(n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Example Sentences:
(1) Council chiefs are being urged to launch an investigation after metal spikes were installed outside a luxury block of London flats to deter homeless people from sleeping in the doorway.
(2) Educating the government and the public, about the need for more and better suitable housing, more vocational opportunities, fewer physical barriers such as high curbs, stairs and narrow doorways that prevent access to public and commercial buildings and trying to encourage positive attitudes toward the disabled will help bring the paraplegic out of isolation and allow him to develop a full, active life.
(3) The march was held just ten weeks after Wallace stood in a schoolhouse doorway to prevent black students from going to college, and little more than two weeks before four black girls were bombed to death in Birmingham, Alabama, during Sunday school.
(4) I grab him and the camera, and drag him into a doorway.” However, during a discussion with Hamptons TV in 2009 , he said that an unnamed soundman had tried to grab the camera after O’Reilly had removed the tape from the device and escaped with the footage and the cameraman.
(5) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(6) This beachfront hotel goes for colonial arches (windows, doorways, corridors), carved wood and wrought iron in a big way; minimalists are advised to focus instead on the comfy, high-ceilinged rooms and abundant ocean views at a price rarely found on the beach.
(7) But it is hard not to see that, since then, the vices have got worse: a little further up the road Somalian prostitutes proposition pedestrians at all hours; a little further down, past beggars who cry "I'm hungry", young men crouch in doorways doubled over with needles in hand.
(8) So I crouched down and tried to move backwards across the doorway.
(9) That's the Bank of England's big problem – not that there are women on its steps, or a petition in its doorway; but that they're not going to go away.
(10) Master and pet inserted themselves directly behind the family as they crossed the road and made their way down the street in a phalanx of photographers, and so that’s how Andrew Mitchell made his exit from the most notorious day of his life: ducking into a doorway, buffeted by strangers, with an angry dog headbutting his calves.
(11) I rushed home to find burning newspaper in the doorway, and was able to stamp it out with my feet,” the 27-year-old recalls.
(12) For us, a new Bowie album was not just a collection of songs, it was a doorway to new images, books, art, cultural references and sounds.
(13) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
(14) The graffiti star was dubbed "the female Banksy" when she gained more widespread public attention in 2011 with the appearance of her striking image of the late Amy Winehouse on a Camden Town doorway.
(15) By 6pm, planks of wood had been screwed over the empty doorway, with a notice urging fans to visit the piece at the club by paying a donation.
(16) North of the Seine, the scantily clad prostitutes huddling in the doorways of Saint Denis and Baron Haussman's grand boulevards are feistily holding out against the creeping gentrification of their traditional turf.
(17) I am no prude but often when I am walking home I see guys staggering about peeing randomly into gardens, bus stops, doorways.
(18) I grab him and the camera, and drag him into a doorway.
(19) There's no sign, just an open doorway and a flight of stairs; so in you go, and carry on upwards, past the main salon to the breezy top floor.
(20) • Doubles from $80 B&B, +51 84 222237, andenesalcielo.com Rumi Punku, Cusco Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Cusco’s picturesque Choquecheca Street, this hotel is built on an old Inca temple site and is entered via an ancient stone doorway ( rumi punku is Quechua for stone door).
Janus
Definition:
(n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.
Example Sentences:
(1) A method of radioimmunoscintigraphy using bivalent "Janus" haptens with an apparent enhanced affinity ("avidity") for the antibody is described.
(2) Following elutriation, aliquots of cells from each of the enriched cell fractions were incubated in the presence or absence of 4 mM of 2-[(aminopropyl)amino] ethanethiol (WR-1065) for 30 min at 37 degrees C. The cells were then irradiated with 60Co gamma-rays or fission-spectrum neutrons from the JANUS research reactor.
(3) As a consequence, the location of the abnormal oral structures relative to the normal ones is more variable in janus doublets than in janus singlets.
(4) It’s a totally different country for me.” This is the Janus-faced society that is the second most populous country in Africa.
(5) The experimental technique was based on the injection of a 0.5 % Janus green B solution into the embryonic pharynx through a branchial slit, at the age of three days.
(6) The viability of Histoplasma capsulatum yeast cells grown under different conditions was determined by dye tests with Eosin-Y and Janus Green B and by colony counts of cells plated on brain-heart infusion agar supplemented with histoplasma growth factor and bovine serum albumin (BHI-SAG).
(7) They are alienated both by entrenched male hierarchies at work and the Janus-like disjunction between their formidable professional personas and their vulnerable private lives.
(8) The progeny ratios obtained in various crosses indicate that the abnormalities of cell-surface asymmetry are brought to expression as a result of the action of a recessive allele at a single gene locus, here named janus.
(9) The split-dose survival ratio for JANUS neutrons is 1, whereas the ratio for 137Cs gamma radiation is about 6.
(10) These results provide an insight into the preclinical biology of ovarian neoplasia that may help in designing methods for early detection of this disease, and demonstrate the usefulness of the JANUS serum bank as a resource in evaluating serum tests.
(11) However, those drugs that were found to inhibit babesial growth included compounds (shown in parentheses) that have the following putative mitochondrial targets in the parasite: ATP synthetase complex (rhodamine 123, oligomycin, Janus Green); ATP-ADP translocase (bongkrekic acid); electron transport (rotenone, n-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide (HQNO), antimycin A); ubiquinone (CoQ) function (BW58C, menoctone); protein synthesis (tetracycline); and the proton pump (CCCP).
(12) Solutions of acridine orange, alcian blue 8GX, alizarin red S, azure A, azure B, Congo red, cresyl violet acetate, crystal violet, eosin B, erythrosin B, ethidium bromide, Janus green B, methylene blue, neutral red, nigrosin, orcein, propidium iodide, rose Bengal, safranine O, toluidine blue O, and trypan blue could be completely decontaminated to the limit of detection and solutions of eosin Y and Giemsa stain were decontaminated to very low levels (less than 0.02 ppm) using Amberlite XAD-16.
(13) Three-step pretargeted immunoscintigraphy (binder, chaser, tracer) with 111In- or 67Ga-Co(III) Janus produced excellent mouse tumor images in 3 hr with high tumor-to-background ratios.
(14) They are Janus-faced: older characters are conduits to the past, embodiments of different times, carriers of knowledge that remains invaluable; yet they are also a glimpse of the future, living now where the young must go.
(15) In the long human struggle, the idea of "martyrdom" presents itself with a Janus-like face.
(16) Mutation induction after exposures to 250 kVp X-rays, alpha-particles from the radon daughter 212Bi, and fission-spectrum neutrons from the JANUS reactor was studied in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) K1 cells and in CHO-10T5, a K1 derivative containing the bacterial gene xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (gpt).
(17) Commercial samples of Acridine Orange, Crystal Violet, Janus Green B,Methyl Violet, Neutral Red, Pyronin B, Pyronin Y(G), Safranin, Victoria Blue B and Victoria Blue 4R have been analysed with this system.
(18) janus homopolar doublets go through a corresponding regulation.
(19) When required, WR1065, at a final working concentration of 4 mM, was added to the culture medium, either 30 min before and during irradiation with fission spectrum neutrons (beam energy of 0.85 MeV) from the JANUS research reactor, or for selected intervals of time following exposure.
(20) The process by which a typical doublet transforms into a janus-like organization involves loss of capacity to form oral structures at one of the two normal oral meridians, followed by interpolation of reversed oral structures at a new location to the cell's right of the disappearing normal oral meridian.