(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.
Wall
Definition:
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
(n.) The side of a level or drift.
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(4) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(8) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(9) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(10) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
(12) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(13) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
(14) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(15) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(16) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(17) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(18) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(19) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
(20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.