(n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
(n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
(n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
(n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
(v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(3) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(4) Blatter’s spokesman, Klaus Stöhlker, told Press Association on Thursday: “Before the decision was taken, in the case of Russia and the USA there were ‘behind-the-curtain’ talks.
(5) At rostral levels, one third of the tracts are loosely built forming a king of curtain, while they become more compact at caudal levels.
(6) Artists in Russia have begun warning of a new "iron curtain" falling over the country, as ever more western stars become targets of the country's crackdown on culture.
(7) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(8) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(9) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(10) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(11) In net-curtained rooms above a disused kebab shop on Cricklewood Broadway, a small group of middle-aged men were at work as usual when they found themselves at the centre of a national terror warning.
(12) He had a private table on Dakota’s second floor that would often be cordoned off by a curtain upon his party’s arrival.
(13) Hence the nerves, hence the curtain twitching, hence the good tea cups and posh biscuits laid out on the table.
(14) Everyone expects it to be curtains for shipbuilding.
(15) Cyrus, who was standing on a nearby stage, said: “We’re all in the industry, we all do interviews and we all know how they manipulate shit.” Near the end of the broadcast, Cyrus spoke from behind a black curtain as she changed clothes.
(16) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
(17) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
(18) Behind him is a blue curtain designed like the national flag with a white star and the words: "I love Somalia."
(19) Nigel Farage has declared it will be “curtains” for him as UK Independence party leader if he fails to win his target parliamentary seat of South Thanet.
(20) The log casts no further light on the blacked-out portion of the execution that lasted 27 out of the 43 minutes, in which a curtain was drawn over the viewing screen preventing witnesses from observing what was unfolding.
Ensign
Definition:
(n.) A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
(n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
(n.) Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
(n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
(n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
(v. t.) To designate as by an ensign.
(v. t.) To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assets he's offering to the indie sector are, apparently, Virgin, Chrysalis UK (excluding its deal with Robbie Williams), Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(2) On the way back, Ensign asked them if they needed anything before they left.
(3) The French port of Saint-Nazaire woke to find the Russian naval ensign – a blue cross – flying offshore on Monday and a new row over France's sale of state-of-the-art warships to Moscow.
(4) Ensign, J. C. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and R. S. Wolfe.
(5) Remember,” Ensign says, finding them in a study room one recent afternoon, “on your first day here, you guys looked at the food and you were like, what is this?” The girls all burst out laughing.
(6) Recently Ensign asked the girls to write an essay describing what education meant to them.
(7) Interfax Ukraine reported that a group of people with Russian navy ensigns also gathered at the airport’s building.
(8) So unless the economy comes back and land prices come back, I’m stuck.” His friend and roommate Carter chimes in: “Dropping dead is my retirement.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Valery Lyman An oil worker on an Ensign drilling platform north of Williston.
(9) Back in Yola, her boss Ensign heard about the two sisters’ dilemma and called their father.
(10) But he admitted that the 183 drill ships and platforms that reportedly sail under the Marshallese ensign were an uncomfortable reality as one of the tiny nation’s major sources of income.
(11) We are entrusting our children to you.” Ensign found herself choking back tears.
(12) That evening came a moment Ensign says she will never forget.
(13) The commander of the operation has sent the following message: ''Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia.
(14) Ensign set up a foundation , which garnered $50,000 (£33,000) in donations to put 10 girls through the university for one year.
(15) We’ll raise the money to take both your girls.” Weeks later, while they prepared for the girls’ arrival, he called Ensign in a panic.
(16) She came into my office and, really quietly, she told me that her sister was one of the girls who had escaped, and she and all the other girls were just there in Chibok, doing nothing,” Ensign recalled.
(17) There is idealism and flying the ensign of volunteerism and common ownership and then there is the commitment, the torched time, the drain on the £75,000 contributions fund and the fight to keep inching forward.
(18) Other assets on the list reportedly include labels such as Chrysalis UK, excluding Robbie Williams, Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
(19) She approached her boss at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, Margee Ensign, an energetic, cheerful woman who has run the establishment for six years.
(20) But after 21, we had to stop because that’s a big commitment,” Ensign said.