(n.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
(n.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A standard baguette costs around €0.90 at the local boulangerie, a figure that hasn't changed significantly for over two years."
(2) Some are quirky, unexpected things that catch our attention: a blinking Christmas tree in February, the cartoon Madagascar showing on state TV, a basket of baguettes at the supermarket.
(3) The texture of a good baguette should be moist, very slightly chewy and with a hint of a nutty flavour.
(4) Determined to preserve American exceptionalism against a rising tide of baguette-munching ball-juggling pinko Europhile hippy surrender-communism, Ann Coulter has come to the rescue : "Any growing interest in soccer," she wrote to widespread amusement, "can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
(5) Crab toasts with samphire and radishes FOR 12 CANAPES orange juice of 1 lemons 2 lime 1 red wine vinegar 1 tbsp radishes 100g mixed white and brown crab meat 500g mayonnaise 4 tbsp baguette 25 thin slices samphire 24 small sprigs Squeeze the juice from the orange, lemons and lime into a mixing bowl then add the red wine vinegar.
(6) Not sure this is going to wow the small investors ( unless they've also got shares in the German software giant ) 11.24am BST Marc Bolland looks terribly pleased to report that Marks & Spencer's best performing bakery is at its new store in Paris -- yes, Britain is selling baguettes to the French.
(7) If I can just find a few thousand dollars, I know I can produce baguettes that people will love here.” So said a participant at one of our workshops last year, talking about his dream of starting his own business.
(8) "It's a very great honour to be making baguettes for the president," he said tactfully.
(9) The winning baker gets to deliver 40 baguettes to the Elysée presidential palace every morning for a year.
(10) The menu (noon to 3pm, Mon-Sat) is populist – fishcakes, a smoked salmon salad, steak baguette, pasta – but founded on sound local ingredients and delivered by a kitchen that can clearly cook.
(11) Contrary to what you see on diet shows, overweight people don’t all eat a baguette with two Ginsters pasties in it for breakfast, in just the same way that not all thin people eat lettuce with occasional handfuls of dust.
(12) John Lally has written in with distressing news for the Irish: ANNOUNCEMENT BY FIFA: "FOR THESE PLAY-OFFS THE AWAY GOALS RULE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED (IN THE CASE OF IRISH AWAY GOALS) AND SHOULD IRELAND PREVAIL 2-1 OVER FRANCE THEY WILL GO TO EXTRA TIME AND THEN A BAGUETTE-MAKING CONTEST."
(13) Now we go for the single entendre, and say things like, “That baguette looks a bit like a cock.” There’s no nuance now.
(14) (Adrià is not known, at the time of this writing, to have secreted enormous baguettes in major cities.)
(15) "For the French, culturally and psychologically, any real rise in living costs is reflected in the price of a baguette – still a daily purchase for many.
(16) I know of boulangers who make a special dough just for their competition baguette, but we aim for excellence all the time.
(17) And celebrating its 100th birthday yesterday, the Paris underground - for many foreigners as much a part of the French experience as baguettes, bidets and Bordeaux wine - could make a fair claim to being the world's most loved, most efficient and least expensive city transport system.
(18) With temperatures reaching more than 70C, Pham says, they have even managed to toast a baguette on the street.
(19) Serves 8 500g mixed red and yellow cherry tomatoes, halved 10-12 sundried tomatoes, sliced A few leaves of basil, shredded Salt and freshly ground black pepper Olive oil Balsamic vinegar ½ baguette or 1 loaf of ciabatta, sliced 1 garlic clove 1 Mix the cherry tomatoes with the sundried tomatoes and basil, season, then add a dash of olive oil and balsamic.
(20) I’ll stop off at Oh La La to pick up a ficelle (a kind of thin, flat baguette) and eat it at home, listening to a bit of Stan Getz.
Bead
Definition:
(n.) A prayer.
(n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
(n.) Any small globular body
(n.) A bubble in spirits.
(n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid.
(n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).
(n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
(n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc.
(v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading.
(v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
(2) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(3) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(4) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
(5) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(6) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(7) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(8) Cytotoxic T lymphocytes were found to mediate rapid lysis of target cells not normally recognized in the presence of small polystyrene beads coated with a combination of anti-T3 and antitarget cell antibodies.
(9) Beads approximately 1 microm in diameter appeared to be the optimal size for ingestion.
(10) In the presence of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, stimulation induced an accumulation of cAMP, making possible the NMR detection of the second messenger in living cells grown on microcarrier beads and perfused in the NMR tube.
(11) In order to examine the mechanisms underlying radiation-induced changes in phosphorus metabolite levels observed in RIF-1 tumors in vivo, RIF-1 cells in culture were perfused for up to 70 h following gamma-irradiation with 0-25 Gy and monitored continuously by 31P NMR spectroscopy at 8.5 T. Cells immobilized in the sample volume by incorporation into calcium alginate beads were bioenergetically stable, but did not replicate at the cell density used.
(12) To investigate the effect of steroid hormone on phagocytosis by keratocytes, we investigated the phagocytic activities for latex beads by rabbit corneal keratocytes cultured in the presence and absence of dexamethasone.
(13) The M-280 beads which are smaller (diameter 2.8 microns) and contain less iron than the M-450 beads were coated with polyclonal IgG sheep antimouse (SAM) antibody.
(14) No radiographic studies are routinely needed; bead-chain cystourethrography and IVU in particular probably offer little additional information.
(15) The electron-dense tracers, ferritin, peroxidase, Thorotrast, and latex beads were all ingested but none was phagocytized.
(16) After elution of the complex from the beads a new cycle of capture, washing and release of the target-capture-reporter-probe complex is initiated by the additions of unused (dT)-tailed beads.
(17) In this procedure, target DNA is captured by a biotinylated oligonucleotide via intermolecular triplex formation, bound to streptavidin-coated magnetic beads, and recovered in double-stranded form by elution with a mild alkaline buffer that destabilizes the triple helix.
(18) Because the plasma clots were not well retained in the basal cistern, however, small beads (dextran or latex) were added to stabilize them.
(19) Amino ligands such as proteins or drugs can be bound covalently to the beads in a single step at physiological pH.
(20) We also found a strong binding of S-protein antibodies to agarose beads preincubated in native serum, which was strongly reduced (70-80%) by inactivation of the alternative complement pathway (50 degrees C, 20 min).