What's the difference between rostrum and trireme?

Rostrum


Definition:

  • (n.) The beak or head of a ship.
  • (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
  • (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
  • (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
  • (n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
  • (n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
  • (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
  • (n.) Same as Rostellum.
  • (n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
  • (n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
  • (2) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
  • (3) 'Froch, Dock, Hoch - whatever his name is - has been making his name on the back of my son for the last six years, He's not even on our rostrum, let me tell you.
  • (4) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
  • (5) Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and the war of words over US immigration Read more Speaking from a rostrum never before occupied by a pope, the Argentinian told a rare joint meeting of Congress to reject xenophobia and embrace immigrants.
  • (6) We divided the corpus callosum into three segments: rostrum and genu; anterior and posterior trunks; splenium.
  • (7) Callosal fibers from the ventral half of the frontal cortex passed through the rostrum, and those from the ventral occipital and dorsal temporal cortex passed through the ventral splenium.
  • (8) Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back.
  • (9) He could laugh at himself in the style of the most sophisticated political satirist, and move on to threaten thunder and revolution from the rostrum.
  • (10) 500,000-750,000 short free kinetosomes are concentrated in a dense column which extends from the centriolar apparatus in the rostrum to the anterior side of the nucleus Most of the short free kinetosomes in the column are arranged end-to-end in chains of varying lengths.
  • (11) The results demonstrate that the secondary palate contributes significantly to the torsional strength and stiffness of the rostrum of Didelphis and to the strength of each maxilla in lateromedial bending.
  • (12) Using microsurgical technique, we followed the path described by Bogen and Vogel requiring division of the corpus callosum from rostrum to splenium, the anterior commisure, one fornix, and hippocampal commissure.
  • (13) Ryan’s first mention of Trump was his promise that at the next State of the Union address, “you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice-President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump”, at which the crowd began chanting Trump’s name.
  • (14) Unlike talpids, chrysochlorids have eyes covered with skin; pick-like foreclaws; a blunt, padded rostrum; and no external tail.
  • (15) Considering that eye movements express visual dreams in humans and are prominent during desynchronized sleep in cats, monkeys and birds, rostrum movements were investigated in a macrosmatic species, the rat, to assess the hypothesis that, expressing olfactory and tactile (involving the vibrissae) dreams, they would prevail over eye movements.
  • (16) The deflection of the rostrum is situated in the region of the right premaxillar bone.
  • (17) Buoyed by successive opinion polls showing growing support, Salmond taunted Cameron from his rostrum: "If at any point David Cameron walks in, I am available for this debate," he said, to chuckles from the largely middle-aged audience.
  • (18) For loading at the incisors and canines, these properties indicate the structural strength and stiffness in both bending and torsion of the rostrum and of single maxillae.
  • (19) But it's about more than just colour: other visual motifs include long tracking shots, 90-degree whip pans and tilts, rostrum shots over miniature models, intertitles ( font: Futura ), montages, storybook stylings, and an almost Kubrickian obsession with symmetry and camera movement.
  • (20) However some parts have a dual origin: rhombo-mesencephalic neural crest cells are found in the otic capsule, and the frontal bone, the rostrum of parasphenoid and the orbital cartilages contain diverse amounts of prosencephalo-mesencephalic neural crest cells.

Trireme


Definition:

  • (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

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