(n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Osborne told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "We have got to make some tough decisions, but the priority is healthcare, children's education, early years provision and the big infrastructure developments like Crossrail, Mersey Gateway, the synchrotron, broadband.
(2) Paying over the odds, each was determined to build what they imagined would be the ultimate gateway to the Games.
(3) [Burma] is considered the front line in the battle against artemisinin resistance as it forms a gateway for resistance to spread to the rest of the world,” said Woodrow, who led the Oxford study.
(4) Using land lines, modems and network gateways, many such quite distinct computer programs or databases can be made accessible from a single terminal.
(5) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
(7) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
(8) A principal gateway for integrating the autonomic responses are a small collection of neurons in a region of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL), containing a cluster of neurons of the C1 adrenergic cell group, the C1 area.
(9) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
(10) Together they form the gateway to the vast Oil Crescent, a series of oilfields stretching hundreds of miles through the Sahara containing Africa’s largest reserves.
(11) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
(12) Putting BBC3 online feeds into Hall's desire to ramp up the iPlayer, which he sees not as a useful spin-off for catching up on programmes a viewer might have missed, but a "gateway" which (younger) viewers and listeners will increasingly use to access all of the BBC's programmes.
(13) Treasury insiders said they were already involved in talks with 30 companies over the proposed projects, including proposals for the £600m Mersey Gateway project, a six-lane toll bridge between Widnes and Runcorn.
(14) Kinshasa was the gateway for all the riches of what was then called the Belgian Congo, as rubber, gems, minerals, ivory and exotic woods made their way out of the country.
(15) Each child needs a health assessment and subsequent care.” There are already 4,029 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Britain, most of them in the “gateway” authorities of Kent, Croydon and Hillingdon.
(16) The town itself also marks a strategic gateway connecting Damascus to the Syrian south.
(17) Those "other radical groups," as Oliver dismissively referred to them, must be the more than 60 first nations (aboriginal bands) of British Columbia that have signed a declaration saying "we will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines or other similar tar sands projects to cross our lands, territories and watersheds, or the ocean migration routes of Fraser River salmon."
(18) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(19) The closest rail is the Docklands Light Railway station at Tower Gateway (handy for east London).
(20) It may also become a gateway to other information networks.
Pylon
Definition:
(n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
(n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
Example Sentences:
(1) Strain gauges applied to the pylon of a modular prosthesis and incorporated in an appropriate electrical circuit provide measurements of axial load which are displayed on an oscilloscope during ambulation.
(2) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(3) There's no doubting that Sherman has done a lot for the cornerback position and the NFL - people that wouldn't know a pylon from a hole in the wall are now talking about the greatest cornerback in the history of mankind aside every water cooler from Omaha to Maputo.
(4) The attachment of a pylon and prosthetic foot to a postoperative rigid dressing can be beneficial in the management of a below-the-knee amputation.
(5) In the right light and with the right song playing on the radio, there is a certain melancholy charm to this bleak highway with its unfolding panorama of wind turbines and electricity pylons stretching to the horizon.
(6) As well as the 400,000-volt line, the mid-Wales project includes what campaigners fear will be "a spider's web" of 26-metre pylons – well above the tree line – to link the windfarms to the new substation.
(7) It would also have been far easier to block the proposed pylons had the region been designated an area of outstanding beauty, which was proposed decades ago but was opposed by farmers who feared the effect on their businesses.
(8) The villages, whose populations range from a few hundred to 2,000, are scattered on stony land criss-crossed by busy roads, electricity pylons and cables and water pipes.
(9) On the streets close to the cattle market – nicknamed Tahrir Square on account of the anti-pylon protests – I could not find a single person who even grudgingly accepted the need for pylons and windfarms.
(10) Although cosmesis is compromised in the process, these short nonarticulated pylon prostheses may be a viable option to consider in bilateral A-K or knee disarticulation amputee patients under the following circumstances: (1) as a training tool to determine whether progression to full-length articulated devices is feasible; (2) as permanent prostheses for the patient whose primary need for ambulation is within his own home; (3) for the elderly bilateral amputee in whom ambulation is feasible but safety and energy efficiency are of particular importance; and (4) as a definitive device in the patient who expresses a preference for them.
(11) The Flex-Foot incorporates a pylon and foot in one unit and requires special fabrication technologies.
(12) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(13) The key problem is the huge communal nests built by the monk parakeets as these can cause blackouts when built on pylons and then drenched by rain.
(14) The technique of rigid plaster dressing followed by delayed application of a plaster cast and pylon was not detrimental to wound healing and did not increase the interval between surgery and the use of the prosthesis, nor did it depress the eventual level of function.
(15) Many of the new pylons will be more hidden and further from homes.
(16) Vince’s first experiments in wind power began at Glastonbury festival where he fixed a windmill to a pylon and charged mobile phone batteries.
(17) Yet, in an argument set to rise further in intensity as the UK's tough carbon targets loom, critics insist that new wave of power projects will scar the British landscape with bigger pylons, and make it far easier to build windfarms in unsuitable places.
(18) The analyses indicate that either a shaped, marrow cavity-fit pylon or four 135 degree wedges with a complementary pylon are favorable geometries for a DSA system.
(19) Ninety-four per cent of these patients were rehabilitated to walking independently on a pylon or prosthesis.
(20) After several hours' climb, passing ice-blue lakes and summery plains, we are faced with a bizarre moonscape, JCBs and pylons on the plateau that links the resorts.