(n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
(n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
(n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
(n.) The calyx of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digitized images of objects (a face and a vase) were submitted to two-dimensional Fourier analysis.
(2) "They've got 22 games left (18 league games, the two-leg Vase semi, the Durham Challenge Cup final, and a League Cup quarter-final), all to be played by 4 May – 22 games in 45 days.
(3) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(4) Neovascularization of malignant tumour tissue was successfully displayed by colour Doppler in the vases of endometrial and ovarian cancers but no abnormal blood supply was observed in the cases of early cervical cancers.
(5) Overall, immature mosquitoes were found in more than 60% of the vases lacking liners and in more than 50% of the vases with aluminum liners.
(6) "Let us sit here," she suggests, ushering me to a window seat beside a vase of flowers.
(7) Water-holding stone vases were sampled in 4 central Florida cemeteries to compare the prevalence of mosquitoes in containers with and without metallic liners.
(8) (3) Correct item recognition decreased after 1 week for those items (faces and vases) seen in the inspection series only and not in the first test after 1 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(9) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
(10) VASe correlated linearly with VI and VO2 in all subjects in all trials.
(11) Given a choice of six colours, both sides chose blue for their respective vases.
(12) Other nervous system regions express significant quantities of NCAM both with and without VASE.
(13) Nick Flynn was visiting the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last month when a loose shoelace, a lack of handrails and a bit of bad luck brought about the destruction of the Qing dynasty vases, thought to be worth £100,000 in total.
(14) High mortality and a lack of development were observed in a field test involving the introduction of Aedes aegypti larvae into stone vases with copper liners.
(15) I went into a marble windowsill and collided with a vase which shattered into thousands of razor-sharp shards and I was unhurt.
(16) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(17) Eye movements and perspective reversals were continuously recorded on film for 9 subjects who fixated a central point on black line drawings of the Necker cube and Rubin vase figure.
(18) She also came bearing a limited edition Tiffany sterling silver honeycomb and bee bud vase.
(19) Within the limits of the PCR methodology, no evidence for any alternative exon other than the previously identified VASE was obtained.
(20) During development of the rat central nervous system, neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) mRNAs containing in the extracellular domain a 30-bp alternative exon, here named VASE, replace RNAs that lack this exon.
Vast
Definition:
(superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
(superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
(superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
(superl.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
(n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
(6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
(10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
(11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
(12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
(14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
(16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
(18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.