Carlos looked up into its vast dark disklike eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
They then saw a silverish disklike object near it. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon Roll] Reference
With an extra, disklike vehicle floating amongst them. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
A squat, flattened shadow with disklike, unblinking eyes and a dolphin's smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
I think sceptics tend to be driven by a disklike of what they see as dishonesty. From Wordnik.com. [To Browsing Undergraduates « Climate Audit] Reference
There is a large component of people who disklike Obama simply because he's black. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: Criticism or racism] Reference
I think some people intensely disklike it when authors anthropomorphize animals period. From Wordnik.com. [Being Catty] Reference
The disklike rotation of galaxies indicates the material we see is immersed in a mass distribution. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Energy Model Explains 'Hubble Sequence' of Galaxies | Universe Today] Reference
I think that the believers tend to be driven by a disklike of corruption, and that their animosity is more driven by moral outrage. From Wordnik.com. [To Browsing Undergraduates « Climate Audit] Reference
He tried to trace out the gentle arc of its endoskeleton, the disklike flare of its tip, without actually touching the stasis screen. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
Many of the people who post here think I'm on the left, and I confess I rarely have dinner at McDonalds, and my kids really disklike McDonalds. From Wordnik.com. [The L.A. ban on new fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods.] Reference
It is interesting to note that the nighttime counterpart of the northern harrier, the short-eared owl, is equipped with similar hunting apparatus: a round, disklike face to amplify sound, ultrasensitive eyes and ears, and a low, quartering flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
UFOs sometimes assume the shape of structured disklike craft, but behave unlike familiar physical things; they divide and unite, appear and disappear, make right angle turns at incredible velocities, and behave in a manner more thoughtlike than physical. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
She battles demons with her disklike Divine Instruments and whiplike bead strings. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
And that we can like and disklike things they say or stand for, but we cannot dislike them as a person. From Wordnik.com. [Thingamababy] Reference
Yet one and all, so distant are they, remain mere disklike points of light before the utmost powers of the modern telescope. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences] Reference
"I felt some strange, disklike protuberances in my dress suit the other day, but belike they are but poker chips," said Stacy thoughtfully. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
They could discern no more than can be seen by any one who looks at the great sphere through a bit of smoked glass, as we know this reveals a disklike body of very uniform appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
This is a continuous manifestation of the same action which gives a large area of a disklike form in the centre or eye of the hurricane and in the middle portion of the tornado's whirl. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
At successive stages of the concentration, rings after the manner of those of Saturn separated from the disklike mass, each breaking up and consolidating into a body of nebulous matter which followed in the same path, generally forming rings which became by the same process the moons or satellites of the sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
Unlike most birds, which have flat, disklike eyes, owls’ eyes are tubular, and can’t be rotated in their sockets the way ours can. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
"Many people dislike empirical work because it never gives you a definite answer", I assume "Many people disklike theory work because it never gives you a definite answer", conclusion "Many people dislike work since it never gives you a definite answer", people here being economists of course :) :). From Wordnik.com. [A Little Evidence I'm Wrong About Voter Motivation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Rose was prepared to disklike him and so was I. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Romney Leading In Iowa ��� And Huckabee In Second Place] Reference
Investors disklike risk but like potential. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Gassner: Digitale Tage] Reference
Well, with the higher resolution of the new Integral telescope, the distribution of gamma-rays looks distinctly disklike and lopsided, which smells much more like a boring old astronomical explanation (where “boring” means something to do with neutron stars and black holes, but still — no one’s expecting the Nobel Prize for this one, yet). farkItButton (encodeURIComponent ( 'Dark Matter: Still Dark.'), encodeURIComponent ( 'http://blogs. discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/01/16/dark-matter-still-dark/'), "16x16"). From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
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