(n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
(n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(2) 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 .
(3) At the moment, she's making Kings Of Leon look like Cirque Du Soleil.
(4) But the past year has already been trying for the Cirque family in other ways – and families of Cirque performers.
(5) Coca-Cola, Nike, Cirque du Soleil and a few others have signed up, he says, because they want the data and the relationship with consumers.
(6) Attempts to trim costs have filtered down to the permanent shows running in Las Vegas as well, even as Cirque has gone ahead with the opening of new projects such as Michael Jackson ONE.
(7) She had too much of a sense of humour for Cirque du Soleil – the funniest thing ever seen in its ring was the shocking pink octopus outfit she did for its Varekai season in 2002 – but was perfectly suited to creating visuals for David Copperfield prestidigitating on Broadway in 1996, and for Grace Jones touring in 2009.
(8) Saturday 29 June was supposed to be the day that Cirque du Soleil turned the page on recent financial and artistic setbacks, and sent a message that it was still the most powerful player in live entertainment in Las Vegas.
(9) Directed by Robert Lepage, Quebec's second most-famous theatrical export after Cirque, Kà is known for two things: its record-breaking budget, an estimated $165 million (more than twice that of Broadway's budget-smashing, accident-prone musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ); and its gravity-defying battle scenes, one called "The Wheel of Death", and another in which the massive stage flips up 90 degrees and performers fly out towards the audience.
(10) At Electric Daisy Carnival and similar dance festivals, the look has evolved from the child-like "candy raver" of the 1990s, with their pigtails and cuddly toys and pacifiers (dummies), to a slick and sexified yet also kitschy-surreal image midway between Venice Beach and Cirque Du Soleil, Willy Wonka and a Gay Pride parade: girls in Daisy Dukes and bikini tops (or even bare breasts daubed in glittery body paint) but who also wear tutus, giant furry boots in turquoise and hot pink, and fairy wings.
(11) The timing of the incident, as well as being a tragedy for Guyard-Guillot's friends, colleagues and family, was doubly cruel for Cirque – which has been trying to get its momentum back after it had to lay off 400 employees this winter owing to a string of under-performing shows.
(12) Still, halfway through 2013, with its 30th anniversary swiftly approaching, Cirque du Soleil now finds itself nursing two blows to a reputation that for the first quarter century of its existence was iron-clad.
(13) There will be two theatres in the complex and the opening show, masterminded by Franco Dragone, a Cirque du Soleil director, will be a fable about a boy's search for flight.
(14) Sky One had a good night elsewhere, with a new episode of US drama Lost between 10pm and 11pm scoring 1.1 million viewers, while the final of reality talent show Cirque de Celebrité pulled in an average of 643,000 viewers from 7pm, peaking at 838,000.
(15) But even though this "mezzanine-style sleeping area" seems best suited to a rather narrow rental market of petite Cirque du Soleil performers, lettings agent Alex Marks said it had received 50 to 60 inquiries about the property, due to its sought-after location half a mile from trendy Kentish Town in north London .
(16) In a 2009 study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers from six Canadian and American universities examined five years of data for Cirque, and found the company's injury rates less than those for college gymnastics.
(17) This is not actually the first death on Cirque's watch.
(18) Lea, the 41-year-old son of a Lancashire hairdresser and engineer who is known for hosting parties featuring Cirque de Soleil dancers and sushi served off the bodies of near-naked women at his Californian beach house , was blasé about the fivefold return his private equity firm made on the deal.
(19) Of Mitt Romney’s multiple positions on the auto-bailout, Clinton said: "He’s tied himself up in so many knots, he could be hired as the chief contortionist of Cirque du Soleil.” There were two moments of almost imperceptible tension.
(20) But just as Cirque du Soleil's box-office success is no longer certain – the company has suffered a string of disappointments in Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles and in Asia over the past five years, as it tried to expand too quickly amid a recession – its safety record will now be subject to greater scrutiny.
Combe
Definition:
(n.) That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
(n.) See Comb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The regulatory element also suppresses those BX-C genes and other homeotics that, in the absence of Polycomb or extra sex combs function, can become active in parasegment 14.
(2) Holly Combe, a member of Feminists Against Censorship , shares these concerns.
(3) Corynosoma gravida Alegret 1941, C. mergi Lundstroöm 1941 and C. phalacrocoracis Yamaguti 1939 are redescribed and placed in Andracantha, with A. gravida (Alegret, 1941) comb.
(4) Like other members of the Polycomb group, the extra sex combs gene (esc) is required for the correct repression of loci in the major homeotic gene complexes.
(5) We show here that embryos lacking both maternal and zygotic esc+ function display transient, general derepression of both the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) and Antennapedia (Antp) genes during germ band shortening, but Sex combs reduced (Scr) expression is almost normal in the epidermis and lacking in the central nervous system (CNS).
(6) The legal team has spent more than 10,000 hours combing through evidence, spoken to more than 14,500 individuals, viewed more than 1,200 hours of CCTV and media footage, canvassed 250 businesses, completed 9,300 investigative notes and taken more than 1,000 statements from police officers, experts and civilian witnesses.
(7) The polarity of all the "comb" bundle fibers is descending.
(8) The extra sex comb trait is a homeotic transformation of the mesothoracic and metathoracic legs into prothoracic legs.
(9) When the duplex comb types were crossed to each other, the V-shaped comb showed complete dominance over the buttercup comb.
(10) The new species differs from E. knoepffleri Combes, 1965 by greater sizes of the disc, median and marginal hooks and anterior suckers.
(11) But by next April a new scheme will be in place based on hospitals combing through the case notes of 20,000 patient deaths – about 120 chosen randomly in each trust – to calculate the "preventable death rate" in the NHS.
(12) Different breeds of chickens namely Single Comb White Leghorn (S.C.W.L.
(13) Begue said he has been combing the island’s shores ever since.
(14) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
(15) Spectral structure of a signal depends on the size and configuration of combs.
(16) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(17) In vitro transcription-translation of these com plasmids revealed two neighboring genes, comA and comB, encoding proteins of 77,000 and 49,000 daltons, respectively.
(18) Hymenolepis macrorchida (Kotlan, 1921), a cestode of New Guinea parrots, possessing a small number (3 to 4) of testicles, belonging to the family Hymenolepididae to which it has been assigned for more than half of the century, is transferred to the family Davaineidae and designated as Idiogenoides macrorchida (Kotlan, 1921) comb.
(19) Dusts were collected from the beginning of wool processing (opening) in one factory and from the middle (combing) and late (backwinding) stages of the process in two other factories.
(20) Urolithiasis was induced in an experimental group of Single Comb White Leghorn pullets by feeding them layer ration and exposing them to nephrotrophic Gray strain infectious bronchitis virus (IBV).