(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
Example Sentences:
(1) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
(2) David, the RSA manager, said the emergence of a communist relic as a 21st century security threat was a bizarre blast from the past.
(3) Governor Nikki Haley signed legislation on Thursday that would require the flag to be removed from government grounds within 24 hours and placed in the Confederate relic room and military museum.
(4) Important evidences were obtained for elucidating that the RNA transcript from the Bacillus subtilis (BSU) trrnD operon is a relic of an early peptide-synthesizing ribozyme.
(5) Edge of the Cedars state park Ruins of an Anasazi pueblo Cedars state park, Utah Photograph: Alamy Utah has a long, colourful history of human habitation, as evidenced by ruins, petroglyphs and relics left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan, Hopi, Ute and Navajo people.
(6) Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, socialist national secretary, dismissed it as a collection of "old relics" from the right of Sarkozy's ruling UMP party.
(7) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(8) Today, it stands as one of the few relics of a Hiroshima that not many of its 1.2 million residents are now old enough to remember.
(9) The young Kaminski went further by finding a political home in a nauseating relic of a party rooted in pre-war nationalist politics, in which he was then active for some years.
(10) The majority of AluI-relic DNA clones contained barley simple sequence satellite DNA and other families of repetitive DNA.
(11) He is seen by many, particularly those outside of Italy, as the only viable option to lead the country among a host of politicians who are either too rightwing, too anti-establishment or, on the left, relics of the past.
(12) It describes an expedition into an apparently poisoned region known as Area X, in which relic human structures have been not just reclaimed but wilfully redesigned by a mutated nature.
(13) As a teacher of entrepreneurial journalism at the City University of New York, I see openings for my students to compete with the dying relics by starting highly targeted, ruthlessly relevant new news businesses at incredibly low cost and low risk.
(14) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
(15) Relics of these repeats are seen in the positioning of sequence matches between transfer and ribosomal RNAs.
(16) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(17) We’ll have a few relics left but, ecologically speaking, the great apes will be gone.” Grauer’s gorilla: world's largest great ape being wiped out by war Read more The eastern gorilla, or Gorilla beringei , is composed of two subspecies – mountain gorillas and Grauer’s gorilla – found in pockets of rainforest in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
(18) And, of course, there is the Ulster Museum , which houses a diverse collection of art and artefacts, including many relics from prehistoric Ireland.
(19) "This rights a wrong which was a relic of that age."
(20) Cameron ended the day at a rally in Leeds by taunting Labour after it had tried to portray him as an unreliable relic of the 1980s by dressing him up as Gene Hunt perched on his red Audi Quattro.
Telic
Definition:
(a.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both hyperpnea and hypopnea were reported to be more aversive to the paratelic than to the telic subjects, but no group difference in respiratory activity was found.
(2) Servicemen and women injured fighting during Operation Telic, and the families of those killed in the conflict, were also among the congregation.
(3) Maintaining abstinence in both crises was consistently associated with being in serious-minded (telic) and conformist states.
(4) Significant differences between groups on performance were obtained, confirming the ability classification, but no significant differences in telic dominance were found.
(5) Forty healthy university students were recruited from a larger sample to form subgroups of seriousminded and playful Type A and Type B individuals according to their responses to the Telic Dominance Scale and Jenkins Activity Survey.
(6) Scores and subscores on the Telic Dominance Scale were analysed, revealing a generally greater tendency for the delinquent group to operate in the paratelic state, whilst disruptive subjects themselves showed lower telic dominance than the controls.
(7) The role of serious-mindedness (so-called telic dominance) in regulation of parietal cortex EEG was investigated.
(8) The results indicated that the broad category of psychopaths were more telic dominant than controls, contrary to Apter's hypothesis.
(9) In April, Britain ended combat operations in Iraq with a sombre remembrance service for the 178 service personnel and one civilian Ministry of Defence worker who died during Operation Telic.
(10) Ten serious-minded and 10 playful state-dominant subjects were recruited from a larger sample to form extreme-groups according to their responses to the Telic Dominance Scale.
(11) It was predicted that extent of pathology across experimental groups as well as general tendencies to abnormality would follow telic considerations.
(12) Further analysis revealed the major influence to be extreme telic dominance scores of the non-psychopathic group.
(13) Ten telic (serious-minded) and 10 paratelic (playful state-dominant) individuals were selected on the basis of their responses to the Telic Dominance Scale.
(14) Measures of telic dominance and metamotivational state were obtained from 40 volunteer males grouped on the basis of their playing ability, before and after the performance of squash tasks.
(15) Significant differences were found on all four telic dominance measures.
(16) Thirty-seven male, medico-legally defined psychopaths were compared with 29 similarly aged control subjects, on four measures of telic dominance.
(17) The tendency to operate in the telic rather than the paratelic state was examined in three groups of adolescent boys.
(18) The archbishop alluded to the controversial nature of the campaign, known as Operation Telic, which brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets in protest in the runup to the war.
(19) Significant increases in mood response in the telic direction were found on pre- and posttask scores.