(n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
(n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
(n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
(n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
(2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
(3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(4) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(5) They must be kept secret because publication would destroy the illusion of a royal neutrality no one in power thinks exists any more.
(6) They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.
(7) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
(8) These variants, which yielded a robust illusion, included dihedral angles in place of the arrowheads of the classical pattern.
(9) During vibration of the depressor muscles with the mandible in its rest position the subjects underestimated an opening movement, but fixation of the mandible caused no illusions of movement.
(10) Stimuli were circular beams of light projected on screens (Delboef type of illusion).
(11) The director John Hillcoat and I were under no illusions.
(12) When the shaft is shortened and reaches neither of the vertices of the two pairs of wings, a reversed Müller-Lyer illusion is observed: a shaft between inward-pointing wings appears to be longer than a shaft between the outward-pointing wings.
(13) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(14) The subjects were asked to relate dreams, thoughts, or other mental illusions experienced during G-LOC episodes.
(15) While Yarmolenko stayed quiet, Stepanenko left no illusions as to his interpretation.
(16) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
(17) The illusion is of watching a prima ballerina dancing only for you.
(18) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(19) Four experiments were conducted to investigate the role of "large" squares on the occurrence of assimilation and contrast in the Baldwin illusion.
(20) It creates a dangerous illusion that simply by reducing sugar intake, one can eradicate obesity.
Weight
Definition:
(v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
(v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(12) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
(15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.