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A rehal [a] (Urdu: رحل, Hindi: रिहल, Bengali: রেহাল, Arabic: رَحْل) [1] or rahle Turkish: rahle) or tawla (Arabic: طاولة), is an X-shaped, foldable book rest or lectern used to hold religious scriptures for reverent display, as well as during reading or recitation. It is designed to collapse into a flat form for ...
Le Mans winners' podium, 2015. In some motorsport events, including Formula One, a representative of the team that won the race will also be present at the podium, with a fourth podium step, trophy and champagne. In many forms of motorsport, the three top-placed drivers in a race stand on a podium for the trophy ceremony.
The other speaker's stand, usually on the right (as viewed by the congregation), is known as the lectern. The word lectern comes from the Latin word "lectus" past participle of legere, meaning "to read", because the lectern primarily functions as a reading stand. It is typically used by lay people to read the scripture lessons (except for the ...
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter stand behind lecterns during a debate prior to the 1976 United States presidential election. A lectern is a standing reading desk with a slanted top, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon. A lectern is usually attached to a stand or affixed ...
The lecturer reads from a text on the lectern while students in the back sleep. Barbara McClintock delivers her Nobel lecture. A lecture (from Latin: lectura ' reading ') is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey ...
"Podium has also come to mean the object a speaker stands behind and sets papers or books upon, even when it is at floor level". No it hasn't, though a lectern is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a podium by some people they are two completely different things. No dictionary I've checked describes a podium as a lectern.
On the side right of the altar is the lectern from which the Epistle is read, normatively by a reader. In the liturgical traditions of Western Christianity, the Epistle side is the term used to designate the side of a church on which the Epistle is read during a church service.
In 1996, for the first time, speakers at the Democratic National Convention, held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, used a four-teleprompter system: as can be seen at another convention in image (A), the first three prompters are placed to the left, right and in front of the speaker, the latter embedded within the speaker's lectern ...