(n.) One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
(n.) One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
(n.) One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wealthy, charismatic, aristocratic, 6ft 2ins and with a luxuriant moustache, he led a decadent life.
(2) The Aristocrats is a gag comedians tell each other in private.
(3) Wilde, however, with his high earnings and his flamboyance, made of precariousness something aristocratic; he was, if you’ll forgive the coinage, a precaristocrat.
(4) A rather eccentric populist-aristocratic campaign called You Forgot the Birds has also been launched against the RSPB led by the former cricketer Ian Botham, claiming that the charity neglects small songbirds in its veneration of birds of prey.
(5) After 12 years of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, most people in the media were tired of aristocratic old men in tweed jackets.
(6) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(7) As we speak the final 10 days of production are under way, meaning farewell to the show’s trump card, Highclere Castle, home of real-life aristocrats, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
(8) (Shades of Louis XIV’s France, when aristocrats were exempt from tax.)
(9) Inspector Reg Wexford wasn’t an aristocrat or a brilliant Oxbridge wit.
(10) When the family arrived in England in 1938, his father anglicised the name to Lynton from an aristocratic German mouthful, though Norbert's elder brother scorned this refuge.
(11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
(12) Even the king's private life, where rumours of lovers have always been rife, is no longer out of bounds – and neither is his friendship with a German aristocrat whose name is widely available in Spain and Germany, but whose lawyers say she denies any inappropriate relationship and have threatened legal action against any British newspapers that reveal her name.
(13) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(14) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(15) It will determine whether Russia will be dominated by an "aristocratic" or "arrestocratic" dynamic into the second decade of the 21st century.
(16) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(17) Thinking about it, the best metaphor might be a row among one of those aristocratic families whose stately home is falling down around them.
(18) Is the collapse of the party that turned this country from an enclave of aristocratic power into a functioning democracy inevitable?
(19) The ITV drama, telling the story of the aristocratic Crawley family, is to return to screens later this year for the fifth series since its debut in 2010.
(20) "You have to remember that, back in India, we came from an aristocratic background," Desai says.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.