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/ˈfɹæŋkənˌstaɪn, ˈfɹæŋkənˌstin/
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NOUN
- the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)
- an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator
- the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
How To Use Frankenstein In A Sentence
- It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
- Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
- Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
- This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce a Frankenstein.
- Baron Frankenstein guided me through the creation of his new Prometheus, and from there I read about the original Prometheus, and then to an anatomy textbook to see what parts were needed for a monster. A flood of dark memories « Write Anything
- Bad organizations are self-created Frankenstein's monsters, beyond the control or influence of their leaders.
- Mary Shelley raved in her letters about thenear-tropical color of the lake, "blue as the heavens which it reflects, " andused an array of scenes from Lake Geneva in "Frankenstein.
- The OED does not record ‘creature’ in the sense of ‘monster’ Hollywood's ‘creature from outer space’ but one might conjecture it to derive directly from Frankenstein's onomastic confusion.
- Too many people think cloning cells for the fight against disease is the same thing as creating Frankenstein's monster.
- They call themselves "biohackers" and they acknowledge the danger of unleashing a genetically altered Frankenstein\'s monster on the public or terrorists could be inspired by amateur genetic tinkering to launch a devastating bioattack on America. ' OpEdNews - Quicklink: "Biohackers" tinkering with the very foundations of life on Earth