(1) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(2) Each animal in a den cage remained for 12 or more hours of its rest period almost exclusively in the darkened nest box, then at an abrupt arousal time moved to the light-sampling porthole.
(3) He then inserts five small “portholes” for his instruments, and I begin to see inside Franks’ belly on monitors showing images from Pring’s keyhole camera.
(4) Chest-high at the front, clad in black tiles, the structure had a number of openings and artfully arranged portholes.
(5) They wrote a message, placed it in a bottle, and tossed it into the sea through a porthole.
(6) With the lights switched off during ascent, I could press my face against the porthole to see the bioluminescent displays of deep-sea animals: flashes and squirts of light in the smothering darkness, triggered by the passing of our submersible.
(7) It really felt like a pioneering thing when we first arrived,” she says, sitting in the living room of her home, which nestles behind the foundry apse like a cosy Hobbit cave, its porthole windows looking down on the bronze-pouring action below.
(8) Perhaps the most famous Metabolist incarnation is Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower , another pile of concrete cubes dotted with porthole-like windows, erected in 1972.
(9) Having already lost two days’ work, and with a skeleton team, the core group of about 25 people entered Libé’s “porthole” conference room, where the paper holds its morning editorial meeting.
(10) Its undulating facade of tapering terracotta cones, studded with porthole windows, formed the basis of what would prove to be his trademark style.
(11) As I looked out of a porthole for the porpoises that are said to come in close to the shore, I marvelled at this perfect marriage of Danish nature and smart design.
(12) The recalcitrance of the US and others on this issue smacks of protectionism - closing the portholes and hunkering down.
(13) There was standing room only in the eighth floor editorial conference room known as "le hublot" (the porthole), where journalists' union representative Olivier Bertrand dismissed reports that shareholders had attracted €12m (£10m) in new investment as only rumours.
(14) Every time you join a yacht and meet your new crew, or look out of the porthole when you arrive in the Maldives, or the Seychelles, you get a kick.
(15) Such actions involve water cannons and the damage is nothing worse than a few broken portholes.
(16) This is a subtle and sophisticated way of mocking people who dared to file a complaint with the ECHR: ah, OK, so you say that a cage with bars is bad; well then, here's a cage made of glass, with a little porthole through which you can talk to your lawyers, but you need to twist and contort yourself every which way to actually be able to speak through it.
(17) Southerden has spent the last seven months, with the help of hundreds of locals, designing, building and decorating a 210-tonne bow, complete with portholes and life rafts, to fit onto the end of his pub, the Coach and Horses in Kibworth .
(18) "The criminals managed to cut off all means of communication, but the 'prisoners' tossed a bottle with a message through a porthole explaining the situation," said La Russa.
(19) Our portholes became discs of the deepest blue imaginable – a colour eloquently described as "luminous black" by deep-sea pioneer William Beebe , after whom we named the undersea vents below.
(20) So far it has survived Trafalgar Square's infamous pigeons remarkably well, and the portholes in the base hide airconditioning to stop the bottle, made from perspex by an Italian firm specialising in aquarium manufacture, from fogging up.
Window
Definition:
(n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
(n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
(n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
(v. t.) To furnish with windows.
(v. t.) To place at or in a window.
Example Sentences:
(1) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
(2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(3) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
(4) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(5) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(6) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(7) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
(8) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(9) A wide window setting permits both pleura and lung parenchyma to be examined simultaneously.
(10) This resulted in greater uniformity of abrasion over the enamel surface within the biopsy window area and better operator handling characteristics.
(11) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(12) To assess the window of implantation, same age embryos were transferred onto endometrium of different maturational stages.
(13) Simultaneously, reactivity of pial arteriole was observed and its diameter was measured through the cranial window using intravital microscope and width analyzer.
(14) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(15) First, the induction and synthesis of specific proteins after brain cell injury provide a window through which insight on the regulation of gene expression in pathological tissue can be obtained.
(16) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
(17) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(18) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
(19) These include examination of blood films, which may prove helpful in the diagnosis of Chediak-Higashi syndrome and specific granule deficiency; the Rebuck skin window test, which estimates chemotactic defects; the NBT test, which screens for chronic granulomatous disease patients; and peroxidase staining of the blood film in order to estimate the content of myeloperoxidase, when myeloperoxidase deficiency is suspected.
(20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.