(n.) A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paris councillors back plan for first new skyscraper in 40 years Read more But if you listen to the man behind this megalith describing its virtues, you would be forgiven for thinking it will barely be noticeable at all.
(2) Why disaster movies are leading the way for age-appropriate relationships Read more San Andreas , which stars Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino in a story about a massive earthquake on the titular Californian fault line, received mixed reviews from critics, but was helped by Johnson’s star power in the wake of box-office megalith Fast and Furious 7.
(3) The conicidence of surviving both of Crô-Magnon-typical men and of the archaic Altaic language on the Canary Islands as a reservation of megalithic civilization up to the Middle Ages (XVIth century) approves the hypothesis mentioned above.
(4) One, that it's a place of extreme contrasts, from the historic East End to the shimmering banker megaliths of Canary Wharf, and two, that its politics are vicious.
(5) It's likely this is why they were chosen over other, closer megalithic materials.
(6) Owned by brew pub craft-beer megalith McMenamins, Edgefield is a sprawling plantation with restaurants, a hotel, a distillery and a golf course.
(7) But ultimately, most analysts believe whatever Greece decides in a month's time, the crisis is unlikely to be cauterised until politicians make what Mellor calls a "monumental, megalithic decision": to allow the ECB to freely lend cash-strapped banks as much as they need to stay afloat; and to allow eurozone governments to stand behind each other, come what may.
(8) Prof Kate Welham, of Bournemouth University, said the ruins of a dismantled monument were likely to lie between the two megalith quarries.
(9) You’ll need permission from the farmer to walk on his land but this should be irresistible for anyone game on to solve a megalithic mystery.
(10) Starting in North End and pushing flush against the well-known New Brighton and Kwazakhele townships, you encounter old rusted shells, dilapidated mill houses, and the megalithic Goodyear, Eveready and PPC (cement) factories.
(11) The megaliths would not have been used for ceremonies at ground level, but would instead have supported a circular wooden platform on which ceremonies were performed to the rotating heavens, the theory suggests.
(12) Strange would exist in the same universe as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Hulk, all of whom came together for last year's $1.5bn box office megalith The Avengers .
(13) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Rising to 25 storeys, the towers will be the same height as the nearby Sule Shangri-La hotel, a brutish megalith erected in the 1990s, whose construction provided the regime with a convenient excuse to level a group of coffee houses that were a popular hangout for the city’s activists and intellectuals.
(14) The studio also has a sequel to the 2012 box office megalith The Avengers and a debut Ant-Man set to hit cinemas next year.
(15) How do you go from a microbudget monster movie with special effects created using off-the-shelf software to a $160m (£96m) Hollywood megalith starring the hottest cult actor in the world in three years?
(16) Swords and sorcery tale Black Angel was commissioned by Star Wars creator George Lucas to be screened with his 1980 box office megalith in European cinemas.
(17) In roughly the same amount of time, MasterChef has transformed from a BBC2 runt into an Apprentice-sized megalith.
(18) Australian actor Chris Hemsworth rounds out the top five with $37m, thanks to his roles as a Norse demigod in last year's Thor: The Dark World and the 2012 $1.5bn box-office megalith The Avengers .
(19) So how does that tally with Marvel's announcement that the Whedon-directed sequel to last year's $1.5bn box office megalith will feature the villain Ultron , a character well-known from the comic books?
Monolith
Definition:
(n.) A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
(2) Fed up with parallel universe theories that have little to say about the world they're interested in, students at Manchester University have set up a post-crash economics society with 800 members, demanding an end to monolithic neoclassical courses and the introduction of a pluralist curriculum.
(3) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(4) It was found that all the global-release profiles yielded by the indomethacin-loaded Eudragit RL microspheres conformed to the Higuchi diffusional model of dispersed drug particles in spherical micromatrices and not to the desorption kinetic model of a dissolved drug from a monolithic spherical device.
(5) The last decade has seen dramatic advances in the design of sensor configurations, the marriage of biological systems with modern monolithic silicon and optical technologies, the development of effective electron-exchange systems and the introduction of direct immunosensors.
(6) "We're not interested in being a monolithic entity on the internet.
(7) The findings revealed no monolithic orientation, but showed that the nature of the issue determines which reference group is activated: peers or parents.
(8) As for gay men, Islam's attitude to them is, she says, no worse than that of any of the 'monolithic' faiths.
(9) The cumulative amount of the drug released plotted against the square root of time was linear in the monolithic system.
(10) A monolithic intraocular lens (IOL) design is described, made of with a total diameter of 8.5-9.0 mm.
(11) It’s very hard to see how they [the cuts] can be justified, especially not on the monolithic grounds of saving money for the hard-working consumer, or whatever it is [energy and climate secretary] Amber Rudd keeps saying.
(12) In other words, we’re meant to get diversity and responsiveness courtesy of monoliths.
(13) The monolithic concept bulk of this scientific Anthropocene can crush the subtleties out of both past and future, disregarding the roles of ideology, empire and political economy.
(14) On the basis of this research, the authors recommended that a drug educational programme should not treat drug use as a monolithic concept confined exclusively to legal and medical definitions, but, instead, should treat it in the context of the prevailing attitudes and factors involved.
(15) Starting from microscopic observations on early rabbit embryos and related cryotolerance, we investigated purified actin solutions under similar conditions, and found that sol-gel processing could result in the formation of homogeneous glass, and through drying, give rise to monolithic solids, glasses and composites.
(16) Three metres above us were the bases of these monoliths that were actually sitting there ready simply to be lowered out of their recesses,” he said.
(17) A possible use of konjac gel for sustained release of drugs was examined in a monolithic system containing dibucaine.
(18) When the hijackers boarded the four planes at Boston, Newark and Washington that morning they had been drilled to believe that they were attacking the enemy of a monolithic America.
(19) He faltered only when faced with the monolith of the 1960s extension to the town hall; not even he could find anything nice to say about that.
(20) We’re disrupting this idea that’s been perpetrated by the gun lobby and the media for far too long that you support gun violence legislation at your own political peril.” Third, ARS uses digital to show that groups traditionally thought of as strongly pro-gun – veterans, for example – are not so monolithic in their views.