(v. t.) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
(v. t.) The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.
(v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(2) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(3) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(4) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(5) "We have been clear there is flexibility in this offer within the cost ceiling.
(6) Moody's said on Wednesday night that there was a greater risk that the US government would not agree to increase its debt ceiling above the legal limit of $14.3 trillion (£8.86tn), hit in May .
(7) "If there are no systemic changes to our debt, to our entitlement programs, then I would vote no on raising the debt ceiling."
(8) The effects of some modern high ceiling loop diuretics on the guinea-pig's inner ear are tested.
(9) Nineteen healthy young women with moderate hypothermia after abdominal surgery were studied for 2 h postoperatively with or without external heating from a heating ceiling.
(10) With so many different measures of EU spending, a freeze or cut in one of the ceilings being set this week may not translate into a freeze or cut in the actual amount of money spent.
(11) In the meditation hall, daddy longlegs dropped from the ceiling, feeding my anxiety.
(12) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(13) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
(14) And when S&P downgraded the US long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+, it was doing so for some sound reasons – because of the appalling immaturity of the Republican Tea Partiers in their negotiations over the debt ceiling.
(15) If you squat in the corner of a big cube ( a cubical room, say), you can see at least a floor, a ceiling and three walls.
(16) From Bantry Bay to Bucharest, European ceilings today bear witness to a mass hanging signifying the end of the incandescent bulb.
(17) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
(18) I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but I know someday someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now,” she added.
(19) When it comes to the debt ceiling... it is absolutely his view that demands for aransom of any kind, any kind of extraction of a concession ... are unacceptable.
(20) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
Trapdoor
Definition:
(n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
(n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The material was used as an intrascleral implant in 100 trapdoor retinal procedures.
(2) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.
(3) It allows primary closure of recipient and donor site without the formation of dog-ear or trapdoor deformity.
(4) This series included 192 trapdoor and scleral pouch procedures, and 183 operations in which a gelatin implant was used beneath a silicone rubber implant.
(5) Yet the fact remains that, since he left the Liberty Stadium in 2009, a section of the Swansea fans have branded him "El Judas" and City's 3-2 win in May pushed his Wigan side to the relegation trapdoor.
(6) The launch didn’t go well, which was bad news for their nuclear program but good news for the man-eating crocodiles that live under the trapdoor in Kim Jong-un’s bedroom.
(7) For marked trapdoor deformities, the combination of multiple, small Z-plasties along the semicircular scar and peripheral undermining about the trapdoor defect is the corrective procedure.
(8) For mild to moderately severe trapdoor deformities, multiple, small Z-plasties about the periphery of the nasolabial flap are indicated.
(9) Trapdoor fractures of the floor of the orbit were first described in 1965 by Soll and Poley.
(10) Sheath closure after tendon grafting was accomplished by trapdoor of the original sheath, vein patch, and vein conduit.
(11) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
(12) Intralesional triamcinolone acetonide injections may produce a "pharmacologic Z-plasty" effect in some trapdoor deformities.
(13) Tissue obtained at seven different time periods was studied by light and electron microscopy and showed only a mild inflammatory reaction of the same grade as or less than that surrounding nylon sutures used to close the scleral trapdoors.
(14) Animals were randomized into three groups based on the type of incision used: inferiorly based trapdoor, vertical slit, or horizontal H. Endoscopic, radiographic, and airflow studies, as well as cross-sectional areas, were compared on all animals surviving tracheal cannulation for eight days and subsequent decannulation for seven days.
(15) In 2009, when a veteran Washington reporter, Helen Thomas, asked Barack Obama in the first month of his presidency if he knew of any country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, he dodged the trapdoor by saying only that he did not wish to "speculate".
(16) Fractured bone tips were classified to depressive and trapdoor types.
(17) In the modern benefits system, trapdoors abound: if you fail to get the employment and support allowance and find yourself on jobseeker's allowance, for example, you will not only suffer a 14% drop in income but may very well fall foul of the latter's demands and find yourself "sanctioned", with no benefits at all.
(18) The fractures were classified on the basis of the location (floor, medial wall or roof), extent (total, partial or linear) and type of fragments (punched-out or trapdoor).
(19) With regard to the type of fragments, all of the trapdoor type cases showed a favorable result with disappearance of double vision within three months.
(20) Success can be anticipated only in carefully selected cases with relatively circumscribed stenosis, if the so-called submucous resection with micro-trapdoor flap technique is employed.