(n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
(n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
(n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
(n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.
(n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
(n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
(n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
(n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(3) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(5) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
(7) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(8) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(9) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(10) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(11) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
(12) Indeed, the BBC’s own recent Digital Media Initiative was closed by Tony Hall, having lost £100m.” The document is entitled “BBC3: An Alternative Strategy – Realising Value for the Licence Payer”.
(13) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(14) Urinary iodine excretion was examined in 645 patients at Bad Hall, both before and after undergoing iodine balneotherapy.
(15) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
(16) The Hall-Kaster prosthesis thus presented improved flow characteristics in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement, which is considered of particular importance to the patients with a narrow aortic root.
(17) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(18) But Richard Hall, director of infrastructure at Consumer Futures, a consumer watchdog, said Ofgem had "produced a lot of evidence that would persuade a third party that there is a trend [of rising prices]".
(19) "It's also very hard to evade a question that comes from a town hall person," she said during a discussion of the format and how the candidates will respond.
(20) Speaking in a debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Kawczynski said: "What these employees are being told, some of whom have worked for the organisation for many years, is that if they do not set up their own companies and invoice the BBC through these companies, their contracts will be terminated.
Oriel
Definition:
(n.) A gallery for minstrels.
(n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.
(n.) A bay window. See Bay window.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters demand the removal of the Cecil Rhodes statue from the front of Oriel College, Oxford.
(2) Casting a wide net, the diplomats targeted banks that advise the companies as well as City firms that provide stockbroking services or write research notes about the five, a list that includes Panmure Gordon and Oriel Securities.
(3) Oriel Securities analyst Jonathan Pritchard described Tesco's results as "distinctly non-vintage" but welcomed Clarke's frankness: "The rhetoric surrounding the UK is the polar opposite of the former regime's."
(4) Once again, we see the Tory government stating high aims on equality while at the same time implementing policies which only serve to embed and entrench inequality.” Dalia Gebrial, a member of Rhodes Must Fall Oxford – the student group that has been campaigning for the removal of the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes from Oxford’s Oriel college, said the fact that the prime minister had recognised the disparity in higher education should be welcomed.
(5) In short, there was a choice to make, and Oxford and Oriel made theirs.
(6) There are many more urgent targets than Rhodes’s Oriel statue.
(7) Whatever I thought about the content, at least I left knowing what an oriel window and who Giotto was.
(8) "This provides further evidence that the winners this Christmas have been those brands with the ability to fulfil the UK's demand to treat itself on special occasions," said Oriel Securities analyst Jonathan Pritchard.
(9) Mike Trippitt, an analyst at Oriel, cut his rating to "reduce" from "buy".
(10) Hands has a doctorate from Oxford University and began by teaching 19th-century literature to undergraduates at Oriel College.
(11) They don’t think about it as something that manifests itself in everyday life at institutions like Oxford.” The campaign has gained over 2,500 followers on Facebook and students have protested outside Oriel College, where a statue of Cecil Rhodes stands.
(12) Oriel College, Oxford, has decided to keep its statue of Cecil Rhodes, despite the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, a protest that has been one of a kind on this side of the Atlantic.
(13) 01204 852 113 , thewellbeingfarm.co.uk Forge Fieldcraft, Pembrokeshire With an emphasis on living off the land, Mark Oriel runs a course in country living skills, including lessons in hunting and field butchery.
(14) Financial analysts at Oriel Securities The final outcome on Basel III determined by regulators over the weekend looks positive for UK banks.
(15) Oxford university donations that still court controversy | Letters Read more Today Oriel is under pressure from British-based supporters of the anti-Rhodes campaign in southern Africa.
(16) The first of these battles led swiftly to victory, with the removal of the large statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town a month after the campaign began; the latest, to frustration, given Oxford University’s resistance to doing the same with the statue of Rhodes at Oriel College, where it still stands, on the facade of a building bearing his name, as an acknowledgement of the £100,000 he left the college in his will.
(17) Why, for that matter, were we unaware of Rhodes above the gate to Oriel?
(18) Why did Powell seem so irrelevant when I saw him at Oriel more than a quarter-century ago?
(19) Neither I nor my wife, who was once a graduate student at Oriel, could recall the existence of a Rhodes statue at Oxford (though she vividly remembered a large portrait of Rhodes glowering down on students inside the college) – a reminder that imperial legacies are not necessarily less pernicious because they may be less obviously visible.
(20) Oriel College has said it will not remove the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University despite a campaign by students who believe the British imperialist’s legacy should not be celebrated.