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stele

/stee-lee, steel for 1-3; steel, stee-lee for 4/US // ˈsti li, stil for 1-3; stil, ˈsti li for 4 //UK // (ˈstiːlɪ, stiːl) //

石碑,碑林,碑石,碑文

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ste·lai [stee-lahy], /ˈsti laɪ/, ste·les [stee-leez, steelz]. /ˈsti liz, stilz/.

    • : an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
    • : Architecture. a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.
    • : a burial stone.
    • : Botany. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants.

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Examples

  • The stele is shown by Lepsius in his Auswahl, Plate 9, and is the earliest example of a hieroglyphic inscription known.

  • Such an inscription is so far biographical, and a similar spirit may extend to the decorations of the stele and walls of the tomb.

  • At its further end, and always facing eastwards, stands the inscribed tablet or stele.

  • We see, then, that the stele is the one indispensable part of this complicated whole.

  • Sometimes this chamber is nothing more than a recess in the façade, a mere frame for the stele.

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