Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An older English spelling of
chameleon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
chaceleon .
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- noun Obsolete form of
chameleon .
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Examples
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Maitland, though very juftly called the cameleon of that ftate, wifhed well both to his queen and his country; and therefore had prevailed upon the regent not to kindle - a civil war in Scotland, by forfeiting the two heads of Mary's party, the earls of Argyle and Himtley.
A General History of Scotland from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time 1768
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I wonder if the Classical Studies department has a decapitated cameleon lying around anywhere .....
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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In this case, Tsien attached additional components to GFP to make a sensor named “cameleon.”
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The cameleon is actually what changed color when the neuron was active.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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In this case, Tsien attached additional components to GFP to make a sensor named “cameleon.”
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The cameleon is actually what changed color when the neuron was active.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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I wonder if the Classical Studies department has a decapitated cameleon lying around anywhere.....
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010
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If you people doubt that then just show me another cameleon, another shape-shifter, another, any other actress anywhere, who can so totally lose their identity while doing a character.
Meryl Streep Favorite To Win Best Actress Academy Award 2010 2009
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Are you sure you werent thinkin about a cameleon or an octupus or a squid? eric replied to comment from John Kwok
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This was recently visually represented to me in an NHS IL workshop by a cameleon.
Environment and self organisation isobel 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cameleon
"... in astronomy, one of the constellations of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole, and invisible in our latitude. There are ten stars in this constellation, according to sharp's catalogue; but they are very small, being only of the fifth and sixth magnitude."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 66
See also Apus.
October 14, 2008