(n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
(n. i.) To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
(v. t.) Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.
Example Sentences:
(1) After two complete rounds of DNA synthesis in the presence of BrdU "harlequin" chromosomes were observed.
(2) The structure of harlequin-stained chromosomes following substitution with low levels of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) over two cell cycles and high levels over the last part of one cycle (replication banding) was studied in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells.
(3) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(4) The sympathetic nervous system is proposed to be an etiologic factor in the pathophysiology of Moyamoya disease as well as Harlequinism.
(5) The Harlequin baby syndrome is a rare but lethal ichtyosis.
(6) An eight-month-old infant developed autonomic seizures, manifested by skin reaction (harlequin-like syndrome) and paroxysmal bradycardia.
(7) is described from the harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei arabica) from Tahama, Saudi Arabia.
(8) The results demonstrate that longer toxaphene treatment times were not necessary for obtaining sufficient harlequin-stained cells for SCE analysis, but that higher numbers of SCEs occurred in slower dividing cells, following prolonged incubation of cultures treated with toxaphene.
(9) Using BrdU harlequin sister-chromatid differentiation four Revell ratios can be defined and these have been obtained and tested as a block in V79 hamster cells.
(10) Both families had a previous history of harlequin ichthyosis.
(11) Jaunty tailored jackets, harlequin coats and trousers with zips at the ankle were styled with high-collared printed shirts and ponytails.
(12) At birth, the newborn infant bore the appearance of a harlequin fetus.
(13) Radiographs of ten liveborn infants with chromosomally confirmed triploidy showed six findings highly suggestive of this diagnosis: harlequin orbits, small anterior fontanelle, gracile ribs, diaphyseal overtubulation of long bones, upswept clavicles and antimongoloid pelvis.
(14) An infant with phenotypic harlequin ichthyosis survived for nine months, then died a crib death.
(15) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
(16) Harlequin samples showed variable degrees of staining ranging from little to heavy apical cytoplasmic staining of granular cells.
(17) Details of the progress of another harlequin fetus to 6 months of age are given.
(18) We report the prolonged survival of a harlequin fetus who was treated with intensive supportive measures, emollients, and oral etretinate.
(19) Finally, a defect in lamellar body organellogenesis may underlie harlequin ichthyosis.
(20) The irradiation time and dose to produce distinct harlequin stained chromosomes has been found.
Jester
Definition:
(n.) A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
(n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
Example Sentences:
(1) He may not be able to cling to his status as the nation's court jester, however, without the BBC's patronage.
(2) We have come to expect this from Trump – the court jester of global politics,” said Issa Falaha, a Beirut banker.
(3) They had noticed the Jester's pro-censorship credentials, deducing he must be receiving help.
(4) Updated at 4.24pm BST 4.19pm BST Snooker books: Infinite Jester from Leicester, by David Foster Wallace.
(5) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
(6) The, ahem, Jester from Leicester (it's no Sheriff of Pottingham) did pretty well to get out of last night's second session with a three-frame deficit and keep himself well in this match, but O'Sullivan is looking pretty close to his brilliant best.
(7) For days, from their darkened chatrooms, the Anonymous ones had been watching a hacker called the Jester who seemed to be co-ordinating a series of attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks.
(8) ; The Season Saga; The Clod Hoper, Belly Laughs, The Little Woman, Pulp Fairies; The Grumpy Court Jester (BBC Children’s television – Playdays); Fact of Faith (BBC Radio Drama Young Writer’s Festival); The Victim (Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival & InterPlay Festival, Australia).
(9) I used to have a laugh and a joke with the compere, Richard Beare, and he gave me the nickname the Jester from Leicester.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
(11) That's no joke for The Jester", reckons Gary Naylor.
(12) If I was King and he was my jester he'd be off to the gibbet."
(13) Selby, 23, the man called the jester from Leicester, had played his most damaging practical joke to date.
(14) Once again, Liverpool's sage and jester, Jimmy McGovern, is the voice of the people (for him, the destruction of Edge Lane, ostensibly for a road-widening of a matter of inches, was the last straw).
(15) As court jesters tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.
(16) The paper carried a picture of the Australian prime minister dressed as a court jester, with a simple headline: “THE WRONG TONE” .
(17) The lyrics reference sexual disease, brown dwarf stars, court jesters and dictators, all delivered in a strangulated baritone, as if Walker's testicles were being squeezed.
(18) Party politics: why grime defines the sound of protest in 2016 Read more Despite all this, Stormzy is more than just the jester of the grime scene.
(19) He added Johnson was a “court jester” but not a serious politician and said that the Conservatives Johnson had divided would not be loyal to him after leaving the EU.
(20) In 2008 Wright quit the BBC's Match of the Day claiming that the corporation is out of touch and that he was expected to be a "comedy jester".