(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.
Moniker
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Example Sentences:
(1) And United are also thought to be close to signing Ajax’s Daley Blind – the “deluxe O’Shea”, to give him his catalogue moniker.
(2) The “three percenter” moniker alludes to the small percentage of colonials such groups claim fought in the American revolutionary war.
(3) Their attacks previously knocked out the websites of top US banks, under the moniker Operation Ababil, but the Cyber Fighters’ gaze has shifted to events closer to home in recent months.
(4) The blogger, who goes by the moniker Mosul Eye, also said the three girls who had escaped, were being hunted by Isis militants.
(5) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
(6) He has shown himself consistently unwilling to bend his beliefs in favour of political expediency, even where that leaves him alone and in the wilderness, earning himself the moniker "Dr No" in Congress.
(7) Wall Street traders impressed with his cut-throat tactics prefer the moniker "swamp alligator".
(8) Of all the songs we cut, we were enamoured of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude.” Unreleased David Bowie album to come out in new box set ‘My name is Michael Caine’ – legally After more than 60 years in showbiz, and frustrated by increased airport security checks, the legendary British actor, born Maurice Micklewhite, has decided to replace his birth name with his showbiz moniker for good.
(9) Maybe that will come later, although Merkel never did warm to l'art de la bise , the art of kissing introduced to her by Nicolas Sarkozy which helped to earn them the joint moniker "Merkozy".
(10) As for the tenuous future of the OWC in Singapore, the club may very well have to open under a different moniker.
(11) Broccoli does help the liver out but, unlike the broad-shouldered, cape-wearing image that its superfood moniker suggests, it is no hero.
(12) Updated at 5.31pm BST 5.02pm BST Eliot Higgins, who blogs the Syrian conflict under the moniker Brown Moses, has been collecting footage today of an aircraft reportedly downed inside Syria, near Latakia, in the north – within 50 miles of the Turkish border.
(13) The unofficial “city” moniker seeks to big them up but Letchworth and Welwyn, no matter how pleasant to some, unequivocally remain towns.
(14) He also disclosed the existence of a department of the Secret Intelligence Service‚ now known as MI6 but then known as section "M.I.i.c" of the War Office.7 Worst of all, Mackenzie revealed that the first head of MI6, the one-legged Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, was referred to as C. It is a moniker that his successors, including the incumbent, Sir John Sawers, maintain.
(15) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) Wacha shed the moniker of being a good young pitcher to being a good pitcher in that inning.
(16) His first solo show at the Edinburgh festival followed shortly after; it was in a tiny room and sold out in minutes (I was there one night and heckled under the moniker of Trevor Danger.
(17) But others complain that Udall’s campaign has been dull, uninspiring and one-dimensional, earning him the moniker “Senator Uterus”.
(18) Meanwhile .su has become an increasingly notorious corner of the internet, an online echo of the "evil empire" moniker assigned to the Soviet Union by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago.
(19) He adopted the un-Serb middle name of David and used it increasingly as a professional moniker.
(20) Other Republican candidates have not drawn explicit connections between the movement’s organizers and violence against police, but they have stumbled all the while on whether or not to accept its moniker.