(n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
(n.) A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
(n.) A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
Example Sentences:
(1) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(3) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(4) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
(5) Residents in Spain’s north-eastern region of Catalonia cast their ballot in a symbolic referendum on Sunday in defiance of the central government in Madrid and Spain’s constitutional court.
(6) In a burst of defiance, I wanted to answer: “Yes, you bet I can get around safely!” Over a cup of tea, I discussed the problem with my wife.
(7) But the British government is facing a catch-22 situation, being equally anxious – as former diplomat Oliver Miles pointed out in the London Review of Books – to avoid setting the opposing precedent of allowing Assange to remain as a fugitive within the embassy in defiance of a European arrest warrant.
(8) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
(9) Since his unexpected victory, Trump has sounded a note of defiance regarding the legality of continuing with his business operations in tandem with the presidency.
(10) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(11) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(12) Despite his bullish defiance over the weekend following his re-election – blaming US investigators and the British media for trying to unseat him – Blatter cut a diminished figure following a day of speculation over the fate of his right-hand man Valcke.
(13) He said the evidence of their lies and conspiracies – a tactic known as the "defiance strategy" – at the very least raised substantial doubts about the prosecution case.
(14) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(15) The head of Greenpeace International was being held by police in a Greenland cell on Friday after boarding a giant oil rig in defiance of a court injunction .
(16) That resumption of normality is, in itself, a predictable and a necessary act of defiance.
(17) The defiance (but not the hyperactivity) scales were associated with impairment of family relationships and adverse social factors.
(18) However, citing the brutality of security agents, the arrests and disappearance of opposition supporters, he says that Museveni’s actions are illegal and that “it is the duty of Ugandans to stand up in defiance and challenge him”.
(19) Claire Perry , the Devizes MP and a ministerial aide to the defence secretary Philip Hammond, recently tried unsuccessfully to persuade female colleagues to stop dyeing their hair for a month, letting their grey roots show in a statement of defiance against the pressure on women to look artificially young.
(20) After all, every veto holder had attacked another country in defiance of the charter, but no one had ever disputed the alleged Westphalian right of each anointed thug to mistreat his "own" people.
Levitate
Definition:
(v. i.) To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.
(v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, Andre Geim was probably best known for his "frog levitation" experiment.
(2) An electrode system is described for the near-simultaneous application and measurement of translational, levitational and rotational forces induced by AC electric fields, and this has been used to investigate the differences in the AC electrodynamics of viable and non-viable yeast cells.
(3) 7) Cesar Martinez (Zamora) makes the ball levitate after goal v Caracas Rising star 8) Barack Obama Singing Thriller by Michael Jackson You can’t Beat It 9) Hey Jude in a minor key Not quite White 10) Modern day Aladdin Riding rug-ged
(4) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
(5) By now we all know the Falcons chief goal - levitation to the next playoff round (at the bare minimum), mandatory for a program that has failed to do so on three occasions under head coach Mike Smith .
(6) One story is about Howard Thurston, the American magician who perfected the levitating lady trick.
(7) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
(8) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
(9) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
(10) During a well performed levitation of the right arm in hypnosis as compared to resting conditions, we found a global increase of cortical blood flow and a regional activation of temporal areas; the latter finding is considered to reflect acoustical attention.
(11) The device uses magnetic-levitation technology: four disc-shaped “hover engines” induce an opposing magnetic field in a special surface, enabling the Hendo to hover an inch above the ground.
(12) Bubble levitation of viruses delibrately injected into the surf produced 200 times more virus per milliliter in the aerosol than were present in samples from the surf.
(13) These drops have been suspended by acoustic levitation in a small chamber mounted on a stage of an optical microscope, which allowed easy viewing.
(14) Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.
(15) Deltoid muscle fibrosis produced the unique clinical sign of gradual, involuntary, and irreducible arm levitation.
(16) He once described himself as the "Casanova of causes" and it's true that he embraced a staggering array of beliefs and crusades, ranging from the impressively enlightened (campaigning for euthanasia and against the death penalty) to the downright potty (believing, say, in the benefits of levitation).
(17) Another puzzle, dating back decades, is whether dust levitates from the lunar surface.
(18) After the pomp of the opening ceremony, which had featured can-can dancers, a levitating Eiffel Tower and David Guetta – among many other things – France struggled to come to terms with the occasion.
(19) The buble adsorption and virus concentration in the surf is analagous to industrial bubble levitation processes that concentrate metallic ores, enzymes, and finely divided organic crystals.
(20) A 1- to 3-minute exercise involving imagination (of an apple) and ideomotor ideation (hand levitation) is a simple, benign technique that is useful for illustrating to patients the nature of imagery and hypnosis.