(v. t.) To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
Roundhouse
Definition:
(n.) A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
(n.) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
(n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
(n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tickets for the Roundhouse shows are on sale from 12pm on Tuesday 3 June from ticketmaster.co.uk , with a maximum of four tickets per person allowed.
(2) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(3) There were other disappointments, such as the failure in the 1960s of his arts organisation Centre 42, planned to have a home in the Roundhouse, in north London.
(4) There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
(5) I do everything live myself so maybe if I win it would be a consideration to get more artists onstage but I quite like pushing the concept of a one man band as far as I can.” The overall winner of the 2014 Prize will be announced at the Barclaycard Mercury prize awards show at the Roundhouse in London on Wednesday 29 October 2014.
(6) That went to the RSC for its ensemble cycle of Shakespeare's Histories directed by Michael Boyd and staged at the Roundhouse in north London.
(7) In his first five minutes he name-checked Picasso, quoted a poem by the Russian dissident Osip Mandelstam – not, he hoped, any relation of Lord Mandelson – and raved about both the play Jerusalem, and the anarchic cabaret La Clique, a show he saw at the Roundhouse.
(8) At least he is if by "heart of the action" what you actually mean is "sat underneath the Roundhouse in Camden watching the action unfold on a 46-inch Panasonic flatscreen TV".
(9) • Review: Lady Gaga at London's Roundhouse • More about Lady Gaga
(10) Flowers transferred to London, then New York, Australia, and back to London for a six-month run at the Roundhouse in repertory with Kemp's new work, a full-scale Salome.
(11) "I hid in my house," she explains matter-of-factly when I meet her before the opening night of the iTunes festival at the Roundhouse in north London.
(12) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
(13) How they compare Eton Pupils 1,300 Motto Floreat Etona Location It graciously allows a Berkshire riverside town to share its premises Former students William Gladstone, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harold Macmillan, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Princes William and Harry And the ones who turned bad Guy Burgess, Darius Guppy, Lord Lucan Haverstock Pupils 1,250 Motto None Location Prime spot near Camden Market, the Roundhouse, and Hampstead Former students David and Ed Miliband, Oona King , Tom Bentley, Zoe Heller, Steve McFadden, John Barnes, Joe Cole, Tulisa and Dino Contostavlos from N-Dubz And the ones who turned bad John Duffy and David Mulcahy (the Railways Rapists)
(14) Best production: Michael Boyd's RSC eight-play Shakespeare History Cycle at Stratford's Courtyard and London's Roundhouse.
(15) Norman, a last-minute entrant in the five-man ballot to succeed John Whittingdale, is a director of the Hay Festival and a trustee of London performing arts space the Roundhouse, which was founded by his father.
(16) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
(17) With Camden Market, the Roundhouse and Hampstead on its doorstep, Haverstock's catchment area ticks many north London stereotypes: trendy, arty and liberal.
(18) Despite Lauren Laverne mistakenly introducing him on stage as James Blunt during a televised ceremony at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, Blake beat stars including David Bowie to win the £20,000 prize for Overgrown, his second album.
(19) An equally monumental second album, Commune, is just out, plus they headline the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia tonight and play London’s 1,700-capacity Roundhouse on Friday.
(20) Bookies will be hoping for another surprise result following James Blake’s win last year.” The winner of the £20,000 prize, which in recent times has gone to Alt-j, PJ Harvey and the xx, will be announced live tonight (29 October 2014) at the Roundhouse in London.