(a.) Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.
Example Sentences:
(1) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(2) His accent is equally indeterminate - part Teeside where he grew up, part Hollywood where he mainly lives, plus a hint of antipodean which he must have caught from Russell Crowe.
(3) Australia and New Zealand have perhaps even stronger emotional and cultural links to Britain, but as the economies of Asia have risen, the antipodean nations have found themselves on the doorstep of the greatest manufacturing region on earth.
(4) Three cases of antipodean squint are reported without known etiology factor.
(5) Parallel features exist among diseases in Antipodean hosts when compared with those in other tropical and temperate regions.
(6) How this charismatic-if-potentially-stinky Antipodean reached rural England is anyone’s guess.
(7) The calamitous British-conceived campaign is seen as the birthplace of the core Antipodean values of endurance, heroism, sacrifice, humour and – above all – “mateship” or camaraderie.
(8) Antipodeans trade matey banter; purposeful Germans with trekking poles overtake on the straights; the French, beautifully turned out, shrug indifferently; fat tattooed Brits huff and puff on the inclines.
(9) The 78-year-old has spent a lifetime building the world's most powerful media group, transforming a single antipodean newspaper into an empire that transcends national boundaries.
(10) As if the regular distance wasn’t enough already, New Zealand’s World Cup qualifying play-off against Mexico on November 13 in Mexico City added an extra element of ‘antipodean traveller’ to the match.
(11) Henning Mankell, Lionel Shriver, Hanif Kureishi and the antipodean writers CK Stead, Thomas Keneally and Anna Funder are other globally renowned signatories.
(12) News Corp, which Murdoch built from a single antipodean newspaper , is home to the biggest-selling stable of newspapers in the English-speaking world, the Fox TV network and Fox News in the US, film studio 20th Century Fox which was responsible for the year's biggest hit Avatar , publishing house Harper Collins and satellite TV companies in Asia, Italy and Australia.
(13) In her 27-year political career, she has gained a reputation for being forthright – an antipodean Margaret Thatcher.
(14) It's the middle of the hot Antipodean summer, but when Stephen Elop comes into the room of journalists he's wearing his suit jacket.
(15) Apparently these cruises are very popular with Aussies – the other three boats were also Antipodean-heavy – who tend to weld them on to larger backpacking odysseys across Europe.
(16) A military debacle of epic proportions and a byword for poor planning and arrogant, incompetent top brass that would blight Churchill’s career for years, Gallipoli has become a cornerstone of Australian and New Zealand national pride, the birthplace of the core Antipodean values of pluck, endurance, heroism, sacrifice, dark humour and – above all – “mateship”.
(17) "The arrival of Flat White and the Antipodeans really was very important," Jeffrey Young of Allegra says.
(18) Foran, who joined Walmart from the antipodean retailer Woolworths in 2011, has been working in retail for 35 years, having started his career as a teenage shelf stacker.
(19) "I like to always ask if someone is from New Zealand if they have a vaguely Antipodean accent, since if they're Australian they won't be offended, but if they actually are a Kiwi they'll be mightily impressed that for once someone hasn't assumed they are Australian.
(20) Using established actors (look out for some of Cave's Harry Potter co-stars) as well as her 14-year-old sister Bebe, these Antipodean antics are dry and poignant – Aunt Jocelyn never got over the death of her cat in 1978, while Mama Pru is a recovering gambling addict.
Diametrically
Definition:
(adv.) In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
(2) Since there exist transitory forms between diametrically opposite manifestations of such behavior, possibly the process of individual acquirement of capabilities necessary for fulfilling foraging function occurs.
(3) A hybrid composite resin, Prisma APH, and a microfilled composite resin, Silux Plus, were compared regarding diametral tensile strength values following conventional visible light polymerization and argon lasing.
(4) The interaction with troponin T from white skeletal muscle or with the phosphorylated 42-residue N-terminal peptide of troponin T restores in the trypsin-treated AMP deaminase the sensitivity to adenine nucleotides and increases the KA for K+ activation of the enzyme from 1 mM to 12 mM, this effect being diametrically opposite to that exerted by limited proteolysis on the native enzyme.
(5) Furthermore, it seems that two diametrically opposed mechanisms underlie depressive behavior: increase or decrease of behavioral mode frequency.
(6) RF applicators were placed on the lateral sides of the scalp and applied to diametrically opposite sides of the tumor.
(7) We conclude that neither the angulation of the circumflex artery as it appears on a two-dimensional projection nor the proportional diametric stenosis of the lesion can serve as easily assessible predictors fro the success of the procedure.
(8) There have been many conflicting reports leading to diametrically opposed views.
(9) The point is a self-developed Suction-curette-system, consisting of a suction-curette of diametres of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 und 8 mm, a cervicometer and a filter.
(10) There were different and, occasionally, diametrically opposite effects of the spatial arrangement of the nitrogen-containing descriptors on gram positive and gram negative organisms.
(11) Unexpectedly, the CCK-B receptor antagonist, L-365,260, enhanced the response to CCK-8, an effect diametrically opposite to that produced by CCK-A antagonists.
(12) In vertically oriented red blood cells (RBCs) the diameter, central thickness, and toroidal thickness were measured at the diametrical cross section.
(13) The tensile strength of a dental gypsum was measured indirectly using both the diametral and the double-punch tests.
(14) The difference of the chemical composition of the sugar moiety is believed to account for the diametric difference in the immunochemical character, in particular the different behaviour in the electric field, of both endotoxin types.
(15) The ever-growing recourse to profit-driven firms to provide prisons is diametrically opposed to the provision of reform and rehabilitation in prisons.
(16) Additionally, the data show that the differential capacity of these two steroids to produce embryotoxic effects is diametrically opposite to earlier reported patterns of their carcinogenic potential in the Syrian hamster kidney.
(17) An additional observation was the presence of incomplete superficial and deep palmar arches in all instances, a finding which diametrically contrasts with anatomical studies purporting to demonstrate complete palmar arches in 80% of the normal population.
(18) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
(19) A study was conducted to compare the compressive strength, diametral tensile strength, transverse flexural strength, and flexural modulus of a microfilled and a small particle composite resin restorative material following argon laser and conventional visible light polymerization techniques.
(20) Despite their each inducing MHC-unrestricted cytolytic activity in overnight PBMC cultures mediated predominantly by CD56+ non-T cells, anti-CD3 mAb and rIL2 induce diametrically opposite effects on subsequent polyclonal T cell-dependent B cell differentiation.