(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.
Ornate
Definition:
(a.) Adorned; decorated; beautiful.
(a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.
(v. t.) To adorn; to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(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) Next to an ornate Renaissance gate, the hall where the "English comedians" first acted still stands.
(4) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(5) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(6) It remains unclear how the attacker made his way past the armed guards protecting the building, but he got as far as the ornate Hall of Honour.
(7) These features are characteristic of sea urchin (Echinoderm) spines which are composed of ornately formed calcite crystals covered by an epithelium.
(8) What makes it such a strange breed is how it transcends those ornate, gothic novel trappings to explore, you know, real themes.
(9) The salmon-pink house, three storeys high with ornate balustrades, sits behind a large metal gate.
(10) He also bowed out of Carrier's in Camden Passage in 1984, retreating to Marrakesh and his ornately restored mansion there.
(11) Resembling an ornate garden maze from above, suqakollos – or waru-warus – are a patterned system of raised cropland and water-filled trenches.
(12) No phone line, no bathroom generally, coal heating only from huge tiled heaters in the corner of each room (and the yucky shitty yellow ones, not the lovely ornate versions you see in palaces).
(13) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(14) Interesting results regarding the polymorphic state of one or more pairs of macro-chromosomes in three species of colubrid snakes viz., Ahaetulla nasutus, Chrysopelea ornate and Acrochordus granulatus were obtained.
(15) There are so many empty buildings like this one in central London.” The building dates back to the 1820s and has numerous listed features including many ornate, hand-carved fireplaces.
(16) The spines of sea mice, on the other hand, are chitinous in nature; they are also much finer and lack the ornate symmetry of sea urchin spines.
(17) It sat in front of the ornate gold cross, immediately facing the Dean of Westminster as he prayed before the altar, and unambiguous in what it signified.
(18) In 1953, West German children began to be taught "lateinische Ausgangschrift", an ornate but more legible joined-up script, which roughly translates as "model Latin script".
(19) Standing beneath an ornate 17th-century chandelier, a self-assured Khan declared: “My name is Sadiq Khan and I’m the mayor of London.”He said he wanted the ceremony to take place in the cathedral as a reflection of his intent to represent “every single community” as a “mayor for all Londoners”.
(20) Sitting in an ornate meeting room across the street from the former army headquarters still in ruins from the Nato bombing, Vučić said such criticisms failed to take account of how he had changed.