(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.
Rowboat
Definition:
(n.) A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
(2) Not everyone was able to fully get behind the idea of Harvard becoming a full-fledged sports powerhouse though: March Mattsuss (@suss2hyphens) HARVARD FANS ARE STORMING THE FLOOR [rowboats slowly paddle to center court] March 20, 2014 Big seeds struggle but survive A 16-seed has never defeated a one-seed in tournament history and this did not change on Thursday, but Albany at very least put a scare to No.
(3) Meanwhile, his nephew, Robert's bastard Gendry, has escaped Melisandre's leech frying pan and her literal fire, but landed in a proverbial one, stuck in a rowboat, unable to swim and without any friends.
(4) For even more exclusivity, ask the staff about their sister property, Caracola - a tiny all-inclusive $130-a-day beachclub on the Garzón lagoon, accessible only by rowboat and for those with an invitation and reservation.