(n.) An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god.
(n.) That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.
(n.) A false notion or conception; a fallacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new generation of political leaders were the children of Elvis and the Beatles: they looked up to their older pop idols.
(2) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(3) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(4) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
(5) Cowell's contract will expire after the ninth run of the top-rating American Idol, which has made household names of contestants including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, with an American version of X Factor due to air in time for the 2011 season.
(6) Dick Clark married music and television long before American Idol.
(7) A low-key Austrian with a profile to match, Zeiler oversees a global TV powerhouse that broadcasts in 11 countries and makes programmes in 22, including Pop Idol and The X Factor.
(8) First to get cancelled : Does it count that American Idol has been cancelled already ?
(9) Fuller claimed that The X Factor has stolen parts of the Pop Idol format and took legal action.
(10) Cantona had joined Leeds only the previous February but was already an idol to the Elland Road faithful.
(11) She has been a member of the American star’s fan club for six years and was lucky enough to meet her idol in 2012 – a signed T-shirt and framed picture of the pair together adorns her bedroom wall.
(12) A sample of IDOL files (n = 115) was obtained, and relevant data elements were coded.
(13) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
(14) "Pop Idol changed from a singing contest to a story show when Gareth Gates stood before the panel of judges, and stuttered, before singing like an angel.
(15) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Florian Philippot pays homage at the tomb of his idol, Charles de Gaulle in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, in 2014.
(17) Wang, a businessman, thinks the retired basketball star and idol of Chinese youth has it all wrong about shark fishing.
(18) They begin to consider and learn alternatives for coping with daily pressures rather than falling victim to a rock idol's solution, which is frequently withdrawal from society or aggression toward it.
(19) But that one picture in 1954, George Cukor's musical remake of A Song Is Born , in which she played a rising young actress married to a sinking matinee idol (James Mason), proved to be the peak of her career.
(20) On Chennai's marina beach on Wednesday evening, a 25-year-old photographer named Durai shouted for business at his stand, where customers could have their picture taken with life-size cutouts of film idols against a background of an English country village.
Ting
Definition:
(n.) A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
(v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle.
(n.) The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
(2) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
(3) His back went, and with it he thought he heard a simultaneous "Ting!"
(4) This posture of racially tinged complacency underlies most of the frequent backlashes endured by western feminists.
(5) Initial symptoms can be diarrhea and blood-tinged stool.
(6) It is a victory tinged with sadness because it comes so late: 71-year-old Wallace has very little time left to live.
(7) Blood-tinged amniotic fluid interfered with AFP and nitrazine evaluation.
(8) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
(9) Unfortunately for the assembled crowds, Ting kept his powder dry, despite much prodding and questioning, revealing nothing about the year's worth of data from AMS except to say that they would be "important" results and would be made public when he submitted them to a scientific journal within a few weeks.
(10) Perhaps not, if this missive from our an at Wembley, Davidde Corran, is anything to go by: From the Wembley seats to the San Francisco 49ers fans occupying so many of them, the first of four annual Jacksonville Jaguars games has quite the red tinge.
(11) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(12) But his admiration of its open, can-do mentality was always tinged with scepticism: "I have seen the future and it does NOT work," he wrote to me.
(13) We cannot think that a society has a future when it fails to pass laws capable of protecting families and ensuring their basic needs, especially those of families just starting out.” Intentionally or not, the pontiff’s politically tinged address would have bolstered his progressive reputation, even though traditional Catholic social doctrine has long espoused access to housing, medical aid and work.
(14) Young brings together a vision of mother nature reaching her peak, with the quietly stirring chord change from D major to G, and an occasionally desperate tinge to his voice.
(15) Will's singing is completely English; dignified, buttoned-up even; the tune is country-tinged and classic.
(16) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(17) The calf initially drooled blood-tinged saliva and drank with difficulty.
(18) A single, Choices, saw them back on the radio despite abandoning the 60s and 70s references of their previous hits for an electro-tinged 80s sound, and even earned them some positive reviews.
(19) She was clearly feeling the same sense of excitement tinged with unease.
(20) As French military units arrive in Bangui and start deploying elsewhere in-country , our international and CAR colleagues are allowing themselves a measure of hope even if this is tinged with scepticism and apprehension too.