(n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.
Example Sentences:
(1) I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever.
(2) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
(3) "What Ridley does in Prometheus is a good template for what we're trying to do," he said.
(4) Written by Tony Grisoni (Red Riding) and starring Sean Harris (Prometheus), its introduction follows the ratings-winning opening of bleak historical drama The Mill last Sunday.
(5) The resulting film, Alien, spawned five follow-ups (the most recent of which, Prometheus, Scott took charge of himself), won an Oscar for visual effects, and is still the most commercially successful of the series.
(6) Kosove compared the Blade Runner followup to Scott's long-awaited forthcoming return to science fiction, Prometheus , which has been described as a film which is not a prequel or sequel, but exists within "the same universe" as its predecessor, 1979's Alien.
(7) Ridley Scott's forthcoming sequel to science fiction puzzler Prometheus is likely to feature multiple Michael Fassbenders , according to The Wrap.
(8) From the days before the war at the London Theatre Studio until her wanderings through Europe with Prometheus over 60 years later, her greatest gifts to others were her integrity, her intuitions and a total commitment to the matter in hand.
(9) Then there's Elba, who has gone from post-Wire lull to blockbuster star, with roles in Prometheus and Thor, and an upcoming stint as Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom.
(10) Scott is also making Prometheus – which sees him return to the universe of his early sci-fi classic, Alien.
(11) Film revenues for the 15-month period were a healthy £44.9m – compared to £29.1m in the year to December 2010 – as the company's production business benefited from movies such as Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Daniel Craig's latest outing in Skyfall .
(12) As well as taking over duties from Transcendence's Jack Paglen on Prometheus 2, Green is also working on the script for a proposed Blade Runner sequel.
(13) The ancient story of Prometheus, chained to a rock for defying Zeus by stealing fire from Mount Olympus and subjected to daily tearing at his liver by an eagle, attests to the early recognition of the extraordinary regenerative capacity of the human liver.
(14) This application has been made possible by a new, RAM-based microprocessor controlled dual chamber pacemaker (Medtronic Prometheus Model 6100).
(15) 'Sabo' penetrated 46% further than diablo (p = 0.001) and its plastic component did not penetrate at ranges greater than 0.5 m. Prometheus penetrated steel, unlike the other pellets, and is therefore potentially more dangerous in head injury.
(16) Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Prometheus are just the highlights of Ridley Scott’s directorial career, which stretches back 37 years to The Duellists, released in 1977, and which is about to enter a new chapter with the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings .
(17) The exception was Prometheus, a low-budget, small-unit pilgrimage across eight countries, from Doncaster to Greece, a process evolving in the mind of poet Tony Harrison as the days passed.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Post-Modern Prometheus, 30 November, 1997 A black-and-white, comic-book-themed standalone episode, this is the X-Files at its absolute very best.
(19) Prometheus here is modern science, which in recent years has been rocked by revelations of major research fraud.
(20) Monopoly was supposed to have Ridley Scott in the director's chair, but was recently put back to 2014 in the wake of the director's decision to shoot Alien not-prequel Prometheus and a sequel to Blade Runner, instead.
Saturn
Definition:
(n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
(n.) The metal lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results indicated that Saturn's magnetic field was being dragged round Enceladus in a way that suggested it had an atmosphere."
(2) A linear accelerator (Saturne CGR 20) was utilized to deliver 15-20 Gy to the tumor volume.
(3) Six wore daily wear soft contact lenses, two wore extended-wear soft contact lenses, one wore a polymethylmethacrylate hard contact lens, one wore a gas-permeable hard contact lens, and one wore a Saturn lens (combined hard and soft lens).
(4) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(5) delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a heme precursor accumulated in acute intermittent porphyria and saturnism, undergoes autoxidation leading to ammonium ion and probably the corresponding alpha-ketoaldehyde.
(6) Some of the useful clinical radiation characteristics required for treatment planning using the 6,9,13,17, and 20 Me V scanning electron beams obtainable in a CGR Therac-20 Me V Saturne linear accelerator are outlined.
(7) A crew of robots and humans – headed by a captain named Pirx – is sent out into space to launch two satellites into Saturn’s rings.
(8) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(9) For example, the Saturn project in Germany uses sensor-based technologies for sorting and recovery of nonferrous metals.
(10) In this respect, Saturn's satellite Titan is exemplary.
(11) Similar modules, also launched using reusable boosters, would remain in Earth’s orbit to refuel the interplanetary craft to be able to use multiple trips, including to other parts of the solar system such as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn on which Nasa’s Cassini mission recently found evidence of a polar subsurface water ocean that could harbor life.
(12) The effect of pure preparation of ordram, fosalon, DDT, methoxychlorine, hydrel, dihydrel, 2,4-D, 2M-4C and of technical preparations of saturn, linuron, ronstar and keltan on the membrane functions (respiration and motility) of Azospirillum brasilense and Chromatium minutissimum cells and on malate and NADH oxidation by the isolated membranes of Micrococcus lysodeikticus was investigated.
(13) Radiation therapy using a Rokus-M installation or a Saturn linear accelerator was performed in 26 cases, chemoradiation treatment--14 and cytostatic therapy alone--in 79 patients.
(14) Overall, the SoftPerm lens is a vast improvement over the Saturn II and is a reasonable means of correction of irregular astigmatism.
(15) It is hoped that this report will draw the attention of the practising physician and Preventive Medicine Departments to this unusual cause of saturnism.
(16) I still remember reading The Rings of Saturn for the first time.
(17) A sequence of nonrigid and rigid percepts (both 2-D and 3-D) precedes this Saturn-like configuration.
(18) Our results suggest that alcohol influences the lead metabolism and that the usual drinkers constitute a risk population for saturnism.
(19) The authors have developed a method for implantation of the Saturn-type intraocular lens (IOL), designed by Krasnov and Pivovarov, during a simultaneous cataract extraction with trabeculectomy.
(20) In all the patients manifested disturbances in the microcirculatory bed of the bulbar conjunctiva are revealed, the general character being identical at saturnism and TEL-intoxication.