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Coliseum


Definition:

  • (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain’s Got Talent review – Simon Cowell is looking like Caligula after a dull day at the Coliseum Read more The show, won last year by boy band Collabro, began eight years ago with 4.9 million viewers, rising to 8.8 million for its second series launch before hitting the 10 million mark for the first time in 2009 with 10.3 million.
  • (2) In the course of further discussions, ENO expressed a wish to develop an approach and plan which would incorporate the lower planning figure while maintaining a full season at the Coliseum.
  • (3) It moved to the Coliseum only in 1968, for example.
  • (4) Liverpool Empire (0870-606 3536), to 22 November; Coliseum , London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 7-18 January.
  • (5) In 1990, on Nelson Mandela’s first trip to the US after being released from prison, he spoke at the Oakland Coliseum, acknowledging the Campaign Against Apartheid ­– one of the leading campus divestment organizations – and thanking the American students who had held firm in the divestment campaign.
  • (6) We will work, too, with the wider community outside the Coliseum, to develop emerging talent and new audiences.
  • (7) It's the Detroit Tigers vs the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum in the fifth and final game of the ALDS .
  • (8) I am delighted that he has joined us at a time of great change for the company.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ENO will on Thursday announce a pared-down 2016-17 season, with eight operas at the Coliseum in London.
  • (9) We also suggested that the company explore ways to make the Coliseum into a more viable operation, recognising the important national role the Coliseum plays as a venue for both opera and ballet .
  • (10) It could be that Kramer gets that balance right for ENO, and proves to be genuinely imaginative in what he programmes at the Coliseum and, one hopes, in other spaces .
  • (11) His work in opera is quite limited to date – he is currently working at the Coliseum on ENO’s forthcoming Tristan and Isolde , which opens in June, but his previous experience consists of half a dozen shows, two for ENO – Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy at the Young Vic , and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in the main house – together with Carmen for Opera North , Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in Manchester and Pelléas et Melisande and Die Zauberflöte elsewhere in Europe.
  • (12) He points out that before the Coliseum, there were no other dance festivals in the US on anything like that scale.
  • (13) Sanders packed the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, filling its 10,000 seats to show his bid to snatch the Democratic nomination from frontrunner Hillary Clinton isn’t a longshot.
  • (14) They’ve made me the person I am.” La Sylphide, performed by Queensland Ballet , is at the Coliseum, London, 4-8 August.
  • (15) Under the television lights at the North Charleston Coliseum, where Trump yet again took pride of place in center stage and Cruz stood right beside him in recognition of his second-place ranking, the senator accused the billionaire of peddling “extreme” “birther issues” that only four months ago Trump himself had dismissed as immaterial .
  • (16) Presumably, though, he will also want to continue his wider directing career in parallel with what he does at the Coliseum, and in choosing someone for what will be a key role in the coming seasons, but for someone who may well be away from the company for significant periods of time, the ENO board is taking a calculated risk.
  • (17) In 2009, he directed Bartok’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, at the Coliseum and is currently directing Tristan and Isolde for ENO, opening in June.
  • (18) Cressida Pollock, the former McKinsey consultant who is now ENO’s chief executive, has come up with a new business model which will, in the short term at least, see fewer productions at the company’s home, the London Coliseum.
  • (19) Also bizarre was the sewage "mystery mass" at Oakland's Coliseum which sent umpires, Mariners and A's scurrying for higher ground – which happened to be the Raiders locker room.
  • (20) Festival theatre , Edinburgh (0131-529 6000), 13 December to 3 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844-338 5000), 28 November to 13 December; Coliseum , London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 4 January.

Dome


Definition:

  • (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
  • (n.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
  • (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  • (n.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
  • (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dome-shaped, fungiform papillae were scattered among these filiform papillae.
  • (2) Ethanol, an agent that increases membrane fluidity, stimulates AC to a much greater extent in homogenates from the 22 month than from the 22 day or 90 day rat bladder dome.
  • (3) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (4) In the infant and small child, when most repairs are done, nose tip projection is due more to the alar dome component than to the columella.
  • (5) It said it hoped to have a small containment dome in place by late today.
  • (6) Iron Dome receives $176m in annual funding from the US, but the House of Representatives voted in May to double the amount .
  • (7) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
  • (8) Mucosla nodularity of the bladder dome, even without gastrointestinal symptoms, should raise the possibility of regional enteritis.
  • (9) The shadow chancellor told the newspaper the Dome was a mistake and said: "I think you should learn from your mistakes."
  • (10) In both groups clinical and radiological results were better when the cartilage layer at the talar dome was found to be intact at the time of surgical intervention.
  • (11) Histopathological examination of one resected aneurysmal dome confirmed the diagnosis of transmural arteritis secondary to SLE.
  • (12) In addition, the cells receive synapses from numerous nonimmunoreactive terminals including a wide range of different dome-shaped terminals and various scalloped or glomerular terminals.
  • (13) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
  • (14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (15) Despite Antarctica's simultaneous warming and cooling phenomena, the second lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth was recorded in July at Dome Argus in the centre of the Antarctic plateau.
  • (16) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
  • (17) The tumor was diffusely hemorrhagic and occupied the dome of the bladder.
  • (18) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
  • (19) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (20) Membranous (M) cells within the dome epithelium of ileal Peyer's patches have been shown to provide selective antigen entry for mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.

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