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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aviary
noun
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▪ I was standing with my back to the aviary, my jacket almost touching the wire mesh, still puzzled.
▪ In the afternoon, there were several young ravens without their parents in the woods by the aviary.
▪ It costs around £10,000 a year to run the aviaries.
▪ Not so much an aviary now more a hen-house when a hawk flies over.
▪ The Borough Council is considering closing the aviaries to save money.
▪ The housekeeper, Mary McLellan, served Dubonnet, Margarett opened the aviary, and a parakeet flew to her shoulder.
▪ Worked with the ravens in the aviary.
▪ You can take a day trip to Bodelwyddan Castle with its walled garden, aviary, maze and adventure woodland.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aviary

Aviary \A"vi*a*ry\, n.; pl. Aviaries. [L. aviarium, fr. aviarius pertaining to birds, fr. avis bird, akin to Gr, ?, Skr. vi.] A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary of England.
--Fuller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aviary

1570s, from Latin aviarium "place in which birds are kept," neuter of aviarius "of birds," from avis "bird," from PIE *awi- "bird" (cognates: Sanskrit vih, Avestan vish "bird," Greek aietos "eagle").

Wiktionary
aviary

n. A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse. (from 16th c.)

WordNet
aviary

n. a building where birds are kept [syn: bird sanctuary, volary]

Wikipedia
Aviary

An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds. Unlike cages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages. Aviaries often contain plants and shrubbery to simulate a natural environment.

Aviary (application suite)

Aviary is a photo-editing platform for iOS, Android, and the web (web application). Aviary powers numerous mobile applications, including its self-titled iOS and Android apps. It contains a large collection of easy-to-use editing tools such as custom photo filters, frames, graphics, and overlays. The Aviary platform is also a free SDK that provides developers with a customizable photo editor that can be embedded into apps on iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, and the web.

The company was founded in 2007 with the goal of providing professional-quality photo-editing tools to the general public. Aviary has since received millions of dollars in funding from investors such as Spark Capital and Bezos Expeditions.

On September 22, 2014, Aviary was acquired by Adobe Systems. Later, on November 13, 2014, Aviary integrated the suite into Adobe's Creative Cloud.

Aviary (Lynchburg, Virginia)

The Aviary is a historic aviary building located in Miller Park at Lynchburg, Virginia. It is a Queen Anne-style structure erected in 1902. The multi-sided exhibition house was designed by the local architectural firm of Frye and Chesterman. The building was a gift to the city of Lynchburg from Randolph Guggenheimer of New York City. When completed, the Aviary housed, "Seven cages containing monkeys, one with at least a half dozen healthy alligators, one with cockatoos, one with Australian doves, one with parrots and one with canaries." It later became a branch library and an office structure for the city Department of Parks and Recreation.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Aviary (disambiguation)

An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds.

Aviary may also refer to:

  • Aviary (Lynchburg, Virginia)
  • Aviary (application suite), a photo-editing software for iOS, Android, and the web.
  • National Aviary
  • The Aviary, a 2005 film.
  • The Aviary (group), a research group.

Usage examples of "aviary".

Indirect lighting, music wafting up the stairs, and a visit to the aviary should round out our ghostly evening to perfection.

Jason gave Kira the credit before Gram hustled their attendees back toward the house, all of them highly entertained, ready for the dessert buffet, a visit to the aviary, and dancing.

Kira said, while she helped him unstring the lights from the stair rail leading to the aviary, the birds screaming as if they knew she was there and could hardly wait for her arrival.

Come directly through the gates as fast as you can and go to the aviary without diversion.

Malloy crossed the threshold of The Aviary on waves of arctic cold and Attar of Roses.

The same panic that she had experienced in the jewelled aviary began to mount.

The ostriches shut up in the planetwide aviary at Terra: those who lived in the sandpile because they had crumbled under the enormous psychological pressure suffered while emigrating.

But suppose: a psychological lab, operated by Interplan West, needing aviary patients as subjects.

Occasionally, as the afternoon waned beyond the portals of the aviary and she would be required to return to the Sanctuary, he would begin thinking of the hopelessness of the situation and a chill would work its way into the base of his spine and crawl upwards along his back like a spider.

Matron Salsbury should have another grav car, surely, which he could use to get the girl back to the aviary where his speedheal medical kit lay.

Even as they watched, the things began moving away from the Sanctuary, down the lane toward the aviary where he had been doing his research.

Faegan had done upon arriving at the Redoubt was to construct an aviary for his winged treasures.

With a thought, he commanded the doors to the aviary to close silently behind him as he followed his eccentric but benevolent tormentor.

One would be to continue to go to the aviary with the princess and see what happened through a process of trial and error with the fliers.

It is only the large black door at the bottom of the aviary that they fliers cannot move by their own powers.