(n.) A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(2) If The City and the City marked a new direction, with a sparer prose and a more sombre tone, Kraken , published shortly after, "felt like the end of something".
(3) One model was based on the KRAKEN computer simulation program; the other computer simulation was based on stimulus-response data sets from 11 normal subjects.
(4) He emblazoned one of the walls of the British pavilion with a mural of a colossal William Morris rising up, kraken-like, from the Venetian lagoon and sinking a millionaire’s super-yacht.
(5) Kraken was published and his new novel, Embassytown , was in preparation.
(6) But there were many more positive indicators in 2014: more money was invested in bitcoin startups than ever before (around $300m, in companies like Circle, Xapo, and Kraken); more bitcoin startups launched than in any year prior (more than 500, compared with around 200 in 2013, according to data from AngelList ); and acceptance by major companies continued to spread.
(7) The founders of Coinbase, and the CEOs of Kraken, BitStamp, Circle, BTC China & Blockchain.info, released the statement late Monday night.
(8) Beneath the surface of our lives churns an ocean of information, from whose depths answers and optimisations ascend like munificent kraken.
Octopus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,
Example Sentences:
(1) The chromophore of octopus rhodopsin is 11-cis retinal, linked via a protonated Schiff base to the protein backbone.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) Lens crystallins were isolated from cephalopods, octopus and squid.
(4) Thus, these alternatives are acceptable as the octopuses end their exponential growth phase at an age of 3 - 5 months.
(5) Treatment of cells with 2,4-D (2.5 mM) or 2,4,5-T (1.25 mM) for 20 h resulted in severe MT aggregation and the appearance of large bundles, which were organized in a rope-like structure in the former and a dramatic octopus-like pattern in the latter.
(6) Anatomical components of afferent innervation in the rim of the octopus sucker are described.
(7) I have reported the development of characteristic clinical and histologic lesions of granuloma annulare at the site of an octopus bite, with early signs following the bite by two weeks.
(8) The first thing she made me was an octopus, which I used in a picture of a fisherman.
(9) Experts say there are other arms of the federal octopus that could be squeezed in a bid to thwart Obama’s deferred action schemes, but even that would not affect the directive that tells immigration officials to focus on deporting “felons, not families”.
(10) Somata types of neurons in category III could not be identified morphologically, but somata were located in caudal parts of the posteroventral cochlear nucleus that correspond to the octopus cell area.
(11) The length of examination (which varies with the programs used as far as the Octopus is concerned, and with the patient's reaction time) is usually long with the Octopus and the Friedmann, but short with the Baylor.
(12) A temporary lowering of body temperature by means of cold drinks, tried on a group of 18 patients with acute optic neuritis, led in 14 cases to a significant improvement in the 30 degree visual field, which the authors tested with the Octopus 201 automatic perimeter.
(13) Peptides belonging to the tachykinin family have been isolated from molluscan (Octopus) salivary glands and from insect nervous tissue (Locusta migratoria).
(14) The C-terminal domain, Od-1, of the 7-domain subunit of Octopus dofleini hemocyanin has been prepared by partial trypsinolysis followed by ion-exchange chromatography.
(15) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(16) Visual acuity, IOP, Visual field (Octopus program G1), Arterial pressure, Plasma viscosity have been recorded at 0, 12 and 24 weeks.
(17) One of the sharing plates at Polpo in London sees moscardini (aka baby octopus) cooked for 10 minutes in stock, left to cool and then marinated for 24 hours in a powerful mixture of olive oil, red-wine vinegar, fennel seeds, shallots, fresh oregano, garlic and finely sliced chilli.
(18) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
(19) The authors prefer to follow up campimetric evolution of glaucomatous patients with the Octopus because it offers more sensibility and precision in quantifying losses.
(20) The visual field in 30 degrees was measured by an automated perimeter Octopus.