(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?
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.