(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(2) Months later the company released its free-to-play smartphone version of much-loved strategy classic, Dungeon Keeper, but the game was full of aggressively pushed in-app purchases.
(3) First-hand thoughts When I included the new Dungeon Keeper in my best apps of January roundups for Android and for iOS , there were some cross comments, asking why The Guardian would promote this game at the expense of other, more deserving titles.
(4) These projects will see existing Merlin brands such as The Dungeons adapted for the local market, in partnership with China Media Capital (CMC), it added.
(5) There are quite a few good things about new Dungeon Keeper: its sense of humour has survived the remaking process, and it’s visually polished.
(6) In the dungeons of Gaddafi, Mubarak or Assad they were beaten and hung from the walls, and in some cases had their genitals cut with a scalpel.
(7) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
(8) Ideally, I'd like to work towards being on a yacht in the Caribbean with a dungeon in the hold.
(9) The key innovation is a new Villain role, which allows one player to take on the role of a Dungeon Master, arranging enemy traps and attacks.
(10) When not at work, they’re just as likely to enjoy walking the dogs or cuddling up on the couch in loungewear (possibly more likely: dolling oneself up for a living is exhausting) as demanding you get yourselves to a pay-by-the-hour dungeon.
(11) The result is an evolution for the series that lets players escape the linear dungeon-to-dungeon progression of its predecessors.
(12) Fifa sponsors’ pretence to principles give Blatter platform to make a stand | Marina Hyde Read more “Like the dungeon in the Fifa HQ, Fifa has become a very secretive place.
(13) That’s the implication (and, in fact, the straight accusation) of many of the game’s critics: that EA has ruined Dungeon Keeper and, by extension, this awful free-to-play business model is ruining games and screwing gamers.
(14) What I encountered was part reliquary, part freak show – and an impressive work of experience design, as stage-managed as anything in the London Dungeon .
(15) He recalled the stench and listening to the screams of others echoing through their sordid dungeon.
(16) Merlin, which also owns Madame Tussauds and the London Dungeon, will spend £53m over three years on the Nagoya park, while local partner Kirkbi Invest will raise the rest.
(17) Negative reviews The original Dungeon Keeper was brilliant.
(18) Positive reviews suggest the balance is much better than for the ill-fated Dungeon Keeper , released earlier in the year.
(19) Reynolds did paint histories, such as his scene from Dante of Ugolino and his children being starved to death in a dungeon, but, more successfully, he painted portraits that aspire to the condition of history.
(20) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
Motte
Definition:
(n.) A clump of trees in a prairie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mott cells are a variant form of plasma cell in which the immunoglobulin (Ig), rather than being secreted, accumulates in rough endoplasmic reticulum-derived vesicles called Russell bodies.
(2) This editorial reviews 2 studies, the William Marsiglio and Frank Mott study, and the Deborah Dawson study.
(3) Pulmonary disease is usual with Mycobacterium tuberculosis or with mycobacteria other than M tuberculosis (MOTT) and atypical presentations with extrapulmonary dissemination occur frequently.
(4) Mott Children's Hospital, percutaneous balloon angioplasty for pulmonary valve or pulmonary artery stenosis accounts for approximately 40 per cent of all therapeutic transcatheter procedures performed in our laboratory.
(5) When Mott came out Ajao cut him across the face, leaving a three inch gash on his cheek.
(6) To avoid expensive, time-consuming biochemical identification necessary to evaluate these MOTT isolates, careful selection of patients prior to obtaining mycobacterial cultures during FB is a critical factor.
(7) Since in AIDS patients an initial colonization of the gastrointestinal tract (GI-tract) with MOTT is common, GI-tract biopsy specimens from an additional 80 patients were examined microscopically and histologically for mycobacteria.
(8) MOTT isolation increased yearly from 1.5% of the patients in 1981 to 14.5% of the patients in 1986.
(9) For Kathryn de Motte, at 37 the youngest area organiser of a 30-strong NWR group in Nottingham, the emphasis on speaking your mind is crucial.
(10) There is some doubt as to whether naevus pilus is identical with naevus-on-naevus or lentiginous naevus en mottes.
(11) 4.45am BST Cardinals 5 - Nationals 6, Bottom 8th Jason Motte, who might just be the last person to pitch in a Cardinals uniform this year.
(12) Guidelines for therapy of MOTT depend on the species isolated but remains poorly defined in most cases.
(13) Patients with CF with MOTT were similar to patients with CF without MOTT; only a slightly different (older) age distribution was recognized.
(14) Lymph node cell preparations which were enriched in Mott cells by velocity sedimentation failed to secrete Ig in a polyclonal reverse plaque assay.
(15) Mott Children's Hospital between 1970 and 1974 were reviewed.
(16) Here's Sarah de la Motte to represent the 10 or so disgruntled ones who have been in contact: "Trying to enjoy a relaxing holiday afternoon by the pool here in Washington, DC, but can't take my eyes off my phone!
(17) An international conference in andrology was held on April 24, 25 and 26, 1975, at the C. S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
(18) The results indicated that acidified media of pH 6.2 offer enhanced growth conditions for MOTT, especially MAI and M. malmoense, without interfering with the growth of TBC.
(19) Photograph: Liz Mott History tends to date the birth of British modern dance as the late-60s.
(20) We evaluated peak time (PT) and modal transit time (MOTT) of the TDC as the probable indicator of cerebral intravascular blood flow.