stele 的定义
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.
stele 近义词
等同于 memorial
等同于 monument
等同于 column
更多stele例句
- 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.