(n.) The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.
(n.) Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.
(n.) The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.
(n.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
(n.) One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
(n.) Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.
(n.) A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
(v. i.) To utter oracles.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Teletext launched in 1993 it replaced the ITV-run Oracle, which started in 1974 and provided news, sport and weather information, as well as TV schedules.
(2) Ballmer outbid several other potential buyers, most notably a group consisting of Oprah Winfrey, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison and David Geffen – a multicultural ownership which would have been amusing from a karmic standpoint.
(3) His 1.7 million followers treat him like an oracle, asking things like: "Is it better to have lost something than never to have had it at all?"
(4) Oracle has big court case against Google alleging that Android infringes a number of Java patents, and claiming $6.1bn in damages.
(5) Market analyst Scott Kessler of S&P Capital IQ said: “It’s nice to see that expenses are being more carefully overseen.” But Kessler still has the stock as a “hold.” “The company is in the crosshairs of regulators around the world,” Kessler said, pointing to ongoing copyright litigation with Oracle and the company’s investigation by the European Commission over antitrust concerns and rows over tax breaks.
(6) Every year around this time, health care oracles ask the same questions about national health insurance: Will we get it?
(7) The second one manages the associated parameters and the gateway by means of the relational DBMS ORACLE.
(8) Stephen Curry poured in 46 points to lift the Warriors to a 125-104 win before a delirious sellout crowd of 19,596 at Oracle Arena.
(9) Oracle said they weren't buyers because even at $6bn – Autonomy's stockmarket value at the time – it was overvalued.
(10) Hence disease management is misdirected towards consulting the oracle and appeasing the gods.
(11) And let's not forget the entertaining spat between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Oracle's Larry Ellison.
(12) But to the oracle I must return once more because what the Washington Post once was to Nixon's corruption, Mail Online is to women flaunting their curves: tireless in its determination to expose such things, fearless in the face of mockery of its myopic and, to sceptical outsiders, decidedly deranged obsession.
(13) Similarly, the successful CEO today shows the predator instincts behind his success by doing something extravagantly but peacefully competitive – taking part in the America’s Cup (Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle), ballooning (Richard Branson) or racing at Le Mans.
(14) The Warriors win their 73rd game and make history here at Oracle Arena.
(15) Days before the final game of the season, many had doubts that the Dubs would be able to make it to 73 wins, after losses in three of their last 13 games – two of which were at home, their first defeats at Oracle Arena this season – and having to face the No2 San Antonio Spurs twice in their final four match-ups.
(16) ORACLE distributed tools and the two-level storage technique will allow the integration of the BDIM into a distributed structure, Queries and array (alone or in sequences) retrieval module has access to the relations via a level in which a dictionary managed by ORACLE is included.
(17) The ancient Greeks had Pythia, their Delphic Oracle; the Romans had their Vestal Virgins and, in Live and Let Die , Dr Kananga had his Solitaire.
(18) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(19) We should have expected far more ‘shy Tories’.” Nate Silver, the man once lauded as an elections oracle for his detailed predictions, was wildly out, putting the Conservatives at “about 280 seats, Labour at about 265”.
(20) Then, they went to Oracle Arena and became the first team to beat them at home.
Prophesier
Definition:
(n.) A prophet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staff say the most popular exhibits are interactive displays about end-of-the-world prophesies, though they stress that 21 December simply marks the change from one 5,125 year-era to another.
(2) This became clear in bizarre fashion last year, after a woman in Fort Mill, South Carolina, prophesied that Bristol was about to become “the healing capital of England”.
(3) You are the first writer I know of to have prophesied Ronald Reagan as president.
(4) In 1940, Henry Ford prophesied that “a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming.
(5) Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough.
(6) Four were arrested in Hebei and Sichuan provinces for distributing cataclysm-themed leaflets, and another four in the south-western metropolis Chongqing for prophesying via megaphone on the city's streets.
(7) Bugarach, a tiny French village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, was – according to an internet rumour no one has ever got to the bottom of – said by Mayans to be the only place on Earth to survive the apocalypse prophesied for 21 December.
(8) This paper addresses the questions of how older, regular users learn to live with these apparent contradictions, how they are influenced by legal sanctions and informal controls, and why they have not (as prophesied in the early 1970s) become an active force for drug law reform.
(9) The Spearman-Brown Prophesy formula, derived from psychometrics, may be used in anthropometric studies to describe the relationship between the intraclass reliability coefficient for a single measurement and the reliability resulting from the mean of replicate measurements.
(10) The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet.
(11) Having casually prophesied the death of Robbie Williams and co, Moir moves on to her main point: that Gately's death strikes her as a bit fishy .
(12) But, he added, persecution was "no surprise for Christians because Jesus prophesied it".
(13) Although these prophesies have been proven false, many physiological alterations do occur in microgravity conditions.
(14) The intensive-care pediatrician who prophesies to parents that their child's illness is irreversible may encounter denial and hostility.
(15) It’s impossible to say who will win Unite’s election, but the outcome is not a prophesy for Unite’s support of Corbyn Thus, if Coyne was to become the next general secretary of Unite, it’s likely he would find his hands are tied.
(16) When he first read Heart of Darkness , Lindqvist took Conrad to be prophesying what was coming rather than writing about what he had seen.
(17) It would be ironic were the trash talk to become a self-fulfilling prophesy, resulting in weaker than expected growth, revenue downgrades and a budget deficit blow out.
(18) "The contagion that is eating its way through the Spanish and Italian and other European bond markets has a self-prophesying element to it.
(19) Labour in turmoil as it tries to prophesy its future from its past Read more Harman, who will call for non-party members to be invited to public hustings in parts of the country where Labour failed to win, will say: “We will have strict rules to ensure there is a level playing field for each one of the candidates.
(20) Some Chinese people have found less subversive ways of dealing with the prophesy.