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avatar as in:  her avatar in cyberspace

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  • I spent hours customizing my avatar in the new virtual reality game, choosing the perfect outfit and hairstyle to represent my online persona.
  • It wouldn't be all that hard to create avatars-computerized personas.   (source)
    avatars = digital representations computer-users
  • Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment.   (source)
    avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
  • Nadia frequently explored the terrain of social media, though she left little trace of her passing, not posting much herself, and employing opaque usernames and avatars, the online equivalents of her black robes.   (source)
    avatars = digital representations of a computer user on a computer network
  • ...his famous OASIS avatar, Anorak—a tall, robed wizard with a slightly more handsome version of the adult Halliday's face (minus the eyeglasses).   (source)
  • And he can't sign back on until the Graveyard Daemons dispose of his avatar.   (source)
    avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
  • I hope you don't mind talking to me in this ugly fax-of-life avatar.   (source)
  • Hiro can see the Clint, way over near the exit, trying to get his avatar aimed out through the door.   (source)
  • So the user can't get back in until his avatar has been disposed of.   (source)
  • When her partner is off doing something in Reality, his avatar goes kind of slack.   (source)
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  • No point in coming in too fast; the only way to kill Raven's avatar is to take its head off.   (source)
  • It takes a lot of practice to make your avatar move through the Metaverse like a real person.   (source)
  • If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful.   (source)
  • The Street protocol states that your avatar can't be any taller than you are.   (source)
  • In The Black Sun, a daemon is like an avatar, but it does not represent a human being.   (source)
  • Juanita is right behind him, standing out in her black4nd-white avatar, looking good anyway.   (source)
  • He has switched over to his small, invisible avatar.   (source)
  • Hiro finds that his avatar can walk right through the hypercards without disturbing the arrangement.   (source)
  • When your avatar has just lost its legs, all that skill goes out the window.   (source)
  • The avatar is not acting like a real body.   (source)
  • Hiro mumbles a word under his breath and vanishes-he slips into his invisible avatar.   (source)
  • The Babel/Infocalypse card is still in his avatar's pocket.   (source)
  • It's a really trite effect, Hiro and Da5id are already laughing, The avatar is a stark naked Brandy.   (source)
  • It's ironic that Juanita has come into this place in a low-tech, black-and-white avatar.   (source)
  • The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.   (source)
    avatars = digital representations of computer-users
  • You used to design avatars for rock stars, right?   (source)
  • At the time, both of them were working on avatars.   (source)
  • But avatars are equally strong, unless you hack them up in just the right way.   (source)
  • In other places, invisible avatars are illegal.   (source)
  • If these avatars were real people in a real street, Hiro wouldn't be able to reach the entrance.   (source)
  • The people are pieces of software called avatars.   (source)
  • On the Street, you can pass through other people's avatars.   (source)
  • On the Street, avatars just walk right through each other.   (source)
  • She was the one who figured out a way to make avatars show something close to real emotion.   (source)
  • If avatars could turn pale and woozy and have to sit down on the sidewalk, Hiro's would.   (source)
  • And that way all attention can be focused on the avatars, which is the way people like it.   (source)
  • This sort of thing doesn't happen with avatars.   (source)
  • And in that instant he becomes solid and visible to all the avatars milling outside.   (source)
  • Rock star avatars have the hairdos that rock stars can only wear in their dreams.   (source)
  • In The Black Sun, avatars are not allowed to collide.   (source)
  • These are nice kids, and they don't want to talk to a solitary crossbreed with a slick custom avatar who's packing a couple of swords.   (source)
    avatar = digital representation of a computer-user
  • Her avatar just looks like Juanita.   (source)
  • Hiro's good with avatars, so he writes himself an invisible avatar-just because, in the new and more dangerous Metaverse, it might come in handy.   (source)
  • Looks like she has bought the "Avatar Construction Set" and put together her own, customized model out of miscellaneous parts.   (source)
  • An avatar materializes on the table in front of Da5id, starting out ghostly and transparent, gradually becoming solid and three-dimensional.   (source)
  • Almost anyone can write an avatar that doesn't look like anything, but it will lead to a lot of problems when it is used.   (source)
  • It doesn't pay to have a nice avatar on the Street, where it's so crowded and all the avatars merge and flow into one another.   (source)
  • Like the bouncer daemons in The Black Sun, which Hiro helped write, they shove people around by applying basic rules of avatar physics.   (source)
  • This is because his avatar, dismembered, is still in the Metaverse, and it's a rule that your avatar can't exist in two places at once.   (source)
  • If you've just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing beautiful clothes and professionally applied makeup.   (source)
  • Then the avatar is gone, expertly drop-kicked out the front door, soaring out over the Street in a long flat arc that takes it over the horizon.   (source)
  • Besides, if this guy's using a pay terminal-which he must be, to judge from the image quality-it can't jazz up his avatar.   (source)
  • Hiro's avatar stops moving and stares at her, adopting just the same facial expression with which he used to stare at this woman years ago.   (source)
  • Maybe Da5id really looks that way; maybe Snow Crash has messed up his avatar somehow so that it's no longer tracking Da5id's true facial expressions.   (source)
  • There's no monorail service in this low-rent development, so Y.T.'s avatar has to walk the entire way.   (source)
  • When the guy finally stops moving long enough for Hiro to resolve him clearly, he recognizes the avatar.   (source)
  • The hypercard is an avatar of sorts.   (source)
  • His tiny little invisible avatar can't operate the motorcycle, so he returns to his normal look, hops on his bike, and gets it turned around.   (source)
  • if Hiro could kill the guy-cut his head off-then his avatar would stay in The Black Sun, be carried away by the Graveyard Daemons.   (source)
  • The cloud of hypercards extends to every corner of the 50-by-50-foot space, and from floor level all the way up to about eight feet, which is about as high as Lagos's avatar could reach.   (source)
  • If you give it an answer of zero-you make your avatar infinitely small-you will either crash that piece of real estate or else make it think that something is very wrong.   (source)
  • It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.   (source)
  • His avatar doesn't look so hot.   (source)
  • Some Metaverse real estate-including The Black Sun wants to know how big your avatar is so that it can figure out whether you are colliding with another avatar or some obstacle.   (source)
  • Ng himself, or at least, Ng's avatar, is a small, very dapper Vietnamese man in his fifties, hair plastered to his head, wearing military-style khakis.   (source)
  • To write a really good invisible avatar from scratch would take a long time, but he puts one together in several hours by recycling bits and pieces of old projects left behind in his computer.   (source)
  • If your avatar is transparent and reflects no light whatsoever-the easiest kind to write-it will be recognized instantly as an illegal avatar and alarms will go off.   (source)
  • Hiro's avatar is now on the Street, too, and if the couples coming off the monorail look over in his direction, they can see him, just as he's seeing them.   (source)
  • This is what your avatar wears.   (source)
  • Hiro's avatar just looks like Hiro, with the difference that no matter what Hiro is wearing in Reality, his avatar always wears a black leather kimono.   (source)
  • Hiro's trying to read some clues in the guy's face, but the closer he looks, the more his shifty black-and-white avatar seems to break up into jittering, hard-edged pixels.   (source)
  • Normally, such subtle gestures are lost in the system's noise, but Da5id has a very good personal computer, and Juanita helped design his avatar-so the message comes through like a shot fired into the ceiling.   (source)
  • That is a fact Hiro has never forgotten, because she did most of her work when they were together, and whenever an avatar looks surprised or angry or passionate in the Metaverse, he sees an echo of himself or Juanita-the Adam and Eve of the Metaverse.   (source)
  • Yes, I used a nice avatar.   (source)
  • But he rarely uses it The Graveyard Daemons will take the avatar to the Pyre, an eternal, underground bonfire beneath the center of The Black Sun, and burn it As soon as the flames consume the avatar, it will vanish from the Metaverse, and then its owner will be able to sign on as usual, creating a new avatar to run around in.   (source)
  • Above the heads of the milling avatars, Hiro can see a fan of orange beams radiating outward from some point in the middle of the crowd.   (source)
    avatars = digital representations of computer-users
  • They have to buy off-the-shelf avatars.   (source)
  • The couples coming off the monorail can't afford to have custom avatars made and don't know how to write their own.   (source)
  • They put the bitmap onto scrolls and gave the scrolls to avatars who went around the Metaverse looking for victims.   (source)
  • Most of it is occupied by a deep-dish amphitheater that is capable of seating close to a million avatars at once.   (source)
  • Hiro's good with avatars, so he writes himself an invisible avatar-just because, in the new and more dangerous Metaverse, it might come in handy.   (source)
  • It doesn't pay to have a nice avatar on the Street, where it's so crowded and all the avatars merge and flow into one another.   (source)
  • And when hackers are hacking, they don't mess around with the superficial world of Metaverses and avatars.   (source)
  • They are all done up in their wildest and fanciest avatars, hoping that Da5id-The Black Sun's owner and hacker-in-chief—will invite them inside.   (source)
  • That is the whole purpose of a wall in the Metaverse; it is a structure that does not allow avatars to penetrate it.   (source)
  • There are half a dozen of them, all big sturdy avatars in blue coveralls, sort of quasi-military looking, but without rank.   (source)
  • She was the face department, because nobody thought that faces were all that important-they were just flesh-toned busts on top of the avatars.   (source)
  • People are moving out of the way; something big and inexorable is plunging through the crowd, shoving avatars this way and that.   (source)
  • It is an open plaza about a mile wide, a park of sorts where avatars can gather for concerts and conventions and festivals.   (source)
  • A couple of curious patrons try to follow them, try to pry open the trapdoors, but their avatars' fingers find nothing but smooth matte black.   (source)
  • Disposal of hacked-up avatars is taken care of by Graveyard Daemons, a new Metaverse feature that Hiro had to invent.   (source)
  • Every few steps, he passes by a reception area where avatars from all over the world sit in chairs, passing the time.   (source)
  • There are no guards, no signs, nothing to bar people from going in, yet thousands of avatars mill around, peering inside, looking for a glimpse of something.   (source)
  • The avatars look like real people.   (source)
  • Avatars are not supposed to die.   (source)
  • It even has bouncer daemons that get rid of undesirables— grab their avatars and throw them out the door, applying certain basic principles of avatar physics.   (source)
  • So Hiro had to kludge something together, in order that the Metaverse would not, over time, become littered with inert, dismembered avatars that never decayed.   (source)
  • Avatars do not have that power.   (source)
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avatar as in:  an avatar of the god, Vishnu

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  • Lord Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, is revered for his righteous rule and moral integrity.
    avatar = earthly manifestation
  • Many avatars of Vishnu appear in Hindu literature.
    avatars = earthly manifestations of a Hindu god
  • They were pitiless, powerful avatars from another world.   (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of gods in human form
  • She studied my face, my reflection, just like a village girl who is surprised in the act of drawing water at the well, and who must now read the intentions of the tall, smiling avatar whom she sees standing behind her.   (source)
    avatar = an earthly manifestation of one of the Hindu gods
  • Or the names of his incarnations—his avatars, if you want to get technical.   (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of one of the Hindu gods in human or animal form
  • The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.   (source)
    avatar = an earthly manifestation of one of the Hindu gods
  • It was wrong of this Christian God to let His avatar die.   (source)
    avatar = earthly manifestation
  • Even Rama, that most human of avatars, who had to be reminded of his divinity when he grew long-faced over the struggle to get Sita, his wife, back from Ravana, evil king of Lanka, was no slouch.   (source)
    avatars = earthly manifestations of a Hindu god
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  • In the city of Sakiel-Norn, a single bronze bell tolls to mark the moment when the Broken God, nightly avatar of the God of Three Suns, reaches the lowermost point of his descent into the darkness and after a ferocious combat is torn apart by the Lord of the Underworld and his band of dead warriors who live down there.†   (source)
  • An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.†   (source)
  • Become my avatar again, Carter.†   (source)
  • Your daughter has been chosen by the Avatar to atone in a way which all sinners and nonbelievers must someday suffer.†   (source)
  • The Faith will tell you he no longer has any need of a man's name, for he has become the avatar of the gods.†   (source)
  • I am ...the avatar of hunger!†   (source)
  • Oh, ten-eleven avatars back.†   (source)
  • All the avatars of death were there as I had prefigured them: ambulances, fire engines, emergency vans, police cars with pulsing red lights—these in gross excess of need, as if the poor ramshackle house had harbored some terrible massacre instead of two people who had willed themselves into an almost decorous ending, going off silently to sleep.†   (source)
  • Three avatars, if I am not mistaken.†   (source)
  • My avatar form was starting to feel like an extra five hundred pounds of dead weight.†   (source)
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  • The combat avatar crumpled to its knees, and I dropped Menshikov.†   (source)
  • I tried to move out of their way, but the warrior avatar wasn't exactly speedy.†   (source)
  • They wove like vines up the avatar's legs until I was tangled to the waist.†   (source)
  • The combat avatar fought to maintain its form, but Menshikov's magic was strong.†   (source)
  • Look, I'm sorry about the avatar thing, the crook and flail.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure I could bust through it, even if I could summon a combat avatar.†   (source)
  • I stepped off the boat and summoned the hawk god's avatar.†   (source)
  • The avatar's limbs shrank, the hawk's head slowly changing into the head of a serpent.†   (source)
  • A high-powered wave of sand and glass shards knocked me off my feet and shredded my avatar.†   (source)
  • They died as if someone had just taken down their avatar in Call of Duty.†   (source)
  • Perched on a silo, I concentrated all my power and turned straight from falcon to avatar.†   (source)
  • My combat avatar formed around me, lifting me off the floor and encasing me with golden energy.†   (source)
  • And at Luxor I'd summoned an avatar with the head of a falcon.†   (source)
  • My avatar was only mildly damaged, my attacks still swift and strong.†   (source)
  • This time when she hit the ground, her avatar flickered off completely.†   (source)
  • To start with, the guy was twenty feet tall—and I don't mean with a glowing avatar.†   (source)
  • I tried to rise, but my avatar form was sluggish.†   (source)
  • Her face went pale with strain, and her cat warrior avatar appeared around her one more time.†   (source)
  • Carter's avatar shimmered, then disappeared.†   (source)
  • While many Templars believe that the Shrike is the Avatar of punishment for those who do not feed from the root, I must consider this a heresy not founded in the Covenant or the writings of the Muir.†   (source)
  • To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.†   (source)
  • We must advise you, however, that the formal name of our modest group is the Church of the Final Atonement and the entity whom the world so blithely calls...the Shrike...we refer to ...if we take His name at all...as the Lord of Pain or, more commonly, the Avatar.†   (source)
  • And everywhere in Chronos Keep, signs of the Shrike Church's long occupation-atonement altars draped in red velvet, hanging and free-standing sculptures of the Avatar with polychrome steel for blades and bloodgems for eyes, more statues of the Shrike carved from the stone of narrow stairways and dark halls so that nowhere in the night would one be free of the fear of touching hands emerging from rock, the sharp curve of blade descending from stone, four arms enveloping in a final embrace.†   (source)
  • My avatar collapsed, and Menshikov's spell dissolved with it—the venom taste in my mouth subsiding, the pressure lifting so I could breathe again.†   (source)
  • I could've encased myself in a magical combat avatar, and almost nothing would've been able to defeat me.†   (source)
  • He hadn't quite mastered summoning a combat avatar, but he encased his fist in golden energy like a wrecking ball and punched the shabti.†   (source)
  • For the first time since New Year's, I was encased in the avatar of the hawk god—a falcon-headed warrior three times my normal size.†   (source)
  • Julian had summoned a combat avatar for the first time, and was slicing demons with his glowing sword.†   (source)
  • His avatar no longer surrounded him.†   (source)
  • He swooped down and landed next to Carter, head-butting his combat avatar, which I hoped was a sign of affection.†   (source)
  • Carter popped into avatar form—the glowing golden kind, thank goodness; the three-meter-tall birdman had been a bit too scary for me.†   (source)
  • My avatar collapsed.†   (source)
  • It hadn't occurred to me that a goddess could get tired, but her magic avatar must've taken a lot of effort.†   (source)
  • A massive wave smashed into me, toppling me to the ground, but Bast jumped and came down on Sobek's back in full avatar form.†   (source)
  • I struggled to my feet, which in avatar form is like trying to get up with a mattress strapped to your chest.†   (source)
  • I waved my hand in front of her face, and when I was convinced she was out cold, I dispelled my avatar.†   (source)
  • My avatar shimmered with damage along the right arm, and my own arm was cut and bleeding in the same spot.†   (source)
  • I summoned the avatar of the hawk warrior and was instantly encased in a glowing golden form as large as Sobek.†   (source)
  • She jumped and came down behind Sobek with her avatar fully formed—a massive, glowing cat-headed warrior.†   (source)
  • Where Carter stood in the mortal world, a falcon warrior stood in the Duat—not an avatar, but the real thing, with feathered head, sharp bloodstained beak, and gleaming black eyes.†   (source)
  • Carter bounded after him, and in the Duat I could see arcs of white energy pulsing from the Washington Monument to the Horus avatar, charging it with new power.†   (source)
  • I am the avatar of menteuses ... "On and on my father go about my intelligence, or failure of it, and I felt my face burning, but I shut up my ears, turned my hearing off.†   (source)
  • You are now officially an avatar of Vishnu, whose teachings were misinterpreted by some of his more zealous followers.†   (source)
  • If some sage or some avatar of the godhead resided in the vicinity, you should like to make his acquaintance?†   (source)
  • That "avatar," of course, was quintessential Faulkner, and I was so tickled at the way she used the word, and by her restored beauty, that I found myself disgorging loud coarse cackles of laugher.†   (source)
  • Those who prayed to the seven Rishi thanked them for the bicycle and for the timely avatar of the Buddha, whom they named Maitreya, meaning Lord of Light, either because he could wield lightnings or because he refrained from doing so.†   (source)
  • And me and him can still do hit and will ever so, if so be he will show me what be aims for me to do; and maybe still standing there and holding the stallion's reins after Sutpen had entered the cabin, still hearing the galloping, watching the proud galloping image merge and pass, galloping through avatars which marked the accumulation of years, time, to the fine climax where it galloped without weariness or progress, forever and forever immortal beneath the brandished sabre and the shot-torn flags rushing down a sky in color like thunder; stood there and heard Sutpen inside the house speak his single sentence of salutation inquiry and farewell t†   (source)
  • But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.†   (source)
  • over human events which, incept in the individual, runs smooth, less claw than velvet but which, by man or woman flouted, drives on like fiery steel and overrides both weakly just and unjust strong, both vanquisher and innocent victimised, ruthless for appointed right and truth) brute who was not only to preside upon the various shapes and avatars of Thomas Sutpen's devil's fate but was to provide at the last the female flesh in which his name and lineage should be sepulchred—that brute who appeared to believe that be had served and performed his appointed end by yelling of blood and pistols in the street before my house, who seemed to believe that what further information be might hav†   (source)
  • It will take you that far; backrolling now behind her a long monotonous succession of peaceful and undeviating changes from day to dark and dark to day again, through which she advanced in identical and anonymous and deliberate wagons as though through a succession of creakwheeled and limpeared avatars, like something moving forever and without progress across an urn.†   (source)
  • Thenardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become Jondrette.†   (source)
  • Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are subject to adventures, and, for instance, become national property; he had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt.†   (source)
  • During that period (it could not be called a honeymoon) Christmas watched her pass through every avatar of a woman in love.†   (source)
  • stairs, guarding his escape or exit as inexorably as a Spanish duenna, teaching him to chop wood and to work the garden and then to plow as his strength (his resiliency rather, since he would never be other than light in the bone and almost delicate) increased—the boy with his light bones and womanish hands struggling with what anonymous avatar of intractable Mule, whatever tragic and barren clown was his bound fellow and complement beneath his first father's curse, getting the hang of it gradually and the two of them, linked by the savage steel-and-wood male symbol, ripping from the prone rich female earth corn to feed them both while Clytie watched, never out of sight of him, with tha†   (source)
  • next carrying along with her all the old accumulated rubbish-years which we call memory, the recogisable I, but changing from phase to phase as the butterfly changes once the cocoon is cleared, carrying nothing of what was into what is, leaving nothing of what is behind but eliding complete and intact and unresisting into the next avatar as the overblown rose or magnolia elides from one rich June to the next, leaving no bones, no substance, no dust of whatever dead pristine soulless rich surrender anywhere between sun and earth) but produced complete and subject to no microbe in that cloyed and scented maze of shuttered silk as if he were the delicate and perverse spirit-symbol†   (source)
  • Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.†   (source)
  • —avatar—incarnation.†   (source)
  • Chapter XI In the Lane Maggie had been four days at her aunt Moss's giving the early June sunshine quite a new brightness in the care-dimmed eyes of that affectionate woman, and making an epoch for her cousins great and small, who were learning her words and actions by heart, as if she had been a transient avatar of perfect wisdom and beauty.†   (source)
  • I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in
    human forms,
    I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles,
    sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
    I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe
    and vervain,
    I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old
    signifiers.†   (source)
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  • Even as we got older, Miranda always made sure to try to include August in our conversations, ask him how he was doing, talk to him about Avatar or Star Wars or Bone or something she knew he liked.   (source)
    avatar = the title of a movie
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