(n.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gigantic lintels that bridge the uprights were also elaborately worked to even their size and height.
(2) A rocket-propelled grenade slammed into the lintel above the front doors, jarring them open, and gunmen rushed inside.
(3) An outer circle of uprights and lintels gives the monument its world-famous profile.
(4) Biphasic responses, with both thresholds and upper limits, or lintels, are also surprisingly common.
(5) The stones were repeatedly moved and rearranged, and the enormous sarsen trilithons added, before the final outer circle of sarsen uprights and lintels was created around 1,900 BC, creating the world famous profile of the monument.
(6) "If you'd said to me only a week ago ..." He gestures, despairingly, at the filthy water lapping at the lintels in the front room.
(7) But for all my easy-won goody goody-ness, I pretty much need to know that every last megacorp doing business in our land has paid every last penny they owe before we start boasting about having nailed Cool Cutz, or Headmasterz, or whatever hair-based pun adorns this chap's salon lintel.
(8) A quote from an anonymous author painted above the door lintel by owner Mike Beaumon could be the micropub motto: “Beer is the drink of men who think, and feel no fear or fetter, who do not drink to senseless sink, but drink to feel better.” • thefourcandles.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs and Sun 5pm-10.30pm, Fri and 5pm-11.30pm, lunchtimes Sat and Sun noon-3.30pm The Thirty-Nine Steps Alehouse, Broadstairs A few streets back from the Broadstairs seafront, this pub in a former pet shop was opened by local couple Kevin and Nicola Harding.
(9) Forty miles inland from Porto, the hotel features massive stone lintels, wooden shutters, polished wood floors and painted and panelled wooden ceilings.
(10) Of course, the Henge itself has been substantially remodelled over the centuries, never more so than during the last, when several stones were re-erected and lintels were replaced to form trilithons that hadn't been intact for a long time.
(11) This weekend it has been a motif running throughout every speech and hung on the lintel of every exhibition stall.
Plinth
Definition:
(n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
Example Sentences:
(1) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(2) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(3) The work, a scaled-down replica of Nelson's ship Victory first seen on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, was this week being installed in its new home in Greenwich, outside the new Sammy Ofer wing of the National Maritime Museum .
(4) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
(5) The banners – Don't Put the Kettle On, Mr Cameron and I Can't Believe It's Not Thatcher – are lowered, and the leaders climb on the plinth below Nelson's column and speak, asking the students to come back next week.
(6) Statues are removed from their plinths; the names of streets, squares, buildings and banknotes are hastily changed to expunge mentions of discredited leaders and dubious historical heroes.
(7) The ref wheechs Kick Off Ball from the top of Kick Off Ball Plinth, and leads the teams out.
(8) Yinka Shonibare's scale model of Nelson's flag ship Victory, sails printed with African textile designs and flying flag signals from the Battle of Trafalgar including "engage the enemy closely", has proved one of the most popular of the fourth plinth sculpture commissions.
(9) There is a rotunda decorated with Third Reich-esque golden statues; a monument to wartime partisans at a table on a plinth; and, of course, a Triumphal Arch, which the government listed as a “national treasure” as soon as it was constructed – all crammed into a space the size of one city square.
(10) Sky Arts has made a number of profile-raising deals, including sponsoring the Hay on Wye festival since 2007, backing English National Opera, and giving coverage last year to people occupying the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
(11) Next morning, Rob and I saddled up to conquer Rio's other famous peak, the 710m Corcovado, the granite plinth of Christ the Redeemer.
(12) The ref scoops Kick Off Ball from the top of Kick Off Plinth - that football's come to this - and the teams are on the pitch!
(13) The teams are out, the referee having scooped up the ball from its wee plinth.
(14) Sturgeon, the real talent in the field, was ready for him, bobbing and weaving at the plinth, fluent in both defence and attack and only slightly hampered – or possibly helped – by the fact at times she resembles a very frightening child genius from the 1950s.
(15) In front of them is a cedarwood box on a plinth covered with silver nickel filigree work and a plaque in the shape of the Wu-Tang Clan’s batlike logo, which the RZA calls “the illest album cover in the word”.
(16) • Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Ship In A Bottle is in the Fourth Plinth exhibition at ICA in London until 20 January.
(17) A few minutes before the public was admitted to the plaza where Sharon's coffin lay on a black marble plinth, members of the Knesset guard laid wreaths at its base as two army rabbis read from the book of psalms.
(18) Moments before the teams filed up the tunnel a pitch invader came within inches of swiping the World Cup trophy off its plinth but was tackled by security guards just in time.
(19) Victorian taxidermy specimens stand mounted on wood plinths.
(20) At more or less the time the world was watching Saddam Hussein's statue being torn from its plinth, looters were vandalising statues from the great civilisations of Nineveh and Babylon with equal energy.