() The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
(2) When Vince was on the [Andrew] Marr programme, and I had been on earlier, I heard him say the problem was demand, and I wanted to run out onto the set and shout 'Eureka!
(3) • Devils Postpile link s camping , geology , Pacific Crest Trail King Range national conservation area Photograph: Mary Caperton Morton Look at a map of California and you'll see that Highways 1 and 101 run along the entire coast, except for a 65-mile slice between Eureka and Rockport known as the Lost Coast.
(4) It is well documented that her eureka moment for founding Ultimo came at a rugby club dinner dance, when she found herself disrobing in the ladies’ because her cleavage-enhancing bra was so uncomfortable.
(5) He cites the seminal British director of the 70s, Nicolas Roeg, as his principle inspiration, recalling the closest he himself came to fainting in a movie as being in a cinema in Belsize Park, north London, watching Roeg's neglected 1983 movie Eureka , starring Gene Hackman.
(6) With new designs – the glassware is still for sale today – the pair dropped clocks and plates which were part of their range to focus solely on the kitchen at around the same time as Richard had a eureka moment in New York.
(7) We love the idea of a eureka moment, but the danger of following every move in the laboratory is that cynicism sets in when promising results fall at the next hurdle, or contradictory evidence turns up.
(8) Quaint lodgings can be found in the nearby small towns of Klamath, Requa and Orrick, with larger hotels in Crescent City, Arcata and Eureka.
(9) The eureka moment came about because of Blecharczyk's empty room.
(10) McNamee said that the Eureka Street author was “homeless for a time, but is an absolute autodidact, who went to Cambridge, is phenomenally intelligent, and fucking frighteningly bright”.
(11) The site's mission is heralded by a quote from Isaac Asimov: "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!'
(12) Graphene wasn't so much of a eureka moment as a eureka year or two, but since it was first identified the exclamation marks have kept coming.
(13) From the makers of the beautiful and bleakly atmospheric Limbo, it’s another wordless game of mystery and discovery via exquisitely designed puzzles that require experimentation and lateral thinking to reach their “Eureka!” moments.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Book and antique shops in Eureka, northern California.
(15) "I thought this might make the journey a bit more exciting," says the 60-year-old artist, jumping back on the heels of his Doc Marten boots, a wild mop of hair swishing behind his balding head, giving him the look of a punk professor caught mid-Eureka moment.
(16) On graduation from Eureka College, Illinois, in 1932, he got a job as a radio sportscaster in Des Moines, Iowa, which he held for five years.
(17) She has said that, making the first Bunny, she got that "'Eureka!'
(18) Above all, Cameron needs to tell a political story with this reshuffle, or what Clegg in a different context yesterday described as providing a "Eureka moment".
(19) Specifically, I examine Archimedes' 'eureka', some aspects of Freud's work, then turning to a self-analysis of my own experiences and associative notes regarding an idea that occurred to me in the course of writing the present paper.
(20) It’s exactly what we hoped St George’s would be like.” Dewsnip talks, like every successful youth coach, of the eureka moments he has felt when he sees a prodigy for the first time.
Inspiration
Definition:
(n.) The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.
(n.) The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
(n.) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
(2) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(3) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
(4) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements (TcpO2) have been shown to be an index of tissue perfusion and it has been suggested that the main haemodynamic variable influencing tissue perfusion is cardiac output, assuming that inspired oxygen remains constant.
(7) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(8) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
(9) Under cyclic uptake conditions alveolar gases follow an oscillating time course, because gas concentrations tend to increase during inspiration and to decrease during expiration.
(10) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(11) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(12) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
(13) "It's inspiring for young sportspeople everywhere to have something like this happening in our backyard.
(14) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
(15) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
(16) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
(17) The effects of the level of oxygenation on the respiratory response to heat exposure have been studied in conscious cats during normoxia, severe or mild hypocapnic hypoxia [inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) = 0.11 or 0.13], or hyperoxia.
(18) We therefore measured HCVR, HVR, and ventilation for three breaths preceding and eight breaths following three totally obstructed inspirations in eight normal subjects during NREM sleep.
(19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(20) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.