(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.
Ringmaster
Definition:
(n.) One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surely only a misplaced sense of ego on the part of its ringmasters is stopping it.
(2) If he is to ensure that the pre-recorded programme does not become a circus, Dimbleby will need to give one of his most assured performances as a ringmaster.
(3) Queens Park Rangers ’ ringmaster Tony Fernandes has a dream.
(4) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
(5) Mel and Sue return as ringmasters of Bake Off tent Read more The programme “feels like a phenomenon that is still on the rise”, said Charlotte Moore, the controller of BBC1.
(6) The ringmaster closes the door behind her and lets out her breath, silently praying that she’ll be able to continue the fire-fighting until then.
(7) Another is his very theoretical bit part as supremely underinvolved ringmaster of both last Christmas's Jimmy Savile tribute show and the Newsnight investigation that might have exposed a serial child molester.
(8) Republican candidates attack media over tough debate questions Read more Some refused to play along, ignoring the question entirely, but two gave answers that revealed a disgust for a gladiatorial format which went far beyond the subsequent squabbling over whether the ringmasters were too brutal.
(9) Lodger, though recorded in Montreux and New York, used the same personnel as the previous two, with Eno once again acting as creative ringmaster.
(10) Four-letter pastings Channel 4 has three Comedy Roasts coming up from Wednesday with Forsyth, Sharon Osbourne and Chris Tarrant on the receiving end of four-letter pastings from the likes of Jack Dee, Sean Lock, Gok Wan, Barry Cryer, Alan Carr, Sir Elton John and Sir Terry Wogan (who says Tarrant is "tall, always drunk and nobody likes him"), with Jimmy Carr acting as ringmaster.
(11) Better known as Cilvaringz, he’s on stage at PS1, the Queens outpost of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, with his mentor, Wu producer and ringmaster RZA, and music journalist Sasha Frere-Jones .
(12) The ringmaster delves deep into her box of tricks for the remaining six minutes, trying desperately to allay the lady’s fears.
(13) Clifford admitted having extramarital affairs with four women, including a television dancer and a French model, and being the ringmaster of sex parties involving "good honest filth for adults old enough to know what they are doing".
(14) That was the question pondered by Russian state television’s ringmaster, Dmitry Kiselev , in a recent, heavily ideological weekly dispatch.
(15) Talk of a “vast conspiracy” between him and the PM’s office with Ede as “ringmaster” was nonsense, he told the New Zealand Herald.
(16) And somehow, as if by magic, the ringmasters know: the show must go on.
(17) He's the ringmaster of the nation's sexual scandals and the chief conduit by which we know what we know about the private lives of David Beckham, David Mellor, Jude Law and countless others.
(18) Filmed in a tent in the grounds of a Berkshire country house, Giedroyc and Perkins flit around like ringmasters serving up one innuendo after another as a dozen contestants attempt to impress the judges, national treasure Mary Berry and baking pin-up Paul Hollywood .
(19) Michael Oates Palmer, staff writer on The West Wing, applied less reverence when he said: "They're the ringmaster, the elephant tamer and the people who clean the cages."
(20) The choice of Danny Boyle as ringmaster suggests a possible resolution of the great British dilemma.