(n.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
(n.) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.
(n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.
(n.) The foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We are going to be working this record for the next 18 months," says the boss of Atlantic, standing on a small podium surrounded by Astroturf.
(2) As a result, the 15 people on the podium were outnumbered less than three to one by the audience and a significant number of the attendees were WPP employees.
(3) We can’t let ministers just shrug their shoulders | Peter Tatchell Read more After returning to the podium at the Methodist central hall in Westminster, he told the audience Thornberry had clearly expressed Labour’s opposition to the war in Syria and had called for an end to the conflict.
(4) When he eventually walked to the podium, the typed final version was once more full of crossings out and scribbles.
(5) Then King grabbed the podium and set his prepared text to his left.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alton Sterling’s family give emotional statement after police killing Someone set up a makeshift podium in the parking lot and a public address system.
(7) Brando’s letter, which Littlefeather didn’t read on the podium, was later released to the press and asserted: “We lied to them.
(8) Standing on an Olympic podium is all very well but surveying the world from the summit is something else again.
(9) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(10) Through plain language and calm delivery at the podium he went a bit of the way, but in the end the substance of the speech was simply too lively to allow for the promised snoozeathon.
(11) Nick Clegg then says he will go ahead and have a debate with himself and empty podium the other parties.
(12) Also on the podium were Cuba’s Raúl Castro and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
(13) This is why it’s so important to name those responsible and not leave it as if this is an a-historic massacre.” Zedconte, 26, works as a consultant in Guadalajara Protest reach Plaza de la Liberacion in Guadalajara Protestors sit around an improvised podium where student victims and missing names where remembered.
(14) # mgeitf August 23, 2012 6.15pm BST The Guardian's Dan Sabbagh has just tweeted: Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) Liz Murdoch speech about to begin, promises to be very interesting # mgeitf August 23, 2012 and Dan Sabbagh (@dansabbagh) Liz Murdoch cheered as she takes the podium in Edinburgh.
(15) In a format almost (but not quite) as complicated as ITV’s seven-way leader debate on 2 April, the podium order from left to right will be Miliband, Wood, Bennett, Sturgeon and Farage.
(16) Speaking on the same podium, Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss called all the detainees still at the base "the meanest, nastiest killers in the world" and said the base should remain open, including for all the Yemenis.
(17) "I was pretty happy with how the Europeans went, it's good to be on the podium, but you need to look at the bigger picture," she says.
(18) For Nick Clegg, it happened last week, when he stepped back from his debate podium to address a retired toxicologist from Cheshire.
(19) He was present on Roosevelt Island in June when she formally announced her candidacy , but even then he was limited to waving from the sidelines and kept away from the podium.
(20) We will restore it on Liberty Square on the same podium,” he said.
Steeple
Definition:
(n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient was a 11-year-old boy with steeple-head and mild mental retardation.
(2) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(3) JJ Route 100, Vermont All your picture-postcard impressions of rural New England – village greens, white-steepled wooden church spires and roadside diners – can be enjoyed along Vermont's Route 100, which runs the length of the Green Mountains.
(4) Steeples and Towersey, both from England, are working full-time on Star Wars: Episode VII at Pinewood studios, where the snap was taken.
(5) "It all started when Kathleen Kennedy toured the R2-D2 Builders area at Celebration Europe this past summer in Germany," Steeples told the official Star Wars blog.
(6) After that, stare through your TV and into the future, and see your local owner salivating at the chance to further gut the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association – finger-steepling and eager to engineer another lockout or force a strike and hope that dog-whistling about “working for the good of the game” will motivate anti-blinged-out-player resentment lingering in every team fanbase.
(7) Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford's Bodleian library Read more The musical angel was once part of a cope – a ceremonial priestly cloak – which became an altar cloth for the small parish church of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.
(8) From here you can travel between steepled villages on easy footpaths, indulging in the odd lake crossing.
(9) Such was the dominance of the 17-year-old that she even survived the presence of the prime minister, David Cameron, whose attendance in the steepling stands became something of a bad omen during the Olympics.
(10) For us, a winter’s day may not have the exhilaration of the skylark’s steepling song flight, but we still thrill to vignettes from this glorious show-off.
(11) Not that it did much good – the lead was doubled a few minutes later when Stephen Gleeson sliced a cross and Grant circled under it like a dizzy cricket fielder attempting a steepling catch, the ball dropping over his head and into the net.
(12) Like the medieval skyline with its steeple, the London skyline with St Paul's perhaps revealed an acknowledgement that behind all the bustle of the city lies a great mystery of which we perceive only a little.
(13) The resort has a seafront church, Notre Dame des Dunes, with a witch’s-hat steeple and four surviving bornes de sauveté (medieval stone stacks which marked the limits of religious protection).
(14) There, despite the fact that minarets are within Swiss building regulations, the erection of minarets, a vital part of a mosque (much like a steeple is to a church), has been banned!
(15) Sedbergh , a near-medieval public school nestled among steepling fells in Cumbria, is a 6am-run-and-bracing-shower sort of institution.
(16) Church steeples, villages, parishes, whole départements flashed by, all peeping out from a vibrant golden-yellow blur of oilseed rape prairies.
(17) "How was that possible at a time when no one could get higher than a treetop or a steeple?
(18) Blood parameters were studied in two groups of horses in the "Velká Pardubická" steeple-chase in 1974, 1975 and 1976.
(19) n. is described from males, females, nymphs, and larvae from the steeple tower of St. Mary's Church, Karkow, Poland, where it feeds on domestic rock pigeons, Columba livia Gmelin.
(20) The simple fact that similar buildings such as steeples or Christian bell towers are not being equally constricted by the law shows blatant double standards.