(superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.
(superl.) Not noticeable; humble; mean.
(superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.
(superl.) Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects.
(a.) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
(v. i.) To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark.
(n.) Obscurity.
Example Sentences:
(1) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(2) The mechanism of ACTH action on brain catecholamine metabolism is still obscure, however, an increased release of the NA to ACTH peptides is very likely in the light of the present observations.
(3) However, peptide bonds between 193 and 194, and 194 and 195 were cleaved in the presence of mAb 1C3 as easily as in the presence of mAb 31A4, suggesting that the region of residues 200 to 202 was obscured by, or within the antibody binding site, but that the region of residues 193 to 195 was not.
(4) The physician's approach to the differential diagnosis of obscure, atypical pneumonias has changed.
(5) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(6) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(7) It is found that generic averages obscure some rather substantial differences at the species level for both Cercopithecus and Cercocebus.
(8) Although the pathophysiology of the pancreatic injury is obscure, the lack of other etiological factors and temporal association of the pancreatitis with acetaminophen-induced hepatic and renal toxicity suggest a causal relationship.
(9) Because reticulocytes contain a pool of uncombined alpha chains which might have obscured the demonstration of an alpha chain-dependent mechanism for beta-chain synthesis, subsequent studies were done with bone marrow cells.
(10) However, the mechanism by which Ag II is able to modulate anterior pituitary secretion still remains obscure.
(11) Other causes were 20 (13%) with cerebrovascular diseases, 30 (20%) hepatic failure and 11 (8%) were of miscellaneous and obscure causes.
(12) In such a case with a large hematoma, the presence of a tumor may be obscured on CT scan and angiography.
(13) However, the difficulty still remains that the latter may be obscured by differences not related to thermostability etc.
(14) The activating mechanism of the condition still remains obscure.
(15) Its language is “archaic and obscure”, the commission says.
(16) Clofibrate, an antilipidemic drug that acts by a still obscure mechanism, is known to specifically increase up to 30-fold the activity of the hepatic cytochrome P-450 isozyme that omega-hydroxlates lauric acid.
(17) On the electron microscopy, the sarcomere was shortened and Z-line was partly obscure.
(18) Photographs of 82 boys from the Harpenden Growth Study were measured at ages 5 to 18 years, in an order that obscured which photographs were of the same boy at different ages.
(19) Although the K+ concentration of the contents of the GI tract as well as the K+ transport by the portal vein were increased, the source of the excess K+ remains obscure.
(20) The effects of long-term exposure of humans to formaldehyde, however, are more obscure.
Unsung
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
(2) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
(3) The chancellor acknowledged recently how communities and very local councils are the unsung heroes of house building via neighbourhood planning.
(4) From intrepid turtles to pioneering jellyfish, a host of animals have made their mark as the unsung heroes of space exploration.
(5) Cold has become a hugely significant – yet almost unsung – part of our energy footprint.
(6) Sylvester , Divine , Grace Jones and Allen Ginsberg are all here, but so too are hundreds of unknown and otherwise unsung LGBT people.
(7) While praising the UN for its work – Francis took care to mention secretaries, maintenance people and other unsung workers during a brief meeting with staff before the address – he urged the institution to aim for a higher standard.
(8) So everything comes together, the unsung hero and the iconic figure both contributing to a victory and that’s what the team is all about.
(9) A fourth is to hold the line on the Human Rights Act, one of the Lib Dems' important but unsung achievements so far.
(10) It is a sense of losing control that is often at the root of so many individuals and family carers, the unsung heroes who save the UK government £21bn a year, reaching the crisis point where residential care is felt necessary.
(11) If you go back to 1996, the vast majority of people who went to international competition were not really engaging with the idea of winning," says Keen, the unsung hero of the astonishing rise of Britain's Olympic aspirations, who recently stepped down to a part-time role.
(12) There was some public funding, and the artists were often helped by unsung, visionary civil servants.
(13) Given diplomacy's ineffectiveness and the unknowable but terrible consequences of air strikes, it is easy to see why covert action is the least bad option; most of the successes and failures in this war will remain unsung, but some have made news.
(14) And sure enough, what comes back from Tirana Radio or the local newspapers is the unsung adoption of the word by the officials who have seen it in the special monitoring reports that are prepared for their eyes alone.
(15) He was aiming high, to build his music around saccharine snippets dropped from Taylor Swift records , or the Bieber hooks that had remained unsung, and then filter it through echoing synthesizers and discombobulating rhythms.
(16) How many of these unsung heroes of the Burmese people's struggle for freedom and democracy will be among the more than 6,000 prisoners expected to be released from jail on Wednesday is anybody's guess.
(17) Figures such as Repin, Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Serov are “spectacular” artists, said Blakesley but “relatively unsung in the west and deserve a higher profile”.
(18) The bronze sculpture, situated outside the city’s library, honours what curator Stuart Tulloch calls the “everyday and unsung”.
(19) This is your chance to honour all of those unsung heroes of the food world, the artisans, chefs, cooks, shops, restaurants and food people who could receive one of our coveted awards.
(20) But I am already looking forward to the new challenges at the intensity frontier and raising a glass not only to the pioneering physicists who had the courage and vision to build the Tevatron and its experiments but to the thousands of unsung heroes: the engineers, designers, technicians, programmers, secretaries, procurement staff, safety professionals, project managers, lawyers, financial administrators, cleaners, security guards and cafeteria staff whose enthusiasm and dedication made it a reality.