(n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freaks And Geeks was my thing, based on my experiences.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(4) 5.54pm BST It looks like the senate office buildings are returning to normal, just as the FREAK OUT party was getting exciting.
(5) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
(6) Over the summer his father, Jimmy, died from throat cancer , and his cousin, Hannah, was killed in a freak accident while on holiday.
(7) Although achilles tears are typically freak injuries, this hasn't stopped fans and media members alike from blaming Bryant's injuries on head coach Mike D'Antoni and his unwillingness, or inability, to get Bryant off the court for any significant amount of time.
(8) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(9) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(10) An African woman sold into slavery, Baartman was brought to London in 1810 as the "Hottentot Venus" and exhibited as a freak of nature in London and France.
(11) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(12) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
(13) It was common for people to insist I must be Latvian, as they were so freaked out by the idea of meeting someone from England.
(14) Nor is it an excuse for children to demand the hiring of a freaking limo.
(15) The Interview will become a global must-see and their Soviet-style control-freak instincts will look silly and culpable.
(16) But the sale of the house in Chester was held up for several months by a freak accident, a burst water main under the foundations which flooded the ground floor and made it uninhabitable.
(17) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(18) This alternative economic activity, which often looked like a freak show – it attracted young people in.
(19) SPOILER ALERT: This blog discusses plot points from Freak Show, the fourth season of American Horror Story.
(20) Little ones might freak out a bit at the wax characters and the gloomy dark but this is a fun way to bring a fairly weighty school text to life.
Variegate
Definition:
(v. t.) To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(3) The diagnosis depends on fecal excretion of porphyrins, which is greatly increased in variegate porphyria and consists predominantly of protoporphyrin.
(4) Although clinical improvements occurred in the case of variegate porphyria, the results were inconclusive for reasons given.
(5) Appropriate laboratory tests on urine and feces samples are necessary to distinguish between PCTS and variegate porphyria when a young woman presents with the skin lesions characteristic of cutaneous hepatic porphyrias.
(6) One patient with variegate prophyria and two with hereditary coproporphyria had an attack related to pregnancy.
(7) The theory of the unconscious that arises from the method of direct interpretation reflects a differentiated inner world with variegated landscapes of images and frameworks.
(8) The faecal porphyrin patterns of 24 patients with porphyria cutanea tarda symptomatica (PCTS), eight patients with variegate porphyria, three patients with other types of porphyria, and 20 non-porphyrics subjects have been compared using a two-demensional thin layer chromatographic technique that separates porphyrins of the isocoproporphyrin series from other faecal porphyrins.
(9) A 62-year-old man with variegate porphyria is reported.
(10) Four patients with variegate porphyria (VP) were treated with repeated haem arginate infusions daily for 4 days and then weekly for 4 weeks.
(11) Hence, the differences in binding of the w+ gene probe in the variegating and variegation-suppressed strains reflect differences in chromosomal packaging rather than alterations in gene number.
(12) The lesions appeared brownish black, and most were variegated from tan to black.
(13) Thus, mice with variegating transgenes can provide molecular access to gene control mechanisms and to their consequences in development and disease.
(14) The results provide some indication as to the mechanism and timing for the general suppression of position-effect variegation by supernumerary heterochromatin in the genome.
(15) Beautiful and ancient plants, such as spreading bellflower , could become extinct in some places through the escape of variegated yellow archangel from gardens.
(16) Variegated endocrine cells were documented within this lining, using immunohistochemical and ultrastructural techniques.
(18) In white-mottled (wm) position-effect variegation mutants, a significant correlation was found between the extent of variegation (percentage of yellow cells) and riboflavin content (growth effect) of the MT.
(19) Four patients suffering from variegate prophyria were investigated during acute attacks.
(20) These changes include variegated hyperplasia of the pulp with epithelioid cells, mature eosinophilic granulocytes and immunoblasts occasionally resembling Hodgkin cells.