Crossword clues for morph
morph
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
morph \morph\ (m[^o]rf), n. (Linguistics) A sequence of phonemes, often a word fragment, which constitutes the minimum unit of meaning or syntax within a given word. A morph may be one of several variants of a morpheme, depending for its individal form on the context in which it occurs. Thus the morphs -s and -es are variants of the morpheme by which the plural form of an English noun is expressed.
morph \morph\ (m[^o]rf), v. i. & t. To transform smoothly in imperceptible steps from one image to another, on a computer screen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a noun, in biology, 1955; as a verb, in cinematic special effects, c.1987, short for metamorphosis. Related: Morphed; morphing. Earlier it was a slang shortening of morphine (1912).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context linguistics English) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence sounds. 2 (context linguistics English) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts. 3 (context biology English) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour. 4 A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context colloquial ambitransitive English) To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation. 2 To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
WordNet
v. cause to change shape in a computer animation; "The computer programmer morphed the image"
change shape as via computer animation; "In the video, Michael Jackson morphed into a panther"
Wikipedia
Morph may refer to:
Morph is a clay stop-motion comedy animation, featuring the eponymous character that appeared with Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat. Like Gumby, he is made of clay but terracotta instead of green and has no bump on his head.
Usage examples of "morph".
Sanskrit mantra as fiercely as a general calling out a battle cry, and in a burst of blinding blue light, he morphed into the seer-mage Vishwamitra.
The crucial point here is that, just like the average path length, the clustering plunges almost a millionfold as we morph the network from one end of the spectrum to the other.
A black sword solidified in his hand, and as the shimmery darkness moved down his body, his robe altered, morphing like something out of a science fiction movie, until it became black armor.
Then we crawl close, morph termites, dig under the force field, and enter the termite holes in the outside of the building.
They stood on a terrazzo entryway two steps above a large living room which on its other side morphed into a long, lean kitchen and dining area.
Even the development of language was driven, in part, by these pressures, as the specialized alarm cries that dated back to the forests of the notharctus slowly morphed into more flexible words.
And yet they were here: And yet here was Ultimate, the latest link in a great chain that now passed back through a hundred million grandmothers, morphing and changing, loving and dying, back to Purga herself, and into the formlessness of the still deeper past beyond.
This kitschy tableau then freeze-framed and morphed cleverly into the characters representing Dr.
Objects which looked like Faberge eggs from Mars, morphing themselves with Mandaean alphabetical structures.
They know that morphs had even infiltrated the home of one of their most important Controllers -- Chapman.
It was easy for Jake and Rachel, in their wolf morphs, to leap nimbly through.
And then I began one of my least favorite morphs - the common housefly.
Ross had heard tales of the morphs during the twenty-five-odd years he had served the Word.
Regardless, he was struck by the possibility that humans and gypsy morphs alike possessed a spiritual essence that lived on after their bodies were gone.
Andwiththe intense vision of our bird morphs, we could see whatever we were supposed to see from a quarter of a mile away.