(n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
(n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(5) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
(6) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(7) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(8) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(9) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(10) Prolonged immobilization was accompanied by a decrease in Ca-concentration dependence of Ca2+ uptake.
(11) These changes were not accompanied by changes in blood levels of endogenous sex steroids.
(12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(13) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
(14) In hypertensive patients, intravenous nicardipine in doses of 1 to 2 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 produced normotensive state during surgery accompanied by significant diuresis.
(15) Cellular aging is accompanied by increased cellular permeability to zinc(II).
(16) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(17) This was accompanied by a greater decrease in hematocrit in the continuous group, a finding that suggests that plasma volume expansion occurred during continuous GTN therapy.
(18) A return of high-frequency sensitivity accompanied the recurrence of pain in some patients who had been injected up to 13 years prior to testing.
(19) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(20) Gonadectomy of females was accompanied by changes in the activity of individual HAS links in different direction--some reduction of ACTH in the hypophysis, a sharp and significant fall of the peripheral blood glucocorticoid level and a marked significant elevation of hydrococortisone production in the adrenal cortex in vitro.
Minstrel
Definition:
(n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) KA Lee’s Bamboozled and Genet’s The Blacks are critiques of black and white minstrel shows; they do not simply recreate them.
(3) She doesn't say it, but I take this to be a reference to Henry's notorious appearance on the touring Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s.
(4) Black artists have a dubious track record of appearing in and supporting racist art in the past, for example the black and white minstrel shows.
(5) I'm a bit of a wandering minstrel: my day often begins with breakfast meetings, before I head to my desk.
(6) As offensive as The Black and White Minstrel Show, as embarrassing as The Benny Hill Show, and just as certain to be consigned to the past.
(7) Consequently, to some commentators, Dolezal is a self-tanning, hair-frizzing fraud, knowingly masquerading as black, a hideous contemporary version of blackface minstrel.
(8) Ten years ago the National Trust bought the redbrick house studded with romantic details including turrets, stained glass, window seats, a miniature minstrels' gallery and a well, and opened it to the public for the first time.
(9) As the ratings and the money roll in, Delacroix is haunted by a machine from the minstrel era, a late-19th-century "Jolly Nigger Bank", in the shape of a grinning black boy, whose metal arm swings backward to deposit a coin in his mouth.
(10) Maybe it’s time to let go of it, look forward and see what we can find.” Goat have also found themselves having to bat away accusations that wearing increasingly extravagant tribal regalia is, at best, cultural appropriation and, at worst, a kind of cosmic minstrelism.
(11) French Vogue failed to respond to our queries, and meanwhile, in other blacking up news, Dizzee Rascal has what looks like a load of black-and-white minstrels on the set of his new video, Dirtee Cash.
(12) Spike Lee’s Bamboozled does so to great effect, Jean Genet’s The Blacks is a minstrel show written by a white playwright that is highly provocative and charged with racial tension to expose the hypocrisy and deeply embedded racism found at all levels of society.
(13) The audience may be more haunted by the minstrel show's central stage prop, a huge portal in the form of a thick-lipped, bug-eyed bellboy; performers in black-face enter from backstage through the gaping mouth.
(14) The household calamities continued in her expenses from 1 April 2007 to 30 June 2007 as Moran claimed £2,282.65 for repairs and decoration after a "front room roof collapse", with other expenses for the same period including a silk cushion for £5, £150 on a Milano silver mirror, £270 on even more bedding and a packet of chocolate Minstrels for £1.75.
(15) "He is from that school of medieval minstrels who played with paradox and the absurd," adds Fo.
(16) Some players have told me that a failure to act would only endorse what they have always felt: that black people have no place in this game other than as minstrels performing on a stage.
(17) In Spike Lee's new media satire Bamboozled, Damon Wayans plays Pierre Delacroix, a television producer who creates a minstrel show that exploits racial stereotypes that were shamed off the stage decades before.
(18) The day in 1936, perhaps, when the 17-year-old Seeger heard Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the "Minstrel of the Appalachians" , play the banjo at a festival of folk music in North Carolina and took up the instrument with such aptitude and devotion that his own subsequent book, How to Play the 5-String Banjo , became and remains a standard text for students of the instrument.
(19) The minstrel boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him.
(20) Young's father was a multi-instrumentalist and teacher who schooled his children in music, forming them up alongside their stepmother as the New Orleans Strutters, and playing carnivals, circuses and minstrel shows.