(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
(a.) A bastion of a circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just as the Roman legions carried their eagle and Christian missionaries had the cross, so the TfL roundel will be raised proudly in parts of the suburban rail network that never saw it before.
(2) Lights started to come on behind the gammariya, the roundel windows of stained glass, casting jewelled shadows on the ground below.
(3) Roundell is a former head of Impressionist and Modern Pictures at Christie’s, whose sales of masterpieces have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which broke the then record for a work of art when it sold in 1987 for nearly £25m.
(4) "This is a painting that has everything," says James Roundell of Dickinson, the dealer that will handle the sale for an anonymous private collector.
(5) This included the Korean name of the DPRK written in a stylised Hangul font and a new logo on the tail, featuring a roundel like that of the KPA Air Force – albeit with different proportions – flanked by a blue, stylised bird-of-prey .
(6) Research into Le Moulin d’Alphonse was conducted by James Roundell and Simon Dickinson, British art dealers, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
(7) The system that we propose comprises continuous circular capsulorhexis (Neuhann and Gimbel), hydrodelamination (Brint), roundel phacoemulsification (Hara and Hara), new IOL designs, and intraoperative extensive lens epithelial cell removal.
Syke
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Sike.
Example Sentences:
(1) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(2) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(3) More recently, the Muslim world has had artificial lines drawn all over it, most notably by Mr Sykes and Mr Picot during the first world war.
(4) Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), Sykes monkeys (C. mitis) and baboons (Papio cynocephalus) all supported low grade infections for periods ranging between four and eight months and subsequently showed evidence of self-cure.
(5) All these cell lines had T-cell markers and Tac antigen, and the cell lines from the African green monkey and Sykes' monkeys were Leu2a+ while those from other species were Leu3a+.
(6) "Paul Sykes has a long record of defending British democracy, "he said.
(7) Fourteen strains of Enterobacteriaceae producing Richmond & Sykes Class I beta-lactamase were studied.
(8) It should not be a shock he’s not going to be a deficit hawk.” Trump has no intention of shrinking the federal government, Sykes added, and his praise of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, would have been unthinkable to cold warrior Reagan.
(9) The autopsy, says Alvin Sykes, president of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign, will be "Emmett's first and last chance to speak for himself ...
(10) Using the Kelsey-Sykes capacity-test, it was found that a sterile yeast suspension used to simulate 'dirty' conditions, gave an increased effect of Chloramine T against the fungi Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, Geotrichum candidum and Penicillium sp.
(11) Kinetic studies suggested that it belonged to Richmond and Sykes beta-lactamase class 1c.
(12) It also was not hydrolyzed by cephalosporinases of Richmond-Sykes type Ia or Id.
(13) Giles Fraser makes one small but significant error in his piece on the Sykes-Picot agreement ( Loose canon , 8 April).
(14) One of Britain's wealthiest men, Paul Sykes, has pledged to do "whatever it takes" to ensure Nigel Farage's UK Independence party triumphs in next year's elections to the European parliament.
(15) "It is truly an honour to be here," Wanda Sykes said when she stood up at the prestigious correspondents' dinner for the first black president.
(16) There is nothing else there.” Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media Publication: Politico magazine Author: Charlie Sykes Skyes is a conservative talk radio host in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(17) The effects of antibiotics on host flora are described, and the implications of bacterial resistance for selection of a prophylactic agent, particularly with respect to induction of the Richmond-Sykes type I beta-lactamase enzyme, are discussed.
(18) A ComRes poll commissioned by Ukip's main financial backer, Paul Sykes, suggested that 86% of the 4.3 million people who gave the party its first national victory in the European elections, would vote for it again in the general election.
(19) Sykes was a strong supporter and backer of the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s but broke with the party in 1991 over John Major's stance on the Maastricht Treaty.
(20) A lentivirus, designated SIVsyk, was isolated from five of six seropositive asymptomatic Sykes' monkeys, but in four cases isolation was possible only after depletion of CD8+ lymphocytes and cocultivation of the CD4(+)-enriched cell population with peripheral blood mononuclear cells from seronegative Sykes' monkeys.