(n.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
(n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse.
(n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Empson, unforgettable as wisecracking Jamaican gossip Mrs Aphrodite in the Theatre Royal ska musical The Big Life in 2004, is mouthwatering casting as the Queen.
(2) In the distance the rock of Hytra can be seen jutting out of the sea: it’s one of the reputed birthplaces of Aphrodite.
(3) And in putting Aphrodite's isle back on the road to normality, it will assure him a much bigger place in history that most leaders would crave.
(4) Haemoglobins from the nerve and ganglia of the polychaet annelid Aphrodite aculeata L. and from the nerve of the gastropod mollusc Aplysia californica have been partially purified.
(5) The coefficients for partition between carbon monoxide and oxygen are: Aphrodite nerve haemoglobin, 167; Aplysia nerve haemoglobin, 116.
(6) The chancellor was not amused on opening the local papers and finding herself climbing into the Aphrodite thermal spring in a bathing suit .
Eros
Definition:
(n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a once-in-a-lifetime gal.” A friend of Breaux wrote on Instagram: “God really does give his best angels their wings first.” Breaux was a student at Louisiana State University in Eunice and lived in Lafayette, where she was working at clothing retailer Coco Eros.
(2) She has denounced others for calling him a terrorist, saying he was a freedom fighter in Sri Lanka's non-violent revolutionary student movement Eros .
(3) There were loud cheers from the thousands who gathered around the statue of Eros when the two marches joined up.
(4) Writing in the Guardian , Comfort Ero, Africa director of the International Crisis Group, said: “The insurgents are hampering the work of the independent national electoral commission and have already forced it to halt elections in high-risk areas of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
(5) On the background of a creative psychotherapy with a young man covering the antagonism between Eros and Thanatos creativity is presented as a power not only mediating between destructive and constructive processes but integrating itself into the personal image and sense of life.
(6) Clones resistant to only two drugs (Tet-Chl or Ero-Cli), or sensitive to all drugs were found in cultures of the wild-type strain treated by acridine dyes or ethidium bromide.
(7) In a cross between isogenic plasmids (PI(258)penZ cad x PI(258)penI asa ero), transductants were doubly selected for cadmium and erythromycin resistances.
(8) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
(9) The transformation frequencies for the plasmid marker erythromycin resistance (ero) and the chromosomal markers trp, thy, and cyt are of the same order of magnitude, whereas the frequency for the chromosomal marker tyr is approximately one order of magnitude lower.
(10) A strain of C. perfringens type A, isolated from a patient, was found to be resistant to four antibiotics: tetracycline (Tet), chloramphénicol (Chl), erythromycin (Ero) and clindamycin (Cli).
(11) Straight after, they change clothes again to pose for Vanity Fair's upcoming swinging London issue, a session which starts at the ultra-kitsch Eve Club (where Christine Keeler once partied) and ends with them hanging off Eros in the middle of Piccadilly Circus at 9pm.
(12) The friendships based on the concept of pedagogical Eros, as propagated by Gustav Wyneken (1875-1964) in his Wickersdorf Free School Community, are presented as an example.
(13) The electoral commission has stated in guidance that electoral registration officers (EROs) must send out reminders, or even pay a personal visit, telling people to register to vote.
(14) Interestingly, he does not, in Beware of Pity , allude to, or make any real use of, the atmosphere of stifling sexual repression that animates "Eros Matutinus", one of the best chapters of The World of Yesterday , in which Zweig acknowledges there were some very significant aspects of genteel society the world was right to discard.
(15) A further factor shown to be involved is the dialectic tension between eros and thanatos.
(16) This paper examines the aspects of dreaming derived from the principle of Eros, the life instinct as described by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
(17) A "complete Eros", or ultimate cure was impossible.
(18) Two types of liposomes, a fluid type, consisting of cholesterol-phosphatidylcholine-phosphatidylserine (5:4:1), and a solid type, consisting of cholesterol-distearoylphosphatidylcholine-dipalmitoylphosphatidylglyc ero l (10:10:1), were used.
(19) The commission strongly recommends that EROs undertake an audit of their registers and write to all households – regardless of whether or not they currently have any registered electors – in good time before the May polls.
(20) Thanatos and Eros seated across from each other over the backgammon board on table four, the onlookers suspending the judgment of ridicule and extending the courtesy of tolerance.