(n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
(v. t.) To represent by parable.
Example Sentences:
(1) IIRR has also used humorous anecdotes and parables as educational devices.
(2) So also do parables drawn from actual cases and used as personalized narrative projective tests.
(3) With a back catalogue including Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, dystopian near-future parable Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuarón has been nominated for Oscars before, but not in this category.
(4) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
(6) And yet the reason the judges gave the prize to Catton, rather than to either of the two other serious contenders – Jim Crace's parable of land and dispossession, or Colm Tóibín's spare, shocking portrait of the Virgin Mary – must be for its investigation into what a novel is, and can be.
(7) The logic of the specific-effects approach to treatment evaluation is first illustrated by a hypothetical example (the Minefield Parable), and it is then suggested that the approach is appropriate for the evaluation of any treatment, be it physical, psychological, or some complex combination.
(8) The parable of the frog and tadpoles ridiculed the false hopes that encourage the acceptance of inequality.
(9) The expansive, leisurely poems in the new collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück, are interspersed with one-paragraph prose-poems – miniature parables often framed as personal anecdotes, like this week's choice, A Work of Fiction.
(10) Chelsea's shafting of Ranieri is the most brazen parable of everything that is vile in modern football.
(11) And what's happening to reefs is a parable of what is going to happen to everything else."
(12) Asked what he expected of the papal visit to Britain in 1982, he told the following parable.
(13) With the Falklands war sending Thatcher back into power in 1983, followed swiftly by the defeat of the miners' strike, there was a general sense on the British theatrical left that now was the time to "get real" - to oppose the Thatcher regime with more directly relevant drama than the parables of injustice in which Bond seemed to be dealing.
(14) On Renaissance, you'll find politics, war parables, mellifluous metaphors, a keen sense of humour and a brilliant backdrop of Tribe-ish beats by himself and the deceased J Dilla.
(15) It certainly doesn't demand to be read as a parable of the victimisation of women by medical patriarchs."
(16) now treat these horrors as parables or myths, which is just as well.
(17) Indeed, from what's emerged so far, the story of Madonna and the unbuilt school has all the elements of a modern parable about the failure of top-down development projects.
(18) In the parable, the inventor of writing – the Egyptian god Theuth – boasts to King Thamus that his innovation would make people wiser and improve their memories.
(19) There is another paradox in the fact that Plato put the parable in the mouth of the last great Greek oral philosopher, whose ideas he had chosen to put down in writing.
(20) The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually "comes out" as a Jedi.
Parabola
Definition:
(n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.
(n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major variation in these patterns can be modeled by families of parabolas with a single degree of freedom.
(2) The relation between concentration and absorption in an eight step calibration series is well described by a parabola of the 2nd degree.
(3) It was shown that the women used a parabola with a larger margin over the top of the hurdle than the men: A lower parabola would shorten the hurdle step, and would require the lengthening of the three interhurdle steps.
(4) Three to eight parabolas were averaged for subjects in each posture; the mean for each posture was calculated.
(5) It was found that the velocity profile of the FITC labelled RBC in straight microvessels was blunt as compared to a parabola.
(6) The "excitability ratio" is the first derivative of the response parabola and as such becomes a linear function of the actual arterial CO2 partial pressure.
(7) The equation of the resulting parabola, corresponding to the upper frontal arch, can be applied to every maxillary dimension.
(8) This increase is satisfactorily expressed by a cubic parabola.
(9) A not previously described relationship between HbA2 and total Hb was demonstrated and probably conformed to a second degree parabola.
(10) The shape of protrusive condyle path was like a section of parabola curved forward and downward.
(11) Evaluations of the arterial and venous bleeding were conducted at 3 rates x 3 parabolas, and capillary bleeding was evaluated with 5 parabolas x 2 methods (pig's foot and sponge).
(12) The flow velocity profile in the venule seems to deviate slightly from the Newtonian parabola.
(13) The concentration of factor VIIIa can be obtained from the quadratic coefficient of the equation describing the parabola.
(14) Pointing accuracy improved movement-to-movement but not parabola-to-parabola, indicating that prolonged exposure is needed for sustained adaptation.
(15) A "reference parabola" is introduced making the fluid pressure concept more understandable.
(16) Transcranial Doppler data with accompanying acceleration information were analyzed in three segments in each parabola.
(17) The following objectives are addressed in this study: 1) to discuss present techniques and two new radiographic measurement systems; 2) to establish mean, standard deviation, and normal range values for these measurement systems; 3) to determine if these measurements vary with foot size; and 4) to use the results to establish general guidelines for metatarsal parabola reconstruction.
(18) Reaction patterns of 90 cortical neurons to acetylcholine approximated by two parabolas have been divided on simple and complex.
(19) Each parabola included a period of 1.8 Gz, then approximately 20 seconds of weightlessness, and finally a period of 1.6 Gz; the cycle repeated almost immediately for the remainder of the set.
(20) The constant delta C model is explored and a physically more realistic model is advanced which allows for a temperature-dependent delta C which changes sign at some temperature within the range of stability of the native protein; delta G(T) then has the form of a skewed parabola.