(a.) Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
(n.) The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
(n.) A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
(n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
(3) I remember putting on Gothic in 1986 as the finale of the London film festival.
(4) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(5) When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky.
(6) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(7) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(8) In a nutshell: Sandcastle settlements Poland – Impossible Objects Gothic fantasies ... the Poland pavilion.
(9) Gothic began with exotic locales set in the distant past; one of the Victorian period's innovations was to draw this alien otherness back to Britain itself, to the here and now.
(10) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(11) Compare the credits of current gothic ITV procedural Whitechapel and Channel Five's high-concept US import Under the Dome .
(12) This discovered gothic quality within everyday life found one of its finest expressions in the American work of French-born director Jacques Tourneur , especially the brilliant Cat People (1943), Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Night of the Demon (1957).
(13) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
(14) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
(15) Bradlee’s old chair, the conference table used in the newsroom during Watergate, the lead plate for the front page headlined “Nixon resigns” and the Gothic-lettered Washington Post sign will all be preserved.
(16) (It is surprising how little actual violence there is in the best gothic films.)
(17) The city's splendid neo-gothic town hall is to be closed for the day on Wednesday.
(18) The inter-maxillary relationship at the horizontal level was obtained by using a gothic arch recording.
(19) (The idea of the soul captivates gothic films from Dracula to The Devil Rides Out , though most tend to express that fascination through ssaults on the body, achieving carnality in sexual desire or in gore.)
(20) "At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over.
Transept
Definition:
(n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients who are unsuitable for the retrograde approach the antegrade, transeptal approach is a satisfactory and effective alternative.
(2) The mitral valve was approached through a vertical transeptal incision extended into the roof of the left atrium in 111 patients.
(3) In all patients with supracristal VSD, color-flow Doppler revealed an abnormal transeptal jet directed toward the pulmonary valve that occurred 5 to 10 ms before RV outflow tract flow was identified.
(4) The thickness of the band of transeptal fibers depends on the anatomy of the interproximal space.
(5) This technique is an elegant alternative to transnasal puncture and transeptal resection.
(6) These data support a wide application of the extended vertical transeptal approach in mitral valve surgery.
(7) This was especially visible in the region of transeptal fibers; --The observed periodontal changes were correlated with the duration of inflammation and occlusal trauma.
(8) In 15 patients with pure or predominant mitral stenosis and in a control group of 11 patients without mitral stenosis the blood flow velocity through the mitral valve orifice was recorded by means of a directional Doppler ultrasound velocity catheter introduced transeptally and positioned in the orifice of the mitral valve.
(9) Autoradiograms were analyzed by measuring binding in strictly defined regions of interest and from transept profiles.
(10) Diagnosis was made by radiological investigation and confirmed at surgery performed via a sublabial transeptal approach.
(11) However, alveolar transeptal macrophage migration was observed by transmission electron microscopy.
(12) Transeptal approach was used in most of the patients and myxomas were totally removed including a part of atrial septum, requiring patch reconstruction in 35 patients.
(13) In a case of anterior septal rupture complicating a transeptal myocardial infarction, the diagnosis of IVC is immediately confirmed by bidimensional Doppler with color coding.
(14) Simulating a transeptal valvuloplasty of the mitral valve by technique of the 2 balloon in human fresh heart, we studied the winging effect over the interatrial septum in 12 hearts; in the first 6 the atrial septum was dilated with a 6 mm balloon (Group A), in the second 6 the atrial septum was dilated with a 10 mm balloon (Group B).
(15) Maxillary median diastemas are classified as "simple" or "persistent" according to their etiology, and an operation to clear the upper midline suture of transeptal fibers is described as an essential part of the treatment of persistent upper median diastema.
(16) In all cases, the venous transeptal anterograde approach was used.
(17) Treatment can be accomplished by a transeptal transphenoidal approach with localization and repair of the leak in the absence of increased intracranial pressure.
(18) After transeptal catheterization and balloon dilation of the interatrial septum with an 8 mm angioplasty balloon, a 25 mm valvuloplasty balloon was advanced over a guide wire across the interatrial septum and positioned across the mitral anulus.
(19) Difficulties have not been encountered provided the usual landmarks associated with transeptal surgery are taken into account.
(20) The technique was applied transeptally, using the terminals of two catheter electrodes as cathode and anode.