(n.) An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recognition memory was tested for lists of 6 briefly (0.08 s) presented pictures at different interstimulus intervals (ISI) of 0.08, 1, and 4 s. Experiment 1 showed a 16% performance increase (ISI effect) for increasing ISI for travel slide but not kaleidoscope pictures.
(2) The whole point was that it was more of a kaleidoscopic exploration of the treatment of homegrown radicalisation,” said Latif, “to explore the breadth of opinion that is out there.
(3) William Bobo’s book Glimpses of New York (1852) describes a stream of beings in bonnets, caps and tall hats as “one grand kaleidoscope in perpetual motion”.
(4) This is a war that has failed in every one of its ever-shifting kaleidoscope of aims: from destroying the Taliban and al-Qaida, to bringing democracy and women's rights, to eradicating opium production.
(5) The best World Cups offer a kaleidoscope of images and this brilliantly-staged oval-ball extravaganza outdid anything the game has seen.
(6) Brought to you by: Cutting emissions and saving money through teleconferencing Wayne Visser is director of Kaleidoscope Futures and a senior associate at the University of Cambridge.
(7) "Their regime was a kaleidoscope of perceptions and positions and conflicting interests constantly tumbling over one another and rearranging themselves," the eminent Israeli historian Tom Segev wrote in his account of the British Mandate era, One Palestine, Complete .
(8) These are the moments when Liverpool , to borrow a line from the kaleidoscope of colours on the Kop's banners, are making their supporters dream.
(9) A selective mechanism is described whereby kaleidoscopic changes in primary structure at variable sites are indefinitely promoted, independently of any environmental changes and with the molecule remaining close to a state of maximal overall adaptation.
(10) "Kaleidoscope was born because a lot of us felt there was a need for an organisation that would focus all its efforts internationally," said said Lance Price, a Kaleidoscope founding member and former 10 Downing Street media adviser.
(11) It’s like a washed-out, weird kaleidoscope full of heyday and hope Port Elizabeth is a blue-collar town with white-collar aspirations.
(12) What are we saying about ourselves when we place (black) women’s pain under a microscope only to better consume the full kaleidoscope of their suffering?
(13) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(14) Rei Kawakubo, the founder of Comme des Garçons: Weird pink kaleidoscope prints!
(15) It happened 40 years ago and it's all very complicated – a shifting kaleidoscope of religious and linguistic difference and political loyalties, animated by old prejudices and fresh desires.
(16) Kaleidoscope is described by its director, Lance Price, thus: "First, we're being driven by the experience of the people in the countries we're talking about.
(17) Kaleidoscope intends to leave UK gay rights campaigning to long-established advocacy group Stonewall.
(18) But there are signs everywhere that the kaleidoscope that constantly shifts the pieces of this puzzle is going to turn again.
(19) Curriculum vitae Age 59 Education Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (history); University College, Oxford (PPE) Career 1970 writer, Rolling Stone magazine 1973 presenter, Radio 1 1974 presenter, Radio 4 arts show Kaleidoscope 1983 founder member, TV-am 1992 launch team, Classic FM 1995 Radio 3 1996 Radio Academy's Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio award 1998 presenter, Classic FM 2005 inducted into Radio Academy Hall of Fame 2008 host, Counterpoint music quiz, Radio 4
(20) The Peter Tatchell Foundation is supporting a coalition – the Commonwealth Equality Network , coordinated by Kaleidoscope Trust – which is lobbying to get LGBTI rights on the agenda of the 2018 Commonwealth summit.
Silhouette
Definition:
(n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
(v. t.) To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(2) We were very keen to preserve the silhouette of the Leadenhall building [Cheesegrater],” says Richards.
(3) In general, judgement of the silhouette profiles proved to be independent of the judge's own profile.
(4) 4.17pm: Sims became aware of leaks at his force after an officer appeared as a "silhouette" on a local TV programme.
(5) Marr has suggested that we see three-dimensional (3-D) shapes in silhouettes because we make the implicit assumption that the viewed shapes are generalized cones.
(6) Persistent abnormalities in the cardiac silhouette and aortic arch are frequent in the late follow-up of patients operated upon for coarctation of the aorta.
(7) LV volumes at end-systole (V1), before atrial contraction (V2) and at end-diastole (V3) were obtained according to the area-length method by tracing the silhouette of left ventriculograms using a computer system.
(8) Finger clubbing was quantified from the magnified silhouette of the right index finger in controls and patients with clubbing, using a simple shadowgram technique.
(9) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
(10) That shadow bears a subtle but clear similarity to the silhouette of one of Mexico City’s volcanoes, the Iztaccihuatl – also known as La Mujer Dormida (“The Sleeping Woman”).
(11) The patients were all men with 57 years mean age, and a previous history of posteroinferior myocardial infarction, complicated in three of them with angor and severe ventricle arrythmias; chest X ray in lateral view showed a bump of the posteroinferior border of the cardiac silhouette; the echocardiography increase in the ventricular diameter below the mitral valve; the ventriculography made evident a diastolic bulging with systolic expansion of posterior and inferior segments of the left ventricle and no mitral regurgitation; selective coronary arteriography showed a dominant right pattern with 100 per cent proximal occlusion.
(12) It was dark, but I could see my silhouette in the mirror and I stared to see if I was looking at a demon instead of Dan's mother.
(13) Omnidirectional and directional FM microphones were compared in a classroom environment, and minor changes in hearing aid-silhouette coupling were investigated.
(14) Paintings currently on the walls at al-Meftaha include dayglo horses and chocolate box-style silhouette images of children.
(15) One month after treatment, evaluation on the X-ray film showed that 10 cases (33%) were found to be excellent where stone silhouette was no more observed.
(16) When the muscle is well developed, the medial edge of this silhouette may be superimposed upon the air shadow of the lung in a variety of ways.
(17) The position of the geometric center of the cardiac silhouette in relation to the sternum was recorded as a percentage of the distance along the sternum.
(18) Paper Gods comes wrapped in a collage that includes the Patrick Nagel lips from the Rio sleeve , cut-outs of a sumo wrestler, a champagne glass and a silhouette of a stripper to represent the Girls on Film video, and a tiger (albeit a non-ragged one).
(19) The PT lesions were accompanied by a severe deficit in pattern discrimination learning but no loss in visual tracking or orientation to the silhouette of a threatening cat.
(20) A small heart silhouette with normal pulmonary perfusion and signs of pulmonary oedema is typical of TAPVC with obstruction.