(n.) One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Example Sentences:
(1) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(2) Similarly, Facebook’s recent experimentation with its AI concierge, M, could lead to Zuckerberg having a more natural-language conversation with his own Jarvis than he’d be able to create on his own.
(3) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(4) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
(5) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(6) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
(7) He did not answer questions about Henley Concierge, but said he was invited to the 2013 event, which took place at Old Billingsgate market, City of London.
(8) "As One Commercial Street is located on the edge of the City, we have built a product that appeals to this market of young professionals and families who want to live close to their place of work and enjoy the benefits of a full concierge service and hotel style lobby, which they pay a premium for through their service charge.
(9) "The difficulty is, and this is what the developers will say, is that the high charges, the concierge charges, the charges for all the services in the building, cannot always be met in a uniform way by all the tenants, and that's why they make this case for dual access."
(10) His father, a former soldier, took work where he could find it – in a biscuit factory, as a concierge; his mother worked as a cleaner at the local bus station.
(11) And so I set off to do a little detective work of my own, to discover whether Maigret’s Paris, full of squalid, storied hotels with communal bathrooms, apartment buildings with nosy concierges and, most importantly, characterful regional bistros and hyper-provincial bars, could still be found.
(12) The development, which arrived in London at around the same time as the Bank's governor, is made up of four smart, concierge-served blocks of mainly one- and two-bedroom flats.
(13) There is luxury marble tiling and plush sofas, and a sign on the door alerts residents to the fact that the concierge is available.
(14) A concierge will do "anything from booking their flights to putting cartons of milk in their fridges", as the sales manager Alexander von Albert sells it.
(15) Not everything in the magazine is available on the Net-A-Porter website, but the firm promises to help shoppers find a way to buy most items, with links to brands' own websites or a concierge service.
(16) 5by (Free) Styling itself as a “video concierge”, this app is the work of website StumbleUpon, promising to provide a stream of web videos based on your interests, current mood and the time of day.
(17) A concierge at the Plaza on Monday referred questions to a spokeswoman, who subsequently declined to comment.
(18) Each hut will be made up of two traditional-looking huts cleverly joined together, allowing sleeping room for between four and six people, with one bedroom, fitted kitchen, bathroom, sitting area and 24-hour concierge service.
(19) Even banana republics have cash: it just ends up in the hands of a very few people – ask the bank managers of Switzerland or the hotel concierges of Paris.
(20) In 2012, when Songza relaunched its service with its "Music Concierge" option for contextual playlists, it was pioneering, and its steady growth in the US – it had 5.5 million active users by the end of 2013 – was the spur for those bigger rivals to introduce similar features.
Reception
Definition:
(n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.
(n.) The state of being received.
(n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.
(n.) Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
(n.) A retaking; a recovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(3) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(4) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
(5) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(6) They thus have 2 receptive fields: one on the hindleg whose motor neurons they control and one on the ipsilateral middle leg, provided by inputs from the mesothoracic intersegmental interneurons.
(7) Thus cross-orientation suppression originates from within the receptive field.
(8) Medical treatment has several objectives: the action of water on the metabolism, action on the behaviour of the labyrinthine capillaries and the biology of neurosensorial cells, action on vestibular information and the receptivity of the nerve centres and finally on the patients' lifestyle.
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
(11) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(12) Administration of the progestins, progesterone and dihydroprogesterone (DHP), and of the hypothalamic decapeptide, LH-RH, 6 hr prior to testing restored receptivity to varying degrees in these E2B + DHT treated mice.
(13) The regional difference in the prevalence of beta AR404-immunoreactive astrocytes suggests that these receptive sites may either: (i) be preferentially activated by catecholamines released from terminals rather than circulating catecholamines; or (ii) be down-regulated in AP due to blood-born substances, such as catecholamines.
(14) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(15) Both tympanic and nontympanic pathways of sound reception are utilized by anuran amphibians.
(16) The characteristics of pattern and flicker (movement) detection are compared to electrophysiological studies on X (sustained) and Y (transient) neurones respectively, and correlations are described for studies of temporal frequency response, non-linearity, width of receptive field, strength of the inhibitory surround and motion sensitivity.
(17) Three groups of facts are compared in this study: the significant adaptive and adaptational modification of the receptive fields of neurons of the visual cortex of the cat, the conditioned, selective, subsensory change in the threshold of perception (detection and recognition) by an individual of a letter in relation to two control letters, and the role of spatially-specialized cortical inhibition in the formation and adaptive modifications of the receptive fields and detector properties of neurons of the visual cortex.
(18) After an hour or so, a car appeared, and another Isis man drove Abu Ali to a reception house not far away.
(19) Well one of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon … which means we’ve got to step up.” In the backrooms of the G20 meeting, Australia was continuing to resist language in the official communique encouraging countries to make pledges to the Green Climate Fund , but to a rousing reception at a local university, Obama announced the $3bn US commitment.
(20) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.