(n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
(n.) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.
(n.) The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.
(n.) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.
(n.) Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.
(n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.
(n.) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character.
(n.) A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant.
(n.) A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character.
(n.) One of the persons of a drama or novel.
(v. t.) To engrave; to inscribe.
(v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(2) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(3) Recently, it has been proposed that beta-adrenergic receptors of rat fat cells are neither beta 1 nor beta 2 in character but rather an 'isoreceptor,' 'hybrid,' or 'beta 3' [Br.
(4) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.
(5) This paper discusses the relationship between the psychoanalytic concept of character and the moral considerations of 'character'.
(6) One-hundred characters were derived from morphological features, physiological and biochemical activities and SEM micrographs.
(7) Diagnosis based on the character of the stridor alone is tenuous, and consideration of presentation other than the stridor is discussed in the management of these infants.
(8) The determining component of daily energy consumption is energy consumption during the working period the value of which depends on the character of working activity and duration of the working shift.
(9) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(10) At higher concentrations of burimamide, inhibition curves showed distinct evidence of departure from competitive character for both guinea pig and rabbit atria.
(11) The whole film is primarily shown from the character's perspective, so 70% of the process involved working with the director of photography [Maxime Alexandre].
(12) These last specialized characters are observed, on the contrary, in species parasitic in Lagomorpha.
(13) Little deficit in total mesodermal cell number was found, though the entire mesoderm adopted the histological character proper to only some 40% of that in the normal pattern i.e.
(14) And Pippi Longstocking, her most famous character, comes really close to being the personified proof of that… So where did Pippi come from?
(15) The character was wild and dangerous, psychotic but alluring.
(16) Some of the viruses could be differentiated from each other (especially in C. quinoa) by other characters, such as the accumulation of membranes in cell nuclei, or the type of organelle (chloroplasts, mitochondria or peroxisomes) from which multivesicular bodies developed.
(17) The term phlegmonous enterocolitis or gastritis defines an acute inflammatory process with purulent or nonpurulent character, that selectively damages the gastric, small and large intestines submucosal layer.
(18) I think a long time ago television passed up movies in terms of a reasonable and balanced portrayal of gay characters.
(19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(20) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
Destiny
Definition:
(n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
(n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
Example Sentences:
(1) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(2) Destiny is an experience we’ve wanted to explore for many years, but maybe didn’t have the bandwidth, the technology, the expertise, the critical mass to get it done.” Art and inspiration While engineers were working on the logistics of constructing one seamless online galaxy for players to explore and meet in, the 14-person concept art team was beginning to sketch out the look of the world.
(3) "These are just the women I know, I estimate that at least 40 to 50 other women are waiting for the same destiny in Iran right now," she said.
(4) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
(5) Destiny wants to change the way we think about online gaming – whether it succeeds or not will be down to the capability of its server network and whether there is really enough in there to keep gamers coming back.
(6) "They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right."
(7) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
(8) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
(9) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
(10) President Bush and Mrs Bush, Governor Bentley, members of Congress, Mayor Evans, Reverend Strong, friends and fellow Americans: There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.
(11) We were forming a new legal entity, rebranding ourselves with a far improved voting structure where we could be master of our own destiny.
(12) But it is much more than a business; it is an institution; it reflects and it influences the life of a whole community; it may affect even wider destinies.
(13) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
(14) Also the frequent epidemiological observation on the presence of both such agents and the HIV in AIDS patients allowed the authors to speculate on the probable important role of a cohort of co-factors which determine the destiny of such individuals.
(15) As we show the UK is once again open to the world and united in our new destiny, so we will expand our horizons,” she said.
(16) I'm getting ready for that, preparing in case it is my destiny," she said in an interview at her office in Brasilia.
(17) The parties of the elite have to locate "aspiration" as an individual trait with success as its manifest destiny.
(18) The ecological destiny of resistant bacterial populations suggests the role of other factors than antibiotic resistance: characters of a particular host, host-plasmid relationship and properties which may lead to survival and adaptation in a given niche.
(19) ActionAid says that if multinationals, many of which are respectable in other ways, such as ABF, paid the full tax on their economic activity in developing countries, then countries such as Zambia could truly be in control of their own destinies.
(20) As national Tea Party founding member Debbie Dooley puts it : “This is about the freedom to choose and create your own electricity.” Polls show that even people who doubt the climate is changing instinctively understand the pleasure of controlling their own energy destiny.