(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.
Idea
Definition:
(n.) The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
(n.) A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
(n.) Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
(n.) A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
(n.) A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
(n.) A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
(n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(3) A backbench policy advisory group will be established to develop ideas.
(4) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(6) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
(7) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
(8) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(9) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(10) This is about the best experience for our users: the idea that the experience was lacking, the innovation was lacking and we weren't reaching that ubiquity."
(11) Bose grew up with the idea, as the child of a well-to-do Bengali family in Kolkata.
(12) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
(13) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
(14) Differences in scar depression also supported the idea of more stretching in the Dexon group.
(15) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
(16) These conclusions are consistent with those obtained from other techniques and support the idea that the effects of dopamine agonists on the activity of dopamine neurons and globus pallidus cells can provide an indication of the relative selectivity of these drugs for pre- or postsynaptic dopamine receptors.
(17) They also dismiss those who suggest that the current record-low interest rates mean countries could safely stimulate growth by raising their borrowing levels higher: Economists simply have little idea how long it will be until rates begin to rise.
(18) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
(19) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
(20) When the alternatives are considered, it seems most consistent with Piaget's ideas to regard both cognitive and affective phenomena as problem-solving organizations.