(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.
Scull
Definition:
(n.) The skull.
(n.) A shoal of fish.
(n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
(n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
(n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
(n.) The common skua gull.
(v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
(v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the men's double sculls Wells and Rowbotham continued the form that has seen them medal in every World Cup event.
(2) The forensic autopsy revealed a fracture of the scull and a severe blunt injury to the head and brain.
(3) WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Katherine Grainger, Anna Watkins Grainger and Watkins have won all three World Cup events this summer and are undefeated since being paired together in 2010.
(4) Most common among these injuries are knee pain associated with the eggbeater kick and shoulder pain associated with sculling.
(5) Under application of 50 muCi of pertechnetate, the exposure of radionuclide dacryocystography amounts to 15-25 mR for the lens and is far below the exposure by scull radiography.
(6) Main rival Netherlands Medal prediction Bronze, possibly LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland British duo won bronze at last year's worlds but this promises to be a close event and it will be difficult for them to improve on that.
(7) The dynamics of local thermoresponses in the brain cortex was studied through the unopened scull under patterned light stimulation of the retina in acute experiments on white rats by means of thermovision and digital image processing technique.
(8) An experimental study of the base deformation of isolated human scull under conditions of scull collision with an obstacle has been carried out.
(9) An examination was conducted in 310 persons surviving injuries of the scull and brain of varying severity.
(10) Grainger, courtesy of a hugely emotional win alongside Anna Watkins in the women's double sculls, now has a gold to add to her three previous wince-inducing silvers.
(11) Oxygen uptake was measured on four male subjects during sculling gondolas at constant speeds from approximately 1 to approximately 3 m.s-1.
(12) Ulsterman Alan Campbell finished fifth in the men's single scull, unable to live with the pace set by three hugely experienced opponents led by reigning world champion Olafe Tufte from Norway after leading for the first 800 metres.
(13) An earlier suggested continuous scull model is modified on the basis of the data obtained.
(14) Hydrocortisone therapy diminishes the development of gross collagen fibers, and causes the formation of a loose glial scar from a wide-looped network of processes of fibrill-forming astrocytes; 127 clinical observations of hydrocortisone therapy with layer-wise plastic repair of the brain and scull, followed-up for to 10 years, demonstrated that this method favours the prevention of epilepsy.
(15) 11.57am Gold women's lightweight double sculls Fifteen minutes later Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland start the women's lightweight double sculls final in lane six.
(16) As well as the medal winners so far, Kath Grainger, who has won silver medals at each of the past two Games, will compete with Anna Watkins on Friday in the women's double sculls, in which they are strong favourites to win gold.
(17) Explorative trepanation of the scull was carried out after confirmation of (1) discreet neurologic disturbances on neurologic examination in the right hemisphere, (2) focal sign on the right side in the EEG (focal slowing and focal sharp wave), and (3) a right-parietal increase of radioactive activity in the scintigram.
(18) It is shown that the modified model (a part of spherical shell with the flat base) resembles scull behaviour in statics and dynamics better than the scull model in the form of spherical shell.
(19) The pulp chamber floor of 39 primary first and second molars of 10 mandibuiars of the Indian scull was investigated with a scanning electron microscope for the presence of accessary foramens.
(20) Main rival Germany Medal prediction Bronze LIGHTWEIGHT MEN'S DOUBLE SCULL Mark Hunter, Zac Purchase Last time around in Beijing Hunter and Purchase proved unstoppable and are also the reigning world champions.