Crossword clues for stele
stele
- Inscribed stone slab
- Monument slab
- Pillar of stone
- Upright stone slab
- Column in ruins?
- Sculptured slab
- Headstone e.g
- Ancient commemorative tablet
- Upright monument
- Gravestone
- Ancient milestone
- Arrow shaft
- Part of an arrow
- Ancient upright stone slab
- Engraved stone pillar
- Upright pillar
- Inscribed tablet
- Inscribed monument
- Inscribed stone
- Upright slab
- Plant-stem part
- Greek pillar
- Votive stone
- Vascular cylinder: bot
- Upright stone monument
- Upright stone
- Stone plinth
- Object inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi, e.g
- Many an ancient tombstone
- Inscription surface
- Greek slab
- Engraved stone marker
- Engraved monument
- Antique pillar
- Ancient Roman burial stone
- "O Rare Ben Johnson" is engraved (in error) on one
- Stone marker
- Inscribed slab
- Carved stone slab
- Inscribed pillar
- Marker
- Commemorative stone marker
- Engraved marker
- Stone slab
- Commemorative marker
- Memorial marker
- Ancient burial stone
- Tomb marker
- Engraved pillars
- Commemorative piece
- Stone monument
- Archaeological find
- Inscribed marker
- The Rosetta Stone, for one
- The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
- An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
- Memorial pillar
- Stone carving
- Ancient monument
- Commemorative slab
- Cippus
- Monument marker
- Stone pillar
- Inscribed stone pillar
- Stone tablet
- Commemorative pillar (Var.)
- Monument of a sort
- Ornamental pillar
- Grave marker
- Carved pillar
- Pittsburgh pillar?
- Carved stone pillar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stale \Stale\ (st[=a]l), n. [OE. stale, stele, AS. st[ae]l, stel; akin to LG. & D. steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk, stem, Gr. steleo`n a handle, and E. stall, stalk, n.] The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
But seeing the arrow's stale without, and that the head
did go
No further than it might be seen.
--Chapman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"upright slab," usually inscribed, 1820, from Greek stele "standing block, slab," especially one bearing an inscription, such as a gravestone, from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)). Related: Stelar.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (obsolete form of lang=en stale handle, shaft, stem) Etymology 2
alt. 1 (context archaeology English) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. 2 (context archaeology uncommon English) Any carved or engraved surface. 3 (context architecture archaeology obsolete English) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple. n. 1 (context archaeology English) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. 2 (context archaeology uncommon English) Any carved or engraved surface. 3 (context architecture archaeology obsolete English) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple. Etymology 3
n. (context botany English) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
n. (obsolete form of stele upright slab; column English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A stele (plural steles or stelai, from Greek: , stēlē) or stela (plural stelas or stelæ, from Latin) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, very often for funerary or commemorative purposes. Stelae may be used for government notices or as territorial markers to mark borders or delineate land ownership. They very often have texts and may have decoration. This ornamentation may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted onto the slab. Traditional Western gravestones are technically stelae, but are very rarely described by the term. Equally stelae-like forms in non-Western cultures may be called by other terms, and "stela" is most consistently used in archaeological contexts, especially for objects from Europe, the ancient Near East and Egypt, China, and Pre-Columbian America.
In a vascular plant, the stele is the central part of the root or stem containing the tissues derived from the procambium. These include vascular tissue, in some cases ground tissue ( pith) and a pericycle, which, if present, defines the outermost boundary of the stele. Outside the stele lies the endodermis, which is the innermost cell layer of the cortex.
The concept of the stele was developed in the late 19th century by French botanists P. E. L. van Tieghem and H. Doultion as a model for understanding the relationship between the shoot and root, and for discussing the evolution of vascular plant morphology. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, plant molecular biologists are coming to understand the genetics and developmental pathways that govern tissue patterns in the stele.
Stele, Op. 33, sometimes also stylised in Greek capitals as ΣΤΉΛΗ (stēlē), is a composition for orchestra by Hungarian composer György Kurtág. It was completed in 1994.
A stele (plural steles or stelai) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, very often for funerary or commemorative purposes.
Stele may also refer to:
Usage examples of "stele".
Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.
Raffaello led them into the Palazzo Maffei, where they could inspect the Etruscan inscriptions on a funeral stele and on a statue of a mother nurturing a child.
They also related that the Saite Tafnakhti, returning from an expedition against the Arabs, during which he had been obliged to renounce the pomp and luxuries of royal life, had solemnly cursed him, and had caused his imprecations to be inscribed upon a stele set up in the temple of Amon at Thebes.
Professor Mazar argues that this stele supports the traditional view as given in the Bible.
The lenkthe of an eln3erde the large hede hade, The grayn al of grene stele and of golde hewen, The bit burnyst bry3t, with a brod egge As wel schapen to schere as scharp rasores, The stele of a stif staf the sturne hit bi grypte, That wat3 wounden wyth yrn to the wandez ende, And al bigrauen with grene in gracios werkes.
Maugree thyn heed thou most for indigence Or stele, or begge, or borwe thy despence!
The squiggly text on which the doctor was lavishing such calligraphic effort was simply Trinket's own impromptu version of the stele he had spotted in the courtyard of the Monastery of Universal Salvation, the version he had invented for the benefit of Fat Dhuta.
To her surprise, Firebird knew it: Count Doming Stele, Delia's elder brother and heir of his house, of the Third Wing, Raptor Phalanx.
Casting a handful of sand back on the stele and then carefully brushing it away so that whatever sand remained lay in the groovings, Aravan revealed its message.
Stele and Alpha Squad are tasked with pushing back Zaarin's forces from factory ZA-13, a starfighter hyperdrive manufacturing plant which Zaarin has taken over, and, if possible, to disable some of Zaarin's ships for analysis.
Nor needs none shaft ne stele from Phenicia or Little Asia to obelise on the spout, neither pobalclock neither folksstone, nor sunkenness in Tomar's Wood to bewray how erpressgangs score off the rued.
She'd seen two of the main temples and one acropolis, not to mention a number of steles and related exhibits.
She crouched to examine massive fallen stone steles, patterned by Maya glyphs.
A small group of Maya men and women in the simple clothing of farmers and woodsmen, whose features were the same as those on the ancient steles and temples.
Sometimes he ran along a web of narrow paths between the tombs and steles of the City of the Dead, pursued by men who had by grotesque mutilation merged themselves with machines.