(n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
(n.) A quarrel; a contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(2) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
(3) A few floors above Baumanns’ cafe the teenage outcast was studying mass killers and preparing for murder himself, police said.
(4) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(5) You become an outcast," said Wada president, John Fahey.
(6) M from dominant rats under normal conditions were shown to exhibit higher energy and to possess better respiratory energy regulation than those of "outcast" rats.
(7) "They have run out of money, face daily threats to their safety, and are being treated as outcasts for no other crime than losing their men to a vicious war.
(8) At Cambridge, Oliver says not entirely jokingly, he felt "outcast and angry"; in his first week there he met Richard Ayoade , later to star in The IT Crowd, and they bonded over "not feeling particularly comfortable about being exposed to the top end of the class system".
(9) Community leaders vowed to organise and form a better defence for subsequent nights, helped by members of the Outcast and Dominant Breed motorcycle clubs who lined their bikes up in front of stores.
(10) Thousands of children in west Africa have been orphaned by Ebola and are at risk of becoming outcasts from communities frightened of the infectious disease, according to Unicef.
(11) The suit alleged that the film portrayed people living in the mountains, who are often of mixed Native American and white heritage and were once known by the derogatory term “Jackson Whites”, as inbred social outcasts.
(12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(13) But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.
(14) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
(15) If you don’t have a job, you are made to feel like an outcast from your community,” Jean-Pierre says.
(16) They tell us that the authorities have 86% support, loyalty to Putin is total, [governing party] United Russia enjoys colossal popularity, and the opposition is a bunch of outcasts that can only exist within [downtown Moscow] on Twitter and Facebook and don’t know how to communicate with the people,” Yashin told the Guardian after a campaign stop.
(17) Without papers, status or rights, they are outcasts.
(18) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
(19) They don’t want to be punked out of their own neighbourhood.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greets members of the Outcast motorcycle club before a vigil in Ferguson.
(20) His 1964 album Bitter Tears, subtitled Ballads Of The American Indian, included Cash's memorable treatment of Pete LaFarge's Ballad Of Ira Hayes, and was the first of many instances of his willingness to speak up for outcasts and underdogs.
Overcast
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.
(v. t.) To compute or rate too high.
(v. t.) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Techniques involving a cemented porcelain-fused-to-metal overcasting have often been successful in restoring the fixed partial denture to form and function.
(2) Murky crime drama Shetland (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) returns this week for a second series, revealing Shetland as the most eerie – and overcast – location on Earth.
(3) Smoke continued to swirl into an overcast sky more than an hour after the reported explosion as witnesses in the area gave accounts of feeling a shock wave.
(4) Winter depression, a form of seasonal affective disorder, is a common condition that increases in prevalence in northern areas and in regions with a high proportion of overcast fall and winter days.
(5) I like photographing overcast days and people looking sad.
(6) Ten males participated in the event which took place on a cool, overcast day and consisted of a 1.0-km swim, a 30-km cycle ride, and a 10-km run.
(7) Dentists have frequently used overcastings to avoid removal of the restoration.
(8) The morning is overcast – calm, cool and quiet, almost Zen-like.
(9) It’s a bleak, overcast day when the Guardian visits Rose Hill.
(10) It’s an overcast morning when I start my 155km walk along the Berlin Wall Trail, the Mauerweg, and the granite skies make the scarred, concrete remnants of the Wall along Bernauer Strasse look even more sinister than usual.
(11) But the clan believes that if the sky is overcast, the scars will continue to weep.
(12) Parts of Ohio are high-risk areas given the high percentage of overcast days.
(13) An overcasting was fabricated and was permanently cemented on each preparation.
(14) There was less activity on partly overcast days than on clear days.
(15) Sir Bobby Charlton, his own life in football so overcast by Manchester United's tragedy at Munich, handed the Liverpool legend Ian Rush a bouquet of roses as a symbol of fraternity.
(16) Those hoping for a bank holiday weekend to banish the bad weather should prepare for disappointment: the Met Office has warned that, while the torrential rain of recent days should subside, many areas could still see overcast skies, occasional showers and night-time temperatures falling below freezing.
(17) It claims to offer 99 Oregon beers on tap and, though I can’t personally vouch for all, the Ancestry Golden was light, the Yachats was smooth, the Block 15 was malty and the Oakshire Overcast Espresso Stout was a creamy, energising shot of success.
(18) The technique involves intradermal overcasting with monofilament non-resorbable suture covered with a double adhesive film which reduces strain and provides a therapeutic pressure; after ablation of the first film, it is replaced with adhesive films continuously for 2 months.
(19) Magnets glued to the backs of experienced pigeons often resulted in disorientation when the birds were released from distances of 17-31 miles (27-50 km) under total overcast, whereas no such disorientation occurred during similar releases under clear skies.
(20) On Wednesday, however, for at least one afternoon, all was right at AT&T Park, and that's because Lincecum tossed his second career no-hitter, bringing a bright finish to an overcast day in the Bay Area.