(n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
(n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eric Canto delivers his concession speech in Richmond, Virginia.
(2) Whole tracts of Pound's Cantos are "found" passages lifted verbatim from secondary sources.
(3) Doubles from £33, B&B Pousada Canto Bravo, Ilhabela Bonete beach Accessible only by foot or boat, Canto Bravo sits, illuminated mostly by candlelight, on the isolated beach of Bonete (pictured), regarded as one of Brazil’s finest.
(4) Alan Fairlamb, professor, University of Dundee , Dundee, Scotland Make drug research available to all, but keep co-ordinated when using it : The Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation founded by GlaxoSmithKline is an interesting example of open science.
(5) In the opening canto, Dante is "full of sleep", and when he meets Paolo and Francesca he is so moved by their story that he drops into unconsciousness – "as if I were dying, as a dead body falls".
(6) The wonderful Villa Balthazar is run by Swedish couple Petra and Felix, who have turned their home in the tropics into a dreamy retreat on Praia do Canto beach.
(7) "Canto 25 specifically points us to this spot," Langton insisted.
(8) In 1979 he celebrated his appointment as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra with a typically electrifying concert of Brian Ferneyhough, Brahms – the First Piano Concerto, with his long-term concerto partner Maurizio Pollini – and Tchaikovsky, to whose symphonies he always brought a bel canto beauty of line.
(9) Patchett, who won the prize 10 years ago for Bel Canto, is shortlisted for State of Wonder, a gripping Amazonian adventure story about the search for a drug that could change women's lives.
(10) It is no longer restricted to large, faceless hotels; I was here to visit the island’s first glampsite, Canto das Fontes .
(11) Earlier work had suggested an intra-axonal dissemination for this virus (M. C. Dal Canto and H. L. Lipton, Am.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Canto das Fontes glamping site, Madeira The reality turned out to be rather different.
(13) • Where to stay: If you want comfort, Canto Bravo .
(14) The company has offered developers in neglected medicines laboratory space at a centre in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
(15) joedolce.net The National Anthem of Italy – Il Canto degli Italiani , which translates as The Song of the Italians – is a lively patriotic lyric, a musical mix between a church hymn and a military march.
(16) Photograph: Alamy Canto das Fontes is a magical place: just two tipis on a banana farm on Madeira’s sunny south coast.
Canton
Definition:
(n.) A song or canto
(n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
(n.) A small community or clan.
(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.