Crossword clues for podia
podia
- Here we go for relief - relief coming up in stages
- Raised platform
- Talking points?
- Speaking points?
- Speakers' stands
- Orators' spots
- Political platforms
- Small platforms
- Oration stations
- Stumping sites
- Stands at lectures
- Where Toscanini and Mitropoulos stand
- Stations for orations
- Speech stands
- Public speakers' places
- Platforms for public speakers
- Platforms for conductors
- Places for keynotes
- Lecturers' spots
- Lecturers' platforms
- Lecture platforms
- Debate fixtures
- Conductors' stands
- Conductors' spots
- Conductor's stands
- Lecterns
- Lecture hall platforms
- Orations' stations
- Conducting sites
- Speakers' platforms
- Conductors' places
- Locations for declamations
- Stands for speakers
- Where some addresses come from
- Conductors' platforms (Var.)
- Speakers' places
- Declamation stations
- Places for stumpers
- Platforms for medal winners
- Oration locations
- Places to stand and deliver?
- Spots for speakers
- Daises
- Spots for Mehta and Ozawa
- Previn's platforms
- Rostrums
- Places for conductors
- Politicians' supporters, sometimes
- Maestri's platforms
- Support theatre work's revolving stages
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Podium \Po"di*um\, n.; pl. Podia. [L., fr. Gr. ?, dim. of ?, ?, foot. See Pew.]
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(Arch.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by arch[ae]ologists in two senses:
The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.
The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers. See Illust. of Column.
(Zo["o]l.) The foot.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of podium English)
WordNet
See podium
Usage examples of "podia".
They had deftly gutted the mech-station superintendents, the Horde of Podia descending with complete surprise and zestful courage.
By laying traps for mech squadrons in near pulsars, the podia had enjoyed their first military successes.
How the highest of all the podia, the Illuminates, understood what the landscape of science had implied: the holy cosmic view.
Images flared, one by one: spindly podia smashing nests, cutting strands.
Watery images of the mingling, chattering podia reflected from the steepled, glossy walls.
The tardy podia swarmed up the laddered strands and into the confluence hole.
Yet the podia had deduced that at their center lurked immense black holes of a billion stellar masses or more, holding in a vast grip the surrounding roiling dust.
The names of the podia who had found and captured the Circle would ring down through history forever.
Possession of the Circle gave the podia the key to slitting the throats of whole worlds.
Even such minor creatures could hurl podia into the blackness that Quath now knew to be everywhere, behind each apparently solid object.
And in that clear world, the Synthesis was talk and the Summation a promised sugar dollop meant to quiet children, not a thing podia took seriously for long.
Our fellow podia will soon harness the crackling electrodynamics of the Galactic Center which rage nearby.
After all, she was laboring, like all the podia, and gradually she came to feel that this was her rightful station.
Aeons ago the idea must have seemed a good one, Quath thought: augment the podia as they aged, to use their experience and shore up the stiffening organs.
There was a legend among the podia that the Circle, their most potent tool and weapon, radiated an enhancing aura.