a combining form meaning âthe dead,â âcorpse,â âdead tissueâ: necrology. Also, esp. before a vowel,necr-. [< Greek nekro-, comb. form of nekrÃ³s dead person, corpse, (adj.) dead]
The layout of a standard curling sheet of ice. The curling Sheet Each curling sheet is a patch of ice, 44.5 metres (146 ft) by 4.3 to 4.75 metres (14 ft 2 in to 15 ft 7 in), with identical sets of circles near each end. At the centre of the target, which is called the house, is a tee line and small circle called the button.
WIDTH OF ICE The Vancouver Olympic hockey tournament, won by Canada, was played on N.H.L.-size ice. But in Sochi, the rink returns to international standards. While N.H.L. and Olympic rinks are both about 200 feet long, Olympic ice is roughly 100 feet wide, about 15 feet wider than in the N.H.L. Those 15 additional feet present challenges for defensemen inexperienced on the larger sheet.