(a.) Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
(a.) Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
(a.) Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
(a.) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
(n.) A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(2) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(3) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(4) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(5) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
(6) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(7) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
(8) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(9) "[The consortium award] is fantastic news for them and is a testament to the leadership of their individual organisations," he said.
(10) I think we are still the underdogs because they have high quality but we will try to do our best – if we lose it’s because Sevilla made a fantastic performance.” As well as missing a penalty Sevilla also hit the woodwork on two occasions, with the Leicester goal living a charmed life at times.
(11) While the last 20 minutes were as low key as World Cup games get, Klose was responsible for a fantastic block to deny Alejandro Bedoya an equaliser in stoppage time.
(12) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(13) He hailed the decision to award the Games to London, saying: "This is just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport."
(14) If you were to say within the aviation industry we can reduce our carbon footprint by 25%, people would be saying well that’s fantastic, that is big news.
(15) It is the most fantastic exercise: high intensity, all the limbs are moving simultaneously, and you have to try to keep the brain fully focused.
(16) Undoubtedly some of them see the Corbyn surge as a fantastic recruitment opportunity, or the next stage in fomenting the kind of revolution that has never taken place in a single western country.
(17) My experience, my maturity, was always present in the control of the emotions and the situation and during the season we had some crucial moments that we coped with in a fantastic way.
(18) The Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) is really one of the few actors left on the ground, along with a handful of national NGOs.” “The LRC volunteers are doing a fantastic job despite the difficult and challenging environment but at some point they will need support,” he said, adding that assessments were ongoing and a potential deployment by federation members from Tunisia was under consideration.
(19) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(20) It was intended, according to its creator, as a “warning to America”, a horrifying and fantastical vision of the future in which the US – ludicrously – had elected as its president Donald Trump .
Osm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(2) IL-6, oncostatin M (OSM) and G-CSF also induce differentiation of M1 cells.
(3) Eggs also hatched readily in 1- to 50-m OsM solutions of urea, sucrose, sodium chloride, and glycerol, but hatching was inhibited at higher concentrations unless the eggs were left in solutions for long periods of time.
(4) We have detected significant similarities in the primary amino acid sequences and predicted secondary structures of OSM, leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and interleukin 6 (IL-6).
(5) Prognostically unfavorable MM and OSM values were found, predicting the possible lethal outcome.
(6) The antibody bound to ovine and bovine submaxillary mucins (OSM and BSM).
(7) We demonstrate that, like LIF, IL-6 and G-CSF, OSM can induce the differentiation of the myeloblastic M1 murine leukemia cells into macrophage-like cells.
(8) In the few hypercalcemic dogs in whom GFR was very low, I believe that injury to, and blockage of medullary tubules could account for most of the reduction in maximum U(Osm).
(9) Carboxymethylated OSM when deglycosylated by this method gives an apomucin with an apparent molecular weight of ca.
(10) The authors compare the efficacies of methods for assessing osmolality (OSM) and analysis of medium molecules (MM) in the prediction of the post-stroke period course in the first 7 days from the stroke onset.
(11) The experimental animals' body weight was significantly lower than that of controls with the same food consumption and their water intake and urine flow were much higher, especially after M. Sodium (and to a lesser extent potassium) excretion was raised at the outset of administration of both the test substances and again after the 5th to 8th dose, but only after M. After three weeks' administration of M. SNa, SK and S(osm) values were within normal limits.
(12) During hypertonic saline infusion plasma AVP levels correlated with P osM (R = .87, P less than .01, n = 8), suggesting some residual osmotic regulation of AVP release.
(13) The respective reflectance photoelectric outputs were used to make an internal calibration curve of the instrument relative to the arterial oxygen saturation values measured with a Co-Oximeter (OSM-3) in five healthy nonsmoking subjects during steady-state hypoxaemia.
(14) A significant change in p-osm caused a significant change in pAVP and vice versa.
(15) The linear viscoelastic and rheological properties of high molecular weight ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) solution have been investigated in terms of the Newtonian steady-flow viscosity [eta(gamma)], the complex oscillatory viscosity [eta*(omega)], and the storage and loss shear moduli [G'(omega) and G"(omega)].
(16) Operant drinking and lysine vasopressin (LVP) release were investigated in minipigs following intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of hypertonic equiosmolar (1.4 osM) solutions of NaCl and of sucrose and mannitol dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl or water, and of urea dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl.
(17) The correlation between delta-OsM and serum EtOH was 0.968 in 151 patients in whom EtOH was detected.
(18) MLS 128 bound to mucin glycopeptides from LS 180 cells and their asialo forms to the same extent as well as to ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) and asialo OSM.
(19) Respiratory compensation of the pH change further increases Osm.
(20) The OSM 3 Hemoximeter gives much more accurate determinations of HbCO than the IL 282 Co-Oximeter in the presence of SHb.