(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.
Server
Definition:
(n.) One who serves.
(n.) A tray for dishes; a salver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instagram is breaking under the weight of Peaches' love for her little grub – and, seeing as she's up the duff again, it will have to migrate to new servers when she has the second.
(2) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
(3) In May, Mojang launched Minecraft Realms , a service allowing PC and Mac owners to set up their own private servers for up to 20 friends.
(4) Hillary Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the US justice department has told a federal court.
(5) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(8) Despite guidelines to the contrary, Clinton used mobile devices to conduct official business on her personal email account and private server.
(9) Destiny wants to change the way we think about online gaming – whether it succeeds or not will be down to the capability of its server network and whether there is really enough in there to keep gamers coming back.
(11) The DMM acts as an image file server and an image archive device.
(12) Serveral ex vivo surgical techniques are described, illustrated and the literature reviewed.
(13) Contact Paul Farrell securely using the Signal messaging app on +61 457 262 172 or using the Guardian’s Securedrop server
(14) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(15) First-set tie-break: Kyrgios* 6-5 Nadal (*denotes server): Nerves?
(16) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
(17) The BLASTx program, implemented on the National Center for Biotechnology Information server, allows a sensitive search of all putative translations of a nucleotide query sequence against all known proteins in a matter of seconds.
(18) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(19) The multimedia file server manager station is built around a PC-AT compatible with a Northern Telecom Meridian SL-1ST digital PBX and a Meridian Mail digital voice messaging system.
(20) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .