(n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(2) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
(3) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(4) Parasite kinetics were followed in pigs receiving A. suum eggs as repeated trickle inoculations at two dose levels beginning at a body weight of 25 kg until their slaughter at 90 kg (baconers).
(5) Conservative committee member Richard Bacon suggested it was "purely artificial".
(6) 2 Ten minutes before the potatoes are ready, melt 25g of the butter in a large nonstick frying pan and fry the bacon until lightly coloured.
(7) In place of prosciutto: • Bacon sliced and fried until crisp.
(8) It has been investigated the function of the anal sphincters following Bacon type pull-through operation.
(9) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
(10) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
(11) Meanwhile, Nicholson and Hextall were surprised to learn from one committee member, Richard Bacon, that CSC had been offering some trusts an alternative system not owned by IBA.
(12) Term for "excess weight due to emotional overeating": grief bacon.
(13) That’s why instantly recognisable trophy pieces – a Picasso, a Giacometti, a Klimt, a Bacon – command such ridiculously high prices.
(14) Mexican-style burgers (topped with salsa, bacon, cheese) are sensational.
(15) The new gallery will display Hirst's over 2,000-strong art collection, including pieces by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and street artist Banksy.
(16) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
(17) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
(18) But for now, Miliband seems ever more solitary, a lone figure trying to keep hold of the bacon sandwich that looks all too symbolic of an omni-crumble to come.
(19) 38 with extensive, and 12 with limited disease, were treated with BACON.
(20) Or on one he didn't like: "I can admire Bacon's crafty use of paint, though it tends towards gimmickry.
Hock
Definition:
(n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
(n.) Alt. of Hough
(v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
(2) Skin sensation was absent distal to the mid tibial or hock level.
(3) Direct arterial pressures were measured via cannulation of the dorsal pedal artery and were correlated with indirect measurements through an inflatable cuff placed over the dorsal pedal artery below the hock joint of the contralateral limb.
(4) "Management – ie me – are not in hock to Chris.
(5) We find Hocking sitting in her tiny, sparsely furnished apartment in Austin, Minnesota.
(6) A stick, 5 to 6 cm long, made of a glass capillary tube, or, aluminium foil, with ends bended as a hock, are weighted up to 0.001 g. Introduce one stick previously weighted in diluted plasma.
(7) Osteochondritis dissecans was often found bilaterally in the knee and hock joint and this was interpreted as an indication that osteochondritis dissecans is a manifestation of a generalized condition called osteochondrosis.
(8) Here Paul Gleeson and Ban-Hock Toh discuss how the identification of these gastric parietal cell autoantigens and the development of a mouse model of autoimmune gastritis have paved the way for an understanding of the pathogenesis of the gastric lesion.
(9) Trauma to the hock was known to have occurred in half the cases and was suspected in the others.
(10) Synovial fluids collected from hock joints of arthritic birds and peripheral blood leukocytes obtained from the birds with respiratory problems were used for virus isolation in embryonated chicken eggs, and Vero and BGM-70 cell cultures.
(11) The diagnosis, aetiology, pathogenesis and treatment of osteochondritis dissecans in the shoulder, elbow, stifle and hock joints of the dog is reviewed.
(12) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
(13) Results showed that in healed clinically and histologically noninflamed gingiva, the vascular morphology was established as a series of looped vessels which could readily be distinguished from the regular network of vessels described by Hock (1975) in marginal gingiva that had neither been inflamed nor resected.
(14) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
(15) Cartilage glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) were measured by a spectrophotometric assay in synovial fluid obtained from 30 normal bovine hock joints and 15 osteoarthritic human knee joints.
(16) Mladic is yet to appoint a defence lawyer and will spend the coming days meeting court officials and deciding how he wants to proceed, Hocking said.
(17) Cellulitis which extended from the coronet to above the carpus or hock was more severe and had a poorer prognosis than cellulitis distal to these joints.
(18) Seven lambs treated with one hindlimb bound to the body, with the hip fully flexed and the stifle and hock fully extended, were reared from the day after birth to about three months old, together with two untreated controls.
(19) The anatomy of the dorsal pouch of the proximal intertarsal joint (PIJ) and its communication with the tarsocrural joint (TCJ) was studied in 15 pairs of hocks from young and mature horses.
(20) The government dropped plans for legislation in the summer, prompting accusations that David Cameron was in hock to the tobacco lobby.