(n.) A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz.
(n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.
(n.) A chief officer of state.
(n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.
(n.) A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.
(n.) A coffee and smoking saloon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Music without borders: Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim (centre) and Ramzi Aburedwan (right) with members of the Divan orchestra.
(2) But Barenboim had his Israeli musicians to protect, as well as the Divan’s depoliticising mission of co-operation and co-existence.
(3) Instead, Miller recommends a bouncy mohair divan (she pronounces it “dive-in”) in the guest bedroom.
(4) On the divan, her new mother-in-law, sighing at some new ache or pain.
(5) ❦ I must have passed the doors of Simpson’s-in-the-Strand hundreds of times in the past 45 years, but I never stepped through them until this Tuesday – only to discover that the restaurant, opened in 1828 as Samuel Reiss’s Grand Cigar Divan, is up for sale and might soon become the most stupendous branch of Nando’s, or yet another block of expensive flats, and therefore indistinguishable from the rest of London.
(6) But it was a lie.” He and Barenboim parted ways in 2011; to Ramzi’s sadness, the Divan is now boycotted in Palestine.
(7) A super-king-size divan base with separate single mattresses (one hard, one soft), a unifying fitted sheet – and earplugs, of course.
(8) The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra he founded with the Israeli citizen Daniel Barenboim in 1999 grew out of the friendship he forged with the musician who shares his belief that art - and, in particular, the music of Wagner - transcends political ideology.
(9) He was also invited to join the West-Eastern Divan , the orchestra of Israeli and Arabic musicians created by Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim .
Mattress
Definition:
(n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
(n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(2) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(3) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(4) This article presents the author's preferred technique for reconstructing the auricle, simultaneously using Mustarde's mattress sutures, Cochrane's anterior scoring of the antihelix, and the approximating of the concha to the mastoid.
(5) In April this year I purchased a bed and mattress from John Lewis online for £580 but after two days still had no email confirmation.
(6) Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours".
(7) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
(8) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
(9) A one-way analysis of variance indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in the pressure ulcer outcomes of subjects treated on the low-air loss bed (Mediscus) compared to the pressure ulcer outcomes of subjects treated on the foam mattress with loose-fitting top cover (Comfortex).
(10) We discuss in particular the mattress-model approach by Mouritsen and Bloom, who take matching between protein and lipid hydrophobic thicknesses as a determining factor for the phase behavior.
(11) In 25 cases atypical resections of liver tumors have been performed using PGA-mesh to secure mattress sutures.
(12) Photograph: Barry J Holmes for the Guardian After Stockholm, they moved to a tiny house in west London with no living room or kitchen, and shared a mattress on the floor.
(13) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
(14) Infants remained on the oscillating air mattress for at least 7 days or until 34 weeks postmenstrual age.
(15) Identifying mattresses which help to prevent pressure sores can result in substantial long-term savings.
(16) Allergenic proteins were extracted from one silk batch that was imported to be used as filling material for bed mattresses and rugs.
(17) People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.
(18) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
(19) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
(20) The authors draw attention to vacuum mattresses which are a modern appliance for the immobilization of casualties and patients.