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Stirk


Definition:

  • (n.) A young bullock or heifer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Graham Stirk on the roof of the Leadenhall building, also known as the Cheesegrater.
  • (2) Leadenhall Building at 122 Leadenhall Street, otherwise know as the Cheesegrater, facing the Lloyds building Photograph: David Levene Since Lloyd's, Stirk thinks there has been an increase in the "homogeneity" of architecture.
  • (3) A. McKeating, S. Stagno, P. R. Stirk, and P. D. Griffiths, J. Med.
  • (4) The 47-storey, 224m skyscraper, designed by Graham Stirk of Rogers Stirk Harbour and partners – is still empty, with the first tenants due to move in early next year.
  • (5) This is accompanied by a stirking rise in the incidence of asthma.
  • (6) But, said Stirk, the buildings had "their DNA and an evolutionary path" in common.
  • (7) In 2007 the Richard Rogers Partnership became Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners, reflecting the influence of younger colleagues Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour, and Rogers says that while there is a public demand to have one person out front, "of course it doesn't work like that.
  • (8) The building's exposed innards caused widespread palpitations when it was built in the 1980s and Stirk recalled "a very, very mixed reaction".
  • (9) One key reason for the difference, Stirk explains, is that the latter was designed for a client while Leadenhall was designed for British Land, a speculative developer.
  • (10) "Cities go through cycles," said Simon Smithson, a partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners , and head of the practice's Latin American projects.
  • (11) The services and lifts are all encased in a glazed "cassette" on one side of the building rather than being exposed, which Stirk describes as a "jellyfish" effect.
  • (12) Photograph: David Levene "When I look at Lloyd's, it is amazingly dense," said Stirk.
  • (13) Photograph: Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners A recent London housing project, One Hyde Park, has caused controversy in its construction of some of the most expensive homes in the world with little public access.
  • (14) Whatever the truth, Project Blue (Guernsey) Ltd, which was set up by the Qatar royal family , announced today that it has withdrawn its planning application for a set of sleek, hi-tech towers designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour , a firm that, however impressive on a good day (think Lloyd's of London Building or the Welsh Assembly ), does everything Prince Charles and his train of classical revivalists believe shouldn't be done.
  • (15) Now, one of Rogers' senior partners, Stirk has overseen the design of Leadenhall.
  • (16) The triangular glass-clad tower, designed by Richard Rogers’ firm Rogers Stirk Harbour, is officially named the Leadenhall building.
  • (17) "Offices are the most difficult buildings to design as an architect," Stirk said.
  • (18) "I am sure that in their meeting, the Prince of Wales expressed his dislike for the Rogers Stirk Harbour Partnership's design, and the emir politely concurred," said Vos.

Stork


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
  • (2) Antisera raised against domestic fowl transthyretin (thyroxine-binding prealbumin) and quail albumin were used to identify thyroxine-binding proteins in the plasma of White storks (Ciconia ciconia) and to measure seasonal changes in these proteins.
  • (3) The application of the transformation technique of Stork and Falk [J. Opt.
  • (4) "It's outrageous and cruel that people are taken off to detention and the families hear nothing until the body shows up with signs of abuse," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
  • (5) "The Lebanese government is bearing an incomparable burden with the Syrian refugees crossing its borders, but blocking Palestinians from Syria is mishandling the situation," said HRW's deputy Middle East and North Africa director, Joe Stork.
  • (6) "There is a lack of transparency and there is every reason to think there has been a shocking lack of due process," said Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa for the campaign group.
  • (7) In experiments, adult marabou storks were fed with hydatid fluid of viable Echinococcus cysts obtained from sheep and goats.
  • (8) His call was condemned by the evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins , who said: "If the museum was to go down that road then perhaps they should bring in the stork theory of where babies come from.
  • (9) The distribution of delta5 3beta-hydroxüsteroid dehydrogenase (delta5 3beta-HSDH), 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17beta-HSDH), Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) and NADH-diaphorase enzymes has been histochemically studied in the interrenal gland and the ovary of the stork-billed kingfisher, Pelargopsis capensis (Linn.).
  • (10) Paddle across the delta, the sea winds at your back, spotting storks, herons and kingfishers along the shore (three hours from €25).
  • (11) I've since heard about a rafting trip from Thun to the capital, Bern, that serves up fast-flowing Alpine water, views of the Bernese Alps and the chance of spotting storks, from an inflatable boat or canoe.
  • (12) The uropygial gland of the white stork secrets mono- and diester waxes as well as triglycerides, all of which contain unbranched medium chain fatty acids.
  • (13) The plasma concentrations of transthyretin and albumin were measured in male and female storks exposed to the photoperiodic and climatic conditions experienced during an annual cycle at 46 degrees N, 11 degrees E. The storks were in four age groups, fledglings and 1-, 2- and 3-year-old birds.
  • (14) At rest, however, there was a significant decrease in storke volume (p less than 0.05) and an increase in heart rate (p less than 0.05).
  • (15) Finally, in "Act 3", a stork flies across the screen and drops a baby Pac-Person in front of them.
  • (16) Joe Stork , the deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The claims of Bahrain and its allies that authorities have ended torture in detention are simply not credible.
  • (17) "Iraqi security forces and officials act as if brutally abusing women will make the country safer," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
  • (18) The birdwatching is fantastic: on my way down south this time, I saw storks, vultures, eagles and the odd falcon sitting on a pole.
  • (19) Her brother helped her find a job at an advertising agency, but she was pretty skint all the same, living on the potato crisps that were served at parties, and going through the bins round the back of the Stork Club, where she found "handbags and all sorts of lovely things".
  • (20) Macular stains are commonly seen in newborns, and they consist of faint vascular stains of the glabella, eyelids, and nuchal region called "nevus flammeus," "stork bite," "salmon patch," etc.

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