(n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
(n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
(n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
(n.) Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
(v. i.) To grow like an apple; to bear apples.
Example Sentences:
(1) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(2) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(3) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
(4) We will be comparing apples with apples,” one source said.
(5) Following its success, Littleloud created a version of the game for Apple's iPad, launched onto the App Store at Christmas.
(6) Apple has come out fighting, which is no surprise given the remarkable success that the company has seen in recent years.
(7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
(8) That refusal seems to have persuaded Apple's team, which has been core to the development of WebKit since using it for the Safari browser, released in January 2003, to introduce WebKit2 earlier this year which did offer that capability.
(9) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(10) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(11) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
(12) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
(13) All eyes are on Apple to do something there, but it can be the smaller companies that surprise.
(14) Using tritiated apple cutin as substrate, the two cutinases showed similar substrate concentration dependence, protein concentration dependence, time course profiles, and pH dependence profiles with optimum near 10.0.
(15) CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) Apple event about to start.
(16) The effects of gamma-globulins to brain specific nonhistone chromatin proteins (BSNCP-3.5;-3.6) on conditioned food avoidance behaviour (carrot or apple) was studied in the garden snail.
(17) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
(18) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
(19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(20) Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, warned Barack Obama in public remarks this month that history had shown “sacrificing our right to privacy can have dire consequences”.
Quince
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
(n.) a quince tree or shrub.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that a partial replacement of sugar and fat for apple and quince pastes in apple biscuit and apple shortbread semiproducts led to an increase in the content of essential and sulfur-containing amino acids.
(2) Here are instructions for Iraqi date-filled pies, Tunisian couscous cakes and quinces in wine.
(3) The beta-D-gentiobioside [beta-D-glucopyranosyl(1----6)-beta-D-glucopyranoside] of 3-hydroxy-beta-ionol has been isolated and characterized in quince (Cydonia oblonga) fruit through spectral and chemical studies.
(4) Model experiments carried out with this new natural compound revealed its important role as precursor of a number of C13-norisoprenoid flavour compounds of quince essential oil.
(5) Trimbach adds a little steel to the quince jelly and exotic spice, for a wine that works with Asian spice and Alsatian onion tart.
(6) The thing that impresses me about George is how approachable he is for backbench MPs,” said Quince, who was given the chance to sit down with the chancellor before the budget and air his ideas.
(7) And here they are: • Never cook the fruit beforehand (unless using quinces) • Never cook the two parts separately or deconstruct the crumble in any way.
(8) One new MP, Will Quince, dismissed it as the worst form of “nanny statism” and said there was no evidence that it worked.
(9) Down the road, in Cockermouth, Quince & Medlar chef Colin Le Voi recommends smoky products: "Paprika, smoked garlic, our wonderful Cumbrian smoked cheese, Allerdale, all give vegetarian food an interesting edge."
(10) The cellulosic mucilage of mature seeds of quince (Cydonia oblonga L) was studied both in situ (pre-release mucilage) and after water extraction and in in vitro re-assembly (prolonged high speed ultracentrifugation, further progressive dehydration and embedding in LR White methacrylate or hydrosoluble melamine resin).
(11) Hopes that robots would quickly be able to reach areas of the plant inaccessible to humans suffered a setback when Quince, a $6m robot, lost contact with its operators while monitoring inside one of the reactors in October 2011.
(12) From The Great British Bake Off: How To Bake (BBC Books, RRP £20) Paul Hollywood's Camembert and quince flatbread Paul Hollywood's Camembert and quince flatbread.
(13) George Osborne conjures up a budget trick, but it's not a very good one Read more “I didn’t get what I wanted in this budget,” said Quince, but he did in the autumn statement after urging Osborne to divert money from the tampon tax to women’s charities and spend money on tending war graves.
(14) They were mechanicals, they wore clogs all the time” – so they were creating character through movement, stomping was their dialect, their call and response, and that culminated into a dance-off between Pearce Quigley’s Bottom and Fergal McElherron’s Quince: “A lot is revealed in dance.” They had the audience at their feet from the first stamp.
(15) Eat Bag a table on the patio of the new Thyme Bistro on Quince Road for salads, pizza and fish.
(16) Try adding chopped, cooked quinces to the apple before cooking.
(17) Cream prepared from egg albumin and quince paste had reduced content of amino acids (except for glutamic acid) due to the diminished content of egg albumin, however, the balance of amino acid composition was improved.
(18) Tear or cut the cheese into small pieces, and break up the quince jelly.
(19) Makes 16 strong white bread flour 500g table salt 10g fast-action dried yeast 1 x 7g sachet lukewarm water 320ml Camembert 200g quince jelly 150g vegetable oil Place the flour, salt and yeast in a large free-standing electric mixer with a dough hook attachment.