(n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
(n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
(n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
(n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
(v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
Example Sentences:
(1) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(2) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(3) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(4) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(6) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(8) Channel 4's best audience was for Dover Castle: a Time Team Special, with 1.4 million and 6% in the 8pm hour and another 120,000 on digital catchup service Channel 4 +1 an hour later.
(9) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(10) The tour guide told us that British soldiers who lived and worked in the castle often married local women – something I didn’t know.
(11) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
(12) This is some "Englishman's castle", merely the direct result of half a century of political bribery .
(13) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(14) Castle and exhibitions open daily 1 Feb-24 Dec, 10am-6pm, visitor centre open daily 12 March- 31 Oct, 10am-5pm.
(15) Demi Restaurant, Rruga Butrinti, Saranda (+355 85 224 636) Rozafa Castle, Shkodra, Albania If you like horror stories, you'll love Rozafa Castle.
(16) We’re having such a good time,” said Tess McKenzie, of Castle Welsh Crafts.
(17) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
(18) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
(19) The last bit means "baron of Guttenberg", a village in the Franken area of Bavaria where the Guttenbergs have had their family seat – an impressive castle – since 1315.
(20) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
Cymbal
Definition:
(n.) A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
(n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.
(n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(2) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(3) Augmented by drummer Baby Jeff White, the sound is as loud as a landing 747 - each cymbal-crash a clean shot to the head.
(4) Where Blakey had stretched the rhythmic role of bop drums by intensifying the scattered offbeat patterns sown against the steady hi-hat and ride-cymbal pulse, Jones was dispensing with the "accompanist" role altogether, and envisaging a drum part as enhancing the playing of others and being a developing musical statement itself.
(5) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
(6) For one, Jones appeared not to locate the focus of the beat in any single part of the kit for long, or use the steady ride cymbal pattern of the conventional jazz drummer or the steady, clapping snare-drum backbeat of the traditional rock player.
(7) It’s quite a jolly, memorable melody, punctuated with a lot of cymbals, which lock the melody down.
(8) The couples were of north African origin, and the Muslim tradition was there in the joyful beating of drums and cymbals as they emerged from their civil ceremonies.
(9) This is interesting, because these days we think of Radiohead as a largely electronic unit, yet Alt-J employ enough non-electronic instruments (the drummer, for example, uses a saucepan instead of a cymbal) for it to be appropriate to think of them as, in a way, a modern folk band.
(10) Wondering when Alfie and Kat will finally get together has been like waiting for an absent-minded percussion player to find his second cymbal.
(11) The Guardian’s photographer delightedly pointed out an element of the music he had never heard before, rattled out on the bell of a cymbal.
(12) Disclosure sound pretty great with their laptops and cymbal combination.
(13) He made enough of an impression to get himself recruited to the BBC Light Programme as presenter of the Records Around Five show in 1960, where he first introduced his familiar signature tune, At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal, written by Brian Fahey.