(n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) When there was no longer any rainfall to fill up their reservoirs, the springs had dried up too.” For centuries, the Maya at Tikal had been erecting stelae – upright stone slabs with hieroglyphs and depictions of gods and rulers.
(2) Incorporating Skype into Windows Phone – which will be used by the Finnish phone-maker Nokia in forthcoming smartphones – could also have advantages in countries such as Latin America, where people find voice calls too expensive and prefer to use data services, said Stela Bokun of Pyramid Research.
(3) Analysis of the ritual and sacred iconography of dynastic Egypt, as seen on stelae, in magical papyri, and on vessels, indicates that these people possessed a profound knowledge of plant lore and altered states of consciousness.
(4) She, and her friend Stela Ciobanu, 24, also a nurse, are working as hotel cleaners in London.
Stell
Definition:
(v. t.) To place or fix firmly or permanently.
(v. t.) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.
(v. t.) A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The military prosecutor, major Rob Stelle, told the court: "Sergeant Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality.
(2) stainless-stell column of 10% QF-1 on Gas-Chrom Q using a temperature programme.
(3) The squamous metaplasia of laryngeal epithelium was examined using the gross staining method (Pyronin Y) of STELL et al.
(4) Measurements of thermal conductivity were made in laminar flow of dog and turkey erythrocyte suspensions in a stainless stell tube of about 1 mm ID.
(5) If we played our cards right we could perhaps pull off an historic result like the Movimento Cinque Stelle in Italy.
(6) The Stell model accounts for the spectral but not for the dynamic behavior of the horizontal cells.
(7) But among the 162 newly-elected 5 Stelle MPs there are 62 women; and the Grillini are, for the most part, young former left-wingers, environmentalists and local activists who had been ignored by the self-important and self-deceiving Democratic party leadership.
(8) Miniature stainless stell concentric electrodes were chronically implanted onto the floor of the fourth ventricle of six animals.
(9) Some are desperately trying to start a dialogue with the 5 Stelle, which means exclusively with Grillo and his advisor-consultant-guru Gianroberto Casaleggio, who keeps humiliating them.
(10) Lt Col Rob Stelle told the judge: "It certainly goes to evidence in aggravation, the attitude of lack of remorse."
(11) There was not even any celebration from the real winners, the militants and voters of the Movimento 5 Stelle ( Five Stars ?
(12) In Italy the comedian Beppe Grillo has been the catalyst for the Movimento Cinque Stelle (Five Star Movement), a populist, anti-corruption organisation which has tried to position itself outside of the traditional left-right paradigm.
(13) They were found to arise in horizontal cells with H2-like morphologies on average (Stell & Lightfoot, 1975).
(14) 1) Dogs equipped with a stainless stell cannula in the middle of the duodenum were challenged to the oral threshold emetic dose of copper sulfate administered by a gastric tube.
(15) Bone defects comparable to clinical situations were simulated in a group of dry human jaws, using stell fissure and round burs of different sizes.
(16) This model is in sharp contrast to the Stell model, where the spectral behavior of the three horizontal cell types is explained by a cascade of feedforward and feedback pathways between cones and horizontal cells.
(17) Stell, D. O. Lightfoot, and T. G. Wheeler (Science, 1975, 190,989-990) is supported.
(18) The military prosecutor, Major Rob Stelle, told the court: "Sergeant Gibbs had a charisma, he had a 'follow me' personality.
(19) Mandible sparing operations such as a modification of the "pull through" technique described by Stell or temporary splitting of the mandible are oncologically safe in many cases.
(20) While it appears unlikely that Beppe Grillo, a former comedian and co-founder of the populist party, will get his general election wish, the bold demand showed his Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) now has its sights on an even greater electoral victory: one that would eventually land it in the prime minster’s residence in Palazzo Chigi.