(a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
(a.) Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark.
(a.) Alt. of Hieroglyphical
Example Sentences:
(1) We now present evidence for the existence of this disease in humans, characterized by skin fragility, altered polymers seen as hieroglyphic pictures with electron microscopy, accumulation of p-N-alpha 1 and p-N-alpha 2 collagen type I in the dermis and absence of processing of the p-N-I polypeptides in fibroblast cultures.
(2) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
(3) Excavation records and translation of hieroglyphics provide a positive identification.
(4) When there was no longer any rainfall to fill up their reservoirs, the springs had dried up too.” For centuries, the Maya at Tikal had been erecting stelae – upright stone slabs with hieroglyphs and depictions of gods and rulers.
(5) And some of her lyrics, even viewed coldly on a page, are impressive: "I carve lyrics into cubicle doors like they were pyramid walls and these were hieroglyphs, hold pen with an iron grip, my mind is the storm and the words are the eye in it," she raps on one track, and yet when she adds, "Evil in the world, stay peaceful in spite of it; 'cause snakes have never understood the way the lions live", you don't think, wow, amazing, you think – nice simile, but what on earth do you mean?
(6) They then deciphered his name from a section of hieroglyphics inside the tomb.
(7) The results are consistent with a model of collagen fibril formation in which the intact N-propeptides are located exclusively at the surface of the hieroglyphic fibrils.
(8) Electron microscopic examination of the skin shows collagen sheets rather than fibrils, and characteristic distortions resembling hieroglyphs.
(9) What we found is that NFL salaries are about as understandable as Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(10) Detailed tomb and temple hieroglyphics depict wound treatments of that era.
(11) Surgical Papyrus known as "The Edwin Smith Papyrus" was published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted in 1930.
(12) Worn away by these kinds of misinterpretations, the phrase became like an ancient hieroglyph, portentous but illegible.
(13) Photograph: Rex The Fifth Estate begins grandly with a montage of the history of media, from people chipping hieroglyphics on pyramids through the invention of the printing press to the televised announcement of John F Kennedy's assassination.
(14) Further incubation of the hieroglyphic fibrils with N-proteinase resulted in partial cleavage of the pNcollagen-ex6 in which the abnormal pN alpha 2(I) chains remained intact.
(15) I also loved watching ancient carved figures and hieroglyphs being restored by a specialist.
(16) People used to have to queue – the line would stretch to there.” There is a guilty, selfish pleasure in standing alone in the tomb of Tutankhamun, or having the stars and hieroglyphs in the tomb of Ramses IV almost to myself.
(17) Schafer (1954) advanced the "Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing" and asserted that thoughtful interpretation involved more than translating hieroglyphics or scores.
(18) As a result, viewers have been treated to an Eminem-inspired pastiche about Charles II , a Victorian Dragons' Den, "Spartan School Musical" and a Jackson 5-style explainer on hieroglyphics .
(19) Whether graffiti or just straight-forward pixação – as we call our spiky hieroglyphic tags – you can find it anywhere.
(20) By electron microscopy these fibrils resembled the hieroglyphic fibrils seen in the N-proteinase-deficient skin of dermatosparactic animals and humans and were distinct from the near circular cross-section fibrils seen in the tissues of individuals with EDS type VII.
Rebus
Definition:
(n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
(n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
(v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.
(2) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
(3) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(4) To evaluate these hypotheses, sentences were presented in which a pictured object replaced a word (rebus sentences).
(5) Standing in Another Man's Grave, the first book to feature Rebus since he retired in 2007's Exit Music, will be out this November, Rankin said on Tuesday.
(6) The data showed that Group B (rebuses) required fewer trials than Group A (abstract symbols) to meet criterion for Phase II, matching symbols to stimulus pictures.
(7) These are the things we are throwing away.” One of the libraries due to close is Bowhill, a place that Rankin, creator of detective John Rebus, said had been his “refuge and a place of constant wonder” when he was growing up.
(8) In a scene that could have come from a crime novel (and Rankin has said Rebus might have acted in the same way), Fulcher questioned a suspect, Chris Halliwell, on a remote hillside without access to legal advice in a desperate attempt to crack the case.
(9) "There's also a lot of similarities between Taggart and Rebus – that's the nature of crime," he said.
(10) Some say the couple wrote the finest crime series ever; that without them we would not have Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander.
(11) Gargan says that he accepts Rebus creator Ian Rankin's view that a novel that actually followed police procedure would be exceedingly dull, but he worries about the impact that fictional coppers have on the real article and wishes they were depicted in a more realistic way.
(12) The symbol sets included: nonidentical objects, miniature objects, identical colored photographs, nonidentical colored photographs, black-and-white photographs, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS), Picsyms, Rebus, Self-Talk, Blissymbols, and written words.
(13) And it certainly isn't Philip Marlowe , or John Rebus , or VI Warshawski (who manages to be twice as hardboiled as her male counterparts).
(14) Group A (abstract symbols) required fewer trials than Group B (rebuse) to meet criterion for Phase 111, matching printed words to stimulus pictures.
(15) Results indicated that treatment, consisting of a sound-referenced rebus approach, affected change in production of trained words as well as generalization to untrained words for targeted behaviors.
(16) Crime writers should depict more detectives as clean-living and balanced rather than damaged and hard-drinking like the Inspector Rebus of Ian Rankin's novels, a chief constable has said.
(17) It is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve.
(18) Which is why, largely to reassure fans who may or may not have read Joyce but read Rebus by the yard, poor Ian Rankin can be seen counting exactly how many steps there are on Edinburgh's Fleshmarket Close.
(19) The lexical hypothesis would therefore lead one to expect that rebus sentences will be relatively difficult, whereas the conceptual hypothesis would predict that rebus sentences would be rather easy.
(20) Ian Rankin has only yanked detective inspector John Rebus out of retirement, but fans will still be rejoicing at news that the dour investigator is set to return later this year with a new mystery to solve.