(n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.
(n.) A gas jet or burner.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a result, gaslighting is now used to describe a particular type of mental abuse that makes the victim doubt her – and it is often a her – own sanity, memory and perception.
(2) However, not only are domestic violence charities closing , but also most victims of gaslighting don’t present at specialist services because they have been trained to believe they, not the relationship, are the problem.
(3) One of his many tactics is to secretly dim the gaslights in their home and tell Bergman she is insane when she comments that the lights are flickering.
(4) The psychological coercion Helen experienced is a particular type of manipulation known as “gaslighting”, after the 1944 film Gaslight .
(5) The Guardian view on domestic abuse: truth, fiction and The Archers | Editorial Read more The failure to understand gaslighting is not just dangerous to victims of adult domestic abuse, but to many psychiatric populations.
(6) The battle against sexual violence is being lost – look at the number of young victims | Joanna Bourke Read more As gaslighting makes people feel mad, and as labelling someone as insane is a classic form of abuse, people often turn to their GP.
(7) I think people such as her, who have been acting since they were teenagers, develop special gifts because they learn the basis of their craft when they are young and impressionable.” Blakemore’s theory that one key to Lansbury success as a prodigy – she was nominated for an Oscar at 19 for her performance in the thriller Gaslight (1944) – is supported by the fact that one of her closest showbiz friends was Elizabeth Taylor, a child-star with whom she worked on National Velvet.
(8) But it is an essential one if we are to stop psychiatric discourse being used as a gaslighting technique to discredit the lived experiences of those too readily seen as mentally ill. • The freephone 24-hour national domestic violence helpline, run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge , can be reached on 0808 2000 247.
(9) But it’s the accordion player who really takes you back, to Paris in the 1930s – gaslight in the alleys, hope on the horizon.
(10) He was absorbed by tales of pimps and voodoo queens, and pictured Mister Jelly Roll as the dust jacket described him, “wearing a hundred-dollar suit as sharp as a tipster’s sheet … the diamond in a front tooth gleaming like gaslight”.
(11) Gaslighting is so dangerous because it skewers the individual’s capacity to explain and realise what is wrong.
(12) I wish I had faith that the psychiatric system would have spotted why [The Archers'] Helen was so distressed Most victims of domestic abuse , narcissistic relationships or abusive childhoods see gaslighting as often as damaging as physical abuse.
(13) She was not able to articulate her actual experiences, an excellent representation of the gaslighting experience where victims are coerced into believing that if they could just be less emotional, have more positive thoughts and be less troublesome, all would be well.
(14) Gaslighting tends to start gradually, and can often appear ridiculous and everyday at first, for example being accused of overreacting because you are premenstrual.
Lamp
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate or lamina.
(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows that lamp genes are not involved in Salla disease.
(2) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(3) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(7) In the adult, LAMP-immunoreactive membrane patches are present exclusively postsynaptically on neuronal somata and dendrites.
(8) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
(9) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(10) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(11) LAMP-2 was closely related or identical to the macrophage antigen, MAC-3, as indicated by antibody adsorption and tryptic peptide mapping.
(12) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(13) In order to pursue this process the slit-lamp examination is recommended as necessary and useful method.
(14) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(15) Fluorometric studies have been made with modified slit-lamp microscopes.
(16) Treatment was administered with white light produced by a commercially available halogen-tungsten lamp.
(17) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
(18) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(19) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(20) Body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal thermistor and maintained by adjustment of a heating pad and lamp.