How To Use Semicircular In A Sentence

Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
Converted into a home in the 1940s, it has a semicircular sitting room. Times, Sunday Times
He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
The formerly semicircular forestage that connected the audience to the actors became a straight and narrow apron that divided the two groups.
A narrow gorge opens upon a semicircular hollow lined with ochraceous or ferruginous matter; in fact, part of the filon, which sends off fibrils in all directions. The Land of Midian

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What is taking semicircular pieces out of my rose leaves? Times, Sunday Times
Like your triceps, you usually work your biceps through a semicircular plane, so training them on a straight plane can be a welcome change.
With the looping left-right into the semicircular end-turn coming up fast, go hard on the brakes, and turn in firmly before pushing up the power again to aim for the exit.
A large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column.
At the far end was a kind of semicircular nave with built-in benches, which reminded me of a sauna. Archive 2006-08-01
The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
The first thing is to buy the right spade, a trenching spade or spit, with a long, slightly semicircular blade and a narrow end.
At the west end of the courtyard, a semicircular base may mark the location of a semantron, a resonant plank struck to call the monks to prayer. A Sacred Congregation
I'm seated in the third row, just forward of the semicircular bleachers that surround the stage and the rear band area.
The receptor organ of posture and equilibrium is a composite one located in the semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule of the inner ear.
The inner ear and the semicircular canal and utricle balance function main balloon.
An obvious example is the almost semicircular boundary between North America and West Africa along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the Azores and the Equator.
The reconstruction included the massive ornamental pylons with round balconies, classical columns, and a semicircular colonnade set on piers along the north and south sides
If the elliptical arch be equally strong with the semicircular; that is, if an arch, by approaching to a straight line, loses none of its stability, it will follow, that all arcuation is useless, and that the bridge may at last, without any inconvenience, consist of stone laid in straight lines from pillar to pillar. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
His scalp was shaved, the coagula and debris removed, and among other portions of bone was a piece of the anterior superior angle of each parietal bone and a semicircular piece of the frontal bone, leaving an opening 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
I plant these in a semicircular drift around the birch and dogwoods, and bring them as close to the bench as possible because their downward facing flowers invite close inspection.
His chambers were as I remembered them, from the round stone altar table that sat opposite the entry door, neatly arranged with candles, a bell, his athame, and various other ritual items; to the stacked stone walls and leather seating in-the-round with two plush, armed seats across from each other and two armless semicircular couches. Arcane Circle
In the upper syncarpous part of the gynoecium the two bands of vascular bundles of the next higher bifurcation join to form a semicircular to almost circular complex of bundles.
The receptor organ of posture and equilibrium is a composite one located in the semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule of the inner ear.
The centres of rotation of these semicircular flows travel down the body.
We identified the exposed population on the map by drawing a semicircular arc from the incident site in the direction of the greatest density of smoke, which we established by chemical meteorological data.
Particularly did it differ from the Roman vault in that, while the latter had a level crown, obtained by using semicircular lateral and transverse arches and elliptical groin arches (naturally formed by the intersection of two semicircular barrel vaults of equal radius), the "Lombard" vault was constructed with semicircular diagonals, the result being that domical form which was always retained by the Gothic builders of France because of its intrinsic beauty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
From the apse, which is semicircular, radiate at a lower level five semicircular chapels, their roofs terminating in a cornice of tiny stone interlaced arches. The South of France—East Half
In the peristyle is a semicircular fountain, on the margin of which were disposed several animals in bronze, representing a hunting scene. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
This circularity is echoed and enhanced by the razor-sharp curvilinear forms of apsidal niches, rounded arches, semicircular columns, Ionic volutes, decorative ovals, and turned balusters and kraters.
We slowed down outside a house with an American flag hanging from the eaves and a Jaguar and a Grand Cherokee in the semicircular driveway.
The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.
Free floating debris in the endolymph of the semicircular canal is assumed to act like a plunger, causing continuing stimulation of the auditory canal for several seconds after movement of the head has ceased.
Attached to the utricle are three tubes that start and end there, each bending in a semicircle so they are called semicircular canals. The Human Brain
The steady rocking motion of a ship also stimulates the semicircular canals, and to those who are not used to this overstimu-lation the result often is seasickness, which is an extremely unpleasant, though not really fatal affliction. The Human Brain
Within each semicircular canal of the bony labyrinth is a semicircular canal of the membranous labyrinth.
This specimen looks a bit odd because it, like most specimens from the Wheeler Shale, is missing its ‘free cheeks’, semicircular portions of the head that broke away during molting.
Handsome mosaic floors, three aisles, and a semicircular apse give it the look of a church, but stucco friezes on the walls show Orpheus leading Eurydice back from Hades, Heracles rescuing Hesione from the sea monster, and other scenes of mythological deliverance. Underground Rome
The semicircular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great apes.
Above and between these two openings is an irregular depression which lodges a process of the dura mater and transmits a small vein; in the infant this depression is represented by a large fossa, the subarcuate fossa, which extends backward as a blind tunnel under the superior semicircular canal. II. Osteology. 5a. 4. The Temporal Bone
In the region of the ear, the tympanic bone is semicircular, and the petrosal is massive and only loosely bound to the basicranium.
Santanghuia has resupinate shells, a semicircular outline, a catacline ventral interarea and the delicate ornament of Chonostrophiella, however, the internal dorsal anderidium arrangement of Santanghuia is highly distinctive.
The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side.
For many centuries women in Iran have done this by wearing the chador, a semicircular piece of dark cloth that is wrapped expertly around the body and head, and gathered at the chin.
Precolonial multiple dwelling homesteads, which still exist in rural areas, tended to group lineage clusters or extended families in a semicircular grouping of round or oval one-room dwellings.
These stickers work on doors that have rectangular or semicircular glass panels. Times, Sunday Times
He opened his eyes to see a semicircular arc cut into the hillside.
Polytunnels are semicircular framed structures covered in hard-wearing polythene. Times, Sunday Times
[49] A lunette is a small picture, generally semicircular, surmounting the main picture in an altar-piece. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
Manda could see a semicircular fanlight over the front door as the Michael steered the jeep toward the front of wrought iron gate.
The walls had rounded angles with semicircular projecting bastions for artillery with an entrance on the south side.
Two ops did not cure the problem, known as superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome. The Sun
Objective:To assess the effects of particle repositioning maneuver(PRM) and postural restriction therapy on posterior semicircular canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo(BPPV).
The opening is of the form sometimes called the shouldered arch, a square lintel (which, curiously enough, is not one stone) resting on corbels; and the semicircular arch over this is of four orders, the uppermost of which projects considerably from the wall. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
A small, semicircular tunnel with two entrances had been weathered out of the soft rock.
The city grew up around its Roman monuments, which include a semicircular theatre and a triumphal arch.
Elevated upon pedestals of porphyry, they formed the graceful entrance to a semicircular flight of marble steps which led from the lake to a broad terrace interlaid with parti-colored marbles, in every variety of device which taste could conceive, or art execute. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
On the medial wall of the entrance to the antrum is a rounded eminence, situated above and behind the prominence of the facial canal; it corresponds with the position of the ampullated ends of the superior and lateral semicircular canals. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 2. The Middle Ear or Tympanic Cavity
Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
The only moulding known is the clustered torus (_torus_ = a convex moulding of semicircular profile), which resembles a bundle of reeds tied together with cords or ribbons. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
Each of the openings has a substantially triangular shape, trapezoidal or semicircular shape.
The semicircular canals, the ampullae, the utriculus, and the cristae acusticae of the canals are normal in their general form and relations to one another as well as in their histological conditions (2 p. 529). The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
Keith Pitts's semicircular set subtly evokes the Oval Office from which Nixon retreated in disgrace, and Mike Tutaj's rear-wall projections transport the viewer from place to place with discreet finesse. This Stoppard Is a Second 'Scoop'
Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
They mounted two flat, semicircular metal chambers between the faces of a powerful electromagnet.
Early in the year, around the time when petals fall, the overwintered beetles cut semicircular scars in fruit as they feed.
Psychologist Avenue, led us directly to a semicircular civic center at the water front, from which the principal avenues radiated toward the outer wall like the spokes of a wheel from the hub toward the felloe. Lost on Venus
The dome structure itself dates back to the Roman Empire, where the semicircular arch was used for creating large openings in walls. The cupola: Spain's gift to Mexico's colonial architecture
The roofs are peculiar, being in the form of well-constructed semicircular arches, all of mud, and in many cases the tops of the outside walls are adorned by a kind of balustrade of open brickwork. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
To accomplish this, the heated open end of the cylinder is laid horizontally upon a kind of semicircular cradle, and is held there by tongs handled by two men. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
In the swamps the water shimmered darkly and the slow snouts of alligators made semicircular ripples as they moved forward; water moccasins were curled over looping branches.
About 14 leagues farther on we came to another cape, the shore between forming a kind of semicircular bay, and the beach was composed of sand thrown up like, a mound or dike, over which the whole country appeared nothing but marshes and pools of water as far as the eye could reach. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
As discussed above, Carter retained Spirifer to include these species having a transversely subtrigonal to subsemicircular outline and alate, mucronate, or angular cardinal extremities in all growth stages.
Wherever the architect makes use of a round-headed opening he reinforces its outlines with a kind of semicircular frieze, to which brilliant colours or bold reliefs would give no little decorative value. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
The inner ear includes the cochlea, the hearing organ, and the semicircular canals and otolith organs, the sense organs of balance.
The last formed the main gun deck, while other cannon were mounted on the lower, semicircular lunettes (outer towers) set around the tower's exterior.
Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
The palpebral lobe is semicircular, the eye surface in dorsal view is curved through 180 degrees, and convex in the vertical direction.
The configuration is circular, with showcases arranged along two semicircular walls with an opening in the center.
The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.
Two semicircular sofas in a silvery silk take centre stage under another chandelier. Times, Sunday Times
Another building made out of white marble the church was in a semicircular shape, the flat front held up by a giant array of ornate pillars, and the entrance reached by a huge set of steps.
Looking to eastward you saw a dark semicircular streak on the water, and inside this streak a coble glided slowly hither and thither. The Romance of the Coast
The semicircular canals, the ampullae, the utriculus, and the cristae acusticae of the canals are normal in their general form and relations to one another as well as in their histological conditions (2 p. 529). The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
He worked on architecture at Fontainebleau, and cast the large semicircular bronze relief of the languid Nymph of Fontainebleau, surrounded by beasts.
This circularity is echoed and enhanced by the razor-sharp curvilinear forms of apsidal niches, rounded arches, semicircular columns, Ionic volutes, decorative ovals, and turned balusters and kraters.
The city grew up around its Roman monuments, which include a semicircular theatre and a triumphal arch.
The middle layer, thicker and more transparent, forms a homogeneous membrana propria, and presents on its internal surface, especially in the semicircular ducts, numerous papilliform projections, which, on the addition of acetic acid, exhibit an appearance of longitudinal fibrillation. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth
In form they belong to the class of edifices known as cellae trichorae, each consisting of a rectangular nave terminating in three semicircular apses, the chords of which form three sides of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
On one side there was a row of sturdy wooden tables and upholstered benches, separated by partitions topped with framed semicircular stained-glass windowpanes.
The four corners of the facades are accented with tall wooden pilasters, and the two identical front doors with semicircular fanlights are framed by pilasters supporting molded cornices.
However, the gallery at Cleveland House, two-storeyed and sixty feet long, was terminated at each end by a semicircular apse with the lozenge-shaped coffering of the Temple of Venus and Rome in Rome.
The inner ear, which contains the sense organs, consists of a membranous bag, the chief parts of which are the utriculus, the sacculus, the lagena, and the three semicircular canals. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
The principal charm, however, belongs to the grotto with the river which it discharges -- the site of which may be described as a semicircular termination of a valley on a natural platform half way up a cliff -- the water tumbles down in short cascades for some distance; the grotto inside is untouched by chisel squarings or embellishment, just as Juvenal wished the grot of AEgeria to be. Byeways in Palestine
The centres of rotation of these semicircular flows travel down the body.
The receptor organ of posture and equilibrium is a composite one located in the semicircular canals, the utricle, and the saccule of the inner ear.
Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
Ten hours, two plane rides and one welcome drink passed before I found myself facing the turquoise waters off Berjaya Redang Beach Resort's semicircular beach within Teluk Dalam Bay.
The baptistery-chapel consists of a semicircular apse divided into three arched sections built into the south wall of the church.
It was surrounded with a wall of peperino, supporting at intervals vases and statues; and on the outside were semicircular stone seats for the benefit of weary wayfarers. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Twin-skinned polycarbonate cladding in semicircular cross-section will be energy-efficient and contain isolated growing areas for this scientific research. The Sun
Each of the openings has a substantially triangular shape, trapezoidal or semicircular shape.
They worked to erect small semicircular breastworks from the many rocks that dotted the terrain.
Semicircular solid bastions were spaced at regular intervals along the ramparts.
Quasimodaspis lacks the high-set semicircular eyes of Paleomerus, and the elongated, trapezoidal eleventh and twelfth segments of both Paleomerus and Strabops.
The Epley manoeuvre entails a sequence of movements of head and trunk to rotate the posterior semicircular canal in a plane that displaces the plug of debris from the canal into the utricle of the inner ear, where it is inactive.
They were strictly herbivorous and had wide semicircular, or rectangular cropping jaws packed with spoon-shaped teeth for taking big mouthfuls of fodder.
After drying outdoors for a full year, the logs are sawed, hollowed out and polished mostly by hand into long planks that are nearly flat on one side and semicircular on the other.
There is an ambry in the south wall near the east end, and the doorway is semicircular and of Norman character. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
Thus the Giants 'Tombs of Sardinia all have a concave façade which forms a kind of semicircular court in front of the entrance to the tomb. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
Head transverse, slightly rugulose; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista thinly plumose; thorax very finely punctured; scutellum almost semicircular; abdomen blue, smooth; tarsi yellow; wings black, dark grey towards the hind border, with whitish points towards the costa; discal transverse vein parted by about its length from the border and by more than its length from the præbrachial transverse. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Lower the dumbbell in a semicircular motion behind your head. Times, Sunday Times
The four corners of the facades are accented with tall wooden pilasters, and the two identical front doors with semicircular fanlights are framed by pilasters supporting molded cornices.
It was as sharp, the question, as a knife in his side, but the answer hung fire still and seemed to lose itself in the vague darkness to which the thin admitted dawn, glimmering archwise over the whole outer door, made a semicircular margin, a cold silvery nimbus that seemed to play a little as he looked -- to shift and expand and contract. The Jolly Corner
The principal doorways of both buildings are framed by pilasters and display graceful semicircular fanlights crowned with open pediments.
Rather than initially bending the bow piece to its final semicircular shape, it is bent initially to a shape that is the long half of an ellipse.
The semicircular filled cakes are then deep fried.
The primary change is the broad opening between the utriculus and the scala tympani from which results the streaming of the endolymph from the semicircular canals into the cochlea. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
A low semicircular wrought iron door opens onto a long and narrow room.
A large, semicircular sea pool that's wonderfully clear. Times, Sunday Times
In some it is central and grows on the ground, in others it is lateral, and the cap is semicircular (dimidiate), and others again have no stem. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Semicircular solid bastions were spaced at regular intervals along the ramparts.
Aim:To seek the landmark of bony semicircular canal and inner lymph sac.
Objective To observe the changes of ABR threshold during semicircular canal occlusion in normal guinea pigs.
Wantley was one of those who preferred chewing and he had been spitting upon the floor to such an extent that he was by this time partly surrounded by a kind of semicircular moat of dark brown spittle. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
Ogee and Gothic, we are misapplying words which have lost their original meaning; since the Goths have nothing to do with the style of architecture which has taken their name, and the word ogee or ogyve, which strictly means the semicircular form, is inaccurate as applied to the arch with a double curve, which has for so long been regarded as the basis, nay, as the characteristic stamp of a style. "[ The Cathedral
For example, the front footprints indicate the metacarpals - the hand bones on people - were held in a semicircular arrangement unique to sauropods.

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