(n.) The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
(n.) Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
(n.) Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
(n.) Tendency; appetency.
(n.) The thing desired.
Example Sentences:
(1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(2) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(3) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(4) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(5) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(6) These results suggest that ammonium ions influence the appetite through their effect on prepyriform cortical areas.
(7) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.
(8) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
(9) Other manipulations that induce an appetite for NaCl in the F344 strain are summarized.
(10) Corticosteroids have been shown to increase appetite for a brief period of time, but they do not appear to improve caloric intake or nutritional status.
(11) In Study B, V3V cannulae were implanted in rats after a captopril-induced appetite for NaCl was established.
(12) These results were discussed with respect to a possible relationship between changes in sodium chloride responsivity and changes in sodium intake, differences between methods of inducing sodium appetite, coding of taste quality and intensity, and mechanisms which might effect the responsivity change.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) There’s just not a big appetite for even talking about guns at the moment in the state of Connecticut,” he said.
(15) Thirteen percent of physicians are still prescribing the anabolic steroid Durabolin (nandrolone phenylpropionate) as an appetite stimulant long after promotion for this purpose has been dropped.
(16) F1 hybrids differ from normotensive controls in their behavioral activity and in salt appetite.
(17) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
(18) Bailey said foreigners' appetite for London's best housing stock had helped push up the average price of prime central London property by 57% over the past four years.
(19) Voluntary salt intake did not peak until 6-12 hr later reflecting the characteristic delay in the genesis of salt appetite.
(20) The present study investigated the possible genetic co-determination of blood pressure and salt appetite in this animal model of hypertension.
Hunger
Definition:
(n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
(n.) Any strong eager desire.
(n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
(n.) To have an eager desire; to long.
(v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(2) As shown in Rethinking School Feeding , a joint analysis conducted by the World Bank , World Food Programme and Partnership for Child Development , hunger restricts education.
(3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(4) What I didn't know was how much hunger there was in the audience to see themselves on television.
(5) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
(6) Experiments in which this method has been applied to the measurement of hunger and thirst in doves are outlined, and the results are discussed in terms of their implications for motivation theory in general.
(7) This suggests that brain 5-HT may influence primarily the induction of satiety rather than the suppression of hunger.
(8) In the experiments the animals' reactions to various conditions of temperature, air O2 and CO2 content, fatigue and hunger, were tested.
(9) And 96% of our grants go to African organisations, universities, scientists and small businesses to achieve a single goal: reduce hunger and poverty on our continent by unleashing the potential of the millions of small, family farmers who are the backbone of African agriculture and African economies.
(10) Varied clinical observations of the presence of either hunger or anorexia during intragastric or intravenous alimentation have led to the current experiments.
(11) It is concluded that at the first central synapse of the taste system of the primate, neural responsiveness is not influenced by the normal transition from hunger to satiety.
(12) An attempt is made to explain this finding, together with their previously-demonstrated enhanced hunger drive, purely in terms of gross anatomical and physiological differences.
(13) After the lesion in the VTA the reaction of rats became independent of the level of hunger--the number of their crossings was similar at different levels of hunger.
(14) Although high-intensity sweeteners are widely used to decrease the energy density of foods, little is known about how this affects hunger and food intake.
(15) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
(16) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(17) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
(18) 72-hour hunger test did not precipitate any spontaneous hypoglycaemia.
(19) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
(20) French journalists from Paris Match magazine and Le Parisien spoke to Trierweiler, 48, during her two-day visit to India at the weekend for the humanitarian organisation Action Contre La Faim (Action against Hunger).