Word Finder - domes

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A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola

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Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover

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a cake dome

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Head (uppermost part of one's body)

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Head, oral sex

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A building; a house; an edifice

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Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

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A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form

Numerous other domes exist, and many deep pits.

Many of the neighbouring mountain ridges have uniform crests, but a greater number terminate in numerous peaks, some sharp, rugged and rocky, but more of them rounded domes.

In exterior elevation the chief effect is produced by the grouping of the domes.

But this also in India is built in horizontal courses, so that the form only and not the construction of the Cairene domes is followed.

Andrea have "Byzantine" domes.

But the finest portions beneath the domes, with scenes from the history of Abraham, Moses and Elijah, are by Domenico Beccafumi and are executed with marvellous boldness and effect.

Opposite are the Queen Victoria Markets, a striking Byzantine erection, capped by numerous turrets and domes.

The cathedral of San Pietro, dating from 1141 and restored and enlarged in the i 5th century by Pietro Lombardo, with a classical facade of 1836, has five domes.

Particularly steep slopes are found in the case of submarine domes, usually incomplete volcanic cones, and there have been cases in which after such a dome has been discovered by the soundings of a surveying ship it could not be found again as its whole area was so small and the deep floor of the ocean from which it rose so flat that an error of 2 or 3 m.

It has many domes and a spacious cloister, and its central court can be seen from the neighbouring streets.

Near by are the greentiled domes and walls enriched with rose-coloured marbles of the mausoleum of the beys.

The Cainozoic volcanic history of New Zealand begins in the Oligocene, when the high volcanic domes of Dunedin and Banks Peninsula were built up. The Dunedin lavas including tephrites and kenytes correspond to the dacite eruptions in the volcanic history of Victoria.

The building up of these domes of lavas of intermediate chemical type was followed by the eruption of sheets of andesites and rhyolites in the Thames English Miles so Ioo 200 Cretaceous 'a '

In the Domes day Survey only five lay tenants-in-chief are mentioned, all the chief estates being held by the church, and the fact that the Kentish gentry are less ancient than in some remoter shires is further explained by the constant implantation of new stocks from London.

As a rule the crests of the ranges are worn down by aerial denudation and have the general appearance of rounded domes.

The Arka-tagh ranges do not culminate in lofty jagged, pinnacled peaks, but in broad rounded, flattened domes, a characteristic feature of the system throughout.

Although the relief is strong, the mountain forms are rounded rather than rugged; few of the summits deserve or receive the name of peaks; some are called domes, from their broadly rounded tons, others are known as balds, becatise the widespread forest cover is replaced over their heads by a grassy cap.

Modern Hebron rises on the east slope of a shallow valley - a long narrow town of stone houses, the flat roofs having small stone domes.

The Dom contains the castle (first built in the 13th century, rebuilt in 1772), where the provincial administration has its seat, and a cathedral (1894-1900) with five gilded domes.

A pit called the "Maelstrom," in Croghan's Hall, is the spot most remote from the mouth of Gerta's Grotto Creighton's Dome Index Hovey's Cathedral 0' Martel Nelson's Domes p a e t a j-?l . ?Einbigler Dome Edna's Dome Galloway's Dome Chief City Violet.

This magnificent group has since been named "Hovey's Cathedral Domes."

The chief building is the Church of Scotland church, a fine red brick building, a mixture of Norman and Byzantine styles, with lofty turrets and white domes.

The extreme length is 360 ft., the breadth 156 ft., the breadth of the nave 60 ft., and its height (domes within)is 112 ft.

The only noteworthy buildings are the large, crowded and well-furnished bazaars with leaden domes.

The molecule was named buckminsterfullerene in honor of the architect, who designed geodesic domes based on similar pentagonal and hexagonal structures.

It is claimed that there are 100,000 geodesic domes in use around the world.

Its two massive, onion-shaped copper domes appear on nearly every postcard of the city.

Florence's lofty domes and sacred art will make your senses reel.

The rounded volcanic domes seen in the last few days now give way to the more dramatic rugged skyline of the French Alps.

Further down we saw the Russian Orthodox Church easily identifiable by its golden onion domes.

Like many places in the Sierra Nevada, this is a landscape of dramatic granite domes.

The extensive range of traditional cookware items includes flan, lasagna and gratin dishes, cheese domes, casseroles and soup tureens.

This can result in hybrid buildings where traditional facades of arches and domes are grafted onto modern high-rises.

A still hardier mountaineer is the Sierra juniper (Juniperus occidentalis ), growing mostly on domes and ridges and glacier pavements.

Its golden domes suddenly rise from the mist that frequently shrouds visiting cruise ships.

Manufactured from heavy duty high density ultraviolet resistant plastic Features easy carry handles and antiperch domes.

In some domes, for instance in a dome at the university of Birmingham, a sound from one end of a diameter is heard very much more loudly quite close to the other end of the diameter than elsewhere, but in St Paul's Lord Rayleigh found that " the abnormal loudness with which a whisper is heard is not confined to the position diametrically opposite to that occupied by the whisperer, and therefore, it would appear, does not depend materially upon the symmetry of the dome.

Steel concrete is even more difficult to generalize about, as its use is comparatively new, but even in the matter of first cost it is proving a serious rival to timber and to plate steel work, in floors, bridges and tanks, and to brickwork and plain concrete in structures such as culverts and retaining walls, towers and domes.

They seemed to be falling right into the middle of a big city which had many tall buildings with glass domes and sharp-pointed spires.

The domes of the New Convent of the Virgin glittered brightly and its bells were ringing particularly clearly.

The new interpretation is that two north-easterly trending chains of rhyolite domes are present, distributed over a length of 3 km.

The domes are built out of wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

The ring design involved placing thermotropic liquid crystals in clear glass domes and setting the domes in silver and gold rings.

Library oil lamps were usually hanging fixtures with large domes.

Crowned by three ornate domes and shimmering chandeliers, The Laurel Court provides the perfect backdrop for an elegant culinary experience.

The first eruptions piled up huge domes of lavas rich in soda, including the geburite-dacites and sOlvsbergites of Mount Macedon in Victoria, and the kenyte and tephrite domes of Dunedin, in New Zealand.

The dome is the leading idea or motif in Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture; the domes are placed over square, not circular apartments, and their bases are brought to a circle by means of pendentives.

The mosaics of the domes would seem to belong to the 12th century, probably before 1150.

The two great domes above the tombs, the four lofty minarets and part of the facade of this shrine, are overlaid with gold, and from whatever direction the traveler approaches Bagdad, its glittering domes and minarets are the first objects which meet his eye.

Opposite the Hof burg, the main body of which is separated from the Ring-Strasse by the Hofgarten and Volksgarten, rise the handsome monument of the empress Maria Theresa (erected 1888) and the imperial museums of art and natural history, two extensive Renaissance edifices with domes (erected 1870-89), matching each other in every particular and grouping finely with the new part of the palace.