(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(2) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
(3) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(4) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(5) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(6) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(7) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
(8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(9) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
(10) As a critic, he reviewed crime fiction for the Times from 1967 to 1983.
(11) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(12) Subjects made probability ratings for fictional others who were heavy, moderate, or light drinkers or nondrinkers.
(13) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
(14) Austen couldn't avoid them, nor does her fiction try to.
(15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
(16) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
(17) I think he’s one of those people in life who simply doesn’t really understand the difference between fact and fiction.
(18) The problem of consciousness is discussed briefly, including the contrary views of consciousness as a transcendental phenomenon and as an animistic fiction.
(19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(20) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.
Het
Definition:
() of Hete
Example Sentences:
(1) He is said to have gone to Syria in spring this year, according to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws .
(2) Effects of this lead exposure on cricket predation by the same HET mice also were observed.
(3) Backcrosses to an h-cGl strain showed that two het genes were located on linkage group III and confirmed a total of six het gene differences between the h-cA and h-cGl strains.
(4) A phenotypically expressed incompatibility reaction occurs when unlike het alleles are present within the same somatic nucleus, and this parallels the heterokaryon incompatibility reaction that occurs when unlike alleles in different haploid nuclei are introduced into the same somatic hypha by mycelial fusion.
(5) To assess central effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1) on plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP), plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), blood pressure, heart rate, and renal solute excretion, ET-1 dissolved in the artificial cerebrospinal fluid was infused intracerebroventricularly (icv) at a dose of either 0.35 ng.kg-1.min-1 (0.14 pmol; LET) or 3.5 ng.kg-1.min-1 (1.4 pmol; HET) for 45 min in conscious rats.
(6) Their rates of inactivation increase with decreases in growth temperatures from 37 degrees C to 25 degrees C. At 10 degrees C, however, anaerobiosis is not lethal and suppresses the inactivation which normally occurs among hets cultured aerobically at that temperature.
(7) In each case, the healed chromosome end had acquired sequence from the HeT DNA family, a complex family of repeated sequences found only in telomeric and pericentric heterochromatin.
(8) This was demonstrated for three loci which had previously been established by conventional heterokaryon test-het-e, het-c and mt.
(9) The distribution of risk behaviour has changed over time, with an increase in the proportion of HET and a decrease in the proportion of IVDU's for both sexes.
(10) The rank order of agonist potency in HET was: noradrenaline = phenylephrine much greater than clonidine.
(11) According to the book, the HET believes ministers should have been told about the involvement of serving police officers in a loyalist terror group in one of the most dangerous parts of Northern Ireland .
(12) Van Gaal had used an old Dutch phrase - “ het lek boven krijgen ” - in his programme notes.
(13) The GABAergic activity in hypothalamus was increased with the increase in duration (7-30 days) of HET exposure.
(14) Cultured cells from human embryonal testis (HET 1) and basal-cell (BCE-5) carcinoma and cells from the peripheral region of growing tumors of rat adenocarcinoma (13762NF) were harvested and processed for examination with the electron microscope.
(15) The utterances investigated were Dutch noun phrases with a prenominal adjective (e.g., het groene huis--the green house).
(16) The BZLF1 sequence and predicted polypeptide products of standard HR-1 and het DNA were compared to B95-8 EBV.
(17) Moreover, intense nonspecific staining was frequent with Het NSE, which often rendered interpretation difficult.
(18) The palindromic rearrangement had created two novel open reading frames in het DNA derived from standard HR-1 BamHI-W sequences.
(19) The BamHI-W sequences found in het DNA did not include either the TATA box of standard HR-1 BamHI-W or the exons which are present in the potentially polycistronic latent mRNAs encoding EBV nuclear antigens.
(20) These conserved features suggest that HeT-A elements, although transposable elements, may have a structural role in telomere organization or maintenance.