(v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
(v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.
(v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(3) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(4) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(5) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(6) However, fractional addressing introduces distortion.
(7) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(8) This raises questions about police integrity and News International's power to distort procedure in a serious criminal matter.
(9) However, all these characteristics can be distorted if measured by means of a variable-proportion procedure, in which the amount of one primary is held constant while the amount of the other is varied in order to measure threshold.
(10) This could distort the relation between height and forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) as age increases.
(11) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(12) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
(13) The data derived have demonstrated the impairment of the function of the indicated system in the test subjects, associated with sexual behavior impairment in the form of exhibitionism which may form the biological basis for distortion of sexual self-consciousness.
(14) The nogalose and aminoglucose sugars lie in the minor and major grooves, respectively, of the distorted B-DNA double helix.
(15) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
(16) The authors suggest the use of minimal HP filtering so that phase-shift distortion is minimized and a larger response amplitude can be recorded.
(17) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(18) Therapeutic application of drugs containing propylene glycol 1.2 as a solvent may distort the results of forensic chemical detection of ethylene glycol from its oxidation products.
(19) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
(20) Synchronization of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions to a cubic distortion frequency fs = 2f1-f2 has been studied.
Falsify
Definition:
(a.) To make false; to represent falsely.
(a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
(a.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
(a.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
(a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
(a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
(a.) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(a.) To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
(v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(2) "To falsify returns once is once too many – to falsify 252 times represents a pattern of behaviour which should lead to a full review," Dorrell said.
(3) Then there were attempts to falsify votes," she said.
(4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
(5) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
(6) Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed were accused of aiding Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, and of falsifying news reports in order to undermine Egyptian national security.
(7) These models generate falsifiable predictions about the pattern of risk in relatives of affected individuals.
(8) Wood was brought before the employment tribunal after a third volunteer told PHE, the body that designed the screening process, that Wood had falsified Cafferkey’s temperature on the form she had to fill out on arrival at Heathrow.
(9) Last week, immigration minister Jason Kenney announced that 3,100 people would have their Canadian citizenship revoked for hiring immigration consultants to falsify their documents.
(10) We conclude that global retests should be preferred to selective ones so that the perimetric results are not falsified.
(11) In the runup to the election, analysts predicted that falsifying votes cast from home (citizens can request electoral workers to make home visits) would be the most likely method of cheating, but the percentage of such votes was reportedly small.
(12) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
(13) Educators in health-related fields are particularly sensitive to academic misconduct because undergraduate students who falsify academic work in such fields can go on to endanger the health and well being of the very people they are meant to assist.
(14) But news that two of the passengers on the flight were travelling on passports stolen in Thailand – one belonging to Italian Luigi Maraldi, who lost it last August when he left it as collateral for a motorbike rented in Phuket, and the other to Austrian Christian Kozel, who reported his lost in the same area some 18 months earlier – has focused attention on the country's booming trade in stolen and falsified passports.
(15) Two experiments on whispered and mouthed lists, with or without simultaneous broadband noise, falsified expectations derived from the theory of precategorical acoustic storage.
(16) They say this falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo.
(17) Doctors were allegedly recorded admitting they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
(18) Preoperative application of a bromocriptine therapy may falsify the results too.
(19) Illicit-drug users may attempt to falsify results by in vitro adulteration of specimens.
(20) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.