(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.
Theater
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Theatre
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(2) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
(3) The rate of infections can be reduced to 1% prophylactic administration of antibiotics, surgery in an laminar airflow operating theater, and by the use of cement containing antibiotics.
(4) A questionnaire was administered to 71 college students enrolled in dance, drama, and musical theater programs to assess health care problems, injuries, risk-taking behaviors, and sources of care.
(5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
(6) She should know about a parent’s trauma: her daughter Tyesa, 20, was fatally shot in 1992 outside of a movie theater by a 14-year-old gang member who was aiming for someone else.
(7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
(8) !” Some of those who applauded loudly then, in the Deutsches Theater, will have re-remembered their own reaction by now.
(9) On the basis of these experiences the surgical theater should be equipped with these and other instruments in such a way that they can be readily and interchangeably used in any neurosurgical procedure.
(10) The wealthier and older clients are provided with sexual services within a setting that might be described as a "macho theater" in which social needs are also allowed expression.
(11) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
(12) Big movies that will be good Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (11 July) “Who asked for this?” I snarked as I entered the theater during 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
(13) Randomization was done by telephone from the operating theater, and stratification was by hospital only.
(14) So confident was Fox, indeed, that the company insisted that theaters leasing Midnight also take on a project for which they had far more modest hopes: Star Wars, a little space opera with no stars from the director of American Graffiti .
(15) Remember the Theater People: the gal rigging lights for her community theater's production of The Chalk Garden in Brainerd, Minnesota.
(16) 99mTe diphosphonate scintigraphy, which can be performed outside the operating theater with little discomfort to the patient, proved to be a reliable, noninvasive method of assessing the blood flow to the femoral head.
(17) He has just been awarded a MacArthur “ genius grant ” and it’s hard to think of a contemporary music theater composer who deserves it more.
(18) Nitrous oxide is the anaesthetic employed in the largest amount during general anaesthesia and it can be used as an indicator of occupational exposure to all the components the mixture; but if the pattern of dispersion of them (when leaking into the operating theater) are not the same, two indicators should be used: N2O (gas) + another component the mixture (vapour).
(19) Less visibly emotional than on other occasions, the president made a brief reference to the gun control issue, saying: “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that allows them to shoot people at a school, or a movie theater, or a church or a nightclub.
(20) The technique must have ready availability, preferably in every operating theater dealing with abdominal emergencies.