(n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.
Example Sentences:
(1) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(2) Mike Newell , who made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire , directed Great Expectations, but there was no big-budget largesse this time.
(3) In June, Holliday and Newell were told that Jessica has Leigh’s syndrome , an inherited neurological disorder that was already causing lesions in her brain.
(4) Updated at 7.16pm BST 3.31pm BST This is Jim Newell in Washington.
(5) They’re wanting to try and park large sums of money – I’m talking from £25m [US$38.5m] to £150m,” Newell said.
(6) Newell has been in priso n since the late 1980s, serving a life sentence for murdering a neighbour during the course of a burglary.
(7) As was found by the hybridization technique, 43 strains among 92 studied strains of the yeast Rhodotorula glutinis belong to Rhodosporidium diobovatum Newell et Hunter (Ustilaginaceae, Basidiomycetes).
(8) "If it is the time between first and third goal, the record is, incredibly, held by Mike Newell, who scored a hat-trick in nine minutes for Blackburn against Rosenborg in the 1995-96 season.
(9) It’s disappointing, but it’s part of this business.” 2.16pm BST Good morning, this is Jim Newell from Washington.
(10) The approach into the Emirates is rather less dangerous than that to Rosario Central’s Estadio Gigante De Arroyito, where Pochettino played for the local rivals, Newell’s Old Boys, in his native Argentina.
(11) Pablo Migliore was detained on Sunday night on the pitch after police sealed off the stadium where only hours before the club had lost 0-1 to Newell's Old Boys.
(12) They have learned, for instance, that the smiles from their daughter, so rare that Newell describes them as “gold dust” could be infrequent because her body is conserving energy.
(13) And reduced prominence for the telescope could impact on the 120,000 visitors who take the Telescope Road exit off the Newell Highway each year.
(14) In an earlier study, Stinson, Newell, Castle, Mallery-Ruganis, and Holcomb (1989) identified a number of characteristics deemed important for comprehension, based on interviews with deaf professionals.
(15) Mike Newell, then Luton Town's manager, said publicly that bungs were rife.
(16) A native of Rosario, Sante Fe in central Argentina, Garay made his way to Benfica via Newells Old Boys, Racing Santander and Real Madrid.
(17) "Have Newell's Old Boys ever played Young Boys of Berne?"
(18) If we went through the natural route, they could never tell us if another baby would be affected,” said Newell, 42, director of High Wycome Cricket Club.
(19) Pochettino blazed his kick over the crossbar but Newell’s still won an epic shootout 11-10.
(20) After a 1-1 first-leg draw, the 20-year-old Pochettino headed Newell’s in front before the Colombians scored a late equaliser and penalties ensued.
Pillar
Definition:
(n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
(n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.
(n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
(n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
(a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
(2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(3) The west African nation, once seen as a pillar of democracy in the troubled region, has been split in two since a coup in March.
(4) Pores about 8 nm in diameter are again to be found where the pillars are anchored in the outer cell membrane.
(5) Investment spending fell by 4.4%, leaving government spending as the only pillar that was growing, by 1%.
(6) Job security is a key pillar of professional fulfilment and academic research has found that feeling settled in a job can increase motivation and productivity and reduces the likelihood of staff taking time off work due to illness.
(7) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
(8) Marine Rotational Force – Darwin” (MRF-D) is one of four American marine air ground task forces (MAGTFs) in the Asia-Pacific region, along with those in Guam, Hawaii and Okinawa, the sum of which make up a central strategic pillar of the pivot.
(9) The secondary lamellae of the gills were shortened and deformed and the epithelial cells were disoriented with regard to the pillar cell system.
(10) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(11) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(12) A just-formed unity government in Baghdad which has yet to prove itself, and a non-jihadist rebel force in Syria which was judged until yesterday to have almost disappeared, are weak pillars for an ambitious policy.
(13) And together they met on a cold, grey Friday in Margate – two pillars of the establishment albeit of a very different kind.
(14) As it has elevated "hygge" (cosiness) into a way of life, Copenhagen has elevated the humble bicycle into a cultural icon, a pillar of its image.
(15) Considerable improvements could be made by providing impact attenuation in the head contact areas on the door, roof and B-pillar.
(16) The fracture lines through the articular pillar were difficult to detect in some cases or to distinguish from a facet joint in others.
(17) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(18) I think this shake-up at Fifa is fantastic because the next Fifa president could have this wonderful platform — here’s one of his pillars for his legacy,” Foudy said.
(19) The principle of this technique is that the divergent laser beam enters a glass square pillar, propagates through the pillar repeating the total reflection and emerges with a uniform intensity distribution over the cross-section at the end of the pillar.
(20) Biopsies were obtained from their respiratory papillomas and nondiseased sites (NDS) of the respiratory tract: the nasopharynx, posterior tonsillar pillar, aryepiglottic fold, cervical trachea, intrathoracic trachea, and bronchi.