When open they disclose a large triangular space, which at other times is entirely hidden.
From the Forum we went to another public place; a triangular portico, half enclosing the ruins of an enormous temple.
There is the strongest architectural reason for the triangular aperture over the door, as it diminishes the enormous weight to be borne by the lintel; and here, no doubt, some ornament very like lions on the other gate may have been applied.
The lighthouse stands on a ledge of rock, with a galley between, and there is a long covered way, triangular in shape, connecting his residence with it.
It had a triangular floor and a top, and was just the place to hold the rudest statue that ever a savage made.
The scissors having cut off one of the projections intended to enter into the construction of the triangular end of its case, it entirely changed the original plan, and made that end the head which had been first designed for the tail.
Layer cakes baked in round pans are usually divided into triangular pieces; but they are less suggestive of baker's Washington pie, which is so offensively common, if the edges be trimmed in such a way as to leave a square.
Pies with no undercrust are more easily served with a broad knife or a triangular knife made expressly for pies.
First segment shorter than the second, which istriangular in shape; third and fourth broad and a little shorter than the second; fifth, sixth and seventh each growing smaller respectively and truncate at the tip.
First gnathopod attached far forward, triangularin shape and fringed with hairs.
He then added four triangular figures in meal on the south or front side of the rectangular symbols.
To the tips of these triangular rain-cloud figures he appended zigzag continuations with lozenge-shaped tips representing the lightning of the four cardinal points.
Illustration: Duplicator Attached to a Camera] The cardboard is cut triangular and attached to the front end of the camera as shown in Fig.
Near the apex of the cover cut three triangular holes 8 in.
Having placed the backbone in position, paste two triangular pieces of paper over the ends of the stick to prevent tearing.
Three triangular cuts are made in the cover or bottom of the can and the points turned up about the can die.
On this main frame is built up a triangular mast, to carry the mainsail and jib, having a combined area of about 40 sq.
If the box is not very strong, the corners should be braced with triangular wooden strips, A A, which should be nailed in, previous to sawing.
A Good Mouse Trap [198] When opening a tomato or other small can, cut the cover crossways from side to side making four triangular pieces in the top.
The covers, E, may be constructed of thin wood or galvanized iron and should be braced by triangular boards, as shown in Fig.
The shadow of the edge of the triangularplate moves around the northern part of the dial from morning to afternoon, and thus supplies a rough measurement of the hour of the day.
It consists of a flat circular table, placed firmly on a solid pedestal and having a triangular plate of metal, Fig.
So the little triangular board was produced, with a long pencil in the apex, and a large sheet of brown paper.
It is at least more interesting and more in keeping with the rugged aspect of the place than the delicate triangular plinth that has been erected to his memory on Star Island.
A triangular piece of ground, with a sprinkling of elms about it, is all that is left of the rookery in which Mr. Tupman met with an accident from the unskilful marksmanship of Winkle.
Before Allington can be reached, in ascending the Medway, the river is spanned by an ancient stone bridge, of pointed arches and triangular buttresses, at Aylesford.
It will be noted that the general shape resembles that of a round cabochon, but twenty-four triangular facets have been formed upon the top.
Hard as it is, diamond splits readily in certain definite directions (parallel to any of thetriangular faces of the octahedral crystal).
Situated on a narrow tongue of triangular shape, the architect has taken the fullest advantage of this original piece of ground.
Spandrels (two pairs) - Haig Patigian Reclining figures filling out the triangular spaces above the doors in the vestibule reflecting the purpose of the building.
Spandrels - Albert Weinert Reclining decorative figures composed into the triangular spaces over all the doorways in the corridor.
About a dozen triangular or leaf-shaped arrow-points, and one or two spear-heads of flint.
Uhlmann found a fragment of pottery having a perforated knob, and alongside of it, evidently for ornamentation, there were triangular bits of birch-bark plastered over the surface with asphalt.
The arrow-points were generally triangular without wings, and a few were lozenge-shaped.
The arrow-points are also well chipped, and are of a longish or triangular shape.
Flint arrow-points, in great numbers, are of a triangular shape and very neatly made.
Three iron pots were found on this crannog, one of them being of a triangular shape.
Arrow-points are formed for the most part of triangular plates of bronze, with two or four holes for fastening them to the stem; but other forms are met with (=Fig.
It appears that the earlier arrow-points were of the triangular type, with or without stems, and it is supposed that the addition of barbs was an evolutionary process of improvement, and of course of later date.
These beams rested on upright piles, and contained a series of triangular holes as if for the tenons of wooden superstructures.
Pottery ornamented with triangular lines and the "meander" pattern would seem to point to a later period.
Specimens with a straight brown vertebral band flanked with triangular black spots pointing outwards (var.
A more or less distinct dark band on each side of the head, passing through the eye and often extending to the neck; a dark bar or triangularspot below the eye, and usually another below the nostril.
When you look through a triangular glass prism, things appear to be where they are not.
Hold a triangular glass prism vertically (straight up and down) in front of one eye, closing the other eye.
The outline of the sterile fronds istriangular or triangular-ovate.
A transverse section of the lower part of the stalk is semicircular, and shows a very slender triangular central thread of dark sclerenchyma, with two somewhat roundish fibro-vascular bundles close beneath or behind it.
A section higher up shows that the stalk is there narrowly winged on each side, and the two fibro-vascular bundles have coalesced into one of a roundish-triangular shape.
The iron shoe on this hoof was somewhat triangular in shape.
And the left front track had been made by a shoe crudely triangular in shape, identical with that peculiar to Wilson Moore's horse.
Nothing could be better evidence that it is than the very egregious error Mr. Lewis made concerning the area contained within his triangular embankment.
Mr. Lewis, prepossessed with the idea that the embankments must have been triangular in shape, drew the line B C as the base of his triangle, bisecting it at M and N, and making the loop M S N touch the brook.
When the Sun rises first on them, the eastern one, A, is triangular and larger than Messier, which latter is somewhat pear-shaped.
About three days after sunrise they both suddenly turn white, Messier rapidly grows in size, soon surpasses A, and also becomes triangular in shape.
Children up to the age of 5 or 6 years may go without clothes, but female children commonly wear a triangular pubic shield[1] of coconut shell, suspended by a waist string.
It has a pattern of concentric circles and other symmetrical figures traced upon it, together with a fretwork of small triangular holes.
The two legs of the trousers are each about 65 centimeters long by 24 centimeters broad and are joined together by a triangular piece of cloth.
As these gongs, when new, have several ornamental triangular figures on the front, the Manóbo is taught to value them at as many pesos minus one as the gong has figures.
Shading her eyes against the glare of the sun, she gazed across the river, studying the triangular course.
Then, taking a triangular route we sail past Hat Island to the first marker.
On the author's farm in Exeter, a wooden drain, to carry off waste water from a watering place, was laid, with a triangular opening of about four inches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "triangular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cuneiform; deltoid; trial; triangular; trident; tripartite; triple; triplex
