dais
dais
Definition
dais (dā′is; often dī′-)
dais
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- raise: At the west end of the north aisle is an organ on a raised dais.
- have: Sanctuary: The most obvious thing about this lay out is having the dais in the middle of one side of the building.
- salute: After the Service, the RNA will march again behind the Bands past a saluting dais.
- mount: Miss Wilson appeared from the door at the top of the room, and mounted the dais.
- support: It supported a dais from which important personages may have watched events, or on which a large statue may have stood.
Preposition: at
- front: On Sundays bands often used to play outside on the dais at the front of the lakeside pavilion.
Adjective modifier
- holy: My father An the king, shepherd of the gods, sat me in the Land on a holy dais.
- wooden: At the east end is an altar on a raised wooden dais.
- lofty: You are one who is entitled to hold high his head on the lofty dais.
- august: I have set up my august dais in the nether world, the mountain where Utu rises.
- central: A new central retractable dais forms the new focus of the worship area.
- small: Wooden block floor with altar raised on a small dais; standard wall finish.
Modifies a noun
- beam: It contains original features such as a dais beam and bench.
Possessives
- lord: The entrance to the solar at Thrislington would have been at the end of the lower hall, behind the lord's dais.
Preposition: in
- front: The group were on a dais in front with colored lights flooded over them and then round to the audience.
- hall: A plaque over the dais in the hall bears the distinctive arms of the third earl of Worcester, as Knight of the Garter.
- center: Save for this figure and for a dais in the center, the wide floor of the place was a shining vacancy.
dais Quotes
Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant Inde toro paterAeneas sic orsus ab alto. They fell silent, every one, and each face was turned intently towards him. From high on the dais Aeneas, Troy's Chieftain, began to speak.
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