(n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Bolognesi, M., Coda, A., Frigerio, F., Gatti, C., Ascenzi, P., and Brunori, M. (1990) J. Mol.
(2) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
(3) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
(4) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
(5) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(6) It may feel a little like we have a reached a coda, but that is not the case.
(7) The present study employed a new computerized system, CODA-3, which locates small prismatic markers and computes by triangulation their three-dimensional position at 100 Hz.
(8) Roars appeared sonographically like prolonged barks composed of a pulsated preface, a long legato climax and a brief, fractionated and at times pulsated coda; each part varied internally to the ear and in acoustic structure.
(9) It made a colourful and pleasing coda to the sound and fury of new hardware doing battle.
(10) Though his heart's in the right place, connubially and ecologically, Walter is no less flawed than the other characters, and his fanatical campaign, in the novel's coda, to have his neighbours keep their cats indoors so as to save the local bird-life, is comic as well as sad.
(11) Pluto was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006, but it continues to shine in concert halls where Matthews's beautifully crafted movement is frequently performed as a coda to Holst's work.
(12) Coda: today, economic security is something those under 20 cannot conceive of, like life before the internet.
(13) In the context of his career, his final weekend at Fenway is something of a coda.
(14) Although it is obviously unusual, Bishop is not the first to be posthumously nominated for the Costa awards, joining excellent company including Ted Hughes, who won book of the year for Birthday Letters in 1998 and Simon Gray, shortlisted in 2009 for his post-Smoking Diaries memoir, Coda.
(15) But in the Oslo Principles on Global Climate Change Obligations – launching in London today – a working group of current and ex-judges, advocates and professors, drawn from each region of the world, argue that any new international agreement will just be a coda to obligations already present, pressing and unavoidable in existing law.
(16) The treatment of Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company offers just as chilling a coda.
(17) A strange coda: suggestions of bad blood between the brothers ignore one extraordinary fact.
(18) The Inbetweeners Movie was originally planned as a coda to the third and last series on E4 in 2010.
(19) Soon to be published is Coda, which tells the story of his last months, and is, it is said, wonderful.
(20) The narratives were analyzed for the use of abstracts, orientations (background information), and codas.
Seismic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Seismal
Example Sentences:
(1) Arriving at seismic monitoring sites that were already built was a bit odd, but they were incredible - far better than anything I could have built."
(2) These findings should prove useful in developing seismic safety codes.
(3) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
(4) The Leonard Cheshire Disability charity said “a seismic shift in people’s attitude” was needed.
(5) But Shell's exploration activity in the Beaufort Sea was halted when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that seismic testing would harm noise-sensitive bowhead whales and the indigenous communities that harvest them.
(6) On the road to 2015, all political parties will need to tackle this conundrum if there is going to be a seismic shift away from traditional thinking about how health and social care are delivered.
(7) It had to be done as a matter of principle and not in a manner that damaged the eventual nominee.” Sanders may not be able to achieve the seismic changes Jackson did – Democratic leaders would likely look with extreme disfavor on someone who until last year was not a member of the party demanding changes to proportionality or to the superdelegate system, for example.
(8) The National Geological Survey recorded a seismic event of 2.1 magnitude.
(9) I look forward to the campaign starting so people can really start digging into the various contrasting options.” Canada's political landscape undergoes seismic shift with election in Alberta Read more But even that job will prove problematic for the Liberals, who are already struggling to differentiate their platform from that of the rising New Democrats, a formerly leftwing party successfully moved to the centre under Mulcair and the late Jack Layton.
(10) The softly spoken Dunlop, a graduate of Glasgow University who moved south and is now a Conservative councillor in Horsham, West Sussex, was a special adviser in Downing Street under Margaret Thatcher during the seismic event which defined Scottish politics in the final decade of the last century – the introduction of the poll tax.
(11) The Earth rang to the blast, with vibrations picked up by seismic sensors 4,000km away.
(12) Compass said in a statement: "Something seismic could be happening in British politics which reflects the Compass view of a more pluralistic and tolerant progressive democracy.
(13) In the 12 months leading up to June’s election, however, two seismic events shocked them into action.
(14) Dr Mark Porter, the head of the British Medical Association (BMA), said that whoever took office after the general election would inevitably be tempted to bring in charges and may not be deterred by the unpopularity of such a seismic change to the health service.
(15) Although earthquakes are mainly concentrated in zones close to boundaries of tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere, infrequent events away from the main seismic regions can cause major disasters.
(16) One idea would be to give the suburbs more public buildings – structures that, in Italy's fragile terrain, are seismically safe as well as green and civic-spirited.
(17) Given the current seismic wave of malpractice and liability litigation, hospitals must implement programs to effectively manage loss caused by injury within their institutions.
(18) The fact that this is such a big deal in 2014 shows just how pitifully slowly television has reacted to the seismic changes in wider society."
(19) After a year of seismic shocks comes the protest and fightback.
(20) During ontogenesis in mammals, a stage of programming by neurogenesis (seismic sleep) precedes the appearance of SP so long as the programming system isn't functional.