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bastion
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Bastion
(gcide) | Bastion \Bas"tion\ (b[a^]s"ch[u^]n; 106), n. [F. bastion (cf.
It. bastione), fr. LL. bastire to build (cf. F. b[^a]tir, It.
bastire), perh. from the idea of support for a weight, and
akin to Gr. basta`zein to lift, carry, and to E. baston,
baton.] (Fort.)
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a
fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so
constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the
adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to
another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain,
which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the
other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called
the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
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bastion
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n 1: a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against
corruption"; "the last bastion of communism"
2: a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a
battle [syn: bastion, citadel]
3: projecting part of a rampart or other fortification |
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bastioned
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Bastion
(gcide) | Bastion \Bas"tion\ (b[a^]s"ch[u^]n; 106), n. [F. bastion (cf.
It. bastione), fr. LL. bastire to build (cf. F. b[^a]tir, It.
bastire), perh. from the idea of support for a weight, and
akin to Gr. basta`zein to lift, carry, and to E. baston,
baton.] (Fort.)
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a
fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so
constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the
adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to
another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain,
which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the
other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called
the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
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Bastioned
(gcide) | Bastioned \Bas"tioned\, a.
Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
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Bastioned front
(gcide) | Front \Front\ (fr[u^]nt), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons,
frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.]
1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes;
sometimes, also, the whole face.
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Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's
tongue. --Pope.
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Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
--Shak.
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His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
--Prior.
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2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as
expressive of character or temper, and especially, of
boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming;
as, a bold front; a hardened front; hence, an attitude and
demeanor intended to represent one's feelings, even if not
actually felt; as, to put on a good front.
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With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak.
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The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay.
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3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out,
or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the
foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear;
as, the front of a house; the front of an army.
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Had he his hurts before?
Ay, on the front. --Shak.
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4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before
the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person,
of the troops, or of a house.
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5. The most conspicuous part.
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The very head and front of my offending. --Shak.
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6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front
piece of false hair worn by women.
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Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.
--Mrs.
Browning.
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7. The beginning. "Summer's front." --Shak.
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8. (Fort.) All the works along one side of the polygon
inclosing the site which is fortified.
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9. (Phon.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the
part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the
palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the
vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See
Guide to Pronunciation, [sect]10.
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10. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which
is often the word "front," used as an exclamation. [Hotel
Cant]
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Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half
bastions.
Front door, the door in the front wall of a building,
usually the principal entrance.
Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one
side of a polygon. --Farrow.
Front of operations, all that part of the field of
operations in front of the successive positions occupied
by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.
To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.
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Demibastion
(gcide) | Demibastion \Dem"i*bas"tion\ (?; 106), n. [Cf. F. demi-
bastion.] (Fort.)
A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one
face and one flank.
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Face of a bastion
(gcide) | Face \Face\ (f[=a]s), n. [F., from L. facies form, shape, face,
perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig.
meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and
akin to E. fancy. Cf. Facetious.]
1. The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part
which presents itself to the view; especially, the front
or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers
itself to the view of a spectator.
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A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground.
--Gen. ii. 6.
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Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face. --Byron.
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2. That part of a body, having several sides, which may be
seen from one point, or which is presented toward a
certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid;
as, a cube has six faces.
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3. (Mach.)
(a) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or
pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or
object.
(b) That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog
wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.
(c) The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end
to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
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4. (Print.)
(a) The upper surface, or the character upon the surface,
of a type, plate, etc.
(b) The style or cut of a type or font of type.
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5. Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect,
whether natural, assumed, or acquired.
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To set a face upon their own malignant design.
--Milton.
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This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
--Addison.
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We wear a face of joy, because
We have been glad of yore. --Wordsworth.
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6. That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes,
cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.
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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
--Gen. iii.
19.
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7. Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air;
appearance.
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We set the best faceon it we could. --Dryden.
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8. (Astrol.) Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
--Chaucer.
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9. Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or
confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness;
effrontery.
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This is the man that has the face to charge others
with false citations. --Tillotson.
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10. Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the
face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of,
before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the
face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the
face of, from the presence of.
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11. Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor
or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
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The Lord make his face to shine upon thee. --Num.
vi. 25.
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My face [favor] will I turn also from them. --Ezek.
vii. 22.
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12. (Mining) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or
excavation, at which work is progressing or was last
done.
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13. (Com.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond,
or other mercantile paper, without any addition for
interest or reduction for discount; most commonly called
face value. --McElrath.
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Note: Face is used either adjectively or as part of a
compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth;
face plan or face-plan; face hammer.
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Face ague (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by
acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by
twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive
twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also {tic
douloureux}.
Face card, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human
face is represented; the king, queen, or jack.
Face cloth, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse.
Face guard, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by
workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of
metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc.
Face hammer, a hammer having a flat face.
Face joint (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other
structure.
Face mite (Zool.), a small, elongated mite ({Demdex
folliculorum}), parasitic in the hair follicles of the
face.
Face mold, the templet or pattern by which carpenters,
etc., outline the forms which are to be cut out from
boards, sheet metal, etc.
Face plate.
(a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe,
to which the work to be turned may be attached.
(b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or
shock.
(c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. --Knight.
Face wheel. (Mach.)
(a) A crown wheel.
(b) A wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and
polishing; a lap.
face value the value written on a financial instrument;
same as face[13]. Also used metaphorically, to mean
apparent value; as, to take his statemnet at its face
value.
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Cylinder face (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam
cylinder on which a slide valve moves.
Face of an anvil, its flat upper surface.
Face of a bastion (Fort.), the part between the salient and
the shoulder angle.
Face of coal (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at
right angles to the stratification.
Face of a gun, the surface of metal at the muzzle.
Face of a place (Fort.), the front comprehended between the
flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. --Wilhelm.
Face of a square (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion
when formed in a square.
Face of a watch, clock, compass, card etc., the dial or
graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of
day, point of the compass, etc.
Face to face.
(a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the
accuser and the accused face to face.
(b) Without the interposition of any body or substance.
"Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to
face." 1 --Cor. xiii. 12.
(c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or
toward one another; vis [`a] vis; -- opposed to {back
to back}.
To fly in the face of, to defy; to brave; to withstand.
To make a face, to distort the countenance; to make a
grimace; -- often expressing dislike, annoyance, or
disagreement. --Shak.
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Tower bastion
(gcide) | Tower \Tow"er\, n. [OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin
to Gr. ?; cf. W. twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a
tower, castle. Cf. Tor, Turret.]
1. (Arch.)
(a) A mass of building standing alone and insulated,
usually higher than its diameter, but when of great
size not always of that proportion.
(b) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification,
for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the
same height as the curtain wall or higher.
(c) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special
purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in
proportion to its width and to the height of the rest
of the edifice; as, a church tower.
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2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
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Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower
from the enemy. --Ps. lxi. 3.
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3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about
the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also,
any high headdress.
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Lay trains of amorous intrigues
In towers, and curls, and periwigs. --Hudibras.
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4. High flight; elevation. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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Gay Lussac's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used
in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of
concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may
be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See
Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower,
below.
Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in
the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude
acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous
fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion
of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid,
under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above.
Round tower. See under Round, a.
Shot tower. See under Shot.
Tower bastion (Fort.), a bastion of masonry, often with
chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior
polygon of some works.
Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant {Arabis
perfoliata}.
Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern
part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and
now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects
of public interest.
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bastioned
(wn) | bastioned
adj 1: secured with bastions or fortifications [syn:
bastioned, fortified] |
bastion host
(foldoc) | proxy server
bastion host
proxy gateway
A server process that intercepts requests from
a client, passes them to an origin server and returns the
response to the client while performing various other
operations in the process. An HTTP proxy server is a common
example.
A proxy may be used for purposes of security, performance
(caching) or anonymity. It may be purely software or may
run on its own hardware, either a standard PC or server
machine or a custom hardware appliance. A software proxy may
be on the same computer as the client or the origin server,
separate hardware may be anywhere on the network in between.
The proxy may filter requests, rejecting some if the request
or response matches certain conditions (e.g. an antivirus
proxy). It may cache requests and responses to reduce load on
the origin server or data volume on the network or to provide
quicker response to the client for common requests. The proxy
may modify the request or response, e.g. to convert between
different protocols or interfaces.
Proxy servers are often used in large companies as part of a
firewall so that users within the company need have no
direct connection to the Internet (and can use a {private IP
address} range) but can still access the web,
instant messenger, etc via the proxy. Usually this requires
each client to be configured to use the proxy.
The term "proxy gateway" may more imply transparency (less
intervention) in the request-response process, though is often
used as a synonym for proxy server.
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