(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
(v. i.) To die; to expire.
(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Example Sentences:
(1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(2) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(3) Haemoglobin-free human erythrocyte ghosts that were prepared in the presence of EDTA and were then exposed to Ca2+ showed a substantial loss of phosphatidylinositol phosphate and phosphatidylinositol diphosphate, measured either chemically or by loss of 32P from the lipids of prelabelled membranes.
(4) Erythrocyte ghost membrane fluidity and phospholipid linoleate were significantly increased when higher levels of polyunsaturated fats were fed to healthy, free living, premenopausal women.
(5) The Triton ghosts contracted immediately upon addition of ATP.
(6) Resealed erythrocyte ghosts (carrier erythrocytes) are potential in vivo carriers for exogenous enzymes or drugs, but data on carrier erythrocyte survival and clearance rate in humans are not available.
(7) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(8) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
(9) To gain some understanding of the mechanism of cell fusion, cell ghosts prepared by freeze-thawing intact cells were incubated with intact cells.
(10) Nevertheless, the band 3 population solubilized by Triton X-100 from prelabeled ghosts was as well phosphorylated as the population of band 3 retained by the skeletons.
(11) In addition to these effects, ghosts exposed to MC540 and light underwent lipid peroxidation.
(12) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
(13) This ambiguity was resolved by using resealed ghosts, which are unable to incorporate oleic acid into phospholipids.
(14) The pulse microwave radiation has been shown to increase the fluorescence intensity of 2-toluidinonaphthanene-6-sulfonate (2,6-TNS) and 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (1,8-ANS) built-in membranes of erythrocyte ghosts.
(15) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
(16) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(17) The FBI has just released a trove of documents , videos and pictures relating to its so-called Ghost Stories investigation into the activities of 10 Russian spies who the agency monitored for more than a decade.
(18) "A lot of the patients had moved and were genuine ghosts, and of course the practice shouldn't be paid for patients who don't exist, but a lot of the patients do exist and the patients who don't use the service subsidise those who do."
(19) The chemical asymmetry of the transporter was investigated by studying the effects of p-chloromercuriphenyl sulphonate (PCMBS) on uridine transport and high-affinity NBMPR binding in inside-out and right-side-out membrane vesicles, unsealed erythrocyte ghosts and intact cells.
(20) It was shown that when the ;ghosts' of the microsomal vesicles were used as a specific template extra cytochrome b(5) and NADH-specific flavoprotein were incorporated into them, but cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-specific flavoprotein were not incorporated into the membrane.
Mirage
Definition:
(n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mirage aircraft crashed at dawn “due to a technical fault”, said a coalition statement published hours after the United Arab Emirates reported one of its jets missing without giving details.
(2) Thermocycling significantly lowered the shear bond strength of Scotchbond Dual Cure and Scotchbond 2, but not that of Mirage Bond (P less than or equal to .05).
(3) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
(4) Treatments with primers including adhesive monomers such as Scotchprep and Mirage Conditioner also increased the dentin permeability by removal of the smear layers and smear plugs.
(5) A huge industrial unit, painted in a spectrum of blues so that it merges with the sky and looks like the mirage of a pool.
(6) But look closer, and other parts of Qatar’s new football culture are a desert mirage.
(7) So – paywalls are not a mirage; nor are they a unicorn.
(8) This in vitro study assessed the microleakage of Class V restorations using Mirage Bond (NPG-PMDM) with a hybrid light polymerized resin composite.
(9) But the downgrade has exposed the mirage of balance in the Franco-German relationship that Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel – known together as "Merkozy" — have been keen to promote as the core of Europe.
(10) While the fourth seeded Bulls’ 35-29 record is something of a mirage, as they have faced the dregs of the Eastern Conference, that doesn’t take away from the fact this team was expected to be one of those dregs after Rose injured himself and Deng was traded.
(11) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(12) Iwona Blazwick , director, Whitechapel Gallery One of my favourite exhibits currently on display here is the Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny: The Past Was a Mirage I'd Left Far Behind .
(13) Welcome to Sunnylands, an estate in Rancho Mirage, California , nicknamed the "presidents' playground" which hopes to bring harmony to the world, starting on Friday.
(14) It is using six Rafale multi-role fighter jets stationed in the United Arab Emirates and six Mirage 2000 fighters deployed in Jordan.
(15) Rancho Mirage is waiting to see if the leaders emerge for a stroll around town.
(16) In Libya you will find teargas made in Britain and, according to Paul Rogers, of the department of peace studies at Bradford University (writing for the openDemocracy site), Mirage F-1 planes, recently upgraded by the French, who are foremost in calling for a no-fly zone, and C-130H Hercules transport planes from the US , where intervention has a growing number of advocates.
(17) We think the DMIC will never happen.” I think DMIC is a giant sandcastle, a mirage that we are being shown just so land prices can be racked up Babu Singh Patel Facebook Twitter Pinterest Babu Singh Patel and fellow Pithampur farmers have applied to the High Court to block the government’s plans.
(18) Scanning electron microscopic observations showed that the fracture patterns were all at the smear layer-adhesive interface for Scotchbond Dual Cure, the majority of the fractures were at the primer-adhesive interface for Scotchbond 2, and most of the fractures were cohesive in the bonding agent for Mirage Bond.
(19) It was the purpose of this study to examine the surface morphology of various ceramics (Mirage, Dicor, Optec, Vitadur N, Ceramco II) etched with various solutions (Super-Etch, Stripit, hydrofluoric acid 40%, Dicor retention gel) and etching times (1, 2, 3, and 4 min), using a SEM.
(20) Evidently, the way of the straight energetic supply, which, undoubtedly, represents the fulfillment of a "mirage" of release, at least partially, and in critical situations, from oxygen, although still long and burdened with problems, is also, decidedly, suggestive with promises.