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Goblin


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With armed gunmen surrounding the regional parliament, Crimea, heretofore a part of Ukraine with slightly more independence than other regions, voted in a new government of pro-Russian figures (including a man nicknamed 'Goblin') and decided to hold a referendum on Crimea's future.
  • (2) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
  • (3) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
  • (4) Aksyonov, reputedly known as "Goblin" in Ukrainian crime circles, was officially named acting governor of Crimea.
  • (5) Seizure of Crimea's parliament and the referendum • Out with the old, in with the new: After gunmen seized the Crimean parliament on 27 February, it quickly began ousting government chiefs and installing new ones including a new regional prime minister, Sergei Aksyonov, whose alleged ties to Ukraine's criminal underworld have bestowed him the moniker " the Goblin ".
  • (6) Observations were made on 12 Columbian families who were haunted by 'el duende' (a special kind of imp, goblin, or poltergeist) and other spirits.
  • (7) With this method, it has been demonstrated that goblin is located in the plasma membrane.
  • (8) While OA markedly increased overall phosphorylation of many erythrocyte membrane proteins, including goblin, it did not affect goblin phosphorylation at specific cAMP-dependent sites.
  • (9) Useful” is Roberts’ favourite adjective to describe the site, and in the course of our conversation at the company’s bright north London office (where the most obvious decoration is a giant poster of fairytale goblin Rumpelstiltskin spinning flax into gold), she uses it several times.
  • (10) While Foxx was front and centre in that leaked Comic Con trailer from July , there has been a sense ever since that the villain in the piece might really be Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin of the Marvel comics.
  • (11) He also wrote five songs for Jim Henson’s fantasy film Labyrinth, as well as taking the role of Jareth the Goblin King.
  • (12) The data are compatible with a possible role for goblin in the hormonal control of ion movements across the plasma membrane.
  • (13) Goblin Valley boasts a campground with hot showers, a rarity in this dry desert state.
  • (14) He also unveiled a number of other castings, including Australian comic Barry Humphries as the goblin king and Evangeline Lilly from TV series Lost as an Elf named Tauriel.
  • (15) But should he throw in a couple of gratuitous love-interest types to distract from the incessant dwarf-goblin-elf-human-warg ultraviolence?
  • (16) Adult chicken skeletal muscle cells express polypeptides that are antigenically related to alpha-spectrin (Mr 240,000) and beta-spectrin (Mr 220,000-225,000), the major components of the erythrocyte membrane-skeleton, and to ankyrin (Mr 237,000; also termed goblin in chicken erythrocytes), which binds spectrin to the transmembrane anion transporter in erythrocytes.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David O Russell on Joy: ‘If you’re going to live a fairytale you’ve got to go through the goblins’ – video interview Joy review: Jennifer Lawrence cleans up in amiably messy mop biopic Read more It was a strong weekend for the film industry all round in North America.
  • (18) The offending video clearly states that Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, a character who in the comics and previous big screen versions has doubled as villain The Green Goblin, has died as the film's events unfold.
  • (19) Goblin phosphorylation at these sites was increased by norepinephrine and cpt-cAMP and rapidly reversed by K-252a and H-9, confirming that both inhibitors do block cAMP-PK activity.
  • (20) Crimea map Many express irritation with Aksyonov, who is rumoured to have past links to criminal groups – which he has denied – and who apparently went by the nickname “the goblin” in the 1990s.

Grot


Definition:

  • (n.) A grotto.
  • (n.) Alt. of Grote

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.

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