| NOUN | a venetian blind | venetian blinds |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The plates have been compared to sieves or Venetian blinds.
- Blumenthal was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 20, 1945, to Lillian and Marcel Blumenthal, the owners of a small Venetian blinds operation.
- Hudoke wood veneer decorates the walls of the Committee Room, Macassar ebony walls and original wooden Venetian blinds decorate the hallway, and Macassar ebony and rosewood paneling makes up the Boardroom and Main Dining Room.
- Wiedeking, then 40 years old, who with his spectacles and moustache looked like "a clerk at a venetian blinds manufacturer", according to Der Spiegel magazine, soon imposed his gung-ho management style on the workforce.
- The A side features a reflected image of Foxx against venetian blinds while the B side features a burning car, the same image as used for the reverse of the regular 7" picture sleeve.
- He also developed a "venetian blinds" animation technique: an algorithm that horizontally reused and vertically interlaced sprites several times while rendering each frame, to give the illusion that the system had more than the maximum number of sprites allowed by the hardware.
- The unusual design of the sails with movable blades, akin to venetian blinds was in advance for its time.
- The Red River Lumber Company's electric mill at Westwood made wooden Venetian blinds, plywood, boxes, doors and windows which were shipped all over the U.S. and the world.
- "For Real:" "Harry Gets Blindsided" Harry invents his very own remote-controlled Venetian blinds, but it ends up controlling his neighbour's blinds too.
- This box has a large opening covered with moveable shades or shutters which resemble heavy venetian blinds.
- During production, while filming the destruction of a hotel room, Geldof suffered a cut to his hand as he pulled away the Venetian blinds.
- There was a 50 piece live orchestra on stage, hidden variously by venetian blinds and gauzes upon which the scenery was projected entirely from more than 200 projectors and involved 12,000 hand-prepared still slides often moving in rapid succession to create animation.
- The saloons were protected from track noise by extra insulation in the bodywork and double-glazed windows with Venetian blinds between the panes.
- Following "If it Weren't for Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains for Us All", Piebald released "We Are the Only Friends We Have".
- In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Venetian blinds were widely adopted in office buildings to regulate light and air.
- About 5,200 of these windows contained Venetian blinds, which were installed by the Mackin Venetian Blind Company.
- The barbules reflect incident light in the manner of partially-opened Venetian blinds, enabling the iridescence [...] which varies the head and gorget coloration with the changing angle of light [...] as a coloration advantage for courtship attraction and territory defense.
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