单词 | stele |
释义 | stele (once / 24624 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY stele: stelae, steles USAGE EXAMPLESIn connection with the exhibition — “Hoodnyx, Voodoo and Stelae,” which runs through Oct. New York Times(Sep 29, 2016) A ramp sloped up to the east, to the top of a bulwark, against which leaned massive ceramic stelae. The New Yorker(Aug 22, 2016) Like other Semitic cultures of the day, the Nabateans used an indirect, “aniconic” style to indirectly represent their divinities: carved blocks, stelae and niches. The Guardian(Jun 09, 2016) 1 n an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings 2Syn|Exp|Hyper stela Rosetta Stone a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics antiquity an artifact surviving from the past stonebuilding material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose n the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant Hyper vascular tissue tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants |
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