Ceil

The owls knew how to launch their bombs upward against an opponent pinned against the ceil - ing, so "upsmanship" was not the only strategy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We're locked in some kind of holding ceil, probably awaiting orders." ❋ Carlos G.Tonda (2010)

All modern CPUs have built-in round, ceil, and floor functions and typically their behaviors are configurable though you may have to operate at the assembly level. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Net languages, the round function by default rounds towards zero ie floor when +ve, ceil when -ve. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Most newer CPUs have various built in functions for round, floor and ceil all of which are variants of the standard round we all know. ❋ Unknown (2007)

From dirty flock bedding, drip dropping through the ceil — ing, with two sisters of charities on the front steps and three eva — cuan cleansers at the back gaze, single box and pair of chairs ❋ Unknown (2006)

Buried in the ceil-ing, dehumidifiers hummed efficiently, working around the clock to give the station's living quarters the desic-cated feel of the deserts of home. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1997)

Eight dormer * ndows jutted out of the sloped ceil - ❋ Tan, Amy (1995)

The creatures had no visible teeth, and clung to the ceil-ing of the shelter with six stubby legs. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

He found himself in a bright two-bedroom apartment with typically low ceil - ings and small rooms. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1995)

He stood, rooted to the spot, staring at an old man who, naked, was hanging upside down from a chain from the ceil - ing. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1995)

He didn't see the net until it had fallen from the ceil-ing, wrapping him from the tip of his sword to the soles of his boots. ❋ Niles, Douglas (1993)

Abruptly, and with a dizzying sense of expansion, the shaft they flew down opened through a hole in the ceil-ing of an incredibly vast, furiously burning cavern'like a plain of fire, sprawling to the horizons far below the surface of the world. ❋ Niles, Douglas (1993)

But then the man stood aside and the ceil seemed to fill with them. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1992)

Rubbing his eyes, he rolled over and stared at the ceil-ing. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1990)

'And so we will have her name put about, and see if she appears,' agreed Hugh, when they had locked Britric in his stone ceil and left him to his uneasy repose, and were walking back towards the castle gatehouse. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1989)

Leaning back in his chair, Quarath once again regarded the ceil - ing. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1988)

There was a rushing sound in the kender's ears as the walls swooped past him and the ceil - ing soared away from him. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1988)

It was so wide that its perimeter was lost in shadow, so high that its ceil - ing was obscured in shadow. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1988)