and CRF are present in only subpopulations of chandelier axon cartridges.
  • (11) In an attempt to classify neurons in the upper layers of the cerebral cortex according to modern nomenclature based on Golgi impregnations, non-pyramidal neurons in layers II and III of the dog's cerebral cortex have been categorized into thirteen types: large double-bouquet cells with long ascending and descending axons (type I double-bouquet cells); bipolar neurons; multipolar neurons with long tufted descending axons (type II double-bouquet cells); neurons with long ascending axons; neurons with superficial axon plexuses; elongated large multipolar neurons with extended generalized axonal arborizations; neurons with long descending axons; small bi-tufted neurons with short ascending, descending or local axons; small multipolar neurons with short ascending, descending or local axons; multipolar neurons with local or extended axonal arborizations usually forming arcades (some of them also with a long descending axon); basket cells; neurogliaform neurons, and chandelier cells.
  • (12) Thus, the chandelier cell axons appeared to degenerate in epileptic cortex.
  • (13) These two types of structures composed of PV-IR terminal boutons tended to be present in different laminae in all regions and ages examined, except in layer III of primary motor cortex where both PV-IR pericellular clusters and chandelier cartridges were found.
  • (14) Chandelier earrings Sparkly, gobstopper styles worn by celebrities ranging from Kim Kardashian to Keira Knightley.
  • (15) The synapses formed by the chandelier cell terminals are readily recognized in thin sections because of the characteristics features of both the terminals and the initial axon segments, which are the neuronal elements postsynaptic to them.
  • (16) On the 50-minute journey to the plant, on a bus whose interior was an incongruous mix of protective pink plastic and mock chandeliers, radiation monitors bleeped in unison as we drove through hotspots, then fell silent as the hazard passed.
  • (17) I mean, buying chandeliers and TVs and porn movies with our money.
  • (18) Huge parvalbumin-immunoreactive cells were distributed at random and resembled axo-axonic (chandelier) and basket neurons.
  • (19) In addition to the chandelier and basket cells, which have been shown in animal studies to contain GABA, other cell types, most prominently the neurogliaform cells, terminating on the distal parts of neurons, also contain GABA and may have a inhibitory function.
  • (20) Oak-panelled walls are hung with hunting scenes and pre-independence state crests, while the chandeliers twinkle.

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