(a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
(a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, it proposes a modification of the standard dural closure that may reduce the incidence of contributory adhesive arachnoiditis by the creation of a capacious cerebrospinal fluid space about the neural plaque.
(2) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(3) Certainly, deploying Kate "she's got the London look" Moss to deliver a sentimental plea to rebellious Scots shows that the Dame has been reading the Danny Boyle, post-Olympic playbook of pluralist, capacious unionism.
(4) The endometrial secretions play a major role in the capaciation of spermatozoa, and the nutrition of the blastocyst.
(5) Its fibroelastic characteristics allow construction of a capacious and compliant reservoir.
(6) Instead there needed to be “a broad church – capacious and generous”.
(7) Her review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, in Harper's magazine, accuses him of, among other things, philistinism: "He has turned the full force of his intellect against religion, and all his verbal skills as well, and his humane learning, too, which is capacious enough to include some deeply minor poetry."
(8) We are talking in his capacious Whitehall quarters with its fine view over St James's Park, and I pop a fairly obvious question: has he enjoyed the last year?
(9) The adverts – mainly for large watches, first-class air travel, portable fine art, tax haven accountants and capacious luggage – deliver a clear subliminal message.
(10) Can the mindset of multiculturalism be capacious enough to find a valued place even for those who complain about diversity?
(11) It is by definition a plural identity; it is multi-ethnic and that has offered a capaciousness for mass immigration in the 20th century.
(12) Since moving out of Downing Street, Blair's London home has been a capacious cream and dark brick terrace in Connaught Square, near Hyde Park, with a substantial mews house behind and armed policemen perpetually guarding both.
(13) The most capacious region of the digestive tract was the proximal colon (62-79% of contents).
(14) As a consequence of the capacious mobility and great strain, the glenohumeral joint happens to be a frequent site of tenderness or pain.
(15) "With an imagination as capacious as that of Hughes, what is there in the life that doesn't feed into the writing?"
(16) Giovanni Falcone , his wife Francesca Morvillo and the members of the security detail were killed in an explosion on the motorway near Capaci, 18km far from Palermo.
(17) The bowel it utilizes is of secondary importance for intestinal absorption, and the result is a low-pressure, capacious neobladder.
(18) Freud had a novelist's capaciousness; Reich was a headline writer.
(19) There are also concerns that the guidelines governing the capacious, double atrium newsroom at the £1bn revamped BBC New Broadcasting House headquarters in central London could be affecting safety after two incidents last month where staff were taken ill and required paramedics.
(20) Cystometric analysis reveals capacious reservoirs, low basal pressures, and a tendency toward pressure spikes at higher filling volumes.
Spacious
Definition:
(n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent.
(n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scheveningen's prison's spacious, individual cells and family rooms for visits may soon seem luxurious in comparison with the cold comfort of life behind bars in England.
(2) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
(3) Judgments were made on eight separate sound quality dimensions (brightness, clarity, fullness, loudness, nearness, overall impression, smoothness, and spaciousness) for each of the three stimuli in three listening environments.
(4) The barn where we ate and did classes was more than spacious enough for our group of 10, with underfloor heating and two wood burners making it feel positively tropical in December.
(5) Then there are lighter-than-air airships – at present only niche players, but in the eyes of some, aviation's best long-term bet, capable of offering spacious facilities, comfort and train-like speeds for the leisure and business travel market of the future.
(6) There are two large glands, "Paraproctic glands" according to Schaffer (1940), whose spacious cavity is bounded by a secretory epithelium.
(7) If the lifts work, the flats are spacious and there are trees and places to play, such rented accommodation would benefit every city.
(8) A technique to reconstruct totally contracted sockets forms spacious, deep ocular fornices to accommodate ocular prostheses.
(9) Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sublime views of the vast fjord, with Wi-Fi, spacious hot showers and a black stone bathroom scoring extra luxury points.
(10) While many, particularly older Albanians, are unconcerned about the gradual obliteration of the concrete reminders of a brutal, highly militarised regime, others believe the igloo-shaped pillboxes and spacious underground shelters should remain.
(11) But it won out, Abeed said, thanks to its spacious rooms, waterside position and good view.
(12) Two new and vast mansions sit on distant hilltops, and a neighbourhood of spacious, colonial-style homes is spreading in all directions, all apparently reserved for the military elite.
(13) Anterior and posterior distribution of the flaps makes it possible to recreate a spacious single cavity.
(14) From an analysis of the phenotypes of these patients and others reported with 10q trisomy, we propose that the trisomy 10q 24-26 syndrome includes: growth and mental retardation, a characteristic facies (microcephaly, flat face with spacious forehead, small nose, depressed nasal bridge, arched wide-spaced eyebrows, blepharophimosis, microphthalmia, low-set ears, bow-shaped mouth with prominent upper lip, micrognathia), palate anomalies (high-arched cleft or agenesis), congenital heart disease, and anomalies of the hands and feet.
(15) The lifting work was approximately 50% less in the modern ward, which has easily maneuvered electric overhead hoists, spacious premises and better work organization than in the traditional ward, even though the patient handling needs were equivalent.
(16) As residents, we want to stay here because we love our well-designed, bright and spacious homes.
(17) The striving for spaciousness in residential areas and the creation of a "summer city" or "garden city" image or a "family-centred way of life" may lead to unexpected problems and have a variety of social consequences.
(18) Photograph: Alamy Where to stay Archondissa Set in its own, lovely, gardens, and right by the beach on the edge of the village of Therma, these apartments are spacious and well furnished.
(19) Rooms are spacious, with some offering river views, and the Eat & Sleep package (from $155) provides $20pp to spend on food and drink at the hotel.
(20) Behind the austere facade of the spacious Hefei intermediate people's court, the courtroom is too cramped for foreign media to watch as Gu, 53, and family employee Zhang Xiaojun, 33, stand trial, officials insist.