(n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(4) In the present work by the method of molecular DNA hybridization there was shown a low degree of affinity of the standard museum strains of cholera vibrios to the respresentatives of the sea species V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, and also halophilic vibrios identified earlier on the basis of phenotypical characteristics of the nucleotide DNA composition as Marinovibrio.
(5) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
(6) Russia has no national museum of Stalin's repression but Moscow has two Gulag museums.
(7) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
(8) Was this a museum with a mission to educate, or not?
(9) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, opens 21 November
(10) The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust education officer, Rachel Donnelly, thinks the certification is appropriate.
(11) "It would probably take a half day to prepare a skull cup," said Silvia Bello, the palaeontologist who led the study at the Natural History Museum in London.
(12) The museum defines its radicals as: “Men and women who believed in ideas worth fighting for.
(13) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
(14) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
(15) The union has accused museum management of refusing to provide information on costing or how service standards would be monitored, and says the companies believed to be in the running have little experience of providing the full range of visitor services currently provided by in-house staff.
(16) DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained from a museum specimen of the presumed extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and were compared with homologous sequences from 13 representatives of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae.
(17) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(18) They will be able to use the collection as if it were their own collection and explore the world in their own way.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Google employee photographs exhibits at the British Museum.
(19) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
(20) In the Museum of the Warsaw Rising, the sound effects are powerful, the visuals compelling, the tragedy forcefully conveyed.
Pavilion
Definition:
(n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
(n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
(n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
(n.) Same as Tent (Her.)
(n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
(v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having an independent thinker at Westminster is what the people of Brighton Pavilion would want.
(2) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(3) An oocyte donor program was established at the Women's Medical Pavilion, Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1987 for women lacking normal ovarian function.
(4) In a nutshell: Sandcastle settlements Poland – Impossible Objects Gothic fantasies ... the Poland pavilion.
(5) A few details of their plans have been revealed including the indication of it being the Serpentine's lowest pavilion ever, with the roof barely 1.5 metres (5ft) off the ground.
(6) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(7) A series of 632 patients undergoing one or more transurethral resections of the prostate gland at Wesley Pavilion of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is presented.
(8) There are few undisputed champions in the restaurant business but I would argue that Vasco & Piero's Pavilion , a traditional osteria-style restaurant specialising in Umbrian cuisine, makes the best bowl of pasta in London.
(9) It was supplemented by the all-brick Guest House a few yards away, and later by a lake pavilion and underground art galleries.
(10) Photograph: Pablo Lopez Luz In recent years, pixadores have targeted icons of São Paulo’s modernism, including the Wilton Paes de Almeida building and Niemeyer’s famous pavilion located inside Ibirapuera Park .
(11) Chu's appearance before a packed hall at the US pavilion was part of an ambitious outreach effort by the Obama administration to persuade a sceptical international community it is serious about taking action on climate change.
(12) Nine years later, I realise that, despite its gorgeous location, the Pavilion is a shitehole boozer that sells horrible food, the children are still stuck to their screens, despite our best efforts (including joining the sailing club: brief pause for the hollowest of laughs at that one), and something nasty is stirring in my adopted home town.
(13) Refreshments are available at the Cavendish Pavilion which is close to the Sandholme car park.
(14) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
(15) Designed by Future Systems, architects of the Space Age-style press pavilion at Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood, it has about it, from the outside at least, not just something of a Pop era frock, but something of the sea and even the ocean depths - something, too, of outer space exploration.
(16) The conference is taking place adjacent to the Brighton Pavilion constituency in which Lucas is standing at the general election.
(17) Lucas is standing as parliamentary candidate in Brighton Pavilion, where the Greens came third in 2005, nearly 6,000 votes behind Labour, which took the seat.
(18) In one scrap of paper he imagines "as background, perhaps: An electric fête recalling the decorative lighting of Magic city or Luna Park or the Pier Pavilion at Herne Bay ..." So Herne Bay inspired him to realise the iconic work on glass rather than canvas.
(19) But sometimes long shots work | Gavin Barrett Read more Caroline Lucas, the party’s other co-leader and MP for Brighton Pavilion, announced earlier on Thursday that she would urge Labour MPs to join her in voting against the “premature triggering” of article 50 by parliament.
(20) The Green party won its highest-ever share of the vote in Thursday’s UK election but failed to add to its one seat in parliament, where Caroline Lucas increased her majority in Brighton Pavilion six-fold.