(n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.
(n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although prostheses are not anatomical avatars, careful appliance prescription and training, coordinated with the child's growth and developmental changes, can optimize the benefits the child derives from the prosthesis.
(2) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
(3) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(4) Bookmaker Paddy Power is currently offering odds of 16-1 on The Force Awakens passing Avatar’s total by June 2016.
(5) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(6) Avatar revolutionised the industry with its groundbreaking use of 3D; The Force Awakens is merely concerned with making sure the Star Wars franchise lives on.
(7) For the most part, I floated about the treetops while construction went on, overseeing as avatars flew about, sloughing off blocks, pausing to consider a tricky curve or corner, and sloughing again.
(8) Seems to me, there isn't quite a Slumdog or a King's Speech this year to grab the popular British attention, and we don't yet have the internecine drama of, say, a race boiling down to Avatar vs Hurt Locker .
(9) The director James Cameron will make three sequels to his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster Avatar in New Zealand , he announced on Monday.
(10) Martin: 'I can't afford a one-room flat in the cheapest area' avatar yello Photograph: guardian.co.uk After getting on my bike in 1992 and moving to Holland, where I worked for 18-and-a-half years, I returned to the town of my birth in 2011.
(11) The room erupted for Marco Rubio, the Ken doll avatar of CPAC crushes.
(12) Dan Snyder isn’t satisfied with being the avatar of every cruel and stupid thing about modern capitalism.
(13) As a player, I don't remember having many problems projecting myself as Lara – and I don't particularly want an avatar in a game that needs protecting.
(14) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
(15) "I mean, I'm glad it went to her and not to James Cameron [for Avatar ]; if that had happened, it would have been too weird.
(16) Pinewood is home to a range of productions including the next Clash of the Titans film starring Avatar actor Sam Worthington and TV shows including Dancing On Ice, The Weakest Link and My Family.
(17) The saga’s debut instalment, 1977’s Star Wars, made $2.825bn when ticket prices are adjusted for inflation – though Avatar itself is also upgraded to $3.020bn using the same formula.
(18) Also, don't retweet @suckup1967 when she tweets at you to say "@rupertmurdoch Gt appearance at the select committee you showed them LOL love your avatar too".
(19) Films financed by Ingenious include Avatar, Die Hard 4 and Die Hard 5 and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
(20) But right now, in avatar form, he was styled in tan leathers and a rocket pack, and he was figuring out how to make that giant door open and shut on command.
Embodiment
Definition:
(n.) The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
(n.) That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(5) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(6) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(7) More problematic for Brown is that he has come to embody a government sufficiently unconvinced of its own case as to risk short-changing the armed forces at the front.
(8) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(9) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(10) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(11) During extension, lateral flexion, and rotation of the neck, the cervical transverse process engages to the top of the upper articular process of the subjacent vertebra, thus embodying the locking mechanism which plays an important role in the stabilization of the cervical spine and the protection of the integrity of vertebral arteries, spinal cord, and nerve roots.
(12) Though his life was to be the embodiment of a secularised form of dissent, his high moral seriousness and egalitarianism surely had roots in this radical Protestant background.
(13) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
(14) This flexibility supports the hypothesis that the principles embodied are rather universal and can account for the development of various nervous system structures.
(15) Every question asked by a therapist may be seen to embody some intent and to arise from certain assumptions.
(16) When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France .
(17) It has become the agricultural embodiment of his beliefs about everything from the natural world to the globalised economy.
(18) This paper describes and discusses a strategy for the design of an expressive communication aid for the non-vocal which is highly flexible and which embodies the principle of user-specifiable function.
(19) These criteria, embodying clinical reappraisal of the patient, skin retesting and definitive RAST profile results, are offered as a new approach for consideration by the clinical allergist in the care of his patients.
(20) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.