(n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Car sales are expected to drop across the industry this year: Fiat Chrysler has canceled all of its compact and midsize sedans and American automakers are bracing for a leaner 2017 after setting records in 2016.
(2) I'd rather have a sedan chair carried by four greased Egyptians.
(3) Having changed out of the white tracksuit he was wearing when he left Scotland into a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
(4) Photograph: wepods Several trials of autonomous vehicles are under way in the automotive and technology industries, from Tesla’s Model S sedan, which can change lanes with minimal driver input , to plans by Google and Daimler to introduce driverless vehicles.
(5) Aston Martin is planning to raise up to £150m from investors to move into new models such as crossover SUVs, luxury sedans and electric cars.
(6) The Palo Alto, California-based company currently makes one vehicle – the $70,000 Model S sedan – and is developing two others.
(7) Herbert Diess, chairman of the VW brand’s management board, and Heinz-Jakob Neusser, VW’s board member in charge of technical development, had planned to attend the event to introduce the latest version of the Passat mid-size sedan.
(8) Crossover SUVs – a cross between a family car and a sports car – sedans and hybrid models all feature in its plans.
(9) The driver of the sedan called 911 and California highway patrol officers responded.
(10) Oliver also suggests that Sedan have been led out at two recent Coupe de France finals by boars, while "FC Cologne has always employed a (real) goat as a mascot, I kid you not," chuckles Robert Sleigh.
(11) However, the gates were knocked down during the fighting for the capital and touring it in family sedans has now become the city's best day out.
(12) The electric tech mogul held a press conference on Friday to tell reporters how fast his old car goes with its new upgrade: zero to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds, which would put the four-door sedan in a league with high-end sports cars like the most recent Lamborghini Murciélago.
(13) People with Model S sedans that were made earlier do not have the required sensors and would not be able to add them retroactively.
(14) The Model X was originally unveiled in 2012 alongside the first deliveries of the Model S sedan and was expected to go into production in 2013.
(15) UberX is a ride-sharing system, UberBlack provides sedans and UberLux is the company’s high-end offering.
(16) When BYD Auto launches one of China's first mass produced fully electric sedans later this year, it will be trying to conquer the world rather than save it.
(17) After I rebuked him for his impertinence in waiting in the wrong place, thereby delaying me for at least 12 seconds, he lead me out to his highly polished black Cadillac sedan.
(18) Ships teeming with rear spoilers for family sedans being turned away from the nation’s harbors.
(19) A couple emerge from a silver Sedan into an empty parking lot in north-eastern Dallas, Texas .
(20) Tesla Motors, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, makes its all-electric Model S sedan at the Fremont factory.
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.