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Curtain meaning
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. | A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater. | The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
Example sentences (20)
So these are all things -- some of them are more kind of in front of the curtain and some of the more but behind the curtain, but you add on them up and each one of them, I think, is a pretty significant growth driver.
Still in the prototype stage, “Man on the Curtain” uses a smartphone connected to a projector to throw a moving shadow of a man doing various energetic activities onto a curtain.
As ejecta escapes from the growing crater, it forms an expanding curtain in the shape of an inverted cone; the trajectory of individual particles within the curtain is thought to be largely ballistic.
Early focal-plane shutters designed from the 1930s onwards usually consisted of two curtains that travelled horizontally across the film gate: an opening shutter curtain followed by a closing shutter curtain.
Shortly after the curtain was raised there was a disturbance in the back of the theatre, caused by latecomers attempting to enter the auditorium, and a shout of "Bring down the curtain!", at which Mugnone stopped the orchestra.
The advantage of this design (produced by Ted Curtain Engineering, Curtain being a fellow Guinea Pig) was the virtual elimination of factors able to interfere with accurate results—for instance ambient humidity or temperature.
Advocates are hoping that New York’s public database will begin to pull back the curtain on shell companies.
A group of Broadway theater owners and producers is leading an effort to lower the curtain on plans for a Times Square casino.
Also, Ahasuerus is the ultimate failson — impetuous, ineffectual, at one point draping himself in a curtain and sobbing.
An all-European curtain-raiser here with rising star Dolidze making a bid to break the middleweight top five and see off the 'Italian Dream'.
And BANG, the curtain falls on the bank.
And in a particularly creepy image, “The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji,” a ghoul uses his skeleton hands to pull down a curtain and peer into the bed of the lovers who murdered him.
As a massive curtain of clouds lifted, we could see part of the Serengeti plains far beyond on the left, the sled-shaped Lake Natron way off in front and the remote volcano to our right, its top crowned with a cloud mass bigger than the mountain.
As he emerges for the encore in a jewel-studded dressing gown for a karaoke duet with a virtual Dua Lipa on “Cold Heart” – his disco-fied “Sacrifice” – the final curtain clearly beckons, and we’re in for a teary send-off.
A sound-deadening curtain has been installed to temper noise from the pickleball courts at Deerpath Park in Vernon Hills.
At 6 p.m., the curtain behind the window opened to reveal Barnes, who reporters wrote could be seen lying on a gurney and covered by a white sheet.
Backstage, Mike handles the technical aspects, though he's recently stepped out from behind the curtain to gain more experience hosting and performing.
But Colchester United’s summer signing insists there will be no room for sentiment when they host his former team Swindon Town, in their League Two curtain-raiser.
But regardless of these big names, the awards show isn’t televised and remains an exclusive event, showing recognition behind a curtain and not to the public eye.
But this was authorial sleight of hand—a decision, by Neihardt, to close the curtain on a mournful, elegiac note.