(n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.
(n.) A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena.
(n.) A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.
(n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Syrian government also hit rebel-held areas with air strikes on Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
(2) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(3) Another 57 fighters with the al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaida, were killed in air strikes on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo and Idlib, the Observatory said.
(4) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria’s civil war, claimed that US air strikes also hit a headquarters for a Nusra-aligned militant group, Ahrar al-Sham.
(5) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
(6) On Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed militants had seized part of a northern district of the town, after a day of heavy clashes.
(7) Willie Soon is a Smithsonian staff researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” a Harvard spokesman, Jeff Neal, said.
(8) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(9) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(10) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
(11) Scott Greer is associate professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan , research associate of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and senior visiting fellow of LSE Health This article is published by Guardian Professional.
(12) Hundreds of civilians have left,” said the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman.
(13) It also ignores evidence from Oxford's Migration Observatory , which tracks the employment status of migrants.
(14) Perched some 11,000ft up a volcano, the Mauna Loa observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since 1958.
(15) 11.22am BST The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that western Ghouta was also targeted by regime forces today.
(16) What we showed is that even under natural conditions, it can become much drier than predicted by any of our models,” said Yael Kiro , a geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the US.
(17) Syrian ceasefire deal - the Guardian briefing Read more On Tuesday the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the conflict, updated its tally of fatalities.
(18) Six children were among the dead, while dozens were wounded, the Observatory added.
(19) Working in a location to the southeast of Kathmandu, Paul Tapponnier, an earth scientist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore , and his team dug trenches across the fault and used charcoal to date when it had moved.
(20) The group’s members and their families have begun leaving the city and relocating to Mosul, Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Observer
Definition:
(n.) One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.
(n.) One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice.
(n.) One who fulfills or performs; as, an observer of his promises.
(n.) A sycophantic follower.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(3) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(4) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(5) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(7) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
(8) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
(9) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(10) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(11) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(12) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(13) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(14) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(15) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
(16) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(17) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
(18) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
(19) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(20) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).