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Meanings of
capstone
in English
Portuguese
toque final
Catalan
cavalló
Spanish
piedra de toque
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A stone that forms the top of wall or building.
stretcher
copestone
finishing touch
coping stone
Portuguese
toque final
Synonyms
Examples for "
stretcher
"
stretcher
copestone
finishing touch
coping stone
Examples for "
stretcher
"
1
Yes, I saw the
stretcher
where you left it in the hall.
2
His camera and bloodied flak jacket were carried on a second
stretcher
.
3
They carried it into the church and placed it on the
stretcher
.
4
The floor heaved and the quiet figure on the
stretcher
got indistinct.
5
Dortmund's Michy Batshuayi left the field on a
stretcher
in stoppage time.
1
The tipsy man's soliloquy puts the
copestone
on his degradation.
2
The universe is finished; the
copestone
is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
3
Every iron beam; every
copestone
,
every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you!
4
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the
copestone
to posterity.
5
The
copestone
of the sacred structure reared by the legislation of the middle books of the Pentateuch is the high priest.
1
This sight put a
finishing
touch
to the excitement of the Moranges.
2
Their savory flavor often is the
finishing
touch
to your favorite meal.
3
All that was missing was the
finishing
touch
from their leading marksman.
4
The
finishing
touch
was adding the crystal cluster and gel top coat.
5
I will help you perfect the thing, and give it the
finishing
touch
.
1
Constitutional law is the
coping
stone
of the US federal edifice.
2
And now the
coping
stone
was set on the temple {Aug.
3
Every
coping
stone
and pillar cost some mariner of the Tarifa Straits a pot of money.
4
Then, I went down on to the roof, and crossed over to the gap from which the
coping
stone
had fallen.
5
It was now complete and the
coping
stone
to it was an interview I had with a doctor in Harley Street.
Usage of
capstone
in English
1
The finest bit of sculpture is on the
capstone
of the pyramid.
2
His final volume places the
capstone
on the structure of his philosophy.
3
The electricity set free the
capstone
which settled into its place.
4
If Atlas works, it will provide the
capstone
of modern physics.
5
At the top he grabbed hold and hoisted himself onto the curved
capstone
.
6
Above, the vaulted blue arched to a
capstone
of noonday gold.
7
And the Spartans' seemingly successful escape was a humiliating
capstone
atop the whole affair.
8
The
capstone
rests on four pillars of the twelfth century.
9
Time for you to put the
capstone
on your career.
10
Pita and I are the
capstone
:
telephone and ghost.
11
It was the
capstone
of a gentleman's cultural education.
12
The gold
capstone
glowed, trying to maintain its magic, but we weren't in Phoenix anymore.
13
Then he can get started on the
capstone
of his projected trilogy, The Fool's Paradise.
14
The appearance doubled as the
capstone
on Markle's career.
15
The arch's
capstone
,
of course, was the Linux kernel-itself a bored-out, super-charged version of Minix.
16
I am going to Iceland in June as part of the
capstone
project for the course.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
capstone
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
golden capstone
put the capstone
bulbous capstone
curve capstone
deductive capstone
More collocations
Translations for
capstone
Portuguese
toque final
Catalan
cavalló
Spanish
piedra de toque
toque final
Capstone
through the time