(n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
(v. t.) To convey in a chariot.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
(2) The average fan remains ignorant in terms of it wanting it be Chariots of Fire.
(3) It is possible his delicate skills could have been of more benefit to Arsenal with longer on the pitch, though listening to the Stoke fans serenading their side at the end with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and "One nil to the rugby team", one could understand why Wenger exercised caution, even if the rugby motif is a joke the home supporters enjoy.
(4) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(5) Mounted bowmen succeeded chariots in warfare, particularly nomadic Scythians who dominated Central Asia (1000-500 BC).
(6) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
(7) He would not have been out of place in Chariots of Fire."
(8) Updated at 10.03pm BST 7.22pm BST The soothing strains of Chariots of Fire come on the stadium stereo ... ... and Poland's Tomasz Majewski collects his gold medal for winning the men's shot put in what was a thrilling competition.
(9) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(10) The ropes are heaved, down come the statues, Axes demolish their chariot wheels, the unoffending Legs of their horses are broken.
(11) Once roused from her slumbers, Nemesis would mount a two-wheeled chariot drawn by griffins (Sturmey and Archer) and, brandishing an array of carpet tacks, set out on her mission to destroy cyclists who sneered.
(12) In the summer of 1981, for example – as Andy Beckett recounts in his book Promised You a Miracle – the rhetoric of advertising and film projected a concerted attempt at national revival against the odds: Chariots of Fire and a Mini Metro on the white cliffs of Dover, staving off European rivals.
(13) Huston joins the previously announced Morgan Freeman, who will play Ildarin, a chariot race trainer.
(14) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
(15) We sing to elevate sporting events – Abide With Me, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(16) Chariots is not the only theatre production currently exploring the world of sport.
(17) Greek sculptors in 350BC created a 40-metre-high monument, crowned by a colossal four-horse chariot on a stepped pyramid.
(18) The archaeologists believe it may have come from a chariot, but are only guessing since nothing like it has ever been found.
(19) Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be “nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide” – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing’s agoraphobia-inducing highways.
(20) American financiers in pink shorts and back-to-front baseball caps push the hedge fund managers of 2040 round in thousand-pound chariots, and every second store is an estate agency.” All of this is true.
Quadriga
Definition:
(n.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the normal interconnections of the profundus tendons, such adhesions can block the excursion of the profundus tendons to intact fingers, resulting in the quadriga syndrome, or profundus tendon blockage.
(2) These complications all occurred in the case reported here, who also presented with syndrome of the quadriga.
(3) At the level of the MP joint, the dorsal aponeuroses are furthermore linked by oblique fibrous structures, which lead to functional impairment of the neighboring MP joints in maximal flexion and extension of a finger due to an effect of tenodesis (so-called quadriga phenomenon).
(4) This mechanism can be described as the Quadriga-Syndrome of the extensor apparatus.
(5) The list of complications also includes rupture, bowstringing, skin necrosis, infection, recurvatum, the lumbrical plus finger, and the quadriga syndrome.