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Banshee


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Banshie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rob Auton: ­ The Water Show Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 Aug A show all about water.
  • (2) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
  • (3) The big story Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners.
  • (4) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
  • (5) In 1976, the two friends formed one of the first punk bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
  • (6) They call him the Shoreditch Creeper and ascertain that he's a Siouxsie & The Banshees fan.
  • (7) Richard Gadd Banshee Labyrinth , 6-28 August Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anarchic stunt comedy … Richard Gadd.
  • (8) Luther and Ripley then proceed to bicker over what genre the Banshees are: "Post-punk."
  • (9) Instead of doing a body scan, I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the empty space in the center of the hall, screaming like a banshee.
  • (10) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at the Banshee Labyrinth, 8-30 August
  • (11) I fantasized about flinging off my pillows and running through the hall, screaming like a banshee Studies have shown that people who are blind or deaf have heightened ability in other bodily senses.
  • (12) From trapping a banshee in a bin to dealing with zombie students, it’s an action-packed adventure full of smart kids that grownups won’t mind watching either.
  • (13) It's like this: in the face of American capitalism and its defenders, there is almost nothing to be done but stomp up and down on the remains of popular culture and shriek like a banshee.
  • (14) There's also a cover version of Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees, which augurs well.
  • (15) Natasia Demetriou And Ellie White Are Mother And Baby is at Banshee Labyrinth, to 30 August PHIL WANG How to heckle Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phil Wang.
  • (16) This morning, 14 years on, Wright is pulling together and fact-checking his script to make sure his audience is whipped into a factually sturdy frenzy on topics such as a proposal to regulate legal highs ("What does Banshee Dust actually do ?").
  • (17) Richard Gadd, whose Waiting for Gaddot was the buzziest hit of last year’s fringe, is likewise back in the (free) Banshee Labyrinth pub – although that’s a mite more explicable, given how in your face and non-mainstream Gadd’s work is.
  • (18) I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but, looking back, the lineup was unmissable: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Young Marble Giants, the Durutti Column, Soft Cell, the Psychedelic Furs, Altered Images .

Shade


Definition:

  • (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
  • (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.
  • (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
  • (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.
  • (n.) Shadow.
  • (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.
  • (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.
  • (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.
  • (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.
  • (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
  • (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.
  • (v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
  • (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
  • (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color.
  • (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (2) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
  • (3) The shading of the optoelectronic system had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 1.42% for measurements in the center of the displayed area, but a CV of 3.55% for measurements over the whole monitor area.
  • (4) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
  • (5) The observers ranked three-dimensional shaded images higher than the other types, with three-dimensional volumetric images second and three-dimensional surface images ranked third.
  • (6) Would it best best to risk a Great Reform Bill (shades of 1832) - or would piecemeal reform be best, some wonder?
  • (7) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
  • (8) From these data, three graphs are derived, including trends in age-standardised rates, age-specific rates centered on birth cohorts and maps plotted in different shades of grey to represent the surfaces defined by the matrix of various age-specific rates.
  • (9) He is wary of pretension, alive to all shades of irony.
  • (10) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (11) Additionally, the silver staining properties of the Duracryl matrix result in proteins appearing as monochromatic shades of grey instead of red, brown and yellow, as is the case of conventional polyacrylamide matrices.
  • (12) Over 400 people and 100 boats were stranded in temperatures of about 40C, with little shade.
  • (13) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
  • (14) Data received was converted to Munsell notation for evaluation of the dimensions of color, i.e., Hue, Chroma, and Value, as related to (1) shade differences, (2) thickness of porcelain, and (3) numbers of firings.
  • (15) Dik-dik antelopes lost about 50% more heat evaporatively when exposed to the sun compared to the shade at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 28 degrees C or a Ta of 40 degrees C in a climatic chamber.
  • (16) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
  • (17) It’s not easy to kick well in frigid conditions – and the temperature before kickoff was just shade over 20F.
  • (18) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
  • (19) Different segmentation techniques can be used, as well as shading algorithms that give greatly improved appearances.
  • (20) Meanwhile, the first images are emerging of what the Fifty Shades movie may actually look like, after Entertainment Weekly published a string of "character shots" , featuring actors Dakota Johnson and Dornan in their roles of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey respectively.