(n.) An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
(n.) An enchantress.
(a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.
(a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(2) Above all, through the offices of his medium and lover, Mary Parish, he entered into elaborate relations both with the fairy world and with God and His Angels.
(3) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
(4) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(5) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
(6) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
(7) Star performers: Disney Fairies Tinkerbell soared 25.5% year on year; Disney & Me up 7.5% year on year; Power Rangers up 6.1% year on year; Ben 10 had a debut circulation of 70,012; .
(8) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
(9) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(10) My interpretation of the fairy-tale follows this direction.
(11) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
(12) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
(13) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
(14) Both superhero comics and fairy tales are equally popular with children: they create fantasy worlds full of violence and dangers which the hero must overcome.
(15) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
(16) This paper will review the meaning, usefulness, and importance of fairy tales by discussing three selections from the psychodynamic and developmental perspectives.
(17) These fairies have sharp, mischievous features, quite different from the later fairies of Bethlem.
(18) Two maturation fairy-tales with a high resonance effect are analysed.
(19) With more than 900 participants from 47 different countries, the festival will showcase new poetry from Simon Armitage and former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, talks from the UK's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the former US poet laureate Billy Collins, and events from a wide-ranging list of major names including Jung Chang, Margaret Drabble and Richard Dawkins – fresh from inciting controversy for apparently questioning the merits of fairy tales .
(20) Thus suitable fairy tale themes can enhance the experiential insight into dreams.
Farry
Definition:
(n.) A farrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following methods are examined for consistency: UPGMA (unweighted pair-group method, averages), NJ (neighbor joining), MF (modified Farris), and P (parsimony).
(2) The modified Farris method, however, gives the best performance when the two aspects are considered simultaneously.
(3) By the fit criterion, the UPGMA procedure was on the average better than the Farris method but not as good as the F-M procedure.
(4) Three species of mites, Tyrophagus longior, Glyciphagus destructor, and Acarus farris have been isolated from the dust of barns of farms in Orkney.
(5) The methods of Fitch and Margoliash and of Farris for the construction of phylogenetic trees were compared.
(6) The statistical properties of three molecular tree construction methods--the unweighted pair-group arithmetic average clustering (UPG), Farris, and modified Farris methods--are examined under the neutral mutation model of evolution.
(7) Decades of allowing an assortment of dreadful incompetents such as Ernie Walker and Jim Farry to run our game have taken a heavy toll on our national team.
(8) As the five parties in the power-sharing coalition prepare for a final pre-Christmas round of discussions on Monday, Stephen Farry, a junior Alliance minister in the devolved government, said there was still a chance to secure a comprehensive deal.
(9) Using computer simulation, we studied the efficiency of this method in obtaining the correct unrooted tree in comparison with that of five other tree-making methods: the unweighted pair group method of analysis, Farris's method, Sattath and Tversky's method, Li's method, and Tateno et al.
(10) "We must keep the sound and the message of freedom and justice going," Farris said, adding that black people were still "crippled by practices and policies" steeped in racial discrimination.
(11) Stephen Farry, an Alliance minister in Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive, warned on Thursday that the protest campaign against Alliance's support for the end of a policy of flying the union flag at Belfast city hall 365 days a year was going to end in lives being lost.
(12) In this article Timothy Farries and John Atkinson consider how the contemporary complexity arose by a succession of credible alterations at the genetic level, and the selective advantages provided at each step.
(13) In some instances, the F-M and Farris methods gave a comparably good fit of the output to the input data, though in most cases the F-M procedure gave a much better fit.
(14) As Oliver Farry and Jaime Alonso point out, an eagle soars around the Estadio da Luz and lands in the stadium before Benfica home games.
(15) Farry said an attack on the home of Alliance members Christine and Michael Bower had endangered the life of their toddler.
(16) Semen volume, sperm concentration, percentage of motility, and fertility index of Farris (FI) decreased with frequent ejaculation, and these values recovered to initial levels after a 24-day abstinence period.
(17) The president was preceded by the civil rights leader's son, Martin Luther King III; his daughter, Dr Bernice King; and his sister, Christine King Farris.
(18) "Armenia gained a surprise 1-0 win over Poland last week thanks to a goal by Hamlet Mkhitaryan," writes Oliver Farry.
(19) By contrast, where it is known that each input datum is indeed either a true estimate or an underestimate of the actual distance between 2 taxonomic units, the Farris procedure appears, on theoretical grounds, to be the matrix method of choice.
(20) After a third night of violence directed at the party, Farry stated: "I can confirm that there was an attempted arson attack on my constituency office in Bangor on Wednesday evening.