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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.

Sprite


Definition:

  • (n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.
  • (n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
  • (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was "by complete accident" that she made her translating debut, after Antony was asked by publisher Klaus Flugge if he knew anyone who could translate a children's book The Little Water-Sprite , by the German writer Otfried Preussler .
  • (2) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
  • (3) He is above all a subtle player, a relentless little sprite popping up in all areas nudging, prompting, often taking just one touch, and devastatingly swift in his moments of improvisation.
  • (4) The Slam Dunk Contest, sorry the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest disappointed for the second year in a row.
  • (5) The levy, which will start in April 2018, will put up the price of drinks such as Red Bull, Capri Sun, Sprite and several versions of cola.
  • (6) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
  • (7) It has a lot of built-in behaviors and support for sprite-based games, so it’s very easy for a beginner to pick it up and make something and see results fast, which can be quite motivating.
  • (8) Sweat secretion from individual pores in circumscribed areas was imaged using a high spatial resolution SPRITE infrared detector system working in the 8-14 microns band.
  • (9) However, just six sold fizzy drinks such as Coca-Cola and Sprite and just two offered energy drinks such as Lucozade and Red Bull.
  • (10) She took $20 and walked across the parking lot to buy herself a burger and Sprite.
  • (11) The lower level will affect brands containing less added sugar, such as Fanta, Sprite and Schweppes tonic.
  • (12) Lucozade Original contains 33g of sugar in a 380ml bottle, Sprite has 21.8g of sugar in 330ml cans and Dr  Pepper 34.1g per 330ml.
  • (13) Back in the Sun, Chelsea are "lining up a £60m mega deal" for Edinson Cavani and the Brazilian sprite Oscar .
  • (14) In fact, our daily diet of pre-Jamie Oliver chips and gravy probably did us more damage than the hesitant sips of booze concealed in Sprite bottles.
  • (15) Anyway, at their hotel there is water, iced tea, Sprite and Coke in one fridge ... but two fridges filled entirely with Bitburger beer.
  • (16) Amina also gave her a bottle of Sprite on her birthday, and hugged her before she left.
  • (17) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
  • (18) How to get contemporary TV audiences to like a heroine so unlike the spritely Elizabeth Bennet obviously exercised ITV in its adaptation of Mansfield Park in 2007.
  • (19) "The stools have cushions on them, and you can usually buy a can of Sprite or a coffee from a machine.
  • (20) Clot dissolution was then tested by adding Adolf's Meat Tenderizer, Viokase, Sprite, Pepsi, Coke, or Mountain Dew.