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
Related Words
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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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.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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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