(n.) One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
(n.) A simpleton; an idiot.
(n.) One apt to change; a waverer.
(a.) Taken or left in place of another; changed.
(a.) Given to change; inconstant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(2) Between June 1960 and November 1962, Herbert designed Shakespeare's Richard III for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the film of Tom Jones, and at the Royal Court, Wesker's Chicken Soup With Barley, I'm Talking About Jerusalem and Chips With Everything, Christopher Logue's Trials By Logue, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling, John Osborne's Luther, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Beckett's Happy Days.
(3) Changeling is set in Los Angeles during the Depression, before the city's make-up was changed by the large black influx.
(4) The trolls raise Eggs, a human changeling, in The Boxtrolls Photograph: PR The only other new film to hit the top 10 this week was the apocalyptic thriller Left Behind from director Vic Armstrong.
(5) There are actually echoes of Dirty Harry in Changeling, Eastwood says, and he's not making any concessions to liberals: "I get a kick out of it because the judge convicts the killer to two years in solitary confinement, and then to be hanged.
(6) It surely accounts for the emotional content of some of his recent films, not least Changeling, which had been in competition for the Palme d'Or and, like the lauded Mystic River, concerns child abduction.
(7) So, rather than start an intergalactic incident by listing the best ever episodes (a task that would cause a brain lockdown similar to what happened when Kirk ordered the Enterprise's computer to calculate pi to the last digit ), here are just some favoured examples of a smarter version of Star Trek, one regularly offered by the many TV shows … The Changeling (Star Trek) Season 2, episode 3.
(8) It's a fast-paced romance featuring changeling trolls called Trylle who are switched at birth with human babies.
Oaf
Definition:
(n.) Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Big OAF was converted to little OAF by equilibration in 1 M NaCl or 2 M urea.
(2) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.
(3) The effect of interleukin-1 beta, the major component of osteoclast-activating factor (OAF), on bone formation by fetal rat osteoblast-rich cells was investigated.
(4) Recent studies show that osteoclast activating factor (OAF) is homologous to IL-1B.
(5) The resorption response to OAF also resembles that of PTH in having a steep dose response curve and being only transiently inhibited by calcitonin and partially inhibited by increasing medium phosphate concentration.
(6) Spleen cells treated with mitogens produce a potent bone-resorbing factor called osteoclast-activating factor (OAF).
(7) In contrast, supernatant fluids from concanavalin A (Con-A)-activated murine spleen cell cultures (murine osteoclast-activating factor; OAF) consistently and significantly induced a 3- to 5-fold stimulation of bone resorption in this system.
(8) OAF production is probably related to the nature of hydrocarbons in the air.
(9) Calcium release was significantly increased for all agents between 12 and 24 h. It is concluded that bone resorption by 1,25(OH)2D3, OAF, and PGE2 is mediated primarily by increased activity of existing osteoclasts similar to PTH activation.
(10) The presence of bactericidal compounds (open air factor = OAF) could be demonstrated on several days and quantitated in relative units of OAF concentration.
(11) The current studies were designed to produce monoclonal antibodies against OAF for use in the subsequent design of immunoassays for OAF in clinical samples.
(12) In this study we examined the relationship between the lymphocyte and monocyte in OAF production.
(13) The lymphokine osteoclast-activating factor (OAF) was purified to homogeneity.
(14) These results indicate that prostaglandin synthesis is necessary for OAF production.
(15) Are there really "nine sleeps 'til new Who" you gurgling oaf?
(16) Bones from mi mice showed a generalized resorption defect with decreased spontaneous or control resorption and failure to respond to parathyroid hormone (PTH), prostaglandin E2, 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D3, vitamin A, or osteoclast activating factor (OAF) from human peripheral leukocytes or mouse spleen cells.
(17) OAF release was stimulated by pokeweed mitogen and concanavalin A as well as by phytohemagglutinin.
(18) When PGE1 and PGE2 (0.1 microM) were added exogenously to the enriched lymphocyte population, OAF release occurred after stimulation with PHA.
(19) We have further characterized osteoclast activating factor (OAF) using a bioassay for bone resorption which utilizes the release of previously incorporated (45)Ca from fetal rat long bones in organ culture.
(20) The demonstration of increased osteoclast activating factor (OAF) derived from the cultured myeloma cells from each case suggests that the secretion of OAF and immunoglobulin are unrelated.