(n.) The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finially, on the basis of the natural history of the disease, a "second-look" operation is recommended.
(2) 50 nm across and 90 nm long, consists of a stack of two disks and a ball, similar in shape to a finial.
Flagpole
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Pro-Russian activists beat a pro-Ukraine supporter trying to save the Ukrainian flag after it was removed from a flagpole outside the burned trade union building in Odessa on Saturday.
(2) A woman identified by a protest organizer as Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old youth organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina, climbed the flagpole before 6am and took down the controversial emblem of the antebellum, slaveholding south, with the assistance of another activist.
(3) Earlier 60-year-old Tudy Phipps, a white woman, had rolled in her wheelchair as close as she could to the foot of the flagpole.
(4) The flagpole inside the compound was apparently shortened and the Taliban flag – dark Koranic script on a white background – was still flying but not visible from the street.
(5) He soon got into legal battles with the town over his oversized flag and flagpole (80ft high, nearly double what the local ordinance allowed) and over the fact that the mansion is directly under the flight path for the local airport.
(6) Two model constructs of the lumbar interbody fusion, the tripod concept and flagpole concept, are presented.
(7) It seems like so long ago because the grieving has been so hard.” Haley’s office said it would be taken down from a flagpole near the capitol at 10am the next day, after flying there for nearly 54 years.
(8) Last month , activist Bree Newsome was arrested after climbing the flagpole and pulling down the flag.
(9) And there's a central row of very tall, flagpole-like streetlamps creating a clear sightline all the way from the tube station to the park.
(10) Then, a giant South Sudan flag, six metres by four metres, will be raised on a 32-metre electronically operated flagpole that was installed this week by Chinese contractors who claim it is the tallest on the continent.
(11) Attacks in the two big cities have been directed at pro-Ukraine groups and the military, with targets including the premises of volunteer organisations, bars frequented by activists, military bases, banks, railway lines and even a flagpole.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police surround the flagpole flying the Confederate battle flag as Bree Newsome climbs it.
(13) You aced the McKenzie account, you double-digited Q4 growth and you personally ran more low-hanging fruit up a greater number of flagpoles than the Wilmslow and Harrowgate divisions combined.
(14) Another pro-AKP account promoted the ruling party's recent television broadcast, depicting hundreds running towards a Turkish flagpole – in the fashion of zombies from World War Z – after hearing Erdoğan's voice reading the national anthem.
(15) According to investigators, dozens of police officers were injured in Bolotnaya Square after protesters hurled lumps of asphalt in their direction and charged at them with flagpoles.
(16) The tinkle of the flagpoles is about the only sound on the tarmac.
(17) Obama gives searing speech on race in eulogy for Charleston pastor Read more An activist in South Carolina climbed a flagpole in Columbia early on Saturday morning and removed the Confederate flag flying in front of the capitol building.
(18) The same blue-and-white pattern decorates Scottish trains and flies from flagpoles in Scottish back gardens; notoriously, it was produced from Mrs Salmond's handbag after Murray won Wimbledon.
(19) But 1.5 miles (2.4km) into the march, a gust of wind suddenly snapped the flagpole in two.
(20) A star-spangled banner dangles above him from a 125-foot flagpole, standing guard over the 10-acre field.