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Definition of avatar in English: avatarnoun ˈavətɑːˈævəˌtɑr 1Hinduism A manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher. Example sentencesExamples - Rama, the hero of the epic Ramayana was another major avatar of Vishnu, incarnated in order to rid the world of the demon Ravana.
- The most well-known avatars are Rama, Krishna, who destroyed the wicked and established a new order, Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and Kalki.
- Worship of Vishnu and his various avatars especially Rama and Krishna in a profoundly devotional form is the basis of Vaishnavism.
- But it is as Krishna, the eighth avatar, that Vishnu steals hearts and minds.
- Lord Rama is one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu and Ramayana is a story which projects Hindu ideals of life.
Synonyms deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being - 1.1 An incarnation, embodiment, or manifestation of a person or idea.
he chose John Stuart Mill as the avatar of the liberal view Example sentencesExamples - Not that she is complaining about the quantity of time she's spent playing in this uber-popular comedy or thinks she's sharing even the tiniest bit of her stage avatar's personal rut.
- Both contemporary satirists have really borrowed the idea from the high avatar of absurdism Samuel Beckett.
- What made this man, this walking, talking mass of paradox and seeming contradiction, almost the perfect avatar for his age and a thinker whose ideas remain pertinent today?
- And since black people are both admired as avatars of American fashion and shunned as objects of American fear, it's difficult for them to know what to put on in the morning, or even feel that it matters.
- Saussure - or some of his avatars - treat language as occurrent and have thereby assumed both too little and too much.
- Its television and film avatars are heading towards the happening stage.
- According to the editorial board, it is important to understand that patriotism doesn't mean much of anything in particular, but we can be assured that they themselves are avatars of it.
- He has many incarnations, his avatars are everywhere!
- Constantly trying to make sense out of an incomplete picture, the private eye is an imperfect avatar, always a few clues short of the whole story.
- Now here it is 2002 and I'm listening to death metal avatars Cannibal Corpse.
- In some circumstances, they weren't even alive during the period in which the real-life avatars of their plastic idols actually flourished.
- It is a great irony that university liberals - who advertise themselves as avatars of open-mindedness - have let themselves become censorious and intolerant in these harsh ways.
- And it's entertaining to watch avatars of dignity, good order and responsibility call his antics good clean fun and politics as usual.
- Its avatars will be the notions of ‘pure’ painting and poetry, reflected, for instance, in Blanchot's view of literature as pure writing, autonomous and disinterested.
- So suddenly, there I was, surrounded by various lesser-known avatars of the angry and oversimplified.
- He was named Time magazine's ‘Person of the Year,’ the avatar of the stricken city.
- The date 1920 was perhaps a reference point for the book as it was around then that the earliest avatar of the Indian Institute of Architects; modelled on its counterparts in Europe; was started.
- Unlike Spain or Greece, which had historical grievances against Islam, the Dutch were the avatars of the new liberal Europe, without historical baggage.
- Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world.
Synonyms embodiment, personification, exemplification, type, epitome
2An icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, Internet forum, etc. conversation is depicted in a balloon over the avatar's head Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps surprisingly, the player ships that represent your avatar in the game lack the same degree of flexibility, although they do have different designs that characterize the cultural styles of each race.
- Ordinarily, those present in a chat room use an avatar to represent themselves.
- In these places, one picks an avatar (a graphic representation of the self), navigates visually depicted environments, and chats with other individuals.
- Similarly, students can program their own avatars to receive, repeat and re-present assigned material as directed.
- In terms of self-representation, the homepage is like a statue carved out of marble labelled carefully at the bottom where the weblog is like an avatar in cyberspace that we wear like a skin.
- Watching a computer-generated avatar steal cars and run over pedestrians is an odd accompaniment to the mood-massaging music, but undoubtedly an entertaining one.
- In the future, computer-generated avatars will take over many routine business interactions.
- You control it through an Internet connection and it acts as your avatar, representing you at meetings, grandma's house, or your own home when you're away.
- The first generation of the PC / Internet avatars is getting older and becoming disillusioned with what they've wrought; the Silicon Age, it turns out, is no Golden Age.
- On a lighter note, that the ghetto has become a contended space can be finally demonstrated by a look at its virtual avatars in cyberspace.
- The University of East Anglia built a signing avatar - a computer generated person who uses British sign language.
- Some concern has risen on the forums related to the avatar, its graphics quality and how it moved.
- Services and products being explored include avatar conferencing, avatars for computer games, avatar fashion websites, avatars for next-generation mobile communications and avatar e-mail.
- The gameplay is a sort of 3rd person scrolling shooter, with your avatar floating stationary at the bottom of the screen.
- The idea is that the avatar would make websites more accessible to those whose first language is British Sign Language.
- When I started my first Web site I wasn't too sure I wanted to start broadcasting my every thought and opinions, and at the time the idea of avatars was very popular.
- The Sims 2 also jumped onto the bandwagon in perhaps the most spectacular style, allowing its avatars to form same-sex relationships, even at the ‘teenager’ stage.
- It will take many years to create a video online world as complex as that of The Matrix, where millions of avatars interact in a stunningly realistic simulation of a 20th century big city.
- Each server represents 16 acres of virtual space, where users' avatars can live, work and play.
- So when I was coming up with a name for the avatar that would represent the side of me that rants and whines and makes a lot of noise, I looked beside the computer and there was that damned glass dog.
Origin From Sanskrit avatāra 'descent', from ava 'down' + tar- 'to cross'. Definition of avatar in US English: avatarnounˈævəˌtɑrˈavəˌtär 1Hinduism A manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher. Example sentencesExamples - Worship of Vishnu and his various avatars especially Rama and Krishna in a profoundly devotional form is the basis of Vaishnavism.
- Rama, the hero of the epic Ramayana was another major avatar of Vishnu, incarnated in order to rid the world of the demon Ravana.
- But it is as Krishna, the eighth avatar, that Vishnu steals hearts and minds.
- The most well-known avatars are Rama, Krishna, who destroyed the wicked and established a new order, Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and Kalki.
- Lord Rama is one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu and Ramayana is a story which projects Hindu ideals of life.
Synonyms deity, god, goddess, mother goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme being - 1.1 An incarnation, embodiment, or manifestation of a person or idea.
he chose John Stuart Mill as the avatar of the liberal view Example sentencesExamples - And since black people are both admired as avatars of American fashion and shunned as objects of American fear, it's difficult for them to know what to put on in the morning, or even feel that it matters.
- What made this man, this walking, talking mass of paradox and seeming contradiction, almost the perfect avatar for his age and a thinker whose ideas remain pertinent today?
- In some circumstances, they weren't even alive during the period in which the real-life avatars of their plastic idols actually flourished.
- The date 1920 was perhaps a reference point for the book as it was around then that the earliest avatar of the Indian Institute of Architects; modelled on its counterparts in Europe; was started.
- Constantly trying to make sense out of an incomplete picture, the private eye is an imperfect avatar, always a few clues short of the whole story.
- Both use as starting points the relationships of the protagonists to their personal avatars, iconoclasts who encourage their aversion to the trivial workaday world.
- And it's entertaining to watch avatars of dignity, good order and responsibility call his antics good clean fun and politics as usual.
- Its avatars will be the notions of ‘pure’ painting and poetry, reflected, for instance, in Blanchot's view of literature as pure writing, autonomous and disinterested.
- So suddenly, there I was, surrounded by various lesser-known avatars of the angry and oversimplified.
- Now here it is 2002 and I'm listening to death metal avatars Cannibal Corpse.
- Both contemporary satirists have really borrowed the idea from the high avatar of absurdism Samuel Beckett.
- He was named Time magazine's ‘Person of the Year,’ the avatar of the stricken city.
- Not that she is complaining about the quantity of time she's spent playing in this uber-popular comedy or thinks she's sharing even the tiniest bit of her stage avatar's personal rut.
- Saussure - or some of his avatars - treat language as occurrent and have thereby assumed both too little and too much.
- Its television and film avatars are heading towards the happening stage.
- He has many incarnations, his avatars are everywhere!
- It is a great irony that university liberals - who advertise themselves as avatars of open-mindedness - have let themselves become censorious and intolerant in these harsh ways.
- Unlike Spain or Greece, which had historical grievances against Islam, the Dutch were the avatars of the new liberal Europe, without historical baggage.
- According to the editorial board, it is important to understand that patriotism doesn't mean much of anything in particular, but we can be assured that they themselves are avatars of it.
Synonyms embodiment, personification, exemplification, type, epitome
2An icon or figure representing a particular person in video games, Internet forums, etc. Example sentencesExamples - You control it through an Internet connection and it acts as your avatar, representing you at meetings, grandma's house, or your own home when you're away.
- The Sims 2 also jumped onto the bandwagon in perhaps the most spectacular style, allowing its avatars to form same-sex relationships, even at the ‘teenager’ stage.
- Similarly, students can program their own avatars to receive, repeat and re-present assigned material as directed.
- In these places, one picks an avatar (a graphic representation of the self), navigates visually depicted environments, and chats with other individuals.
- It will take many years to create a video online world as complex as that of The Matrix, where millions of avatars interact in a stunningly realistic simulation of a 20th century big city.
- The University of East Anglia built a signing avatar - a computer generated person who uses British sign language.
- The first generation of the PC / Internet avatars is getting older and becoming disillusioned with what they've wrought; the Silicon Age, it turns out, is no Golden Age.
- Perhaps surprisingly, the player ships that represent your avatar in the game lack the same degree of flexibility, although they do have different designs that characterize the cultural styles of each race.
- In terms of self-representation, the homepage is like a statue carved out of marble labelled carefully at the bottom where the weblog is like an avatar in cyberspace that we wear like a skin.
- When I started my first Web site I wasn't too sure I wanted to start broadcasting my every thought and opinions, and at the time the idea of avatars was very popular.
- Some concern has risen on the forums related to the avatar, its graphics quality and how it moved.
- Ordinarily, those present in a chat room use an avatar to represent themselves.
- On a lighter note, that the ghetto has become a contended space can be finally demonstrated by a look at its virtual avatars in cyberspace.
- The idea is that the avatar would make websites more accessible to those whose first language is British Sign Language.
- Services and products being explored include avatar conferencing, avatars for computer games, avatar fashion websites, avatars for next-generation mobile communications and avatar e-mail.
- Each server represents 16 acres of virtual space, where users' avatars can live, work and play.
- In the future, computer-generated avatars will take over many routine business interactions.
- Watching a computer-generated avatar steal cars and run over pedestrians is an odd accompaniment to the mood-massaging music, but undoubtedly an entertaining one.
- So when I was coming up with a name for the avatar that would represent the side of me that rants and whines and makes a lot of noise, I looked beside the computer and there was that damned glass dog.
- The gameplay is a sort of 3rd person scrolling shooter, with your avatar floating stationary at the bottom of the screen.
Origin From Sanskrit avatāra ‘descent’, from ava ‘down’ + tar- ‘to cross’. |