Crossword clues for stadia
stadia
- Sports settings
- World Cup venues
- Soccer venues
- Places for sporting events (Var.)
- Old arenas
- Some domed facilities
- Shea and Arthur Ashe
- NFL venues
- NFL game locales (var.)
- Large sports venues
- Game spots
- Footrace tracks in ancient Greece
- Baseball parks, e.g
- Ancient arenas
- Shea, Yankee et al
- Shea and Camden Yards, for two
- Rose Bowl and others
- Qualcomm and Kauffman, for two
- Pro football venues
- Playoff fields, maybe
- Park and bowl?
- NFL palaces
- Massive sports facilities
- Graduated rod
- Google's cloud gaming service
- FedEx Field and Fenway Park
- FedEx Field and Camden Yards
- Colosseum et al
- Bowl settings
- Bowl game sites
- Superdome and Silverdome, e.g.
- Sports facilities
- Bowls, e.g
- Big event sites
- World Cup match venues
- Football sites
- Match venues
- Many domes
- Places for races
- Olympic venues
- Sporting arenas
- Coloseums
- Large bowls
- Method of surveying
- Bowl-game locales
- Surveying method
- Ancient Greek units of length
- Greek race tracks
- Bowl locales
- Sports sites
- Sports arenas
- Locales for games
- Rod for surveying
- Colosseum et al.
- Grounds for first divorce? I traded in sober adult
- Arenas in development finally breaking down, perfect when up
- I sat shocked, receiving bill for sports grounds
- Sports venues
- Sports spots
- Game settings
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stadium \Sta"di*um\ (st[=a]"d[i^]*[u^]m), n.; pl. Stadia (st[=a]"d[i^]*[.a]). [L., a stadium (in sense 1), from Gr. sta`dion.]
A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.
--Dr. W. Smith.Hence: A race course; especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
Hence: A modern structure, with its inclosure, resembling the ancient stadium[2], used for athletic games which are typically played out-of-doors; such stadiums are usually large structures without roofs, though some modern stadiums may have a protective dome overhead. It may be contrasted with the arena, the term commonly used for smaller structures at which indoor games are played.
A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context surveying English) A level staff or levelling rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level, or to measure horizontal distances by sighting the stadia hairs. 2 (context military English) (qualifier: historically) A graduated brass triangle used to measure the distance of a target by comparison of the graduations with the heights of soldiers or horses. 3 (en-irregular plural of: stadion) 4 (en-irregular plural of: stadium)
WordNet
n. a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments [syn: bowl, arena, sports stadium]
[also: stadia (pl)]
See stadium
Wikipedia
Stadia may refer to:
- One of the plurals of stadium; "stadiums" is also used.
- The plural of stadion, an ancient unit of distance
- Stadia mark, marks on a telescopic sight's reticle that permit stadiametric rangefinding or altitude measurements
- Stadia rod, a related surveying tool used with telescopic based survey instruments
- Stadiametric rangefinding, a way of measuring distance using a telescope and triangulation
- Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia, a multidisciplinary institution of higher education in Finland
Usage examples of "stadia".
Near the plain again, and also in the centre of the island, at a distance of about fifty stadia, there was a mountain, not very high on any side.
And, beginning from the sea, they dug a canal three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth, and fifty stadia in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a passage from the sea up to this, which became a harbor, and leaving an opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress.
Crossing the outer harbors, which were three in number, you would come to a wall which began at the sea and went all round: this was everywhere distant fifty stadia from the largest zone and harbor, and enclosed the whole, meeting at the mouth of the channel toward the sea.
Hundred stadia, and by them they brought, down the wood from the mountains to the city, and conveyed the fruits of the earth in ships, cutting transverse passages from one canal into another, and to the city.
As to the population, each of the lots in the plain had an appointed chief of men who were fit for military service, and the size of the lot was to be a square of ten stadia each way, and the total number of all the lots was sixty thousand.
The Earth was indeed a huge sphere, in circumference 240,000 to 250,000 stadia, more or less.
Thus we multiply 5,000 by 50, and we get 250,000 stadia as the circumference of the Earth.
Cantrell was holding the stadia rod, trying to blink away the sweat trickling into his eyes, when a bright flash of light caught his eye.
Poyeska, Zeia and I, we came out of the clouds over a shevorate herd, startled them, should have seen those idiot beasts run, went for stadia without stopping, trampled a plavine camp, turned it into mush .
I envy those who will succeed in circling the two hundred and fifty thousand Greek stadia so ably calculated by Eratosthenes, the round of which would bring us back to our point of departure.
I explained my plan, the development of forty-five stadia of encircling wall, and I marked in the sand the position of the triumphal arch and that of the tomb.
But old habit had died hard: even passing over Seriphos, en route to North Africa at an altitude of forty stadia, when it had occurred to me to drop in unexpectedly and check on Andromeda, it had been my.
Plutarch written, a millennium ago, that five thousand stadia west of Ice Land lay a continent long ago visited by Greeks?
Learning of this the senate altered its policy and bade the host not approach the city but remain over one hundred and fifty stadia from it.
This piece of sculpture was preserved by some chance and was brought to Rome in accordance with a vision that Caesar saw in a dream: there it accorded those who desired to undertake the task permission to settle the city again and place the deity on her original site,--only they did not acquire more than seven and one-half stadia of the territory.