(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.
Zeus
Definition:
(n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gameover Zeus (GOZ) started appearing in 2011 and is believed to be “responsible for more than one million computer infections, resulting in financial losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars”.
(2) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(3) M. scoleciformis was found in the biliary bladder of the John dory, Zeus faber (on 1 from 4 fishes), M. formosus was found in the urinary bladder of the whiting Merlangius merlangus (on 2 from 9 fishes).
(4) Antibody reactivity in the sera from patients with clinically diagnosed Lyme disease was characterized by using Zeus immunoglobulin class-specific assays (IgM and IgG).
(5) Online criminals have tried to revive sophisticated money-stealing software called Gameover Zeus - just as researchers have warned of new threats that use much of the same code and are aimed at UK users.
(6) The Gameover Zeus malware, disrupted by a joint UK-US operation in June 2014 , was one such attack.
(7) Four rapid latex agglutination assays, StaphAurex (Wellcome Diagnostics, Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Bacto Staph (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), SeroSTAT (Scott Laboratories, Inc., Fiskeville, R.I.), Veri-Staph (Zeus Technologies, Raritan, N.J.), and two hemagglutination tests, Staphyloslide (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.)
(8) The idea of the flame and its journey is to imbue the branded and, I have to say, slightly tiresome modern Olympiad with the spirit of the games that were first held in 776BC in honour of Zeus.
(9) In this case, the botnet command centre appears to have been in Germany, while ZeuS appears to be mainly the work of cybercriminals based in Eastern Europe.
(10) Sensitivities in early and late Lyme disease were as follows: Cambridge and Diamedix, 57% and 100%; 3M, 57% and 93%; and Zeus, 71% and 86%.
(11) Pride of place is given to an icon of Zeus and a faded poster of a glamour model.
(12) 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.
(13) US and European officials announced they had managed to crack the malicious software (malware) known as Gameover Zeus that had been used to divert millions of dollars to bank accounts of criminals.
(14) Security company Malcovery said a new trojan “based heavily on the GameOver Zeus binary” was spreading in spam emails claiming to come from NatWest bank, promising an online statement in an attachment.
(15) For souvenirs that go beyond the usual tat, meanwhile, call +30 210 92 45 064 to book a visit to appointment-only design shop Greece is for Lovers , which sells such tongue-in-cheek mementos as marble ice lollies and Zeus-style lightning bolt paper knives.
(16) Slides prepared according to Gull and Hillcrest detected 11 of 12 (92%), and those prepared according to Zeus detected 9 of 12 (75%).
(17) "Until we start to see a more clear movement pattern of these new Zeus variants, which are starting to surface, we can't say anything definitive about their extent,” said Kjærsgaard.
(18) This aims to remove ZeuS from the victim's PC, giving Spy Eye exclusive access.
(19) Zeus would be an amazing signing for any talent contest.
(20) Part of his research involved talking to agency moles (whose identity the film weaves into one composite character) and Zero Days explains how the US has another cyberweapon ready to launch at Iran called Nitro Zeus that would essentially knock out all civic infrastructure.