(a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
(a.) Causing mirth; ludicrous.
(n.) A comedian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because such a possibility seems so remote as to be comic.
(2) NGOs and foundations • Comic Relief Announced new funding of £1m at the conference.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(5) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(6) "The only thing missing for true greatness however has been that comical touch that comes each time England figure out a new way to completely discombobulate themselves as they crash out.
(7) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(10) That's in 1888; by 1890 the tone is of comic resignation (there is much comedy in these pages) as Edmond realises that he has devoted the whole of his life "to a special sort of literature: the sort that brings one trouble".
(11) He will continue to work part time for BBC radio on leadership development and take on an advisory role with Comic Relief.
(12) iPhone Shifter: Interactive Graphic Novel (Free) What was that about interesting things in the world of digital comics?
(13) Ian Livingstone is not all that keen on being photographed near the life-sized model of Lara Croft in his study – even though he was largely responsible for launching her on the world nearly 20 years ago, and the heroine of the Tomb Raider video games, comics and films helped to make his fortune.
(14) Trump’s tragic Nam story is captured in the film Apocalypse Ow.” On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comic examined the timing of Trump’s Nordstrom tweet, noting that it came just 21 minutes after he was supposed to be in his daily intelligence briefing.
(15) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," Allen told the Guardian.
(16) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
(17) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(18) There have always been geeks and fans here, it’s just now they call it Comic-Con.
(19) Zack Snyder's comic-book reimagining, which opens in the UK and US this Friday, is being tipped for an impressive box office haul.
(20) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
Exode
Definition:
(n.) Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
(n.) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
(n.) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
Example Sentences:
(1) This result implies that the nodule invasion defect of exoD mutants arises from their sensitivity to alkaline conditions and, furthermore, that alkaline conditions may obtain in the developing infection thread.
(2) In this study, we characterize mutant phenotypes of exoD strains in both free-living and symbiotic states.
(3) Rhizobium meliloti exoD mutants are deficient in invasion of alfalfa nodules and, as a consequence, the nodules that exoD strains induce fail to fix nitrogen.
(4) The deduced amino acid sequence of ExoD is extremely hydrophobic, suggesting that the protein is membrane associated.
(5) Nodules induced by exoD mutants are generally small and empty of bacteria, and exhibit the same structural features as nodules induced by other invasion-deficient mutants.
(6) exoD mutants are thus alkali sensitive for both free-living and symbiotic phenotypes.
(7) The results suggest that exoD represents a new class of Rhizobium genes required for nodule invasion, distinct from the other exo genes and the ndv genes.
(8) Mutations in the exoD gene result in altered exopolysaccharide production and in a nodule invasion defect.
(9) However, the effects of exoD mutations on exopolysaccharide production and growth on various media are different from the effects of other exo and ndv mutations.
(10) NGR234 exoD was found to be an operon that included genes equivalent to exoM, exoA, and exoL in R. meliloti.
(11) Interestingly, we find that buffering the plant growth medium at slightly acidic pH (6.0-6.5) restores the ability of exoD mutants to invade alfalfa nodules.
(12) Loci involved in effective nodule formation (fix-379, fix-382, fix-383, fix-385, and fix-388), polysaccharide synthesis (exoR, exoS, exoC, and ndvB), nodule invasion (exoD), and nitrogen regulation (ntrA) were ordered with respect to previously mapped markers and each other.
(13) The presence of the glucan and normal LPS in the exoA, exoD, exoF, and exoH mutants eliminated defects in these carbohydrates as explanations for the nodule entry defects of these mutants.
(14) For the Calcofluor-dim exoD mutant, the distribution of high- and low-molecular-weight forms depended on the growth medium.
(15) We show that exoD mutants are sensitive to alkaline conditions, ceasing to grow at elevated pH in liquid yeast extract cultures and exhibiting decreased viability in alkaline medium.
(16) All of the exo mutants except exoD and exoH completely lacked both forms.
(17) Finally, exoD mutations behave differently from other exo mutations in their ability to be suppressed or complemented extracellularly.
(18) However previous genetic and biochemical evidence suggested that the nodule invasion defect of exoD mutants arose from a biochemical deficiency distinct from those of both EPS I-deficient exo mutants and ndv mutants.
(19) In this work we show that the stage of symbiotic arrest of exoD mutants is similar to that of other exo and ndv mutants.