(n.) The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
(n.) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
(n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.
Example Sentences:
(1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(2) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
(3) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(4) With portraits of women, asylum seekers and refugees the photographs also go beyond Berger and Mohr's timely but time-limited portrayal of the archetypal migrant being a man seeking work.
(5) wearefriendlyfires.com Ceremoniously slow and with a mood of solemn self-satisfaction and reflective pride, the most I can say about this is every note of it is archetypal national anthem fodder.
(6) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
(7) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(8) 50% In the dog-whistle rhetoric of Hammond and Theresa May, the archetypal contemporary migrant in Europe is from Africa.
(9) Those archetypes, even though Cohn based them on people in London, were obviously happening in New York as well.
(10) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
(11) Not fictional archetypes such as Don Draper or Jack Bauer , and certainly not from Robin Thicke .
(12) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
(13) Photograph: YouTube Bookended by the flooding of the city of New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina – and by which the city’s black residents were disproportionately affected – and a black child in a hoodie dancing opposite a police line and a quick cut to graffiti words “stop shooting us”, Beyoncé morphs into several archetypical southern black women.
(14) The music and the image had been honed down in the interim – the gear to the archetypal indie look and the music to the almost bubblegum sound which they ply today.
(15) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
(16) Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese politics at the University of Sydney, suggests the association with Zhao, and its archetypally American image, may have helped to give the sport "a certain negative flavour".
(17) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
(18) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a new disease of cattle which has considerable homology with scrapie, the archetype of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
(19) Rendered in these cool, clean strokes, with efficiency and noninvolvement as the hallmarks of the type, The Day Of The Jackal's decision to tell the viewer nothing substantive about its assassin's personality, inner life, or convictions, was a virtual invitation to other film-makers and writers to fill in the gaps, to search for unexpected dramatic and comic possibilities in the unexamined background of the hitman archetype and to make hay with all their potential.
(20) Most of these clones contained regulatory sequences essentially identical to the archetypal regulatory sequence.
Ideal
Definition:
(a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
(a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
(a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
(a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
(a.) Imaginary.
(n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(4) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
(5) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(8) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(9) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
(10) Ideally, the rule should classify all nonhyperplastic and mildly hyperplastic cases as nonprogressive and all carcinomas as progressive; there were, however, a considerable number of false positives and false negatives based on application of the classification rule to these cases.
(11) Whether we would use that to support and amplify the community ideals already present or go the way of gentrification remained to be seen.
(12) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(13) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(14) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(15) Therefore, it is an ideal method for the isolation of cell cycle phase specific populations.
(16) Without suggesting an ideal medication for this syndrome, the authors have obtained good results with barbexaclone.
(17) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
(18) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(19) This experiment investigated people's preferences for the location of facilities in an ideal town.
(20) Need Score for each content area was calculated by taking the difference between Ideal and Current Expertise responses.