(n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
(n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
(n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
(3) Four subjects had electrocardiographic evidence of the WPW syndrome and episodes of circus movement tachycardia.
(4) Circus-movement tachycardias were induced in eight patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and conversion to sinus rhythm was achieved in seven.
(5) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(6) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(7) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
(8) • simpsonstavern.co.uk Argyll Arms, Oxford Circus Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy The Spirit of Christmas Presents walks abroad.
(9) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(10) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(11) Certainly it has the feeling of a circus act - riding two galloping horses in front of everyone.
(12) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
(13) Police officers had been unfairly targeted by lawyers in the inquest and “subjected to what can only be described as a media circus”.
(14) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(15) So while Labrinth, Heaven 17, The Proclaimers and Billy Bragg are playing on stage, kids will probably be more interested in the freesports park, Mr Tumble, the new Dance Space, junior football tournament, Insect Circus and kids' comedy club, to name but a few of the dozens of attractions.
(16) Beginning at 8pm with a sit-down dinner it had become, by 11pm, a circus starring supermodels.
(17) The two cases suggest the following conclusions: (1) dual A-V nodal pathways may allow the occurrence of double antegrade conduction of one P; (2) the atria are not necessary for A-V nodal circus movements in "dual pathway" A-V nodal reentrant PSVT.
(18) The performance of published electrocardiographic criteria to differentiate AV nodal reciprocating tachycardia from circus movement AV tachycardia was evaluated.
(19) He is part of a travelling circus, certainly, but the laughter stopped a little while ago.
(20) Six circus lions (Panthera leo) showed neurological and gastrointestinal signs after consuming casualty broiler chickens.
Enclosure
Definition:
(n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
(3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
(6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
(7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
(9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
(10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
(11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
(12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
(13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
(14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
(15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
(16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
(17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
(18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
(19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
(20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.