Word Finder - chaos

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The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

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Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

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After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos

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A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

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One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

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A vast chasm or abyss.

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A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

The country is in chaos right now.

An hour ago I saw chaos that resulted from lies, half-truths and secrets.

The scene was total chaos, with goats dashing every which way around the field, trying to avoid the squawking chickens and the fox.

Into this chaos, Katie had invited her sophisticated brother.

I'm not looking forward to the wedding chaos, but waiting isn't going to make things any better.

The resulting chaos was remarkable.

He'd meant it as a joke only, something to make her feel better and take her mind off of the chaos around her.

On the traces of dragon and serpent myths in the Old Testament and their significance, see Gunkel, Schopfung and Chaos (1895) - a pioneering work of the highest merit - and Ency.

Amid the chaos of conflicting opinions as to the original teaching of Jesus, the Gospel within the Gospel, the central question " What think ye of Christ ?

Meanwhile the union of so many distinct political organisms had reduced the party system to chaos, and the first two years were taken up by a process of regrouping, the dominant issue being Centralism versus Federalism.

The empires of Turks and Avars, however, ran swiftly their barbaric course, and the Khazars arose out of the chaos to more than their ancient renown.

The latter includes three essays on "The Primitive Chaos and Creation of the World," "The General Deluge, its Causes and Effects," and "The Dissolution of the World and Future Conflagrations."

The momentary pause of the space battle quickly turned to chaos, and Mansr was struggling to outmaneuver the ships darting away from the planet.

The second and third series containing only about 400 species, the Aglypha still present the appalling number of moo species, and even the grouping of this mass into three sub-families does not lighten the task of arranging the chaos, since one of these sub-families contains only one, and the other but a very few species.

Similarly Pompey, in the second psalm of Solomon, is obviously represented as the dragon of chaos, and his figure exalted into myth.

From the chaos of creeds resulted a chaos of ideas on all imaginable subjects, politics included.

Accordingly, when Pompey annexed Syria in 64 B.C. as a Roman province, he found it a chaos of city-states and petty princi palities.

Amid the chaos, a nurse calmly filled out forms in a method­ical fashion, looking as if the second coming of Christ wouldn't ruf­fle her.

He had been with her since the world began its plummet into chaos, and she hoped he remained at the other end of the network until the world righted itself.

The economic and financial position of Czechoslovakia showed signs in 1921 of steady recovery from the chaos which succeeded the close of the war.

This crime was speedily followed by the Bolshevist chaos into which Munich was for a brief period plunged in April.

Each trip up the side of the mountain grew harder as chaos erupted along the East Coast and drove refugees through Brady's area of operation.

After pointing out the immense difficulties which he had had to encounter owing to the absence of any regular accounts, and above all of any of " those statistics which constitute the soul, indeed the very life of a public administration," and that it was therefore impossible for him to pretend that he had been able to free himself altogether from the effects of the past, the minister continues, " every time we have endeavoured to have recourse to the previous elements of appreciation, we found ourselves faced by the chaos which characterized former years.

There is some reason to hope that the day of these misconceptions is passed; although there is also some reason to fear that on other grounds the present era may be known to posterity as an era of instrumentation comparable, in its gorgeous chaos of experiment and its lack of consistent ideas of harmony and form, only to the monodic period at the beginning of the 17th century, in which no one had ears for anything but experiments in harmonic colour.

A more satisfactory explanation has been offered by Dieterich (Abraxas, 117 sqq.), who finds in this chapter an adaptation of the birth of Apollo and the attempt of the dragon Pytho to kill his mother Schopfung and Chaos § 3, Religionsgesch.

On the Causse Noir is found the fantastic chaos of rocks and precipices known as Montpellier-le-Vieux, resembling the ruins of a huge city.

In modern usage "chaos" denotes a state of disorder and confusion.

The sounds of chaos below grew as emergency vehicles responded.

For three hours there was chaos, with traffic diverted.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

They were intended to cause administrative chaos and disrupt supplies.

As we begin to thrive on chaos, we subconsciously drive off any would-be friend and then wonder why we are alone.

To avoid chaos in an ever-expanding organization, leadership is essential.

That's what make's O-3 Entertainment's decision to bring Chaos Field to the U.S. such a welcome one for fans of twitch gaming.

The old saying goes, "Chaos breeds chaos."

A clean, orderly house cuts the chaos and stress related to messiness.

Getting organized is desirable for maintaining order out of chaos and making house cleaning easier.

The screams added to the chaos.

She listened, unable to fathom the magnitude of chaos he spoke of.

An hour ago I saw what chaos resulted from lies, half-truths and withheld secrets.

And for all its extreme heaviness, disjointedness and chaos, it's executed with such a perfect sense of synchronization it's astonishing.

When I was eleven our quiet lives were rudely interrupted by World War II, and chaos reigned.

Maelstrom of war, trying to make sense of the chaos that surrounds her.

In 1960, for example, he was sent on a one-man fact-finding mission by the United Nations into the chaos of the Congo.

The idea to be a little chaos Paul bucher.

Perhaps more time should be given to " serendipity " which I loosely translate as " order from chaos " .

But that strategy has left Afghanistan at the mercy of brutal warlords and at perpetual risk of chaos.

Thus, for Lotze, free will is possible; the consequences of action proceed regularly a parte post, and there is no such chaos as the critics of Libertarianism have pretended it would involve.

He argued from past history that 2 Kautzsch, in his profoundly learned article on the " Religion of Israel," to which frequent reference has been made, exhibits (pp. 669-671) an excess of scepticism, in our opinion, towards the views propounded by Gunkel in 1895 (Schopfung and Chaos) respecting the intimate connexion between the early Hebrew cosmogonic ideas and those of Babylonia.

First of all, order had to be evolved from the chaos in which Sweden had been plunged by the disruption of the Union; and the shortest, perhaps the only, way thereto was to restore the royal authority, which had been in abeyance during ninety years.