(n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(2) At the time of the blast, Nasa’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft was just a mile away, awaiting its own launch to chase an asteroid.
(3) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(4) Results show that OSIRIS can be calibrated against the MRE 113A for a given dust and that the calibration is maintained over the normal working range of 0-40 mg m-3.
(5) To achieve this goal, it was elected to develop a modular and portable software called OSIRIS.
(6) Once calibrated, OSIRIS would be useful in monitoring respirable dust concentrations in a wide range of industrial or laboratory situations.
(7) • Osiris Guzman (Dominican Republic) banned for 30 days, 15 days suspended for six months, fined SFr300.
(8) Its precision was investigated by studying the errors associated with patient repositioning in the apparatus using the computer controlled image scanner OSIRIS.
(9) I hope to use our friendship and excellent collaboration to ameliorate good governance.” 16) Staying humble May 2015: Feeling awkward after the Dominican Republic FA’s head Osiris Guzman (back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal) compares him to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela , Sepp provides some balance.
(10) Yet its hero is a far cry from Jesus, or Osiris, or even Superman – it's the Jade Rabbit, China's lunar rover, which has become a national obsession in recent weeks, inspiring an intense surge of interest and national pride.
(11) Latifa al-Zayyat: al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960) Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo trilogy (1956-57) Colette Khoury: Ayyam Ma'ah (1959) Enayat el-Zayyat: Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967) Layla al-Juhani: Jahiliyya (2006) You could argue that the first narrative to emerge from what has come to be called the Middle East was the first love story of all time: the story of Isis and Osiris.
(12) OSIRIS therefore needs to be calibrated against a gravimetric sampler for each dust which it will be used to monitor.
(13) I wish Concacaf unity, and solidarity.” • Among the feedback: Dominican Republic FA head Osiris Guzman , back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal , comparing Sepp to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela ; Turks and Caicos FA vice-president Olive Smith calling for delegates to vote for Sepp “ en bloc, to continue this mutually beneficial journey ”; and Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb summing up: “Concacaf is – more than ever – united by one vision.” • Also at the event: Concacaf’s executive elections, with Webb and vice-president Captain Horace Burrell re-elected unopposed.
(14) The OSIRIS trial suggests that early administration of surfactant to an estimated 32 babies, when compared with treatment of established RDS, would prevent 1 baby from dying and another from being dependent on extra oxygen long-term, but would entail the additional use of surfactant in 8 of these babies.
(15) It was the Trinidad & Tobago FA president, Raymond Tim Kee, who praised Blatter as the “father of football”, while the president of the Dominican Republic federation, Osiris Guzman, compared the 79-year-old Swiss to Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King as well as Jesus and Mandela.
(16) This annual miracle was ascribed to the tears of the goddess Isis mourning her murdered husband Osiris, and its effect was a safe prediction of what lay in store for the people of the valley: midscale meant a plentiful harvest, too much water spelled out death by flood, too little warned of famine and starvation.
(17) A short screening interview for the diagnosis of alcoholism has been developed with the assistance of the automatic interaction detector (AID) program (a multivariate sequential analysis strategy) that is part of the OSIRIS statistical package.
(18) If there are SpaceX mission delays, other cargo spacecraft will be able to meet the station’s needs, and supplies and research investigations are at good levels.” The Nasa statement said the rocket and spacecraft for its next scheduled launch with SpaceX, Osiris-Rex , were “healthy and secure” at a launch site a mile away from the site of the explosion.
(19) Eight premature infants ventilated for hyaline membrane disease and enrolled in the OSIRIS surfactant trial were studied.
(20) Isis, the mother of mankind, does not just mourn the slaying and dismembering of her husband Osiris by his evil brother, Seth; she embarks on a journey to find his 14 body parts, scattered throughout the land of Egypt.
Underworld
Definition:
(n.) The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
(n.) The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
(n.) The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite side of the world; the antipodes.
(n.) The inferior part of mankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(2) He says he approached politicians, police officers, lawyers, even members of the city's underworld.
(3) Last year saw a slew of shootings involving members of the Yamaguchi-gumi - Japan's biggest underworld organisation - and a rival gang as they battled for control of lucrative districts in Tokyo.
(4) Many among this group drift into the criminal underworld or prostitution.
(5) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(6) Sumo wrestling , already suffering a tarnished reputation, is facing its greatest scandal in years amid revelations of extortion, illegal gambling and ties with the criminal underworld.
(7) Officials from the defence ministry, run by Rajapaksa's brother, Gotabhaya, have said many of the abductions since the end of the conflict were of "underworld characters involved in organised crime, drug trade, extortion, kidnapping and such antisocial activities".
(8) For yet others, the key trigger was a series of high-profile arrests beginning in 2002 that destroyed the underworld equilibrium.
(9) Others, from the drug underworld, seem inherently unreliable.
(10) You couldn’t go home because your head was buzzing”: It was in the Flying Squad that Malton was first to come across those members of the underworld's aristocracy.
(11) With one foot in the underworld and the other in the entertainment business, he is straddling two camps and ultimately has two systems working in his favour.
(12) Decades of government intransigence over calls to liberalise the marijuana sector means that Jamaica is light years behind western Europe and the US in terms of establishing laboratory and research infrastructure, official distribution networks, finding merchants untainted by the criminal underworld, and an organised framework of governance.
(13) Not far away lies Cape Tenaro, where Hercules is said to have descended into the underworld and tamed Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
(14) It was she who refused to believe the Goan police's assertion that her daughter had merely drowned in an alcoholic, drug-induced stupor, one more hapless victim of Anjuna's dark underworld.
(15) It's a smart, cold film, with a sub-Tarantino outlook but with flourishes by director Dominik, whose ace is to mirror the financial crisis and the underworld.
(16) And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history."
(17) The concept of "professional" theft is reviewed, the use of drugs by professional thieves is discussed, and the interaction between this underworld group and the early Federal Bureau of Narcotics is examined.
(18) But those who enforce these rules have made it clear to the court that an underworld influence still threatens cricket.
(19) At the time, corridistas told their stories in the playful tone of a comic book or action movie, but he revelled in the savage reality of the underworld, peppering his songs with gory details of torture and execution.
(20) One notorious underworld figure, Salvatore Buzzi, ran a vast cooperative that provided food and language courses for migrants and his combined business was said to be worth £30m.