(n.) A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat for freight.
(n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(2) The final phase is a new gondola, which opens in December, increasing capacity by 40%, carrying 3,600 passengers an hour and taking just seven minutes to reach the summit.
(3) It starts at the Silvretta gondola mid-station and lands on the valley station of the Pardatschgrat gondola; cables are 50m above the ground and riders can reach speeds of up to 84kmph (52mph).
(4) On the fringes of this zone are villages such as Bhatta-Parsaul, just a few minutes' drive from the "Grand Venezia" development that, says the blurb, will provide shoppers with an authentically Venetian experience, right down to gondolas on artificial canals.
(5) Game Creek is accessed by snowcat from the top of the Eagle Bahn gondola in winter, which is pretty awesome to start with.
(6) Flashing blue lights from the police boats on the Grand Canal had heralded the couple’s arrival from the Belmond Cipriani hotel to Ca’ Farsetti, where a handful of council employees were hanging out of the windows and a couple of gondolas appeared to be lingering tactically.
(7) Oxygen uptake was measured on four male subjects during sculling gondolas at constant speeds from approximately 1 to approximately 3 m.s-1.
(8) Quarrelling with almost everyone, Rolfe ended up, in extremis, living on an open gondola in Venice, as he put it, "homeless and often starving... only keeping alive from fear of crabs and rats".
(9) Unable to bring their camera-toting car to the Italian lagoon city, where gondolas and canals stand in for vehicles and roads, the internet firm sent instead physically fit technicians to walk Venice's alleys wearing a backpack-mounted camera.
(10) The influence of high +Gz gravito-inertial force on the vestibular system in man was investigated in a 4-m centrifuge with a freely swinging gondola.
(11) Ten fighter pilots wearing anti-G-suits with increased bladder coverage were warmed to 38.2 degrees C and exposed to 15-s periods at 4.5 and 7 G in a heated human centrifuge gondola until exhaustion during PBG and normal breathing (NB).
(12) In order to capture views of the picturesque city from the water, the Trekker cameras were also taken along the canals by boat, for an aspect of the project dubbed "Google Gondola".
(13) And the family park underneath the Verdons gondola back has miniature kickers, rails, rollers and a skier cross track.
(14) Srinagar is a city on water, and the shikaras (large punts) are like gondolas.
(15) Google is also planning to snap Venice from a boat as the vessel plies the city's canals, a service which has been dubbed "Google gondola".
(16) After a $50m investment, Park City Ski Resort, home of the US Ski Team and the 2002 Winter Olympics, expanded into neighbouring Canyons, built a new gondola to link the two resorts and created the largest ski area in the US: 17 peaks and 7,300 acres of skiable terrain.
(17) Photograph: Ski Arlberg In December 2016, the new Flexenbahn gondola opens between Zürs and Stuben, which in turn links the St Anton and Lech ski areas.
(18) Visual acuity was measured at + 1 Gz (baseline), +3 Gz, +4 Gz, +6 Gz, and +8 Gz in the straight-ahead, lateral, and up-gaze positions from three acuity charts mounted in the gondola.
(19) 4.32pm BST Return of Sloth Kong Costa Rican newspaper The Tico Times has chosen to get their boys up for this game by publishing a cartoon of a giant sloth - dubbed Sloth Kong - tooting on a hefty bifter while setting its sights on a retreating gondola.
(20) One scene involved him riding a gondola, and Von Muller could tell the dog wasn't giving his all.
Platform
Definition:
(n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.
(n.) A place laid out after a model.
(n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.
(n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform.
(n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.
(v. t.) To place on a platform.
(v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) In addition, PDBu-treated subjects showed signs of having remembered the location of the platform better than controls when tested 24 h later.
(3) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(4) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
(5) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
(6) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
(7) The apparatus consists of three basic components; a set of 4 strain gauge platforms on which the quadruped is trained to stand, a restraining device to keep the animal positioned over the strain gauge platforms and two mobile plates which mechanically stimulate the left or the right forelimb to produce the placing movement.
(8) Snapchat gives you the potential to get news, views and campaign information right into your supporter's hand, on a platform they are using daily.
(9) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(10) Presence of the monosynaptic reflex during platform perturbations at normal latencies suggests that balance problems in children with Down syndrome do not result from hypotonia, which researchers have defined as decreased segmental motoneuron pool excitability and pathology of stretch reflex mechanisms, but rather result from defects within higher level postural mechanisms.
(11) Tim Farron has pledged to fight the next general election on a platform of taking the UK back into Europe .
(12) The two companies have pooled their software development resources to create MeeGo, a free software platform which they reckon will pave the way for the next generation of wireless communications devices.
(13) There will have to be very direct conversations about his platform,” one shadow cabinet member said, but others have insisted there can be no accommodation with Corbyn’s politics.
(14) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(15) The animal's head was firmly attached to a small platform which in turn was coupled to the transducer.
(16) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(17) Responding quickly, whatever the channel, is one of the most important things when it comes to how happy clients feel about the interaction they’ve had,” said Simon Hay, co-founder of online learning platform Firefly .
(18) Explants of a human sacral chordoma were successfully maintained on collagen-coated coverslips, gelfoam sponge matrices, and Millipore filter platforms for up to 30 days.
(19) This device has collecting cups which follow the movements of the floor of the mouth but which is kept stationary by a fixed platform on the occlusal surfaces of the teeth.
(20) Tony Blair's speech on the future of the Labour party in full Read more Blair warned the party could not win on an “old- fashioned leftist platform”.