(a.) Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait.
Example Sentences:
(1) We left with a wind-up frog that seemed entrancingly lifelike in the shop floor demo, but at home just trundled dully up and down the bathtub until it caught black mould and was banished to the airing cupboard.
(2) Although recent studies have convincingly demonstrated that emotional expressions can be judged reliably from actor-posed facial displays, there exists little evidence that facial expressions in lifelike settings are similar to actor-posed displays, are reliable across situations designed to elicit the same emotion, or provide sufficient information to mediate consistent emotion judgments by raters.
(3) Today the RealDoll team, infamous now for its lifelike sex dolls (of which they claim to have sold more than 5,000), is extending its range to develop an artificial intelligence system capable both of following commands and talking back to its user.
(4) In a double blind-trial two examiners reconstructed the soft tissue on lifelike casts of 12 skulls.
(5) It was a very, very lifelike device, so to overlook something that would have been thought immediately to be a real bomb, had it been spotted, is very worrying.
(6) The only problem: the chair is fashioned from a contorted lifelike mannequin of a black woman, sparking an internet outcry and allegations of racism.
(7) Mostly when you start getting a response from people about new work you feel at least you have dodged another bullet and it’s OK.” Before I go, she gives me a quick tour, pointing out one or two of her favourite lifelike dolls’ heads and curled Hansel and Gretel fingers for practising nail painting.
(8) Their richness lie in the lifelike experiences they convey to the participants, and particular aptitude to promote changes of attitudes.
(9) A nonferromagnetic phantom that could generate lifelike pulsatile flow and also simulate the motions of the beating heart would facilitate image interpretation.
(10) Subjective determination of the most lifelike porcelain depended on the shade.
(11) These properties were chosen as indicators of the strength, flexibility, durability, and lifelike feel of the materials in clinical service.
(12) [But] if I can count on living to 100 without major debilitating diseases I would accept that Faustian bargain right now.” Dmitry Itskov A digital copy of your brain turned into a low-cost, lifelike avatar, which doesn’t age.
(13) The data revealed limited but conflicting evidence of the use of stereotypes when the stimuli portrayed target characters in lifelike situations rather than in an experimental vacuum.
(14) Manchester United fan from Sierra Leone has dream trip ruined … and then improved Read more The error led to United’s home stadium being evacuated 20 minutes before their match against Bournemouth was due to kick off after an “incredibly lifelike explosive device” was found at the ground.
(15) The low illumination, through retina, pigment epithelium and Bruch's membrane, is sufficient to illuminate the erythrocytes to the extent that their images produce lifelike engrammes in the neuroepithelium, which the cortex records.
(16) The latest version gives feedback to the user from individual fingertips as well as the palm and wrists, giving people a more lifelike experience.
(17) "You look at past sims games and we bring that out in artificial ways, but this is our opportunity to really capitalise on how lifelike they can be and let you tell new stories based on that.
(18) The interaction of the isolated wall lipopolysaccharide with the loosely bound wall lipids provided lamellae, whose surfaces were an effective template for a lifelike reassembly of the isolated outer-layer hexagonal protein in the presence of Ca2+.
(19) The electron microscope technique using quick-frozen samples promises to allow measurement of intracellular ionic concentrations under virtually lifelike conditions.
(20) James Franco and Freida Pinto (she of Slumdog Millionaire and the forthcoming sword-and-sandals epic Immortals ) are the headline stars, but I would suggest the real gems here are the wizards at Weta Digital and the motion-capture technology that created apes that are not only extraordinarily lifelike but actually managed to please Peta, to boot .
Natural
Definition:
(a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
(a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
(a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
(a.) Conformed to truth or reality
(a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
(a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
(a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
(a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
(a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
(a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
(a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
(a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
(n.) A native; an aboriginal.
(n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
(n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
(n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(3) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(5) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(6) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(7) To investigate the immunomodulating properties of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP), we studied the drug's effects on natural killer (NK) lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
(8) Examined specific relationships, as they occur in nature, between particular dietary variables or groups of variables and specific MMPI subscales.
(9) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
(10) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
(11) The present study was undertaken to find out the nature of enzymes responsible for the processing of DV antigen in M phi.
(12) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(13) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(14) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(15) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(16) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(17) Natural killer cells (CD8+CD57+) as well as activated T cells (CD3+HLA-DR+) were significantly increased in patients with sarcoidosis.
(18) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(19) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(20) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.