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sprite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
| Type of | supernatural being, spiritual being |
| Has types | elf, fairy godmother, gnome, gremlin, hob, imp, morgan le fay, oberson, pixie, pixy, puck, robin goodfellow, titania, tooth fairy, water nymph, water spirit, brownie, water sprite, dwarf |
Examples of sprite
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A vacation becomes a nightmare when a malevolent sprite steals a family's baby.
From the post-gazette.com
Mind you, is his movement at the back as good as a well-rendered modern sprite?
From the guardian.co.uk
Coloratura soprano Danielle de Niese plays Ariel, the sprite enslaved by Prospero.
From the npr.org
Angered, the Firebird proceeds to destroy the forest and seemingly the sprite.
From the en.wikipedia.org
At 57, he could pass for much younger and seems something like a wood sprite.
From the sfgate.com
You're about to play a sprite in a big screen version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
From the metro.co.uk
Sprite and Coke Classic remain flat despite a $300 million marketing boost.
From the businessweek.com
In her new home in Middletown, the talkative sprite sits with her mother and brother.
From the courier-journal.com
Previously, the best published sprite images were recorded at 1000 frames per second.
From the newscientist.com
- Fairy: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
- (sprites) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)
- Fairies, in the fictional series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, are beings, usually shorter than a human, who possess magic properties. The average height of a fairy is exactly 1 metre, one centimetre. All the fairies have retreated below the Earth to escape the destructiveness of the human race. ...
- Sprite, in comics, may refer to;
- In computer graphics, a sprite (also known by other names; see Synonyms below) is a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
- The term sprite is a broad term referring to a number of preternatural legendary creatures. The term is generally used in reference to elf-like creatures, including fairies, and similar beings (although not earth beings), but can also signify various spiritual beings, including ghosts. ...
- The SPRITE infrared detector is named after the process of signal integration carried out by "Signal Processing In The Element". The technique was invented at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern by a team of scientists including Tom Elliott.
- Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
- (spritely) Of or relating to a sprite; Sprightly; In a manner reminiscent of a sprite
