(n.) A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper reports and illustrates in figurine style results obtained by electrical stimulation of the cortex in 20 patients and by recording of cortical evoked potentials (EPs) in 13 of these patients, whose surgery required wide exposure of the Rolandic or paracentral regions of the cortex.
(2) The angel’s dead,” said John Porgal, the regional director of American Atheists, when he arrived at the Capitol to see the figurine lying alone on a table.
(3) At her most energised in front of the Monster High figurines, she was also a big fan of the book department, with its imagination-inducing soundscapes and nooks for reading.
(4) However, accessing all of these will come at a cost, as closed-off areas encourage players to buy more figurines of different kinds.
(5) In Akihabara, Sofmap has several locations, each with a slightly different focus: Akiba Sofmap #1 (computer games and popstars), Sofmap Amusement-kan (video games and posters ), and Akiba Sofmap #2 (figurines and used games).
(6) The verdict It looks like Activision wants Skylanders to be a yearly release, which may worry parents, especially as these swappable figurines cost more than the regular ones.
(7) The band and video directors Masa Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu and Aramique Krauthammer have partnered with technology company BitTorrent to distribute the video and 3D-printable files for its figurine characters to fans.
(8) They sit in a living room, surrounded by religious plaques and figurines promising hope and peace, talking about the son and brother who had been an A* pupil at GCSE, with ambitions to be a bilingual lawyer.
(9) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(10) He is dismissive of the idea that home 3D printing, with its figurines and keyfobs will ever amount to much.
(11) The dolls were inspired by ancient Greek figurines – but opponents claimed they insulted classical Greek culture.
(12) It’s easier when you’re a boy.” She talks me through her collection of figurines.
(13) We wanted to find a way to give the fans access to the 3D files so they can print them and use them to create their own narratives of exploration.” The directors are hoping that fans will shoot their own videos using the figurines.
(14) Then there’s an inestimable amount of Discworld spinoffery: chess pieces, wizardly hats, cloaks and T-shirts, leathern bags, pottery figurines, fantastic artwork, magic clobber of every kind including dribbly candles – all made by and sold to fans.
(15) The Skylanders figurines are this year's most successful action toy brand in the US and Europe.
(16) I could see someone very devoted to his work – there was no golfing on that trip, that's for sure," said Eleanor Dvorchak, who hosted Xi in her son's old room, where he slept amid football wallpaper and Star Trek figurines.
(17) Blokify enables kids to design Minecraft-style objects then print them out, while Monstermatic does the same thing for monster figurines.
(18) The site remains filled with gradually decaying Santa figurines, rusty reindeer rides and crumbling candy cane turrets, making it feel more eerie than festive.
(19) An on-line computer programme is described and illustrated which is capable of displaying graphically in the form of Woolsey-type figurine charts stimulation-induced responses obtained during stereotactic surgery.
(20) In this speech recommending more "engagements", whether painful or ecstatic for those loosing the hi-tech weapons, we also witnessed that old standby "no-fly zone", which actually means "flying-and-bombing zone", and the hoary old self-satisfied reference to our having "change[d] the regimes" in Afghanistan and Iraq, as though Blair and his chums had merely been shuffling around tiny figurines on the Game of Thrones opening credits map .
Statuette
Definition:
(n.) A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oscar night glory is not the sole preserve of those who go home with a gold statuette.
(2) Paid or unpaid, everyone seems to be guessing who's going to end up with the key statuettes.
(3) I'm not suggesting statues be erected in their honor or statuettes be awarded to those who celebrate such lives on film, but the anger expressed towards the film, its protagonist and its makers would be much better placed were it directed at those who continue to enable the fraudulent behavior of the big banks that helped wreck the economy while heaping scorn on those who are still suffering as a result.
(4) I’m very proud of them.” Sitting in his chambers between a bust of Winston Churchill and a statuette of the Goddess of Democracy, the symbol of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Lee remembers strolling through the umbrella movement’s main camp, a sprawl of tents and political debate, three days before police finally cleared it, in December 2015.
(5) Harry Styles was late on stage to collect the statuette.
(6) There is as yet no new sponsor for the £30,000 prize, plus bronze statuette, awarded annually for the best novel written in English by a woman and published in the UK.
(7) Steve McQueen may not be the favourite to win the Oscar for best director when the statuettes are handed out on 2 March, but if he does it will represent a historic breakthrough for black film-makers: none has ever been honoured in this category and only two others have even been nominated – John Singleton in 1992 for Boyz n the Hood and Lee Daniels in 2009 for Precious .
(8) When you and the director, James Marsh, went on stage to accept the award, you entertained the audience by balancing the Oscar statuette on your chin .
(9) "To be given this award is just, well, I'll die a happy man," Gordon said as he collected the statuette.
(10) Elsewhere: Jon Bernthal gets more fun to watch in every new thing he shows up in; this movie might make you want to murder Jonah Hill; and Margot Robbie in the nude, oiled up, golden and shaven, looks scarily like an Oscar statuette.
(11) Of course, she did most of those things anyway, while making some 50 films that got her 12 Oscar nominations and four of the statuettes - both records.
(12) That statuette should have melted like wax next to the exposed pain of Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) - her best late film by far, and a rare but complete adoption of tragedy.
(13) Point Moorea in the Wilshire Grand hotel ( wilshiregrand.com ) has exotic decor - think neon lava and faux-deity statuettes - and an equally tantalising list of cocktails.
(14) Cate Blanchett scooped the best actress statuette at tonight's Academy Awards for her performance in the Woody Allen drama Blue Jasmine.
(15) Inside the main conference room is the newest trophy, the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award , a heavy statuette El-Ad lugged home from Sweden in November.
(16) It's not OK." Graef is clearly proud of his accomplishments (his mantelpiece is strewn with bronze Bafta statuettes) but the work he is most proud of is a recent series about Great Ormond Street children's hospital that followed medics as they made difficult, life-altering decisions.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Grayson’s temple, there are no collectable dragon statuettes in sight, which I suppose is why he’s an artist and I’m just destined to spend my life scouring the Betterware catalogue for wind-chime bird scarers.
(18) If there were awards for understatement, Tony's assertion would probably win Absolute yet another statuette to join the dozens already perched atop the boardroom mantelpiece.
(19) He staggers into Sam Spade's office clutching a parcel containing a replica of the eponymous statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of" [sic].
(20) Often you seem proud of your productions only when handed statuettes by the USA, like only being proud of a child for winning an eating contest, while we insist on a certain quota of French films being shown in our cinemas (for which the cinemas, in fact, pay less tax).