(n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.
(n.) A building used for such an exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was perhaps surprised to hear that the whole scheme of the thing came to Gaiman when, severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived on a stopover in Reykjavik, he saw the tourist centre's diorama of Leif Erikson's voyage to America.
(2) Seven boa constrictors, 4 pythons, and 4 anacondas from the same diorama died during the ensuing 10 weeks.
(3) Along with an interactive diorama-style Everest that lets you peer into all its nooks and crevasses, there are also interactive areas at famous parts of the climb.
(4) (He evoked his detention at last year’s Venice Biennale, via uncanny scaled-down dioramas of his prison cell.)
(5) Photograph: Georgeorwellnovels.com A series of dioramas depicting scenes from Buddha’s life and images from Buddhist hell, some extremely gruesome, filled the shell.
(6) Most countries’ exhibitions feel like a cross between a Waitrose advert and a travel agents’ trade fair – immersive multimedia dioramas of bountiful produce and spectacular scenery, dotted with stalls selling craft trinkets and samples of cheese.
(7) Amebic cysts were recovered from turtle and alligator fecal samples taken from a central "swamp," or reservoir, draining the dioramas, water that is returned to the snake display areas after passage through a biological sand-gravel filter and ultraviolet radiation exposure.
(8) In the General Motors pavilion, the spirit of his unstoppable highway-building urge was shown in a series of dioramas, depicting how "machines of tomorrow" would clear the way for man to exist on the south pole, under the sea, in the desert and deep in the jungle.
(9) The fearful scenario is that Sony will use the VR as a peripheral, like a Playstation Eye or Kinect,” says designer and artist Daniël Ernst who has created a series of virtual dioramas for Oculus Rift, including Shoe Box and the forthcoming Great Gottlie.
(10) And then, in the summer of 1998, sleepless and awake-dreaming during a stopover in Reykjavik, I looked down at a tourist diorama of the travels of Leif Erikson , thought: "I wonder if they brought their gods with them, when they went to America?"
(11) Despite the erroneous claim to be a natural history museum, the displays of fossils, including casts of many famous examples such as an archaeopteryx and Lucy the Australopithecine soon give way to expensively mounted dioramas telling the biblical story of creation.
(12) Now that Lego have confirmed they will no longer partner with Shell, here are a few of our reflections on how we built enough pressure to topple the deal: Be disruptive and cheeky In our viral video watched by over 6m people , an Arctic Lego diorama and all its cute inhabitants and animals, drown in oil.
(13) This presentation of news as entertainment continued under Tussaud's sons and grandsons, who placed famous figures in dramatic historical dioramas.
(14) The parasite was also found in the stool of a giant Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) that died in the adjacent diorama and in the tissues of a blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides), separately housed, that died of enteritis during this period.
(15) An epizootic of reptilian amebiasis seems to have caused the death of 15 to 16 large and valuable captive snakes (boas, pythons, and anacondas) occupying one of 5 large display dioramas in the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Science, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
(16) The characters’ rich, angst-ridden inner lives made them relatable in a way that has simply never been possible in Thrones’ pretty-diorama fantasy.
(17) Every Christmas for over half a century, the park hosted a lifesize nativity display of the birth of Jesus, filling a block with a 14-scene diorama which included crib, wise men and livestock.
(18) While our diorama is a tribute to how much we love the creativity and imagination that Lego fosters, the film is unambiguous that the protection of the Arctic, and our children's future, is at odds with its Shell partnership.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.