(n.) Something which creates or whets an appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
(2) Host-tick contact is possible when ticks are hungry, when ticks exhibit a positive appetence response, and when ticks and host animals are together in time and space.
(3) Further, no significant changes in whole-mouth secretion rates were observed when subjects viewed photographs of two appetizing foods, or of fresh doughnuts in a plastic box, even though subjects knew they could eat the doughnuts after the experiment.
(4) Food stimuli were rated as more appetizing by the nonobese after high-calorie meals, but not so by the obese.
(5) Subjects chewed and spat out an appetizing steak and french-fried potato meal (modified sham feeding), with the increase in the weight of the meal during sham feeding taken to represent salivary secretion.
(6) They present the basic four types of children who incline to failure in this respect: markedly extrovert subjects with good intellect, markedly submissive children, more introvert subjects with inferior intellect, neglected children with poor intellect and behavioural disorders and children with a high appetence for the drug.
(7) Oliver then detailed a plan to air commercials that actually educate the president on important issues, such as explaining the nuclear triad, how to use appetizer forks and what his other daughter is called.
(8) Results showed a progressive and statistically significant rise in gastric acid secretion when an appetizing, self-selected meal was anticipated.
(9) Cephalic stimulation was induced by a modified sham feeding (MSF) technique, during which subjects chewed and expectorated appetizing food.
(10) These differences were related to disparities in the spatial distribution of the hosts, their activity patterns and the specific appetence responses of the two tick species.
(11) The sight of appetizing food (without smell or taste), the smell of appetizing food (without sight or taste), or the combination of sight and smell (without taste) also increased acid secretion and serum gastrin concentrations significantly.
(12) The ewes were given intravenous fluid therapy, and 90 minutes after the onset of signs, the ewes were standing, dull, and appetent.
(13) Nausea in response to an appetizing food stimulus was assessed in bulimic women and healthy control subjects.
(14) The dominance of appetency is caused by the favourable social and pedagogic conditions in socialist society and is regarded as a prerequisite of successful therapy.
(15) A summary of investigations concerning changes in the sexual life due to the psychiatric illness is divided into results on the changes in the frequency of sexual activities and changes in sexual appetence, results on sexual deviant acts, on sexual activities of psychiatric inpatients, and results on sexual orientation, especially for patients with paranoid symptoms.
(16) The contrast between frequent behavioural disorders in school on the one hand, and the general positive attitude towards school is interpreted as a appetency-aversion conflict.
(17) This may have been the moment when a bid began to look truly appetizing to the Premier League.
(18) Salivary flow was measured in response to six appetizing odours: peppermint, vanilla, chocolate, beef, tomato and lemon.
(19) Lifting of dietary restrictions, which results in a more appetizing and nutritious diet, does not cause symptomatic deterioration or precipitate intestinal obstruction in Crohn's disease.
(20) The authors express the view that changes in the orgastic capacity of women are rather than sexual appetence a sensitive and useful indicator of psychological influences.
Entree
Definition:
(n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
(n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stapes is assigned the highest rating (2 points), while all other entrees on the scale are 1 point.
(2) His entree to the Conservative high command came through work and social contacts.
(3) Taste was the primary reason given by patrons for their entree choice, regardless of whether or not it was labeled.
(4) Because entrees contribute substantially to total meal fat content, we evaluated a cafeteria-based intervention for increasing the purchase rate of low-fat entrees (M = 6.83 g) relative to nonlow-fat entrees (M = 25.59 g).
(5) The three lowest calorie food selections within three food categories (i.e., salads, vegetables, entrees) were identified by labels.
(6) Entrees are sweet potato and coconut soup and for dessert there’s a triple chocolate torte with salted caramel burnt fig, vincotto spheres and espresso creamacotta.
(7) He used his celebrity status, his entree to the BBC and his connections with other stars as bait with which to draw young girls into his sphere.” In addition to unnamed supervisors and technical staff who worked on shows like Top of the Pops, Smith lists other examples of people who knew or suspected Savile was behaving inappropriately or illegally.
(8) Eating food from the first-class menu was associated with illness (p = 0.09), and eating a tourist-class entree was protective (p less than 0.01).
(9) A bacteriological survey of meat pies, frozen prepared dinners and entrees indicated that their bacterial populations were related to the components, the environment and handling in manufacture.
(10) Research in production times of vegetarian entrees provides a basis for comparison of production times of menu items for cost analysis.
(11) Category 4 contains foods high in Na and low in K relative to high energy: bread, rice, luncheon meats, commercial cookies and pastries, and fast food entrees.
(12) The NRA’s entree to the Koch world stems in part from bonds that the gun group’s top officials have forged.
(13) It was his move to Los Angeles, where he became bureau chief, which gave him his entree to war reporting.
(14) After the Wuss Island revelations we dine on medium rare steak (perfect) and kingfish with pigfish as the entree.
(15) On-site preparation was limited to rethermalization of frozen entrees and portioning of bulk-delivered items.
(16) Four Regional Health Protection Branch laboratories each compared aerobic colony counts obtained after "stomaching" and blending, for a minimum of 10 samples in each of the seven food groups: dry pastas; chocolate and cocoa powders; frozen entrees (macaroni and cheese, chow mein, chop suey, fried rice, seafood casseroles, and Salisbury steak); nonfat dry milk; shrimp and crabmeats; spices; and breakfast sausages.
(17) The intervention, which cost $80.00, produced significant increases (i.e., from 20% to 35%) in the purchase rate of LF entrees.
(18) Neither device could be said to offer an entree to instant liver surgery.
(19) Not one to miss an opportunity, Abbott cut in right after the soft entree: "And we don't want to give rise to a whole lot of mischief-making.
(20) "I often think how lucky I am to have them as owners; a magazine like ours could be easily run as an entree into society," he says.