(v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
(v. t.) A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.
(v. t.) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
(4) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(5) One is the stubborn mystery of how a giant of its liberation movements, an intellectual who showed forgiveness and magnanimity years before Mandela emerged from jail, could turn into the living caricature of despotism.
(6) Last week he began that process in a New Statesman interview in which he said: "I'm caricatured as a tribalist.
(7) While caricatures of welfare dependents reign unchallenged, pressing practical questions about how poor people can make ends meet are ducked.
(8) He sometimes bordered on caricature, but always provided colour and verve.
(9) Here we examine a simple one-dimensional caricature of their model which exhibits similar linear behaviour and present a nonlinear analysis which shows the possibility of superposition of modes subject to appropriate parameter values and initial conditions.
(10) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
(11) Morphological and immunohistochemical analyses showed that these tumors caricature the biology of the renewing epidermis: the presence of basal-like cells; differentiating cells; apoptotic cells; and keratinized horn pearls with an exaggerated or overabundant stem cell compartment as compared to the differentiated cell compartment.
(12) Tea Partyers were not the backward dimwits caricatured in the media.
(13) The caricature of the older person as slow, rambling and confused is a familiar stereotype, reinforced by a media that often focuses on perceived age-related failings in public figures such as Ronald Reagan, Menzies Campbell and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch.
(14) It is a complex picture – tough to caricature and tougher to address.
(15) If we think that the way we should conduct political debate is by caricaturing people we disagree with as Bennites, I think it is an absolutely hopeless way to conduct a political debate.
(16) A report outlining the plan, written by Blunkett, accuses the coalition of producing a system where the logical conclusion would be 20,000 autonomous schools and "an unmanageable Kafkaesque caricature freeing schools from everything except the secretary of state".
(17) But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature."
(18) The official Twitter account of Fillon’s party, Les Républicains , published a caricature of Macron depicting him as a hook-nosed banker in a top hat cutting a cigar with the communist symbol of the red sickle.
(19) The revolutionary volunteers have churned out caricatures of Gaddafi being throttled until money pops from his throat, and of him naked and alone on a desert island with a slogan that says he is with the only friend he has in the world.
(20) In his memoir, he recalls the extravagant nicknames of some of the locas and transvestites whom he frequented: like their cross-dressed bodies, their names were a sort of parodic translation of their caricatured identity.
Feature
Definition:
(n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
(n.) The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
(n.) The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
(n.) A form; a shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
(4) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(6) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(7) The leukemic T-cells in two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had specific features of large granular lymphocytes (LGL), and those in two patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had L2 morphologic characteristics.
(8) There was no association of DPA1 or DPB1 RFLPs with clinical features.
(9) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(10) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(11) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(12) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(13) Many features of CFTR activity suggest that pharmacological interventions may be possible.
(14) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(15) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
(16) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
(17) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
(18) Extensive sequence homologies and other genetic features are shared with the related oncogenic virus, human papillomavirus type 16, especially in the major reading frames.
(19) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(20) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.