(n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
(3) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
(4) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(5) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(6) And just to avoid confusion, the word GREY is also my current graffiti tag.
(7) "If you stand in the street, you face problems; because of this I started a new style of graffiti.
(8) We love you.” Another starts: “Dear Polish friends, we wanted to let you know how very sorry we are to hear about the abusive messages graffitied on to your building.
(9) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(10) Anger towards the government is also apparent in political graffiti , popping up around Yerevan.
(11) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
(12) Photograph: Luana Kaderabek Saysell was confronted by some of his harshest critics, including several convicted artists, during a graffiti conference on the South Bank in London earlier this month.
(13) It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself.” In an early meeting with the production team, they were, the statement claims, handed images of “pro-Assad graffiti – apparently natural in a Syrian refugee camp”.
(14) The mission is awaiting a restoration specialist to arrive from Britain with the historically appropriate paints for the 19th-century decor to blot out the graffiti.
(15) The longest stretch can be found at the Eastside Gallery in Friedrichshain, though the paintings and graffiti here were added as recently as 2009.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detective Constable Colin Saysell talks at the graffiti sessions at London’s South Bank Centre.
(17) There's a similar double-standard within graffiti art.
(18) · He edited American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Godfather parts I to III, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley and many more.
(19) They arrived in a black Camaro with Dare (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) scrawled on its side in blazing faux graffiti, one officer explaining how his department had seized it from a drug dealer.
(20) Eighteen months ago the group sprayed designs inspired by the British graffiti artist Banksy on walls of ostentatious new houses believed to have been built with the profits of the £3bn a year Afghan drug trade.
Inscription
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of inscribing.
(n.) That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
(n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
(n.) An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is still difficult to apply for material reasons such as the small number of physiotherapists and the lack of inscription in the Social Security nomenclature.
(2) When we read ‘Donetsk’ on signs, when we stopped in the city and saw the inscription ‘DNR’.
(3) They included a 7th-century BC Assyrian inscription that, she discovered, had been mistranslated in the 1920s, reducing passages to "absolute nonsense".
(4) The two current criteria for diagnosis of left anterior fascicular block (LAFB) were evaluated; they are marked left axis deviation (LAD) and a delay in the time of inscription of the intrinsicoid deflection (ID) in lead aVL asynchronous to V6.
(5) Twelve patients underwent transplantation after external circulatory assistance (13%), 11 patients after inscription on the list of extreme emergencies, and 68 on an elective basis (74%).
(6) ), that is to say the inscription of the inconscious, particularly reported to the body and to the look.
(7) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
(8) In all nine, recording the precordial leads one intercostal space below the usual space eliminated the RBBB pattern in V1-V2 and resulted in inscription of a QS complex, whereas recording the leads one space higher than usual enhanced the height of the R wave.
(9) Almost every dedicatory inscription associated with public works--palaces, temples, etc.--expressed the importance of these kings' participation in what this writer terms a "family cult."
(10) He certainly seems to have exploited his firman or licence from the Sultan to remove "stones with inscriptions and figures" from the building with an enthusiasm that did not escape the critical notice of contemporary observers .
(11) You can sense his relief in the inscription above the gatehouse: "This worke 25 yards long was wholly built by Edw: N: Esq: Ano.
(12) The World Heritage Committee has previously changed the boundaries of protected sites, but it has stated its surprise at the Coalition’s stance on Tasmania’s forests given the short time since its inscription.
(13) Biventer cervicis (BC) is an anatomically complex muscle that is divided by tendinous inscriptions into five in-series compartments of motor units.
(14) Bipolar atrial electrograms were recorded from selected sites during threshold pacing from sites low on the right side of the atrial septum which when paced resulted in the inscription of either negative or positive P waves in electrocardiograph leads II, III, and aVF.
(15) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
(16) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
(17) However, during the inscription of positive retrograde P waves in man, activation occurs rapidly up the interatrial septum (we believe via the anterior internodal pathway) to Bachmann's bundle, from where it then spreads in a manner similar to that which occurs during normal sinus rhythm.
(18) As an expression of the systemic hemodynamic alteration, the decrease in time of inscription of the intrinsecoid deflection, of the left ventricle in V6 became evident when the mitral area diminished or by increase of mean pressure of the pulmonary artery.
(19) It's made me return to my meagre merchandise collection – a prop newspaper from III, a replica hoverboarding helmet from II (which came pre-autographed by the actor Thomas F Wilson , with the inscription "Biff to the Future!
(20) The cuffs are filled via different inlets clearly distinguished by color as well as by the inscriptions "proximal" and "distal".