(n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
(n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(2) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(3) Similarly, for the isthmus, an anterior lyre, a pallial crest, a pallial peduncle, and a posterior lyre are described.
(4) The plucked harp (lyre) and spike fiddle have been at the heart of the Nile's musical identity since ancient times.
(5) The impulse seemed archaic, quaint, but as the weeks of these Olympics have progressed, you could argue that Hannah Cockcroft and Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds, Bradley Wiggins and David Weir have not been done justice even by the vivid enthusiasm of Clare Balding and Michael Johnson – they require lyres and heroic couplets.
(6) The article shows the results of study of the causes of these complications, which formed the basis for improving the methods and techniques of the operation the principal differences of which consisted in: (1) colostomy, except for the final formation of the opening at the level of the skin, was conducted before mobilization of the rectum; (2) retroperitoneal passing of the intestine was accomplished through the upper angle of a lyre-shaped incision of the pelvic peritoneum to the left of the sigmoid colon; (3) the use of a "closed" method of flat stoma formation by cutting the intestinal wall at the level of the skin down to the mucosa and attaching it to the skin by the musculoserous coat with interrupted catgut sutures, and only after that is the excessive mucosa cut off and the intestinal lumen opened.
Lyrically
Definition:
(adv.) In a lyrical manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) In a series of experiments we found that 1) growth rates of hamsters offered the Lyric diet alone or in conjunction with the standard rodent diet exceeded those of hamsters offered only the standard rodent diet.
(3) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
(4) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
(5) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
(6) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(7) We should strip our own national anthem back, and replace the lyrics with our own best-known meaningless word – “oi!” Unless of course Big Liz turns up, and then we can stick in those other words – but she’s not going to, is she?” Netherlands – Tinchy Stryder Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tinchy Stryder has had two UK No1 singles, Number 1 and Never Leave You.
(8) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(9) He rapped – he was introducing Dr Carson to his lyrics and what he raps about.” He quickly added that “it was clean rap; his lyrics were all clean.” The conversation was some time ago, Williams said, while Carson was still at Johns Hopkins.
(10) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
(11) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
(12) "And obviously, lyrics had to be approved by censors.
(13) The Heist features great songs, catchy, radio-friendly hooks and Macklemore's patented thought-provoking lyrics.
(14) "When people say your lyrics are quite dark, well, it's simple.
(15) But their lyrics soon alluded to "blood on the ground".
(16) Watching “our lads” pretending to mouth questionable lyrics about God giving the Queen near-immortal life, and her being the victor when she’s not really of fighting age, is silly.
(17) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
(18) The Oscars special edition of Biz Extra, published on 26 February, published the pictures alongside the lyrics to Seth McFarlane's controversial opening song We Saw Your Boobs.
(19) The irony is that it's the very people (yes Fox and Friends, I'm talking about you) who go around waxing lyrical about the virtues of motherhood and conception that are also the most likely to be pushing policies that make it next to impossible for many women to even conceive of being a mother.
(20) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .