noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Many churches had four simple gables of equal size one on each face, surmounted by a central dome upon a drum.
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This is on concentric, double circle plan, with central dome and sloping outer roofs.
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Inside the church, where the lighting is subdued but not dim, the central dome is supported on eight piers.
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Inside, the central dome rises nearly 100 feet above the cathedral floor.
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Inside, the nave vaults are octagonal domical shape and the central dome is carried on pseudo-pendentives rather like squinches.
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It is a double-aisled church and has a central dome and four more over the angles.
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Inside four arches support the central dome with squinches rather than pendentives.
geodesic
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Buckminster Fuller has made a life-time study of geodesic domes .
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He knew what Greenpeace was, and the geodesic dome , and sado-masochism, and even supply-side economics.
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He was forty-four years old, on display under a geodesic dome .
great
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Looming over all was the great green dome of the Roman Catholic cathedral.
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Topstock's little grey eyes snapped through his steel frames under the great downy dome .
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His head was a great shaven dome .
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Their voices sounded shrill and incongruous, violating the silence that was appropriate in the great dome of the forest.
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He stood in the centre of the church beneath the great dome and began to look carefully all round him.
large
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The main church behind is small and high, with the largest dome over it.
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This is an advance but not suitable to carry a larger dome . 3.
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The Byzantine contribution was the pendentive and this is not only a more satisfactory solution but will support large domes .
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Wings, made of plates of wafer-thin metal, sprouted from a large dome on each android's back.
■ NOUN
car
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The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard.
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He wasn't in the forward dome car , upstairs or down, nor in the open dayniter.
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Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end, including the actress Angelica.
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Nearly everyone, I would have guessed, had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning.
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The passengers drifted in from their rooms and the dome car and fell into by now predictable patterns of seating.
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I went across the clattering, windy linkage space between the dining and dome cars and stood outside the toilet room.
glass
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The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.
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Stand a glass dome on a round stand and you have a protected display space.
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The second was a glass dome , the size of a man, and a little taller than our hero.
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The roof of the foyer consisted of an enormous green glass dome .
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The five storey building features a circular atrium topped by a stained glass dome .
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His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars.
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Another City bank conversion, with fantastic high ceilings, a glass dome , chandeliers and a central oval bar.
■ VERB
build
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Facing the hotels, bulging out over the very brink of the abyss, some one had built a huge green dome .
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It was built with five domes and three eastern apses and has entrances on three sides.
cover
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Inside, the nave is in square bays which are covered by domes on pendentives.
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They were set not on black sky, however, but on a brilliantly painted mural which covered the dome .
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Like most other examples of this type it has no aisles but a short, wide nave, covered by four domes .
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The crossing is covered by a dome or lantern.
support
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A basic difference in the architectural construction was the use in Pskov of corbelled arches rather than pendentives to support the domes .
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Inside four arches support the central dome with squinches rather than pendentives.
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The Cathedral of S. Dimitri was begun in 1194 and has a simpler plan with four piers supporting a single dome .
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The Byzantine contribution was the pendentive and this is not only a more satisfactory solution but will support large domes .
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Also the interior was higher and narrower, both characteristics being necessary to support the 13 domes .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the dome of his bald head
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in, if the city of Miami and Dade County build him a new stadium with a retractable dome .
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First, the meteorites crossed the dome traveling at an angle of only twenty-seven degrees to the horizon.
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Higher up the dome became steeper, but by now I'd learned to trust the rock a bit more.
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Operating from a dome on Kitt Peak, Arizona, the Spacewatch team members have achieved numerous firsts.
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Small domes composed of viscous lava may form within craters.
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The other domes cover the crossing, choir and transepts.
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There were several lesser towers, the corner ones with domes.