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rostrum

/ros-truhm/US // ˈrɒs trəm //UK // (ˈrɒstrəm) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ros·tra [ros-truh], /ˈrɒs trə/, ros·trums.

    • : any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
    • : a pulpit.
    • : a beaklike projection from the prow of a ship, especially one on an ancient warship for ramming an enemy ship; beak; ram.
    • : Roman Antiquity. the raised platform, adorned with the beaks of captured warships, from which orations, pleadings, etc., were delivered.
    • : Biology. a beaklike process or extension of some part; rostellum.
    • : British Theater. a raised platform or dais, especially one with hinged sides that can be folded and stored within a relatively small space.

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Examples

  • It was hard not to get mixed messages from the rostrum, too.

  • That nominee had three challenges as he took the rostrum in Tampa.

  • Flux Rostrum is a genial 35-ish man with dirty-blond dreadlocks.

  • Rostrum flavum, paulo altius, et magis carinatum, quam rostrum M. viridis.

  • Who has copied the Flavian amphitheatre except as a convenient form for exhibitors on the stage, or for the rostrum of an orator?

  • Every knot of men had its grievance; every flag in the pavement was a rostrum.

  • The Senate floor was to him a popular rostrum and sacred stump.

  • There is little pleasure to be on the lecture-rostrum for a narrator sensible to the pulses of his audience.