(n.) The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.
(n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.
(n.) A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the subtle nature of histological changes in DAI, awareness and intentional search for the lesion is essential.
(2) The same phosphorylation is catalyzed by a different enzyme (DAI) which, while constitutive in reticulocytes, is induced by interferon in other cells.
(3) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(4) The experimental proof that two types of dopamine receptors--the excitation-mediating (DAe) receptors and the inhibition-mediating (DAi) receptors--exist in the snail brain is put forward.
(5) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
(6) Xishuang Banna is ethnically very diverse; the largest group is the Dai followed by the Hani (Aini) and various smaller national minorities.
(7) We synthesized DAI in vitro and located its RNA-binding domain within the amino-terminal 171 residues.
(8) Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, SD, and Many Farms, AZ--and one nonremote site--Lapwai, ID--were scored for the DAI.
(9) Dai said this was a hope, though it was a wild card.
(10) The range from 25.99 to 40.50 per cent LAac with minimum in the duodenum and maximum in the ileum was observed on the 3rd DAI.
(11) Pretreatment with the DAi receptor antagonist ergometrine (10, 20 mg kg-1 i.p.)
(12) Greater improvement of memory, learning, and visuomotor speed occurred after DAI.
(13) Access to prenatal care is severely limited, and the majority of rural births are attended by local dai.
(14) We investigated the effects of the traditional Chinese herbal drugs, Dai-saiko-to (D) and Saiko-ka-ryukotsuboreito (S) on blood pressure, pulse rates, serum lipids, lipoproteins and apolipoproteins in 30 patients with mild to moderate hypertension in an open, randomised trial.
(15) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(16) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
(17) Thus, this newly identified substrate of DAI appears to have affinity for dsRNA structures and may be involved in dsRNA-regulated processes in the reticulocyte.
(18) For asymptomatic cirrhosis the risk was lower than for chronic hepatitis, especially at high DAI, probably because high consumption carried a high probability of liver decompensation.
(19) Tokyo Electric Power Company came under fire for underestimating the risk of a tsunami and building a seawall that was less than half the height of the wave that hit its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and caused multiple meltdowns and massive radiation leaks.
(20) But one of Liu Xia's invitees – well-known dissident Dai Qing – is already outside China and has said she will attend the ceremony.
Rostrum
Definition:
(n.) The beak or head of a ship.
(n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
(n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
(n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
(n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
(n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
(n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
(n.) Same as Rostellum.
(n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
(n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
(2) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
(3) 'Froch, Dock, Hoch - whatever his name is - has been making his name on the back of my son for the last six years, He's not even on our rostrum, let me tell you.
(4) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
(5) Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and the war of words over US immigration Read more Speaking from a rostrum never before occupied by a pope, the Argentinian told a rare joint meeting of Congress to reject xenophobia and embrace immigrants.
(6) We divided the corpus callosum into three segments: rostrum and genu; anterior and posterior trunks; splenium.
(7) Callosal fibers from the ventral half of the frontal cortex passed through the rostrum, and those from the ventral occipital and dorsal temporal cortex passed through the ventral splenium.
(8) Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back.
(9) He could laugh at himself in the style of the most sophisticated political satirist, and move on to threaten thunder and revolution from the rostrum.
(10) 500,000-750,000 short free kinetosomes are concentrated in a dense column which extends from the centriolar apparatus in the rostrum to the anterior side of the nucleus Most of the short free kinetosomes in the column are arranged end-to-end in chains of varying lengths.
(11) The results demonstrate that the secondary palate contributes significantly to the torsional strength and stiffness of the rostrum of Didelphis and to the strength of each maxilla in lateromedial bending.
(12) Using microsurgical technique, we followed the path described by Bogen and Vogel requiring division of the corpus callosum from rostrum to splenium, the anterior commisure, one fornix, and hippocampal commissure.
(13) Ryan’s first mention of Trump was his promise that at the next State of the Union address, “you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice-President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump”, at which the crowd began chanting Trump’s name.
(14) Unlike talpids, chrysochlorids have eyes covered with skin; pick-like foreclaws; a blunt, padded rostrum; and no external tail.
(15) Considering that eye movements express visual dreams in humans and are prominent during desynchronized sleep in cats, monkeys and birds, rostrum movements were investigated in a macrosmatic species, the rat, to assess the hypothesis that, expressing olfactory and tactile (involving the vibrissae) dreams, they would prevail over eye movements.
(16) The deflection of the rostrum is situated in the region of the right premaxillar bone.
(17) Buoyed by successive opinion polls showing growing support, Salmond taunted Cameron from his rostrum: "If at any point David Cameron walks in, I am available for this debate," he said, to chuckles from the largely middle-aged audience.
(18) For loading at the incisors and canines, these properties indicate the structural strength and stiffness in both bending and torsion of the rostrum and of single maxillae.
(19) But it's about more than just colour: other visual motifs include long tracking shots, 90-degree whip pans and tilts, rostrum shots over miniature models, intertitles ( font: Futura ), montages, storybook stylings, and an almost Kubrickian obsession with symmetry and camera movement.
(20) However some parts have a dual origin: rhombo-mesencephalic neural crest cells are found in the otic capsule, and the frontal bone, the rostrum of parasphenoid and the orbital cartilages contain diverse amounts of prosencephalo-mesencephalic neural crest cells.