Dalek

dalek dalèk dálek English Dalek Voice.ogg Recording of a Dalek voice The Daleks thumb|A Renegade Dalek. Etymology Coined by Terry Nation in 1963 for his script of The Daleks The Mutants (later retitled "The Daleks"), the second serial of the first season of Doctor Who. Accounts of how he devised the word vary. Within the Doctor Who universe, the word is supposed to be related to the name of the people from whom the Daleks evolved, either the Kaleds (as according to later serial Genesis of the Daleks) or the Dals (as in The Daleks), or to derive from a word meaning "gods" in their (fictional) language, in which the sacred "Book of Predictions" is written. According to the I, Davros audio fiction the book reads "...and on that day, men will become as gods", with the last word pronounced "Dal-eks". Pronunciation en /ˈdɑːlɛk/ UK,US en Mgm_pronunciation_Dalek.ogg UK Noun en science fiction A member of a species of extraterrestrial cyborg mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and their fanatical obsession with exterminating other, non-Dalek beings. 1964, David Whitaker (screenwriter) David Whitaker, Dr. Who and the Daleks, chapter 6 (based on the film script Dr. Who and the Daleks by Milton Subotsky, based itself on the tele-script The Mutants/The Daleks by Terry Nation): 'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.' en 1987 Barry Norman The Movie Greats 144 what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice". 1996, Together with English Core, fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., 81-87414-92-8), page 234: This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek. 2000, Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii: My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek, but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident. en 2003 Siân Preece Country Cooking Countdown Scottish Girls About Town 19 2004 One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek, dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders, en 2006 Gareth Roberts (writer) Gareth Roberts I Am a Dalek 9 Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!' 2010, Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2, page 333: Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek with about three stock phrases... Remember, Daleks always want world domination but they always lose. en 2011 Colin Neill Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land 166 And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit. en figuratively One who is dogmatic, unfeeling and determined. en 1973 Trades Union Congress Report of Annual Trades Union Congress In an article in The Times Lord Chalfont said: "The programmed Daleks of the French military planners were evolving a plan which was really a carbon copy of the British plan." en 1981 Kjell Raaheim; Janek Wankowski Helping Students to Learn at University 9788290373035 And rightly so, if only out of respect for the numerous idiosyncrasies left out of any generalized model of behaviour and, if only out of sheer personal honesty in admitting that individuals are never like the streamlined daleks of psychometric regressions. en 1999 Chris Horrie; Adam Nathan Live TV The following year Dennis Potter, by then dying of a cancer tumour he had named 'Rupert Murdoch', attacked [John] Birt as 'a croak-voiced Dalek' dressed in an Armani suit. en 2010 Laurie Oakes On the Record: Politics, politicians and power Hachette UK 9780733627101 In a remarkable speech in 2006, Ray criticised 'factional Daleks' and 'the Stasi element' — apparatchiks 'highly professional and proficient but with no Labor soul'. Derived terms en Dalek voice en daleky, en Daleky Anagrams en adekl Dalke Kadel laked en Doctor Who People Fictional characters Italian Etymology it en Dalek. Pronunciation Dàlek Noun m # en Dalek (all senses)