(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.
Tammy
Definition:
(n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
(n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wisconsin elected the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin.
(2) What she'd sing at a karaoke and Lambrini night Anything by Tammy Wynette.
(3) Unfortunately, Tammy’s test wasn’t good enough, and her attempt resulted in a “head, a moustache and necktie”.
(4) Tammy Mercure ( tammymercure.com) is a photographer living in Nashville, TN , who has travelled widely in the region.
(5) But she concludes that the influence of money in politics is such that she needed to stay and fight it – raising the $7m in outside money spent against Tammy Duckworth in a single congressional election: "Changing the role of money in politics is really a very important motivator for me."
(6) Humans use stereotypes as a cognitive shortcut and we’re all prone to it,” said Tammy Campbell, author of the article to be published in the Journal of Social Policy .
(7) For more than 20 years Tammy has been leading trips like this, bringing people out into the kind of villages – rural, indigenous, thin on votes – that politicians didn’t visit, helping Quechua families earn a living from the hiking paths and food and stories that only they knew.
(8) Updated at 3.57pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Barack Obama speaks at Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally Making his first campaign appearance for four days, Barack Obama lands in front on a modest crowd at a chilly airport in Green Bay, where he's appearing with Tammy Baldwin , likely to be Wisconsin's next US senator if the polls are anything to go by.
(9) A subset of lymphocyte CD44 molecules is modified by covalent linkage to chondroitin sulfate (Jalkanen, S., M. Jalkanen, R. Bargatze, M. Tammi, and E. C. Butcher.
(10) Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, made history by becoming the first openly gay US senator .
(11) Then she angrily told Kroft: I'm not sitting here, some little woman, standing by my man like Tammy Wynette .
(12) US election 2016: Trump and Clinton watch votes as Florida 'razor close' – live Read more On a night of dashed hopes in the presidential election, Democratic morale was buoyed slightly by a Senate victory in Illinois, where congresswoman Tammy Duckworth beat the Republican incumbent, Mark Kirk.
(13) Among those joining the Senate will be Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, who made history twice over.
(14) Tammy Samede, as the principal named defendant, said outside the court: "This is not the end.
(15) sneers Tammy, 19, regardless of Hayley's growing ire.
(16) Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option Read more On Tuesday, Shorten was campaigning in Perth with Labor’s candidate for Swan, human rights activist and Indigenous woman Tammy Solonec.
(17) He's called Lee, and he's a smart bloke, keen to impress on me that he's a Guardian reader, and old enough to remember a time when the conceptual artist who has assembled him and 16 of his co-workers here today wasn't a conceptual artist: the brief but spectacular era when Bill Drummond was one half of the biggest-selling singles band in the world, the KLF, who made No 1 in 18 countries with a single on which Tammy Wynette sang about the Illuminati and ice cream vans; and the period before that when Drummond was a record company man, band manager and the subject of much music press debate about whether he was a genius or just a headcase.
(18) This summer has been historically bad at the box office: Fourth of July weekend was down a whopping 42% , despite the industry catering toward the international market (Transformers) and women (Tammy), and the US box office this month dropped over 50% from a year ago .
(19) John Cooper QC, representing the principal defendant, Tammy Samede, denies the camp has any or "any significant implications" for the rights and freedoms of others.
(20) The race between Tammy Baldwin , a longtime Democratic congresswoman who would be the first openly lesbian Senator, and Tommy Thompson , a former governor and Bush cabinet official, is very close, and it's set new records in Wisconsin for spending.