(n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
Example Sentences:
(1) In pride of place above the fireplace sits a shot of his sons, alongside one of him interviewing Mandela and a US magazine cover which followed the marathon 1977 confrontation with Richard Nixon that earned him a place in history - and provided the subject matter for an award-winning play that will this year become a film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
(2) On Monday Nicola Sturgeon stood in front of the same elegant Bute House fireplace where she had posed with Mrs May back in July and declared that the “brick wall of intransigence” over Brexit negotiations was forcing her to call a second independence vote.
(3) Interviews were conducted to determine: exposure to pets and to gases, vapours and dusts from hobbies; the use of gas stoves; fireplaces, air conditioners and humidifiers; type of heating systems; and the number of residents, and the number of smokers in the home.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Members of ANAL in front of a fireplace at the mansion.
(5) "The king of terror thing was something that Russell said about me," he says, "but people forget that The Girl In the Fireplace is Mills & Boon Doctor Who.
(6) The house is similar: full of happy, unapologetic chaos, it overflows with enthusiasms – music everywhere, books in all corners, baby clothes festooned across the kitchen fireplace – and the sense, children notwithstanding, of incipient freeform parties.
(7) If you have a fireplace you don't use, fit either a cap over your chimney pot (best done by a professional) or an inflatable chimney balloon.
(8) With a huge open fireplace in the middle of the dining room, this is a where to come for "carne alla griglia" – huge T-Bone steaks, veal and lamb chops, spit-roasted rabbit, chicken and pork – expertly prepared by the genial owner, Derio Vezzier.
(9) The Chelsea football club owner’s spectacular £724m vessel, which made headlines last summer when it briefly moored on the river Clyde in Scotland, far from its usual cruising grounds, is believed to feature two swimming pools (one of which has an adjustable depth that allows it to be converted into a dancefloor), an exterior fireplace, a leisure submarine, armour plating, bulletproof windows, a missile defence system and an anti-paparazzi shield designed to dazzle digital cameras.
(10) "So having one of each colour will be really, really nice above the fireplace".
(11) Women spend considerable time near the fireplace, which serves both cooking and heating purposes and emits smoke from wood and other biomass fuel.
(12) There are so many empty buildings like this one in central London.” The building dates back to the 1820s and has numerous listed features including many ornate, hand-carved fireplaces.
(13) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).
(14) Surprisingly, so were wasp infestations through a fireplace (the landlord declined to fit a chimney cap), black mould from showering (sans window) and advice to use a bucket to catch a kitchen leak while the owner holidayed.
(15) At higher altitudes, ambient carbon monoxide levels are increasing with the number of residents and tourists and their use of motor vehicles and heating devices (such as fireplaces, furnaces, and stoves).
(16) The neat and tidy doubles have tasteful plush chocolate-coloured furnishings and polished wooden floors, while the more spacious deluxe rooms with wooden beams come with fireplaces and balconies with street views.
(17) There’s an excellent restaurant too, serving Andean and Creole home cooking in a cosy dining area with a fireplace and decorated with leather masks, local fabrics and ceramics.
(18) There’s a small living area with a crackling fireplace and the buffet breakfast is served at the communal table in the open-plan kitchen.
(19) The rooms are decorated with antique furniture, fireplaces and original wooden flooring for an authentic country house feel.
(20) Cottages have tiled floors, oak beams and big stone fireplaces.
Mantel
Definition:
(n.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
(2) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
(3) Using the Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the odds ratio, no association was found between the number of moves and MS.
(4) A Mantel-Haenszel analysis of fetal irradiation subfactors indicated that most of the "extra" X-rayed cases in the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers were radiation induced.
(5) Thatcher was anti-feminist and a "psychological transvestite", Mantel said.
(6) We therefore analysed these patients' survivals by the unbiased Mantel-Byar method, using a comparison of multiple survival factors (Cox's technique).
(7) A significant dose-response based on a Mantel-Haenszel test of trend was observed for all leukemias.
(8) The DI had (restricted) additional prognostic value to the morphometric features (MPI plus DI Mantel-Cox 53.0, p less than 0.0001).
(9) The Mantel-Haenszel overall odds ratio adjusted for the current relative body weight for the abnormal fasting blood glucose level was 2.86 (95% C.I.
(10) Significant differences in mortality were seen between sham and immunized animals undergoing 100 or 75% splenectomy, while in the 50% group a difference was noted which did not reach statistical significance (Mantel-Cox log rank test).
(11) Although those GE80 had higher median lengths of stays (18 vs. 15 days, p = 0.013) and hospital charges ($7845 vs. $6414, p = 0.002) than those LT80, there was no difference 3-year survival curves (Mantel-Cox p = 0.7155).
(12) Median survival was 8.5 months (range = 1+ to 25) for Arm A versus 5 months (range = 1+ to 28+) for Arm B; this difference was not statistically significant (Breslow test: chi-square = 2.75, P = 0.097; Mantel-Cox: chi-square = 0.32, P = 0.56).
(13) The tests against single designs were carried out by means of Mantel tests.
(14) We show here that score statistics derived from the likelihood function in the latter approach are identical to the Mantel-Haenszel test statistics appropriate for the former approach.
(15) Like Mantel's adjusted chi-square statistic, the method adjusts at every event, based on the numbers of patients still at risk in each of the groups, and is thus able to show up time-dependent effects: factors can be seen to be relevant during certain periods of the study only.
(16) For the aneuploid and diploid cases, these figures came to 53.3% and 98% (Mantel-Cox: P less than 0.0001).
(17) Whatever your view of her she was a shaper of history.” Mantel said her story was an examination of why Thatcher “aroused such visceral passion in so many people”.
(18) Mantel’s new short story, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983 , prompted outrage after it was published online by the Guardian on Friday.
(19) The Breslow and Mantel-Cox statistics were used to compute survival (surgery-free) dichotomized by prognostic variables.
(20) The cumulative proportion of infants developing chlamydial conjunctivitis was 25% for both groups (P = 0.37, Mantel-Cox test).