(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.
Sap
Definition:
(n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
(v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
(v. t.) To pierce with saps.
(v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
(v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
(n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By contrast, SAP-35, the major surfactant-associated glycoprotein of molecular weight = 35,000, and other higher molecular weight proteins were not detected in significant quantities in the CLSE or surfactant-TA replacement surfactants, either by highly sensitive silver stain analysis or by immunoblot using monospecific antisera generated against bovine SAP-35.
(2) In normovolemia, the hepatic arterial flow (HAF) increased as the systemic arterial pressure (SAP) rose up to 140 mmHg, and then decreased as SAP rose further.
(3) Rat type II pneumocytes expressed vitamin K-dependent carboxylase activity that incorporated 14CO2 into microsomal protein precursors of molecular weights similar to those of surfactant-associated proteins (SAP).
(4) At this SAP a constant amount of SNP and 500 ml Dextran 60 were infused.
(5) The in vitro transcript probes could detect 1 ng of purified virus and as little as 1 microliter of sap extracts prepared from infected oat shoots.
(6) Combined propranolol-atropine blockade increased heart rate at rest in the SAP state, and significantly attenuated the tachycardia accompanying treadmill exercise.
(7) It is concluded that the cell sap from rat liver contains the complete set of enzymes for the synthesis from delta-aminolaevulinate of haem c and its linkage to a small pool of free apoprotein c present in soluble form.
(8) As shown earlier, at zero turgor pressure the intracellular freezing point of the parenchyma cells matches closely the negative pressure in the xylem sap.
(9) Whole blood components did not interfere with the efficacy of OKT1-SAP, as in vitro treatment of fresh whole blood resulted in effective elimination of clonable peripheral blood T-lymphocytes assessed by a limiting dilution assay.
(10) According to the theory of osmoelastic coupling, also large additives, such as the proteins of the cell sap, are able to cause an osmotic stress equivalent to that caused by polyethylene glycol.
(11) SAP did not bind to the macrophage cell line RAW264.7 nor did it enhance IL-1 secretion by this line.
(12) The cell sap in the absence of ribosomes was also able to incorporate radioactivity into purified cytochrome c, and the addition of ribosomes significantly enhanced the activity.
(13) The C4BP.SAP complex was also detected in normal serum and the results suggested that there was virtually no free SAP or uncomplexed C4BP in normal serum.
(14) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
(15) The biophysical activity of synthetic phospholipid-apoprotein combinants was assessed by measurements of adsorption facility and dynamic surface tension lowering ability at 37 degrees C. The SM-SAP-6 combinants had adsorption facility equivalent to natural lung surfactant, and to the surfactant extract preparations CLSE and surfactant-TA used in exogenous surfactant replacement therapy for the neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS).
(16) Histone phosphorylation is sharply inhibited after addition of DNA, the protein kinases of nuclear sap phosphorylating less effectively the histones complexed with DNA than the non-histone proteins.
(17) Specific SAP-35 RNA increased during organ culture and both SAP-35 content and SAP-35 RNA increased in the absence of exogenous hormones in 2% carbon-stripped fetal calf serum.
(18) The beta2-microglobulin in the cell-sap fraction was present in the unbound state.
(19) No patients at risk for developing heterotopic bone after THA could be identified from the preoperative level of SAP.
(20) The mass of SAP in these was determined from the extinction coefficient of SAP at 280 nm measured here precisely for the first time by spectrophotometry and cryogenic drying.