(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe a technical artifice, the use silicon-impregnated compresses, to help in the peroperative ultrasonographic detection of these section planes.
(2) The seriousness and sincerity were almost shocking in that den of artifice.
(3) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(4) As I signed up, I decided to ask Martha a few questions to see how much of her was artifice.
(5) All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary.
(6) There never will be sufficient financial resources, organizational artifice, or measurable standards to safeguard quality any other way.
(7) Poisonous and deleterious components are deemed to be "added," even if they are natural constituents of food, if any amount is present through the artifice of man.
(8) As such, the migration amendment bill seeks to implement a staggering legal artifice for a nation that claims to walk tall among the civilised.
(9) Technical artifices are described to assist compliance with these imperatives.
(10) "These are legal artifices created to result in paying less tax," he said.
(11) But this operation imposes technical artifices when direct urtero-vesical implantation is not possible.
(12) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
(13) The less visible in the context of individual's facial architecture the more esthetic the prosthetic artifice is.
(14) It's almost as though the more outmoded a politician becomes, the more artifice is required to keep him fresh.
(15) We think that this artifice could also be used in case of anatomic variations of the hepatic artery like trifurcation.
(16) The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
(17) Barnard's unusual technique, highlighting the artifice in film-making, showed that no single person has a monopoly on truth – and certainly not the documentary director who shapes truth into a narrative in the editing process.
(18) The proper manoeuvres and artifices to avoid intraoperative accidents are suggested.
(19) Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language.
(20) As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.
Capture
Definition:
(n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
(n.) The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
(n.) The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.
(v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
(2) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
(3) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(4) Similar results were obtained when hFSH was captured by an alpha-specific MAb (10.3A6).
(5) This derivative also allowed sensitive detection and measurement of indole-3-pyruvate in the picogram range using a gas chromatograph with an electron capture detector.
(6) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(7) This investigation examined the role of anabolic steroids on baseline heart rate (HR) and HR responses to the threat of capture in Macaca fascicularis.
(8) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(9) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(10) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(11) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
(12) Using an ELISA with captured antigen by monoclonal antibodies, 604 blood donors were typed for the platelet-specific antigen systems HPA-1 and HPA-4.
(13) Mean treatment success, estimated from live-capture and mortality data, ranged between 87.1 and 100%.
(14) We have the nuclear-related wealth, which captures the highly skilled and the affluent and the upwardly mobile.
(15) The concentrations of clorazepate and its metabolite nordiazepam were determined by electron capture gas liquid chromatography.
(16) TUC, CPE and ART viruses were obtained from pools of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) sp captured in Tucuruí, Pará State, in February, August and October of 1984, respectively.
(17) The RBEs of fast neutron, thermal neutron beams, and neutron capture therapy relative to 60Co gamma-ray were calculated as 2.78, 4.18, and 6.15 at 0.1 surviving fraction, respectively.
(18) As a result of recent development in medical practice including use of new antimicrobial agents, coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) that were once considered nonpathogenic contaminants have captured attention as causes of disease.
(19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(20) The type 3 pattern occurred when the antidromic wavefront of early premature beats captured the original circuit exit.