(n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
(n.) A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
(n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
(2) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(3) Three minutes’ walk from Westfield is Centenary Square, the redeveloped public space that now blurs into City Park, a huge combination of a shallow artificial lake and towering fountains.
(4) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(5) The city is a fountain that never stops: it generates its energy from the human interactions that take place in it.
(6) Atomization at the liquid surface and the production of a fountain contributed to aerosol formation.
(7) Tony Fountain, chief executive of the NDA, told workers on Wednesday morning: "The reason for this [closure] is directly related to the tragic events in Japan following the tsunami and its ongoing impact on the power markets.
(8) Private Eye's ideas of "new boys" are joke writers Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, who have been there a mere 10 years.
(9) Two controlled studies at Fountain House examined the influence of psychiatric rehabilitation services on rehospitalization.
(10) Locomoting amoebae were monopodial, exhibited fountain flow cytoplasmic streaming and translocated externally bound erythrocytes to the rear of cells.
(11) Yun’s quest – a modern version of the age old dream of tapping the fountain of youth – is emblematic of the current enthusiasm to disrupt death sweeping Silicon Valley.
(12) Fountain, who had also been president of BP's North American power unit, is said to be on an "eye-watering" pay package, albeit one that would probably involve him taking a cut from his BP salary.
(13) As the poet Kahlil Gibran beautifully put it: “To the bee, a flower is the fountain of life, and to the flower, the bee is a messenger of love.” In the process of foraging for food, bees are designed to pollinate.
(14) We feel like outsiders, fading elderly creatures from a lost world of fountain pens, sherbert dips and wirelesses.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pixadores have also targeted historic sites such as the Ramos de Azevedo fountain in downtown São Paulo.
(16) Free Visit an urban beach Fountains on the South Bank, London.
(17) In December 2006, claimed £213.95 to repair fountain and hang lights on Christmas tree.
(18) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
(19) One of these is the Parque de los Deseos , a stone plaza with fountains that doubles as an outdoor amphitheatre for film screenings.
(20) P. aeruginosa was isolated from 45 of 353 environmental samples, including water fountains, ice machines, bar soaps, and germicide solutions for toilet brushes.
Statue
Definition:
(n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
(n.) A portrait.
(v. t.) To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(2) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(3) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(4) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
(5) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
(6) The statues symbolised Bamiyan,” says mullah Sayed Ahmed-Hussein Hanif.
(7) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(8) All this while, 15 moai statues stand directly behind us, watching over us like bodyguards.
(9) Archaeologists still argue about what it originally held, but visitors can now peer inside and see gleaming in the darkness a statue of Taharqa, loaned by Southampton museums.
(10) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(11) For me, the shining example of hope and freedom on Lesvos is not its statue but its people.
(12) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(13) In his introduction, he complains that tourist guides always send you to admire museums and statues, but never direct you to fascinating sewage-treatment plants.
(14) In its forecourt stands a statue of Lenin and on the other side by the Dniester river flicker flames of a war memorial where each name of the dead is listed on a black wall – more than 800 from the 1992 war.
(15) Inside the mausoleum, Cadorna is watched over by 12 statues of soldiers cut from the stone of the Val d'Ossola.
(16) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(17) Balyana’s mayor said the statue was intended to portray a “martyred soldier hugging his mother”.
(18) Fu is chief executive and cofounder of the 3D software company Geomagic, whose laser scanning technology has been used by Hollywood film studios, car designers and historians making a precise replica of the Statue of Liberty.
(19) Russians have been a driving force behind the statue project.
(20) I too was attracted to the paintings of De Chirico and Delvaux, with their dreamplaces – empty, melancholy cities, abandoned temples, broken statues, shadows, exaggerated perspectives.