(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 .
Realistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(2) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
(3) You can’t prevent it,” he says, calling himself a realist.
(4) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
(5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(6) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
(7) A realistic interpretation of neurophysiologic data on the neostriatum must take into account all cell types instead of the current view of considering it as a pool of interneurons with few output cells.
(8) However, he told the BBC the 2014 target was a realistic aim.
(9) "I know fans will be disappointed but I think they are also realistic.
(10) Finally, an integrated control of Chagas Disease must emphasise complementary activities such as housing improvement and the active control of blood banks to eliminate transfusional transmission, besides the development of a realistic medical care system.
(11) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
(12) The possibility of pulmonary edema from fluid overload in nonhypovolemic patients, and reluctance of field personnel to infuse fluid at the rates necessary to produce benefit raise further questions about realistic benefit of IV's in all but the most rural systems.
(13) Epidemiological effects of lung cancer screening have not yet been confirmed, but so many lung cancer cases have been detected and treated, that a realistic approach for the improvement of screening programs was discussed.
(14) In asthmatic patients with aspirin sensitivity, who undergo ASA desensitization, continuous treatment with ASA or NSAIDs is realistic.
(15) Evaluations of the summer program have revealed that the students have an increased academic self-concept, a more realistic view of the requirements to become a health professional, and an enhanced awareness of the health care environment.
(16) A way must be found to experiment with various discretionary approaches that would strike a realistic balance among competing interests.
(17) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
(18) I think we can realistically put back what we had 25 or 30 years ago.” However, the engineering projects are prohibitively expensive.
(19) Unemployment stands at a massive 36.7% using the most realistic definition, he noted in a June 2013 speech, with the proportion of those out of work for more than a year at 68%.
(20) It offers a more clinically realistic setting than models based on costs alone.