Wong Kar-wai

During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it's not to fit, so you have to make all of these alterations and modifications. So in a way, I build the characters with the cast, and it's sort of custom-made, the whole process, and then you have to make all of these adjustments.

Chinese Director

Christian Bale

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

Welsh Actor

Derek Jacobi

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

British Actor

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Indian Philosopher

Om Malik

The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.

Indian Writer

Joseph David-Jones

The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.

American Actor

Juan Cole

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

American Educator

Francis Crick

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

English Scientist

Edgar Mitchell

Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

American Astronaut

William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

English Playwright

The term is common in everyday contexts, often relating to small-scale changes.

Widespread Use

'Alteration' isn't limited to tailoring; it applies to any modification.

Beyond Clothing

In writing, 'alteration' often suggests improvements or corrections to the text.

Publishing Context

Highlights the revision aspect of creative writing or reporting.

Creative Process

Emphasizes changes to tangible structures or appearances.

Physical Changes

Often used in the context of building or space modifications.

Renovation Reference

Refers to a specific type of veterinary surgery for pets.

Specific Veterinary Use

Used cautiously because it deals with pet sterilization, a topic sensitive for some pet owners.

Sensitive Topic

 plus mitochondria regulate many different cell activities and play an important role in programmed cell death. If mitochondrial function declines, then cells and, later on, whole organs, deteriorate, too. Other changes are known to occur in the expression patterns of genes, also known as epigenetic alterations,

Why do our bodies age? -...

 is that they they have characteristics that make them very vulnerable to the alterations in their habitat they face threats in the ocean like climate change fisheries and pollution but when they come on land they're facing threats like human disturbance or the introduction of predators they they

Protecting a Penguin...

 So Life One civilization is a civilization that begins to alter his or her looks. And we've been doing that for thousands of years. You've got tummy tucks and you've got this and you've got that. You alter your looks, and I'm told that not all of those alterations take place for medical reasons.

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 wild is actually habitat alteration and deforestation because some chameleons are found only in a specific type of habitat on a single mountain this makes them highly range restricted but when that range restriction is combined with other pressures on their habitat

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 is an incredibly dangerous experience. But design also impinges on the clothes that I want to wear. I want garments that reflect my personality. It's difficult to find in the childrenswear department. And often womenswear requires far too many alterations.

Why design should...

 we will review the roadway markings and make any appropriate alterations." And I thought to myself, typical government response, all right, moved on with my life. But then, a few weeks later, something incredible happened. They repainted the spot,

Ben Wellington: How we...

 watching our solar system from afar could confidently predict Earth's final doom in another six billion years. But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life? These human-induced alterations

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 that there is a particular alteration that is known to be highly penetrant to cause that disease. Where are we going to look? Well, we could look locally. That makes sense. But we began to think, maybe we should look all over the world.

Stephen Friend: The hunt...

 Now this journey from the bottom-up to the transformation of the top-down is where I find hope today. And I'm thinking of how these modest alterations with space and with policy in many cities in the world,

Teddy Cruz: How...

 I -- I made some alterations. You'll see there are some slight differences in the painting. All this art history that I had been absorbing helped me to realize that painting is a language.

Alteration

The action or process of changing or being changed.

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A change in the text of a book, article, or document.

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A change in the form, appearance, or structure of something.

Often appears as...

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Surgery to make an animal unable to reproduce.

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