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marionette
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marionette \Mar`i*o*nette"\, n. [F. marionette, prop. a dim. of Marie Mary.]
A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
(Zo["o]l.) The buffel duck.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
puppet worked by strings, c.1620, literally "little little Mary," from French marionette (16c.), diminutive of Old French mariole "figurine, idol, picture of the Virgin Mary," diminutive of Marie (see Mary).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings. 2 (context zoology English) The buffel duck. vb. (context transitive English) To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.
WordNet
n. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer [syn: puppet]
Wikipedia
A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and on television. The attachment of the strings varies according to its character or purpose.
Marionette may refer to:
- Marionette, a type of puppet moved by strings
- Marionette government, a government de facto controlled by a foreign power.
- Marionettes (film), a 1936 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov
- Marionette (film), a 1939 Italian film
- The Marionettes ( 1963), a puppet play by Bahram Beyzai
- Marionette (software), is the in-house proprietary 3D animation software created and used by Disney Pixar
- Marionette automation driver for web testing
- Marionettes, Inc., a short story by Ray Bradbury from his collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man
- Marionette (show), a short breakdancing performance created and performed by Expression of South Korea, and a non-verbal musical based on the short
- "Marionette", a song by Ayumi Hamasaki from her 2008 album Guilty
- "Marionette", a song by Soul Asylum from their 1988 album Hang Time
- " Marionette", an extended play by Stellar released in 2014
- "Marionette", the title track from the same EP
- Marionette (manga), a Japanese manga series by Mayumi Aida
- Saber Marionette, a Japanese anime series
- Marionette (Band), a metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden
- Marionettes (MacDowell) A collection of pieces by Edward MacDowell
- "Marionette" (Fringe), an episode of the television series Fringe
Marionette is a 90-minutes non-verbal breakdancing performance, created and performed by a South Korean breakdancing group Expression. The name Marionette comes from the French word marionette, a type of puppet moved by using strings. Like the name suggest, the show Marionette features the performers imitating and dancing as a puppeteer and his puppets.
Marionette is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone. It featured the onscreen debut of Marcello Mastroianni as an uncredited extra.
Marionette is the debut mini-album by South Korean girl group Stellar. It was released on February 2, 2014, with the lead single "Marionette" used to promote the EP. "Marionette" became their best-selling single, peaking at number 35 and 34 on the Gaon and Billboard K-Pop Hot 100 charts, respectively.
Marionette is the proprietary software developed and used in-house by Pixar Animation Studios in the animation of their movies and shorts. Marionette is not available for sale and is only used by Pixar. As a result, little is known outside Pixar about the detailed workings of this software.
Pixar claims that Marionette is designed to be intuitive and familiar to animators who have traditional cel animation experience.
Pixar chooses to use a proprietary system in lieu of the commercial products available and used by other companies because it can edit the software code to meet their needs. One example of this editing is shown in extra features of The Incredibles DVD; it is explained that previous versions of Marionette were not able to stretch models in the ways needed to correctly animate Elastigirl so the in-house Marionette development team created a new version that included this feature.
Marionette is a Swedish melodic death metal band. They hail from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2005. The band achieved recognition from placing high, and often winning, many national and international music contests. Inspired by the Japanese visual-kei scene and the brutality of Swedish hardcore and metal, Marionette has brought new light to the metal genre. When founded in 2005, when the average member’s age was 16, Marionette quickly made a name for themselves in the Swedish metal scene by winning and placing high in many national and international music contests. In support of the EP, Terror Hearts -which was mixed and mastered by Fredrick Nordström ( In Flames, At the Gates) – Marionette shared the stage with some of the world’s most renowned metal acts including: Machine Head, Slayer, Mastodon, Meshuggah, and Candlemass among others.
In January 2008, Marionette recorded its debut album, Spite, with a series of up-and-coming as well as established producers in Swedish music: including Simon Exner (As You Drown), and two time Swedish Grammy winner Åke Parmerud. Spite was mixed and mastered by Christian Silver ( Sonic Syndicate). Mixing elegance, darkness, power, aggression, and speed, Spite, hit the metal scene with the power of an atomic bomb in April 2008, receiving raving reviews from mainstream and underground publications around Europe. The album was released across North America in September of the same year via France's Listenable Records.
Marionette made its debut European tour in October 2008 following an exclusive showcase at PopKomm in Berlin, augmenting the band's growing prominence in the European metal scene. Marionette then hit the road with Die Apokalyptischen Reiter for the month long, critically acclaimed, Reiterfestspiele 2008 tour. On the back of popular support from the bands growing UK fan base and acclaim from Metal Hammer and Kerrang! magazines, Marionette did a short headline tour in the UK in January 2009. Marionette then joined the Deathstars and Sonic Syndicate for the Scandinavian dates of the Death Syndicate European Tour in February and March 2009. In April 2009 Marionette was invited to join the Deathstars on the UK leg of its Night Electric Night Tour. Following the aforementioned tour Marionette began writing material for its second full length album Enemies.
In keeping with the approach established for Spite, Marionette assembled a production team for Enemies which included Pontus Hjelm ( Dead by April) and two-time Swedish Grammy award winning producer Åke Parmerud. Fredrik Nordström ( In Flames, At the Gates, Bring Me the Horizon) and Peter In De Betou ( Dimmu Borgir, Meshuggah) handled mixing and mastering duties respectively. "Enemies" was born to critical acclaim upon its European release in late 2009 and early 2010 in North America and Japan. Special recognition was given to the band’s aggressive sound, “stylistic depth”, “technical cohesion”, and an intrinsic ability to walk the line between relentless heaviness and commercial appeal (Kerrang! magazine). Heavy touring followed including Scandinavian dates with Five Finger Death Punch and Shadows Fall in November 2009 and European and UK tour with Blessthefall. "Enemies" was nominated for a Swedish Metal Award in the category of “Best Death Metal Album” of 2009.
In July 2010 Marionette entered Studio Fredman with producer Fredrik Nordström to begin recording the band’s as yet unnamed third album, the first to feature new vocalist Alexander Andersson who replaced vocalist Axel Widén ( ZombieKrig) in spring of the same year. The band took a brief break from recording in fall 2010 to perform on its headlining The SlaughTour 2010 of the U.K and Denmark and to support fellow Gothenburgers Dark Tranquillity for the final Scandinavian dates of its Where Death Is Most Alive Part II Tour. In November 2010 Marionette signed a worldwide publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music, only the third metal band to have signed by the company's Swedish branch (the other two being Meshuggah and Sabaton). In January 2010 Marionette toured Europe as direct support for the Murderdolls. In February 2011 Marionette completed the mix of its third album at PH Studio in Gothenburg with Pontus Hjelm, who the band had worked with previously on the Enemies album.
In May 2011 Marionette announced they would tour Europe and the UK on "The SlaughTour 2011" with Swedish pop-metallers Dead By April. "The SlaughTour 2011" will hit Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, and the UK in October and November 2011. Marionette plans to perform material from their third album on all shows of the tour.
"Marionette" is the ninth episode of the third season of the American science fiction drama television series Fringe. The episode was co-written by Monica Owusu-Breen and Alison Schapker, and directed by Joe Chappelle. It followed a series of organ recipients being tracked down and having their donated organs removed, all in a scientist's attempt to resurrect his deceased love interest, whose organs were donated to the victims. Meanwhile, Olivia ( Anna Torv) copes with the consequences of being back in the prime universe.
The episode first aired on December 9, 2010 in the United States to an estimated 4.74 million viewers. "Marionette" was the series' winter finale, as well as the last episode to air on Thursdays in the US. It received generally positive reviews. Many critics praised Torv's portrayal of Olivia after her recent trauma, as well as the aftereffects of Fauxlivia's deception, as realistic and well-acted.
Usage examples of "marionette".
Bothan Ver said, hauling in the mainsheet, nail-bitten fingers directing the rope precisely, delicately, like a puppeteer pulling on the strings of his marionette.
It may be that all those who seek to serve the Theophany, and perhaps even all those who allege to serve him, though they appear to us to differ so widely and indeed to wage a species of war upon one another, are yet linked, like the marionettes of the boy and the man of wood that I once saw in a dream, and who, although they appeared to combat each other, were nevertheless under the control of an unseen individual who operated the strings of both.
CHAPTER IV Having given her luggage ticket to a porter, Domini passed out of the station followed by Suzanne, who looked and walked like an exhausted marionette.
His triangularis muscle pulls his lips until marionette lines run down from each corner of his mouth.
In black and white, through the occasional fuzz and snow, we watched Captain Kangaroo, The Friendly Giant and the horrendous marionettes, Canadian Randy Dandy and American Howdy Doody.
There, clacking and chattering in the midst of the fire was a hellish and jerking skeleton, dangling above the flames like a marionette.
Especially should one arouse them to such living interest while they are still young and plastic, before they have crystallised and hardened into the conventional marionettes of polite society.
A distended and ominous shadow, as tortured as that of a fright figure in a fun house, rose along the landing wall: the puppetmaster and its decomposing marionette laboring stiffly but doggedly toward the top of the first flight of stairs.
The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glow like lighting rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut .
He was like a vituperative marionette, a vicious Charlie McCarthy.
And we had dinner and then after a bit we went on to the Marionette - there was a rumour it was going to be raided, but nothing happened - it was just moribund, and we drank a bit and then we went on to the Bullring and that was even deader, and then we went to a coffee stall, and then we went to a fried-fish place, and then we thought we'd go and breakfast with Angela's uncle and see if he'd be shocked, but he wasn't - only bored, and then we sort of fizzled home.
Moving was like trying to operate a marionette from the inside -- I swayed and pitched from side to side, using a line of parked cars as a combination handrail and crash barrier.
Do I mention predestination to excuse my failure, or did inexorable fate really grab me like a marionette and frogmarch me through the stations of some cosmic ritual?
He sat a hideless and rickety saddle astride the dead man's horse and he rode slumped and tottering and soon his legs and arms were dangling and he jostled along in his sleep like a mounted marionette.
Inside, Zander comes to rest among the fruits of a lifelong collec tor's passion -- Balinese dance masks, demonic Chinese marionettes, colored morris dancers -- without damming his flow of speech.