(n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious.
(n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
(n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
(n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.
(n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.
(n.) A variety of carrier pigeon.
(n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(2) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
(4) And it will almost certainly continue arriving in dribs and drabs, based on the Sea Dragon's observations.
(5) It means that if I get a little bored with Daenerys refusing to bring her dragons and her army over to the main continent, I just need to wait a few minutes until Bran's adventures take over.
(6) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
(7) Fifa 15 is on the way; Dragon Age Inquisition and Hardline too.
(8) When Rolls-Royce launched a $1.2m Year of the Dragon edition of its Phantom, with the creature hand-painted on its wheelbase and hand-stitched on to cushions, all eight sold in two months.
(9) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a much longer process.
(10) YouTube is full of inventive fan videos and you can purchase anything from handcrafted dragons' eggs to a replica Iron Throne .
(12) Drugs policy is the last legislative wilderness where "here be dragons", a hangover from days when abortion and homosexuality were illegal and divorce expensive.
(13) Less than 10 minutes later, the rocket and its cargo – a Dragon capsule with 544 kg of supplies for the station crew – reached orbit.
(14) 'He said he was coming late, so I went upstairs to a lounge bar called the Dragon Fly which is a few doors away.
(15) Astrologers posit that babies born under each sign are bestowed with unique personality traits – rat-year babies are cautious, dragon babies resilient, dog babies intelligent, and sheep babies are considered meek.
(16) The Dragon, added Mortimer, was a 'terrific school' where he learnt more than he ever did afterwards.
(17) And now there is a national development plan to slay the three-headed dragon of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
(18) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
(19) Previously criticised for their “exclusionary” developments that ignore “the real Woodstock”, the Dragons ignored my repeated attempts to seek their views on the suburb’s gentrification and their role in it.
(20) This survey of China's ethereal paintings is fleshed out by The Chinese Art Book, published by Phaidon on 14 October, a gorgeously laid out overview in which classics like Chen Rong's Nine Dragons, painted in 1244, - the original is in the V&A show - are juxtaposed with contemporary artists from heroic Ai Weiwei to the fireworks of Cai Guo-Qiang.
Leviathan
Definition:
(n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
(n.) The whale, or a great whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The leviathan once known as Bombay is the centre for most of India's foreign trade, global financial dealing and personal wealth.
(2) Best screenplay goes to Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev strides to the stage to pick up the gong for best screenplay.
(3) A commission spokesperson said that east Mediterranean gas finds such as Leviathan “could play a very important role in helping both producing and neighbouring countries to address their energy security problems.
(4) Christ knows what kind of conniptions Britain will have on that sad day when the nation is thrown into mourning a man who, at worst, is the acceptable face of the broadcasting leviathan, and at best the embodiment of all that is righteous and good.
(5) Andrei Zvyagintsev , whose most recent film, Leviathan, won a Golden Globe, said on Monday that he had read the documents from the court case and found them unconvincing.
(6) That seems to be the message of a new book of photos of these empty leviathans by the American photographer Seph Lawless, dusty and crumbling, with dead ornamental trees at the foot of abandoned escalators.
(7) Leviathan, a moving film about life in a corrupt Russian town has won the award for the best film at the London film festival awards.
(8) A commission timeline estimates that the pipeline could begin pumping gas by 2020, four years after the Leviathan field, which contains around 450bcm of gas comes online.
(9) A late spurt of momentum for Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan was only enough, in the end, to secure it the best screenplay award.
(10) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(11) • Gallery: how the night unfolded • Peter Bradshaw's take Reviews of the winners • Winter Sleep • The Wonders • Mommy • Goodbye to Language • Foxcatcher • Mr Turner • Maps to the Stars • Leviathan
(12) The potentially explosive struggle between China and Japan for physical control of the energy-rich Senkaku islands in the East China Sea reflects broader security, ideological and historical tensions between the two east Asian leviathans, the world's second and third biggest economies respectively, which could yet produce a head-on collision , Japanese officials and analysts say.
(13) Steve Silberman's Neurotribes is the book 'families affected by autism have long deserved' Read more Previous winners of the £20,000 award include Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad; Philip Hoare’s Leviathan or, the Whale; and last year Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk.
(14) Nearly 700 shopping centres are “super-regional” megamalls, retail leviathans usually of at least 1 million square feet and upward of 80 stores.
(15) The internet leviathan is one of a number of groups that have lobbied the US government to invest in high speed networking as a way to boost productivity and competitiveness.
(16) But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
(17) His film, Leviathan, picked up five stars from Peter when it screened here yesterday.
(18) Leviathan is his most accessible to date, in part because of the humour in its bloodstream, and much of that on account of its high alcohol content.
(19) Based on the Book of Job, Leviathan tells the story of a man battling endemic corruption across the church and state and modern-day Russia.
(20) After sampling her tea – this absurdly precious, unerringly pretentious, wholly underwhelming ambergris spewed from the belly of a corporate leviathan – I can only wish that karma back on her.