noun
definition
A three-legged stand or mount.
example
Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs.
definition
A man with macrophallism.
verb
definition
To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
example
I tripodded after my 6-mile run.
Examples of tripod in a Sentence
Leave the tripod in my care until we get an answer.
So they carried the tripod to the governor, and each told his story.
These three bases of knowledge were known as the "tripod" of the empirics.
When he heard that some men had come to Corinth with a very costly golden tripod, he had them brought before him.
One tripod thus affords a firm base of support while the legs of the other tripod are brought forward to their new positions.
A tripod of silver dedicated by Entemena to his god is now in the Louvre.
Jessi and Gerry stopped to watch as Laurencio's assistant set up a tripod.
The student must therefore resort to what may be called a tripod of evidence, derived from the available facts of embryology, comparative anatomy and palaeontology.
So the governor called two of his trusted officers and told them to carry the tripod to Priene and offer it to Bias.
Cornelius Sulla for the payment of his soldiers; Nero removed no fewer than 500 bronze statues from the sacred precincts; Constantine the Great enriched his new city by the sacred tripod and its support of intertwined snakes dedicated by the Greek cities after the battle of Plataea.
At an early period Halicarnassus was a member of the Doric Hexapolis, which included Cos, Cnidus, Lindus, Camirus and Ialysus; but one of the citizens, Agasicles, having taken home the prize tripod which he had won in the Triopian games instead of dedicating it according to custom to the Triopian Apollo, the city was cut off from the league.
On it once stood the gold tripod dedicated to Apollo as a tenth of the spoils.
But it held a beautiful golden tripod that was worth more than a thousand fishes.
So, with his own hands he carried the golden tripod to the little house where Thales lived.
I have a suitable tripod for this and also some skill in accurately setting it up to within a degree azimuth.
In hindsight the tripod was unnecessary as I used a beanbag most of the time.
About the size of a small aluminum briefcase, supported on a small tripod about a meter off the ground.
Used with the camera on a tripod the winder allows repeated exposures without disturbing the camera on a tripod the winder allows repeated exposures without disturbing the camera position.
The moment stretched on as the others worked on the camera and tripod.
She is sitting on a tripod, three legs going rather high over a huge chasm from which rises incense smelling heavy dense smoke.
An inspection in June had found the tripod disturbed and the guy ropes thoroughly chewed - probably by passing deer.
Even more incredible is the tripod dolmen at Legananny where the flat granite capstone is raised high on three tall pointed stones.
The weight caused the scaffold tripod to slip - heavy bits of metal narrowly missing the unloading team.
For the north workers comp insurance aopha representing nonprofit extend your tripod.
Re-examination of some of the material in 1981 suggests that some, if not all, of these sherds were actually from tripod pipkins.
Perhaps the earliest examples in the region are U-shaped handles on Minety tripod pitchers of early to mid 13th century date.
The tripod can also be equipped with optional spiked feet shoes, different types of dollies and two models of mid level spreader.
Give me the tripod.
Tripod has been around since the mid-1990's.
The delicately carved convex roof, composed of a single block, was surmounted by the tripod.
When not moving, they often assume a perfectly upright position, the tail aiding the two hind-legs to form a tripod, and the front-limbs dangling by the side of the chest.
The most usual attributes of Apollo were the lyre and the bow; the tripod especially was dedicated to him as the god of prophecy.
Ensure camera is held very steady on a sturdy tripod or similar.
A total station theodolite was mounted on a tripod at the sun position.
With its pre-assembled, adjustable steel tripod, the NexStar 60 SLT can be up and ready to use in a matter of minutes.
The mount rests firmly on a large, adjustable aluminum tripod with accessory tray.
The CDU can be handheld or attached to the MDL lightweight tripod for ease of use.
A mechanic who was carrying the camera tripod for us told me who he was.
I still maintain that my carbon fiber tripod is perfectly stable from a practical point of view.
The mount came already mated to its tubular tube stainless steel tripod.
We didn't sell you the tripod.
So the governor sent a messenger to Delphi to ask the oracle what should be done with the tripod.
He looked at the tripod.
It is to him that you should have taken the tripod.
These technical solutions offer a tripod with a unrivaled torsion rigidity with substantial weight saving comparing his competitors.
The construction starts with a tripod erected from the largest rafters.
Allan was running just under 1W to an 80cm prime focus dish tripod mounted at 3m above ground.
The bottom contains a fixing to allow a standard photographic tripod adapter to be used.
Some cameras are very small and do not even have a tripod bush.
Your Canon 1Ds sits on a saddle secured to your tripod socket.