Word Finder - podium

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A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit.

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(sometimes proscribed) A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly.

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A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.

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A result amongst the best three at a competition.

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A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.

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A foot or footstalk.

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To finish in the top three at an event or competition.

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The swimmer podiumed three times at the Olympics.

A third podium succeeds the second, and so on.

Once Dean was standing at the podium and he'd controlled the shake in his knees and hidden the sweat on his palms, he felt he didn't do badly.

It was raised on a podium t o ft.

He stumbled as he climbed the steps to the pulpit and grasped the podium like a life preserver.

Within its area are scanty remains of the podium of a temple and of buildings of the imperial period.

Since, however, other Greek temples had colonnades hardly less high, and were of equal or greater area, it has been suggested that the Ephesian temple had some distinct element of grandiosity, no longer known to us - perhaps a lofty sculptured parapet or some imposing form of podium.

In fact, he only missed the podium twice all year.

Not until 1974 was a woman allowed to mount the sacred podium of Radio 4 news.

As the band Secretary climbed the podium to receive his trophy a volumes applause filled the courtyard.

Desprez's Dijon double podium keeps his title hopes alive.

The Scottish women's champions skipped by Edith Loudon missed out on a place on the medal podium in the Bronze medal play-off.

The evergreen Stuart Kestenbaum got on the podium in the Brands Hatch Season Starter last weekend, and is the highest-placed championship returnee.

You could use a podium or tower scaffold for these jobs.

This was Justin's second consecutive podium after his dominant win in 2005's season finale in Mexico City.

A tense battle between the RN and Veterans tho saw the RN team take the winners podium.

A close second was Kendra Ryder of Galway who missed the winner's podium by less than 60 seconds!

The Flagship Auditorium has a permanent projection booth to accommodate large-screen presentations, podium control, multi-purpose lighting, and sound system.

To be fair his podium talks were OK, if at times a little wayward.

Why do the children think medal winners get to stand on a podium?

Fitzgerald drew first and stepped to the podium.

Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous belongs typically a long tentacle, the cirrus, which 'r podium or neuropodium, and may be developed into an arborescent gill or into a flat scale-like process, A the elytron (in Polynoe, &c.).

Each podium consists of a portion of the stem bearing one or more leaves, each with an axillary bud or buds, and terminating in a tendril or an inflorescence.

While the tendril is thus diverted from its original direct course, the axillary bud of the leaf opposite the tendril begins a new podium, by lengthening into a shoot which assumes the direction the tendril had prior to its deflexion.

This new podium, now in a direct line with its predecessor, produces leaves and ends in its turn in a tendril or inflorescence.

A rectangular or square podium is in each case surmounted by a pyramid.

The temples (as already observed) have always the Roman peculiarity of being raised on a podium of considerable elevation; and the same characteristic is found in most of the other public buildings.

It has taken some time to obtain any general acceptance of the view that the parapodia of the Chaetopoda and the limbs of Arthropoda are genetically identi cal structures; yet if we compare the para podium of Tomopteris or of Phyllodoce with one of the foliaceous limbs of Branchipus or __; Apus, the correspond ences of the two are striking.

Ben, Rachel Green and Simon Crompton all claimed podium finishes on that occasion.

The ball on the podium is a robot camera that can trundle about under Bluetooth control beaming what it sees back to the phone.

On the entry form, entrants predict which driver combination they think will be top of the winner 's podium.

The visualization activity that works for you might involve picturing yourself relaxing in a beach or boat, or it might be an image of yourself standing atop the winner's podium after a tough meet.

This will free you from having to use the podium and allow you to focus more on serving the customers.

Serving snacks will get you extra tips, but don't forget about working the podium and serving the meals.

Theme songs are also utilized during soap opera award programs, with the corresponding song being played for each winner who approaches the podium.

The contestant's goal was to shoot a smaller dart from a smaller air gun at the bullseye located underneath podium the American Gladiator stood on.

Since he only used the first name "Frank", Frank Capra was halfway to the podium to make his speech before he realized the actual winner was Frank Lloyd.

Runners-up, the producers of The March of the Penguins, who carried their three-foot stuffed penguins with them to the podium and thanked the academy in broken, yet adorable, English.

Labrusca there is a tendril opposite to each leaf, so that the podium bears only a single leaf.

The building consisted of five parts - a basement or podium, a pteron or enclosure of columns, a pyramid, a pedestal and a chariot group. The basement, covering an area of 114 ft.

The faithful prostrated themselves before an adorned but empty chair, which was raised upon a podium of five steps.

As she teared up and her false eyelashes started to come off, she simply pulled them off while at the podium.

Barriers protect our space to make us feel more comfortable (e.g. using a podium to separate yourself from an audience or putting your arm up on a bar to separate yourself from the person sitting next to you).

All the temples above described, except that ascribed to Hercules, which was approached by steps on all four sides, agree in being raised on an elevated podium or basement - an arrangement usual with all similar buildings of Roman date.