(n.) A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's still going to be one of the marquee companies of the US and the world."
(2) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
(3) Heselden's only reservation about the ceremony, said David Robinson, would have been the time it took 30 or more staff to wrestle with erecting the marquee.
(4) Hemingway’s daughter, Corey, is in a marquee at the back of the site, painting a teddy bear onto some MDF, in the pursuit of a Teddy Boy pun that either doesn’t work, or I don’t get, but it looks great.
(5) Filmed in a marquee in the grounds of Harptree Court in Somerset, and making unlikely TV stars out of judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, Bake Off (as it is known to its fans) is made by the independent production company Love Productions.
(6) When the first exit polls flashed up on the big screen in the same marquee at 7pm local time on Sunday, there were as many reporters, photographers and cameramen as there were party supporters.
(7) Beyond the live coverage, which will be in fixed time slots, including a live game at the Saturday 12.30pm ET time slot on NBC itself (in order to build a consistent presence), there will be a whole raft of secondary programming and content, including a half hour goals show on Sundays, a two hour Saturday highlights show, "Match of the Day", modeled on the BBC show, and cut-down games from marquee teams such as the two Manchester sides, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham, in distinct Monday and Tuesday night programmes.
(8) Krul still needed to brilliantly save Danny Drinkwater’s shot but Pardew’s decision to start Obertan and once again omit Rémy Cabella, his £12m marquee summer signing from Montpellier, had been vindicated.
(9) Poyet’s quest for that hitherto elusive league win involved dropping both Jack Rodwell, his marquee summer signing, and Adam Johnson to the bench.
(10) The marquee part of the Affordable Care Act went live yesterday as millions went online to browse health insurance options and begin signing up.
(11) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(12) At a meeting on Monday afternoon activists said they were in talks with a marquee company over donations of bigger, more permanent structures, allowing them to set up a "visitor centre" and an "outreach group" to spread the message via local schools and businesses.
(13) Had he been one of the marquee names in South Africa rather than an athlete schooled in the J-League who plays his club football in Russia, his performance would have made banner headlines worldwide.
(14) He repeatedly raped a young woman after dragging her into the wedding marquee and handcuffing her.
(15) "We've come a long way to re-establishing Discovery's brand as a real powerhouse, but I think Discovery can be even bigger and stronger, and become the marquee brand in cable," said Zaslav, according to Multichannel News.
(16) "Here's my take: whilst the clamouring for 'marquee' signings has no doubt contributed to a short-term success strategy at the top clubs, part of the problem is this: a 17-year-old Mexican wonderkid will cost a coach significantly less money than a 17-year-old British kid of equal talent.
(17) He was replaced as Delhi’s marquee player by Carlos, who became the club’s player-manager in July and will oversee the team’s 2015 campaign.
(18) Now he has returned as one of the marquee signings of Tim Leiweke’s big-money revolution in Toronto : “I was just saying to somebody last night, in 2004 and 2005, when I was playing for the Metrostars, we’d show up at the old Giants Stadium, we’d go into the locker room, change, we’d get back in 15-seat passenger vans, drive out to Rutherford, train on field turf that’s 100 degrees, get back in the vans, go back to Giants Stadium.
(19) The marquee was packed for both a great King Creosote set and the mighty, raucous British Sea Power.
(20) It only harms the league to have headlines involving Sterling, the newly crowned Most Hated Man In America , overshadowing the playoffs, especially with the NBA Finals, the league's marquee event, a week away.
Scroll
Definition:
(n.) A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
(n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
(n.) A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal.
(n.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gone would be the system of semi-competition, of backroom bundles that force you to pay for channels and programming you wouldn't watch – even if it was the only thing available, like when you turn off the TV after a long, fruitless Netflix scroll.
(2) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(3) Scrolling tabs in the tab bar Tighter integration with Mac Mail allows emailing directly from Safari using the recently sent to contact list 6.34pm BST Craig Federighi demonstrates the "simple and more powerful" design.
(4) Successive letters were scrolled in a horizontal direction at different speeds through a 'window'.
(5) The TPR values were closely correlated with subjective visual AR scores (r = 0.73), with AR scores derived by measuring the space between the ventral portion of the scroll and the floor of the nasal cavity (r = 0.72), and the actual size of this space in millimeters (r = 0.71).
(6) Fragments of Dead Sea Scroll Parchments were extracted for collagen and subjected to amino acid analysis.
(7) DNA Translator is able to convert documented GenBank or EMBL documented sequences into linearized, rescalable gene maps whose gene sequences are extractable by clicking on the corresponding map button or by selection from a scrolling list.
(8) An earlier version referred to a scrolling ticker on Qatari state television’s nightly newscast.
(9) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
(10) The highlights are below, scroll down for the full audio: On Thursday’s “bizarre” day in parliament: Leadership spills are unusual.
(11) It's actually easier doing that on the iPad than on a laptop – the scrolling works better.
(12) The Apple-Samsung case has so far lasted for four weeks, and the jurors are expected to deliberate for another week as they try to untangle the complex forms – in which they have to decide, among other things, whether any of 21 different Samsung tablets and smartphones infringed any of 10 different patents on functionality – such as the "rubber band" effect when trying to scroll past the top of a list – and whether the "trade dress" of Apple's products is sufficiently "famous" to merit protection.
(13) Interactive facilities include the ability, to scroll through the sequences, to rotate the structure and to connect the examination of the sequences and the structure by selecting a portion of the sequences and automatically highlighting the corresponding region in the structure and vice versa.
(14) Data are displayed taking advantage of such features of these terminals as reverse video, highlighting, and scroll windowing.
(15) From Nic Philps to Dave Barber: The first hour of the programme is here [hyperlink] Scroll through to the phone call at 52 mins in.
(16) For a list of 21 smartphones and tablets, has Apple shown that Samsung infringed the '381 patent (covering "bounce-back" when scrolling to the end of a list)?
(17) The mean diameter of the individual subunit ('scroll') inside the secretory granule was 88.8 nm for both normal and asthmatic lung.
(18) Cat videos aside, there’s an unspoken war going on Take a scroll through your Facebook feed.
(19) However, scroll formation, characteristic of mast cell granules, was not observed in cells grown in semisolid and liquid culture.
(20) The following advantages are notable: (1) the anatomic area of interest can be located first with the conventional real-time two-dimensional mode, then switched to reveal three-dimensional images, instantly; (2) three images are exhibited concurrently; (3) each of the three images can be arrayed separately and scrolled to search for the area of interest within the scanned volume; (4) the three-dimensional ultrasonography can be equipped with Doppler color flow mapping for the study of the fetal cardiovascular system.