(n.) An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mirage aircraft crashed at dawn “due to a technical fault”, said a coalition statement published hours after the United Arab Emirates reported one of its jets missing without giving details.
(2) Thermocycling significantly lowered the shear bond strength of Scotchbond Dual Cure and Scotchbond 2, but not that of Mirage Bond (P less than or equal to .05).
(3) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
(4) Treatments with primers including adhesive monomers such as Scotchprep and Mirage Conditioner also increased the dentin permeability by removal of the smear layers and smear plugs.
(5) A huge industrial unit, painted in a spectrum of blues so that it merges with the sky and looks like the mirage of a pool.
(6) But look closer, and other parts of Qatar’s new football culture are a desert mirage.
(7) So – paywalls are not a mirage; nor are they a unicorn.
(8) This in vitro study assessed the microleakage of Class V restorations using Mirage Bond (NPG-PMDM) with a hybrid light polymerized resin composite.
(9) But the downgrade has exposed the mirage of balance in the Franco-German relationship that Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel – known together as "Merkozy" — have been keen to promote as the core of Europe.
(10) While the fourth seeded Bulls’ 35-29 record is something of a mirage, as they have faced the dregs of the Eastern Conference, that doesn’t take away from the fact this team was expected to be one of those dregs after Rose injured himself and Deng was traded.
(11) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(12) Iwona Blazwick , director, Whitechapel Gallery One of my favourite exhibits currently on display here is the Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny: The Past Was a Mirage I'd Left Far Behind .
(13) Welcome to Sunnylands, an estate in Rancho Mirage, California , nicknamed the "presidents' playground" which hopes to bring harmony to the world, starting on Friday.
(14) It is using six Rafale multi-role fighter jets stationed in the United Arab Emirates and six Mirage 2000 fighters deployed in Jordan.
(15) Rancho Mirage is waiting to see if the leaders emerge for a stroll around town.
(16) In Libya you will find teargas made in Britain and, according to Paul Rogers, of the department of peace studies at Bradford University (writing for the openDemocracy site), Mirage F-1 planes, recently upgraded by the French, who are foremost in calling for a no-fly zone, and C-130H Hercules transport planes from the US , where intervention has a growing number of advocates.
(17) We think the DMIC will never happen.” I think DMIC is a giant sandcastle, a mirage that we are being shown just so land prices can be racked up Babu Singh Patel Facebook Twitter Pinterest Babu Singh Patel and fellow Pithampur farmers have applied to the High Court to block the government’s plans.
(18) Scanning electron microscopic observations showed that the fracture patterns were all at the smear layer-adhesive interface for Scotchbond Dual Cure, the majority of the fractures were at the primer-adhesive interface for Scotchbond 2, and most of the fractures were cohesive in the bonding agent for Mirage Bond.
(19) It was the purpose of this study to examine the surface morphology of various ceramics (Mirage, Dicor, Optec, Vitadur N, Ceramco II) etched with various solutions (Super-Etch, Stripit, hydrofluoric acid 40%, Dicor retention gel) and etching times (1, 2, 3, and 4 min), using a SEM.
(20) Evidently, the way of the straight energetic supply, which, undoubtedly, represents the fulfillment of a "mirage" of release, at least partially, and in critical situations, from oxygen, although still long and burdened with problems, is also, decidedly, suggestive with promises.
Murage
Definition:
(n.) A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.