monolith

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1. monoliitti

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1. monoliitti

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monolith englanniksi

1. A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.

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2. (quote-book)|location=Paris|publisher=Anthony Galignani|Anthony and William Galignani & Co.(nb...)|year=1856|page=355|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=TE1YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA355|oclc=12630024|passage=''Tomb of Napoleon I.'' ... Twelve colossal statues, by Pradier|James Pradier, representing as many victories, stand against the pilasters, facing the tomb, consisting of an immense monolith of porphyry, weighing 135,000 lbs., and brought from Lake Onega in Finland at a cost of 140,000fr.

3. (quote-journal)|year=1862|volume=XII|page=48|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=f14wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA48|column=1|oclc=42299886|passage=Rumour, with her thousand tongues, affirms that the "Prince Albert Memorial" will not take the form of a monolith; we shall not be sorry to learn the fact of some more suitable monument having been decided upon.

4. (quote-book) or The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century|location=London|publisher=Trübner|Trübner & Co.,(nb...)|year=1875|page=84|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qN9EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA84|oclc=937510802|passage=... I do not think that the idea of a serpent with a ball at its mouth is so very palpable a religious symbol, and one so innate, that it should be the very first thing which would occur as an emblem of the great deity of the waters, to aboriginal Egyptians, to monolith-setters in Brittany, to mound-builders in Ohio, to Peruvians and Mexicans.

5. (quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=(...) William Crookes,(nb...)|date=27 August 1875|volume=XXXII|issue=822|page=88|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=teUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA88|column=2|oclc=31264192|passage=The practice of using large blocks of stone, either as monoliths or as forming parts of structures, has existed from the earliest times in all parts of the world.

6. (quote-book)|title=The Steam Engine: A Treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers.(nb...)|location=London; Glasgow|publisher=and Son|Blackie & Son|year=1889|volume_plain=half-volume III|page=357|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_E8xghOUgYC&pg=PA357|oclc=234118905|passage=Similar engines are erected in Yorkshire on concrete foundations, with a top layer of monolith or Bramley Fall stone, costing from £800 to £1000.

7. (quote-book)|location=Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2 April 1901|year_published=1993 (1998 reissue)|page=xii|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aYLDRKrB7FUC&pg=PR12|isbn=978-0-19-283519-2|passage=On 2 April 1901 Doyle wrote to his mother from Rowe's Duchy Hotel at Princetown: ... We did fourteen miles over the moor to-day and are now pleasantly weary. It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths and huts and graves.

8. (quote-book), States Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the Interior|month=March|year=1987|page=B-34|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEbxAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA34|column=1|oclc=682055597|passage=Foothold Ruin sits on an isolated sandstone monolith with additional rooms at the base. Access up the monolith is by a set of footholds in the rockface.

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11. Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.

12. (quote-book)&93; became the Father of the ideology, cleverly weaving a network of cultural contributions and atavistic, essential, and behavioral components into a kind of black monolith hardly acceptable to anyone.

13. (quote-web)'' Sequel|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121090639/https://film.avclub.com/disney-goes-viral-with-an-ambitious-overstuffed-wreck-1830370111|archivedate=21 November 2019|work=The A.V. Club|date=14 November 2018|passage=Intentionally or not, the movie ''(w)'' makes Disney feel as enormous as the internet itself, containing a series of micro-targeted idiosyncrasies and in-jokes that are nonetheless controlled by a cultural monolith (whether that's Disney or whatever massive corporation owns your local ISP).

14. A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.

15. A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by off|breaking off or cutting its branches.

16. To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith.

17. To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints.

18. (quote-journal)|year=1965|volume=3|page=614|issn=0084-1560|oclc=981320362|passage=The idea of joint action of carrying constructions for the seismic load by monolithing horizontal and vertical joints is the basis of designing frameless large panel buildings for earthquake resistance ...

19. To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by off|breaking off or cutting its branches.

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