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On the cartouche, a Lapith is fighting a Centaur. Ceiling with variants for two quarter sections of the edge. Tray 3 from a series of 6 tops with designs for ceilings, some with variants for the edges. From second edition.
On the cartouche, a Lapith is fighting a Centaur. Ceiling with variants for two quarter sections of the edge. Tray 3 from a series of 6 tops with designs for ceilings, some with variants for the edges. From second edition.
Illustrations
Ceiling, made for the house of Mr. Th.G. Dentz van Schaick at Amsterdam's Frederiksplein 50-52. Half-timbered glued with palm and rosewood and decorated with copper stars and fittings; stylized decoration of cattle heads and lions around a centerpiece with double eagles, mounted archers, lilies and other motifs between tendrils, surrounded by lyrebirds. Sumptuous. Consisting of the following parts: 16 panels; 9 brass "crosses"; 1 flat list with lions (new); 2 quarter-full lists with lions (new); 1 quarter-full list with lions (new); bundle of wide profiles; 1 quarter-hollow frame of brick, plaster and paint (original).
Ceiling, made for the house of Mr. Th.G. Dentz van Schaick at Amsterdam's Frederiksplein 50-52. Half-timbered glued with palm and rosewood and decorated with copper stars and fittings; stylized decoration of cattle heads and lions around a centerpiece with double eagles, mounted archers, lilies and other motifs between tendrils, surrounded by lyrebirds. Sumptuous. Consisting of the following parts: 16 panels; 9 brass "crosses"; 1 flat list with lions (new); 2 quarter-full lists with lions (new); 1 quarter-full list with lions (new); bundle of wide profiles; 1 quarter-hollow frame of brick, plaster and paint (original).
Ceiling with variants for three times an eighth of the edge. Sheet 4 from a series of 6 tops with designs for ceilings, some with variants for the edges. From second edition.
Ceiling with variants for three times an eighth of the edge. Sheet 4 from a series of 6 tops with designs for ceilings, some with variants for the edges. From second edition.
Two matching cuenca ceiling tiles, painted in white (ground), yellow ocher, dark green, manganese and light blue. Unglazed on the short sides. A wide band forms a central octagonal medallion, in the field a leaf rosette. The corners around the medallion are trimmed with bands with a pearl frame. Quarter rosettes in the corners.
Two matching cuenca ceiling tiles, painted in white (ground), yellow ocher, dark green, manganese and light blue. Unglazed on the short sides. A wide band forms a central octagonal medallion, in the field a leaf rosette. The corners around the medallion are trimmed with bands with a pearl frame. Quarter rosettes in the corners.
In the center a putto like Jupiter; the rim is decorated with emperor busts in medallions and in the corner an oval medallion with a battle scene. Sheet 6 from a series of 6 tops with designs for ceilings, some with variants for the edges. From second edition.
Ceiling with round centerpiece
Part (bottom right) of a ceiling painting of five parts with Diana and her companions as the main image, painted for the 'great hall' of Paleis Soestdijk.
Part (bottom right) of a ceiling painting of five parts with Diana and her companions as the main image, painted for the 'great hall' of Paleis Soestdijk.
Part (bottom left) of a ceiling painting of five parts with Diana and her companions as the main image, painted for the 'great hall' of Paleis Soestdijk.
Part (bottom left) of a ceiling painting of five parts with Diana and her companions as the main image, painted for the 'great hall' of Paleis Soestdijk.
Interior with a slaughtered cow hanging from the ceiling. In the foreground a dog, at the rear left a woman washes her hands in a barrel, children playing and a boy with a blown bladder.
The slaughtered ox
Photo reproduction of part of the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City by Michelangelo, depicting the expulsion from Paradise
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
  1. Ceil
    To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
  2. Ceil
    To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. "The greater house he ceiled with fir tree."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The three central panels on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel tell the story of Adam and Eve.
  1. (n) ceil
    A canopy of state.
  2. ceil
    To canopy; provide with a canopy or hangings.
  3. ceil
    To overlay or cover the interior upper surface of (a room or building) with wood, plaster, cloth, or other material. See ceiling, 2. Formerly with special reference to ornamental hangings, or, as in the first (quotation, to carved woodwork, either on the roof or the sides of a room: in the latter use, same as definition 3.
  4. ceil
    To wainscot; also, by extension, to floor.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
There are over 3,500 bras hanging behind the bar at Hogs and Heifers, a bar in Manhattan. So many, in fact, that they caused a beam to collapse in the ceiling.
  1. (v.t) Ceil
    sēl to overlay the inner roof of a room, generally to plaster it: to wainscot
Quotations
There's no ceiling on effort!
Harvey C. Fruehauf
Jesse Jackson
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson
Idioms

Glass ceiling - The glass ceiling is the discrimination that prevents women and minorities from getting promoted to the highest levels of companies and organisations.

Hit the ceiling - If someone hits the ceiling, they lose their temper and become very angry.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From an older noun, fr. F. ciel, heaven, canopy, fr. L. caelum, heaven, vault, arch, covering; cf. Gr. koi^los hollow

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Prob. conn. with Fr. ciel, It. cielo, Low L. cælum, a canopy.

Usage in the news

She told police a man goes in there every day for about 30 minutes, and she found what she thinks are drugs hidden in ceiling tiles. tracypress.com

The oxygen mask drops from the ceiling. bjtonline.com

High, textured ceilings, a black wood floor, one wall of windows and one of bare brick make up the single second-story room. newsobserver.com

Prosecutors in central Illinois say a 14-year-old boy accused of firing gunshots into a ceiling at his high school is fit to stand trial. summitdaily.com

(AP) _ School officials say police have taken two students into custody after gun shots were fired into a ceiling inside a high school in central Illinois. cherokeetribune.com

A March voucher for a report that recommended the removal of ceiling tiles with possible mold at William Prescott Elementary School was signed by the district's director of facilities and grounds. thetimes-tribune.com

With Washington locked in a debt-ceiling stalemate, debt seems to be on everyone's mind. csmonitor.com

Gemini One Five Luminaires has launched an independently dimmable LED fixture, ideal for indoor use in walls, ceilings and damp locations. livedesignonline.com

The negotiations about raising the debt ceiling remain extremely fluid, and it's still too early to draw any definitive conclusions at this stage. commentarymagazine.com

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde tells Bloomberg's Judy Woodruff that the US economy needs to address the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling as "cohesively" as possible. businessweek.com

At a House hearing Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted a stark picture of what a national default would mean and underscored the urgency of a debt-ceiling deal between the White House and congressional leaders. pbs.org

Kimberly Majerowicz is an artist, by temperament and by talent, but her canvases are the walls and ceilings of the rooms she is asked by her clients to fill with furniture and fabric. dbj7.com

Romney's closing arguments invoke debt ceiling debate. csmonitor.com

Loc, hi ceilings/windows, great space. tnonline.com

Conservative groups had been worried that House Speaker John Boehner would agree to some tax increases in a deal to trim deficits and raise the debt ceiling. csmonitor.com

Usage in scientific papers

Denote ⌊·⌋ and ⌈·⌉ the floor and the ceiling functions.
Normality and smoothness of simple linear group compactifications

This implies that the revenues per DAU will reach a ceiling.
When games meet reality: is Zynga overvalued?

For ease of notation, we assume that fractional powers of n take integer value; if not, the bounds can be modified by appropriately taking ceiling/floor.
Epidemic Spreading with External Agents

To simplify the presentation, we omit all floor and ceiling signs whenever these are not crucial.
On the number of Hamilton cycles in sparse random graphs

In all performance critical operations, logarithms are not computed using floating point, but with integer operations since usually only floor or ceiling of the result is required.
A modular framework for randomness extraction based on Trevisan's construction

Usage in literature

The room was small and square, close under the roof, with a sloping ceiling and two tiny windows. "Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4)" by Various

The ceiling is richly fretted. "Museum of Antiquity" by L. W. Yaggy

In those low rooms I could quite easily stand on the floor and paper from the ceiling down. "Dwellers in Arcady" by Albert Bigelow Paine

This platform is anchored to the ceiling at four points by tie rods and turn-buckles, shown in fig. "Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man" by Francis Gano Benedict

The ceilings of Rosemount were very high, and every step echoed weirdly. "The End of the Rainbow" by Marian Keith

Ropes and chains hung from the walls and the beamed ceiling. "The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea

He was floating near the ceiling of the dungeon. "The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea

From the slope of the ceiling at the sides, he judged the room was under the roof. "The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards" by Gerald Breckenridge

Beneath the existing tin-plate ceiling was a plastered ceiling and remnants of a painted frieze of red, yellow, blue and green. "The Fairfax County Courthouse" by Ross D. Netherton

It's empty, but there's a big kind of lamp hanging from the ceiling. "The Manor House School" by Angela Brazil

Usage in poetry
The rain was ending, and light
Lifting the leaden skies.
It shone upon ceiling and floor
And dazzled a child's eyes.
"The Rain Was Ending, And Light" by Robert Laurence Binyon Author object (569)
Oh let me be a child once more,
And dream fine glories in the gloom,
Of sun and moon and stars in store
To ceil my humble room.
"A Prayer for the Past: All sights and sounds of day and yea" by George MacDonald Author object (244)
She could hear the corks a'popping
And had a peculiar feeling,
She'd only to close her eyes, and she
Was walking on the ceiling !
"Limehouse Liz (Of Lambeth)" by T W Connor
To a weasel's shadow,
And when, through his ceiling, he sees
Anything darker than snow
He falls away
To gather more and more force
"Pursuit From Under" by James Dickey Author object (323)
Above, the fair hall-ceiling stately-set
Many an arch high up did lift,
And angels rising and descending met
With interchange of gift.
"The Palace of Art" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Author object (27)
Who heard the wailing infant's cry,
The babe beneath the sheeliug,
Whose song to-night in every sky
Will shake earth's starry ceiling,--
"For The Burns Centennial Celebration" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)