Used in a Sentence

chimeras

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for chimeras.

Editorial note

Now that the condition is known and understood hopefully this will be resolved more quickly for future chimeras.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of chimeras gathered in one view.

noun

(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.

noun

(figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.

noun

(figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chimeras.

noun

(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.

noun

(figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.

noun

(figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.

noun

(genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.

Example sentences

1

Now that the condition is known and understood hopefully this will be resolved more quickly for future chimeras.

2

Indeed, you can kludge anything together into working chimeras, as long as you can mend the ABIs together.

3

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest?

4

What do you do about chimeras carrying different generics in different parts of the body?

5

There’s something they rarely tell you about motherhood: it turns women into genetic chimeras.

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It is medically plausible to purposefully create human chimeras -- basically it when fraternal twins happen to combine to become one fetus.

7

While climatologists are distracting us with computer-modeled chimeras, real problems are being neglected.

8

It makes me wonder if in the future there might be false convictions based on DNA evidence, and not from chimeras or inaccurate testing.

9

Even DNA can provide false negatives in the case of human chimeras.

10

That's because they are chimeras in the dark.

11

No, a similar statement cannot be made because there's a difference between hunting Chimeras and doing research when there's profit to be made (even when gambling with high-risk research).

12

Today, they can actually produce such chimeras.

Quote examples

1

Actually the team that cloned "Dolly" the sheep in the 90s was making sheep-goat chimeras in the 80s.

2

Those equations come from reasoning about meaningful entities, not chimeras of “x^x”, or “x^y”, or worse.

3

While climatologists are distracting us with computer-modeled chimeras, real problems are being neglected." Sure, but just because I want to state that Global warming is true or not I have to eliminate all the other bad factors which are actually happening?

4

There are a variety of conditions that usually fall into "intersex", from XY females (who usually identify as female and would typically pick the female option as that's how they typically (again: typically, they're perfectly justified in choosing "other" or "transgender" and arguably justified in choosing "male") prefer to describe themselves) to chimeras (who can be damn near anything) or the like.

Proper noun examples

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Chimeras are also apparently way more prevalent than we had previously realized.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use chimeras in a sentence?

Now that the condition is known and understood hopefully this will be resolved more quickly for future chimeras.

What does chimeras mean?

(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.

What part of speech is chimeras?

chimeras is commonly used as noun.