(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.
Terrace
Definition:
(v.) A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
(v.) A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
(v.) A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.
(v.) A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
(v.) A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
(v. t.) To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(3) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
(4) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(5) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(6) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(7) The Arbor was supported by Artangel , the arts commissioning body that produced Rachel Whiteread's House , her 1993 cast of a condemned terraced home, and Roger Hiorns's Seizure (2008), an empty council flat encrusted with cobalt-blue crystals.
(8) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(9) Even now, although she's living among the terrace houses that cross the Yorkshire hills of the constituency she seeks to represent, she has found her way back to the centre of the economic downturn.
(10) On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.
(11) The hotel itself offers studios with sea views above a breakfast terrace that also hosts a large pool and an outdoor Jacuzzi.
(12) In recent years, the violence has shifted away from the terraces into the streets of the capital as rival barras fight for control in a blaze of fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions.
(13) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(14) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(15) But this afternoon a Metropolitan spokesman said: "Police are investigating circumstances surrounding an incident in Carlton House Terrace, SW1, at about 8am today."
(16) Hillsides denuded of trees for terraced farming plots are common.
(17) They live in a quiet suburban street with neatly kept gardens and a mixture of privately owned and rented terraces and semi-detached houses.
(18) Kirsten Reid, who has twin sons aged 15, rents a terrace house 15-20 minutes' walk from her sister Elspeth's house.
(19) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
(20) Expansive open-plan floors are once again linked with weaving flights of escalators, only here they are suspended precipitously through dramatic interlocking rotundas, which climb from the cavernous lending library terraces, up through floating rings of bookshelves, to the heavenly reaches of the light-flooded atrium above.