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Frontage


Definition:

  • (n.) The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The building was shallow and unlovely, really two knocked together, but it had a broad frontage, and across it in huge letters Hunt spelled out “Foxtons Estate Agents”.
  • (2) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (3) The respective case circumstances and, if available, testimonies were included in our study as well as the special constructional peculiarities of the engine frontages which logically contribute to the appearance of injuries.
  • (4) I don’t have any objections to a Jack the Ripper museum, it’s a commercial enterprise like the London Dungeon and Jack the Ripper walking tours, but what I’m miffed about is the fact that we seem to have been completely deceived, in a way that is rather unpleasant.” Above the museum’s black and red livery frontage are two signs made to resemble London’s official English Heritage blue plaques.
  • (5) Drinking up and moving on, we pass a lovely old department store, its elegant frontage dating back to 1895, then stop at Grey's Inn.
  • (6) A huge mosaic proclaiming “Peace Is Better” graces its frontage.
  • (7) A few weeks later, during a generally peaceful anti-gentrification march on 25 April, half the frontage of Foxtons was smashed in .
  • (8) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
  • (9) It is, of course, synonymous with New Labour , and her constituency office is in this Islington, in Barnsbury, all quietly expensive cars, leafy streets and white Georgian frontages.
  • (10) I was thinking, hoping, they're going to miss us, because we've got such a small, narrow frontage," she says.
  • (11) Located along the frontage road (old Route 66), near Hope Road on the south side of 1-40.
  • (12) You’re doing a PR frontage, you’re going on and on.
  • (13) The mean wear degree and pattern were compared among four geographical grouping of crania separated by up to 700 miles of river frontage.
  • (14) Typically earthships are built into hillsides which act as an insulator while a glazed frontage faces south, to maximise the sun's natural warmth.
  • (15) In the centre of the area now stands a tarmac square, lined either side with new red-brick buildings, carefully designed to frame this new civic space with active frontages.
  • (16) It is like a building collapsed in an earthquake or destroyed in a bombing; its fake facade cascaded to the ground, revealing a series of cramped, life-sized apartments whose frontage has been torn off.
  • (17) Yet once you’re past the bamboo and palm thatch frontage, this waterfront venue is suitably dark and smoky, with shamrocks decorating the menu, classic rock posters on the walls and a blissfully Marley-free soundtrack of jazz, blues and rock.

Length


Definition:

  • (a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
  • (a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.
  • (a.) The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.
  • (a.) A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.
  • (a.) Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.
  • (a.) Distance.
  • (v. t.) To lengthen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (2) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
  • (3) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
  • (4) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
  • (5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
  • (6) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
  • (7) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
  • (8) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
  • (9) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
  • (10) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
  • (11) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
  • (12) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
  • (13) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
  • (14) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
  • (15) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
  • (16) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (17) The diastolic sarcomere length was not affected by the changes in thyroid state.
  • (18) All 3 drugs increased the basic cycle length of pacing at which VT was induced and the cycle time of the resulting VT.
  • (19) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
  • (20) The mean length of the seminal vesicles was 2.98 cm.

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