(n.) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alternatively, there is an average five-year wait for a small spot in a public columbarium, where thousands of urns of cremated ashes are stored.
(2) Amid the scramble to accommodate the urban dead, one Hong Kong-based design studio has developed a prototype for an off-shore columbarium island called “Floating Eternity”, which could hold 370,000 urns at sea.
Urn
Definition:
(n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.
(n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
(n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.
(n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
(n.) A tea urn. See under Tea.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
Example Sentences:
(1) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(2) In this article we review the important statistical properties of the urn randomization (design) for assigning patients to treatment groups in a clinical trial.
(3) The urn cell complex of the marine invertebrate Sipunculus nudus responds to mucus-stimulating substances (MSS) in normal human lacrimal fluids and stool filtrates by producing mucus.
(4) Ai Weiwei’s years of small gestures, his dropped Han Dynasty urn or his coathanger portrait of Marcel Duchamp , are long behind him.
(5) Poststratified subgroup analyses can also be performed on the basis of the urn design permutational distribution.
(6) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
(7) In both countries, urns still tend to be buried in cemeteries, and although many permit families to bury more than one urn in a single grave site, these still take up significant space – indefinitely.
(8) It was good to see the Italian family of coffee impresario Renato Bialetti housing his ashes in a totally appropriate coffee pot urn last week.
(9) The urn design forces a small-sized trial to be balanced but approaches complete randomization as the size of the trial (n) increases.
(10) A cemetery design competition in Oslo, meanwhile, gave special mention to one student’s design for a cemetery skyscraper that would reach hundreds of metres into the sky and include spaces for coffins, urns, a crematorium and a computerised memorial wall.
(11) Not only did Gilliam knock over the urn, sending dust everywhere, but after it had been righted it began talking-or rattling, from within, answering questions with one knock or two.
(12) Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
(13) Complete randomization, permuted block procedures, and adaptive urn models are simulated in order to assess how representative the achieved distribution is for the procedure used and how other procedures would have performed on the given study population.
(14) Two well known continuity of care measures, the COC and SECON indices, are shown to have a simple interpretation in terms of the model parameters, and their accuracy is discussed in the light of the urn model.
(15) Imagine them collectively giving you policy advice over a tea urn and a platter of sandwiches.
(16) If there's an urn it's not porn – that's a Discworld cliché," he says, a bubble of laughter in his voice.
(17) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(18) The recent increase in Putin's publicity stunts – from riding a Harley Davidson to "discovering" ancient Greek urns while diving – is among the factors being taken as a sign he plans to return to the presidency.
(19) An urn model of Pólya-Eggenberger type is applied to the problem of measuring provider continuity in ambulatory care.
(20) Alternatively, there is an average five-year wait for a small spot in a public columbarium, where thousands of urns of cremated ashes are stored.