(a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.
(a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(5) Postoperative haemodynamics in patients with cardiac disease followed the same trends as in normal patients; there were, however, no significant changes in cardiac index or central pressures, and in general the cardiovascular reaction to operation was less conspicuous than in the group of normal patients.
(6) This implies that there is no important loss of motor units and no conspicuous muscle fiber degeneration in fibromyalgia.
(7) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.
(8) SER proliferation in rat and monkey liver cells was less conspicuous than in mice.
(9) Another conspicuous histologic finding observed in the WKY hearts was that the continuity of the latitudinal fiber bundle of the ventricular septum with that of the left ventricular free wall, an important functioning unit for pressure generation in the left ventricle, was markedly disturbed in the area of junction between the 2 walls; the smaller the continuity, the greater the cardiac hypertrophy; the disadvantage of the discontinuity for the pressure generation may be related to the development of cardiac hypertrophy.
(10) The media theorist Nathan Jurgenson reads it as "conspicuous acquisition", after Thorstein Verblen's notion of conspicuous consumption.
(11) Both patients continue to use the device voluntarily; a smaller unit, however, that doesn't have the conspicuous external controls, would likely be readily acceptable to most young patients.
(12) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
(13) Among the most conspicuous features found were the presence of very distinct desmosome-like structures between blastomeres, and the cytoplasmic cell organelles distribution in three areas referred as: a sub-cortical, a middle and a perinuclear bands.
(14) Both tumors were solid, without conspicuous vascular differentiation by light microscopy.
(15) The study in which the animals were killed serially revealed that CTP had conspicuous damage on the respiratory system of rats, especially on the bronchiolo-alveolar areas.
(16) Hence the finding of six individuals with both these conditions in a small population with testicular cancer is highly conspicuous and indicates some kind of connection among such persons.
(17) PFB was conspicuously increased in maternal blood sera.
(18) The principal disadvantage, that this is a conspicuous donor site, has not been a source of concern for our patients.
(19) Histologically the most conspicuous were the findings of the hyaline alveolar membrane and the cellular atypia of endothel of the alveoles and the lymph-ducts.
(20) At the stage when each placode first becomes visible conspicuous differences have been seen in the surface morphology between those cells which will invaginate and form the placode and those which will remain on the surface of the head, forming the epidermis.
Thunderbird
Definition:
(n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) In their distinctive Thunderbirds-style light-blue uniforms with red trim the Artane Boys Band are icons of Irish music.
(2) Almost ten years ago, we saw a crew of puppets setting out to save the world in the Thunderbirds-style comedy Team America: World Police .
(3) Preamble: What if Kim Jong-il has spent the last few decades in his fiendish lair devising not nuclear weapons, invisible pulse rifles and Thunderbird suits, but a fleet of crack footballers who only now are about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world?
(4) Take Cranfield Professor Ian Poll, who gave an interview in 2008 propounding a nuclear powered airliner à la Thunderbirds.
(5) Background: Nicknamed Brains after the Thunderbird character by Alastair Campbell in reference to his geeky nature, Miliband was branded a strong Blairite following his seven years as policy chief for Tony Blair – both in opposition and after Blair became prime minister.
(6) I don't know what they're singing, but part of it sounds like the Thunderbirds theme tune.
(7) A transatlantic UAV flight within five years, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology What the advocates say: "Still a long way from being the primary energy source for the propulsion of commercial aircraft", DLR (the German Aerospace Centre) GOING NUCLEAR Thunderbirds are Go?
(8) How it works: Small onboard nuclear reactor delivers power to engines State of play: Provocative suggestion as post-2050 solution for powering commercial airliners Latest action: Idea floated by Cranfield Professor Ian Poll in October 2008; previously researched by US and Soviet sides during the Cold War in the hope of keeping bombers airborne without refuelling, and featured on fictional nuclear airliner in the cult 1965 TV animation Thunderbirds Downsides: Practicality, image, radioactive shielding, accident risk, vulnerability to terrorism, nuclear proliferation Likeliest prospects: Idea that refuses to die The vision?
(9) Perhaps they were paying Conservative HQ back for airbrushing their own leader into a non-credible Thunderbird?
(10) The newly appointed secretary of state for culture, media and sport is a devotee of Star Trek and Thunderbirds and a heavy metal fan known to sing karaoke versions of Smoke on the Water and Bat out of Hell.
(11) This remark recalled the kind of messaging that turned the brilliant, warm Julia Gillard into a bogan Thunderbird.
(12) Also Thursday, the pilot of a US Air Force Thunderbird ejected safely into a Colorado field, crashing the fighter jet moments after flying over a crowd watching Barack Obama’s commencement address for Air Force cadets.
(13) Some might see her and Brooke as the Thelma and Louise of a coalition, driving over the cliff towards electoral defeat, she said, but this would not be the case "because unlike a 1966 Thunderbird, the coalition is right-hand drive".
(14) But this remark recalled the kind of loathed campaign messaging that turned the brilliant, funny and warm Julia Gillard into a bogan Thunderbird for nearly her entire time as prime minister.
(15) The Lib Dems have targeted airbrushing ( a topical theme as David Cameron was mocked for looking like a "non-credible Thunderbird" in a poster campaign) to "help protect children and young people from developing negative body images".
(16) If Gmail users could only send email to other Gmail users, and my Thunderbird desktop email software could only send to others using the same package, email would soon turn into a monopoly controlled by one company.