(n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) "We're not saying we're cutting niche parts," he said.
(3) The round window niche and membrane can be involved in clinical problems including perilymphatic fistulas, sensorineural hearing loss in otitis media, and a variety of others.
(4) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(5) Namely: it takes one small, heavily publicised niche – affluent, usually white LGBTs – and presents them as representative of a whole spectrum of people.
(6) The social network remains a niche product, beloved by journalists, celebrities, and a hard core of miscellaneous obsessive users — but few others.
(7) The diversity of lake phytoplankton is unexpectedly high, since the epilimnion of a lake is continuously mixing and might be expected to have only one or at most a few niches for primary producers.
(8) The massive otosclerotic focus, obliterating the oval window niche, has a relatively high case incidence of 11-2 per cent in South Australia.
(9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
(10) -- (2) Nothing is known about a niche overlap of Austromenopon and Actornithophilus.
(11) The fundamental criterion was the size of the niche as established by radiologic examination.
(12) And because the market is expanding, ironically consoles may even have a larger customer base thanks to tablets and mobile devices: in a broader market, the 10% slice may end up bigger than the 100% slice of a smaller, niche market.
(13) The existence of equilibria at which there is no genetic load is examined.--The absolute fitness of any genotype is regarded as a function of location in the niche space and the population density at that location.
(14) Apparently the same SC system is adaptive in diverse species despite the very different behavioral repertories of these animals and their different ecological niches.
(15) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(16) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
(17) The oval window niche was filled with either 1 percent sodium hyaluronate or 0.9 percent NaCl.
(18) Furthermore, taking account of the visual system of certain species from other orders, it is assumed that the cytoarchitecture of the visual system is dependent more upon the ecological niche than on systematics.
(19) Revision of the left niche was undertaken shortly after the 5th bleeding two months postoperatively.
(20) A reimbursement system designed to encourage competition led to a "survival-of-the-fittest" mentality that prompted many managers to develop "competitive strategies" and look for "niche opportunities."
Ornament
Definition:
(n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
(v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's not just a word, it's an ornament [for women]," Arinç told a crowd celebrating the end of Ramadan in the city of Bursa in an address that decried "moral corruption" in Turkey.
(2) Ornamental plants have long been used for indoor decoration.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) Built up at the end of the 19th century to provide large family homes for white-collar workers travelling to the City on the new railway, by the 1930s those homes were being turned into lodging houses, places for single tenants to watch the rain, listen to the mice scuttle, and hang themselves from the ornamental ceiling rose.
(5) According to Cites, about 97% of the species it regulates are commercially traded for food, fuel, forest products, building materials, clothing, ornaments, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting and other sport.
(6) Plane trees with pom-poms, dried brown seedpods, swinging ghosts of Christmas ornaments.
(7) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(8) An ornamental horse stands in the grounds of Yanukovych's presidential compound.
(9) Ethylenethiourea (ETU) is a degradation product from ethylenebisdithiocarbamate such as Zineb and Maneb which have been extensively used in food crops and ornamental plants.
(10) Intentional and non-intentional (ornamental and accidental) tattoos are reviewed.
(11) Many secondary sexual characters are supposed to have evolved as a response to female choice of the most extravagantly ornamented males, a hypothesis supported by studies demonstrating female preferences for the most ornamented males.
(12) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(13) Holder’s website offers a £2.50 plastic sailing ship described as “wonderfully ornamental but completely pointless vintage Chinese junk”.
(14) The university has already undertaken retrofits, taking advantage of a $3-per-square-foot reimbursement to tear out ornamental grasses, replacing them with drought resistant plants.
(15) The quite different requirements between reconstruction and ornamental studio tattooing can only be satisfied by different techniques.
(16) These loud orthographic markers, in turn, echo the profound divide that separates the Afghans' traditional society from the liberal markets from whence secondhand cars make their journey across continents, sometimes complete with dangerously loaded but misunderstood ornamental accessories.
(17) Morphological variations in Onchocerca armillata and O. gutturosa, from buffalo and cattle, with special reference to male tail and cuticular ornamentation, have been studied from a large collection of worms available from the infected aortae and ligamentum nuchae, procured from slaughter houses at 3 different localities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
(18) On the contrary, the cuticular ornamentation of the posterior region--which is composed of the area rugosa and of a system of bosses and constitutes a secondary non-skid copulatory apparatus--differs following the geographical origin of the strain.
(19) n.) for the species of Procamallanus with the buccal capsule ornamented with punctations.
(20) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.