(n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets used to be lined with covered colonnades, providing shade from the sun and protection from monsoon rains, but they, too, were torn down.
(2) In 1506, Pope Julius had the old, rectilinear St Peter’s pulled down and a new one built that would be all curves, with its famous colonnade embracing the round world.
(3) At first, he refused to speak, preferring to communicate by eye contact alone You’d glimpse him around the Hotel de Paris: a shadow flitting between the marble colonnades.
(4) Kasrils and old comrades who fear that the ANC's elite are losing their working-class credentials will have found little consolation last week when Ramaphosa addressed the media in an Edwardian-era mansion framed by Tuscan colonnades and Palladian windows, built to entertain the mining Randlords of Johannesburg.
(5) The city’s sprawling colonnades and Tetrapylon remain , while Isis has repurposed its amphitheatre, using it to stage mass executions of its enemies.
(6) The house itself is a grand 1850s colonnaded mansion, where guests can enjoy a private plunge pool and a tropical garden for undisturbed sunbathing.
(7) It has a colonnaded porch and neatly trimmed topiary, but several aspects of the house are definitely in breach of the Celebration pattern book.
(8) Another is the arch of triumph on Palmyra’s ancient colonnades, or the Roman amphitheatre that dates back to the second century AD.
(9) The lawyers of Yangon could have done with a little divine intervention in their recent battle against the privatisation of the former high court and police commissioner’s office, a grand classical edifice whose ionic colonnade marches around an entire city block facing the waterfront on Strand Road.
(10) The plain red-brick building is in the shadow of the state capitol, a grand colonnaded white house at the top end of the broad avenue.
(11) The National Gallery’s colonnaded splendour radiates across Trafalgar Square a sense of the importance of art in Britain’s national life.
(12) He expected further destruction in the coming weeks, including the agora or meeting place, colonnades and burial grounds.
(13) 1 Bellevue Road, +27 21 434 1929, sweetestguesthouses.com Cascades on the Promenade Facebook Twitter Pinterest While Sweet Lemon is up the hill, this colonnaded boutique hotel is almost on Sea Point’s promenade, and you can see the ocean from several of the room terraces.
(14) One image shows a colonnaded porch filled with blood-stained blankets, clothes and mattresses.
(15) They smoke on the phone and in the rain, in doorways and under colonnades.
(16) Hundreds of mattresses have been laid out on the floor in the City Hall's main colonnaded room, and different stalls hand out food, medicines and donated warm clothes to those who want them.
(17) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
(18) I drove up a steep private drive, which curved around to an open lawn and a white colonnaded house.
(19) Former inmates told us that they thought they were hallucinating when they saw a colonnade of seven dwarves dressed warmly and elegantly, as if for a Shabbat stroll.
(20) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).
Series
Definition:
(n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
(n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
(n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(2) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(3) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(4) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(5) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
(6) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(7) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(8) Mitonafide is the lead compound of a new series of antitumor drugs, the 3-Nitronaphthalimides, which have shown antineoplastic activity in vitro as well as in vivo.
(9) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(10) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(11) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(12) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
(13) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
(14) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(15) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(16) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(17) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(18) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
(19) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(20) Recently, we have designed a series of simplified artificial signal sequences and have shown that a proline residue in the signal sequence plays an important role in the secretion of human lysozyme in yeast, presumably by altering the conformation of the signal sequence [Yamamoto, Y., Taniyama, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 2728-2732].