(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.
Harrier
Definition:
(n.) One of a small breed of hounds, used for hunting hares.
(n.) One who harries.
(n.) One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the European marsh harrier (Circus aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C. cyaneus).
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(3) She suggested that hen harriers could be easily scared off.
(4) Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers’ livelihoods away.” Grouse moorland is “the best and the worst place for the hen harrier,” added Murphy.
(5) Ward Sr described the decision to retire the Harrier as "absolutely appalling" and said his son had been absolutely right to speak out.
(6) Adults £11, six-15 years £7.60 Royal Air Force Museum, Barnet, London History lessons come to life at this museum in north London, which houses over 100 aircraft including Harriers, Chinooks, Tiger Moths and an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet.
(7) Some birds of prey also thrived on grouse moors because of these plentiful food supplies: merlin were four times more numerous on grouse moors than in other locations (although this may be because, unlike hen harriers, they are too small to kill grouse).
(8) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
(9) It's the last place on Earth you would want to be with feathers.” His films show him breaking down on several occasions, particularly when he visited a Maltese vet and sees a Montague's harrier, which has to be put down after it was illegally shot.
(10) If the Harriers do fall victim to the Tornados, there may be no suitable aircraft available to fly from the first carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, which is due to enter service in 2016.
(11) We let the owners of grouse moors , 1% of the 1%, shoot and poison hen harriers, peregrines and eagles.
(12) Even when a naturalist working for the government witnessed two hen harriers being shot out of the sky seven years ago, the Crown Prosecution Service brought no charges.
(13) It's a glass case filled with pictures of aircraft cut haphazardly from newspapers, each one meticulously labelled like an animal specimen: Hawk, Harrier, Bear, Chinook.
(14) Since 2000, 20 gamekeepers have been found guilty of “raptor persecution” or poisoning offences on grouse moorland, including one who killed a hen harrier in Scotland.
(15) • The government to retire the Harrier jump jet and reduce RAF manpower by 5,000 to 33,000 by 2015.
(16) Not because these powerful birds of prey represented a danger to wildlife, but because the harriers themselves are under threat.
(17) I have listened to all the military advice, and the military advice is pretty clear that when we have to make difficult decisions, it is right to keep the Typhoon as our principal ground attack aircraft, working in Afghanistan at the moment, and it is right to retire the Harrier."
(18) The keeper sees the harrier now as not just the thing that can eat their grouse but can upset their day-to-day life.
(19) Despite the performance of the Harrier jump jets, the landing was made without air superiority.
(20) Moorland owners, Anderson explained to me, wanted to be allowed to move hen harrier nests.