(n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.
Example Sentences:
(1) During cricket movement, the chameleon locked both eyes straight forward in their orbits and followed the cricket movement with a visually guided head movement.
(2) An immunocytochemical method, using glutaraldehyde fixation and an antiserum developed against a GABA-glutaraldehyde protein conjugate, permitted direct visualization of GABAergic structures in the brain of a reptile (chameleon).
(3) One thing that really surprised me about him was he was chameleon-like, which is obvious in the transition of characters he developed over the years, but you’d never notice him if he was out walking in the street.
(4) This "chameleonic" effect results in different solubility parameters for a solute, depending on the polarity of the solvent.
(5) Chameleon, goldfish, and frog retinas were nonreactive.
(6) It was hypothesized that during movement of both a cricket and the body of an alert chameleon, the visually guided head movement and the vestibulo-collic reflex were additive.
(7) Chameleon head movement was studied to learn how information from more than one sensory system can be co-ordinated to produce a single motor behavior.
(8) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(9) During movement of the body of an anesthetized chameleon, there was no measurable movement of the head relative to the body.
(10) They accuse Zuma of being a political chameleon who tells audiences what they want to hear, reassuring business, courting trade unions and communists, appealing to populist sentiments for the death penalty and against gay marriage.
(11) Living in the middle of all of this name calling and double standards, I had to harden my heart.” It’s an insight, and an interesting one for a political character who was at once direct and plain speaking – yet often frustratingly enigmatic, a chameleon who would fade in and out of sight.
(12) Yet despite official denunciation and celebration of diversity, racism as a concept in this country endures, adapting and readapting, chameleon-like to the changing social and political times.
(13) Despite asynchrony, saccades of left and right eyes of African chameleons had similar timing statistics.
(14) He was the first, the original and the best pop chameleon, ringing the ch-ch-changes for every new release or tour, playing with costume, masks and alter egos in a way that always felt organic and interesting.
(15) Security researchers have discovered a botnet they have dubbed "Chameleon" which they calculate is costing display advertisers around $6m (£3.9m) per month by falsely viewing billions of pages and adverts on about 200 sites owned by a small group of publishers.
(16) "The British electorate are a sophisticated bunch who will see through his chameleon tendencies and conclude this attack is not an act of leadership but one of cowardice as he panders to the extreme wing of his own party and tries to claw back support from Ukip," he said.
(17) This something for everybody is "a little bit too chameleon-like", she said.
(18) Some visual, vestibular and proprioceptive reflexes which contribute to gaze (head + eye) stabilization were quantified in the chameleon.
(19) These pathogens have not been reported previously in chameleons, nor has a combined infection of circulating monocytes with these two pathogens been reported for any animal.
(20) "There are very few actors who can be so chameleon-like and inhabit roles in the way he does," says David Wolstencroft, who wrote the legal thriller The Escape Artist, which ended on BBC1 this week.
Circumstance
Definition:
(n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
(n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident.
(n.) Circumlocution; detail.
(n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
(v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
Example Sentences:
(1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(2) The conus was found to contribute little to forward flow under ordinary circumstances, but its contribution increased greatly during bleeding or partial occlusion of the truncus.
(3) This paper details the circumstances of some of the cases and cites precautions to be taken in the use of this therapeutic mode.
(4) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(5) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(6) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(7) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(8) The circumstances surrounding 142 hospital admissions for acute asthma in 110 children during a one year period were examined.
(9) The length of the interpulse interval for LH release secretion decreased in unilateral decorticate animals, whereas the length of the cycle of FSH secretion increased in this circumstance.
(10) However, there are exceptional circumstances in which it is in a child’s best interests to be resettled in the UK.
(11) Differences in incidence of unplanned pregnancies among women was more a result of socioeconomic circumstance and the tendency to have a large family than attitude towards children.
(12) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
(13) Under certain circumstances, the effects of chlordiazepoxide appear to be best predicted by knowledge of maintaining conditions.
(14) It is proposed that although the same retinoblastoma cells in different circumstances are responsive to HPD-PDT, no clinical response is demonstrable utilizing this model, due to the absence of tumor vascularity.
(15) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
(16) Naturally, in individual patients, special circumstances may exist which alter these decisions.
(17) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
(18) During this period, however, the cows were housed in a stable with markedly worse environmental circumstance than those in production stable.
(19) A Home Office spokeswoman said: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public.
(20) In the second phase of diagnosis are further neurophysiological investigations, which are only indicated in more special circumstances.