(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.
Gem
Definition:
(n.) A bud.
(n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.
(n.) Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.
(v. t.) To put forth in the form of buds.
(v. t.) To adorn with gems or precious stones.
(v. t.) To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(2) Christine Langan of BBC Films told Screen Daily: "Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience."
(3) Of major significance in assessing the environmental risk impact of GEMs is an understanding of their survival and transport in soil and subsurface environments.
(4) It’s not just about the many gems he pitched, including a no-hitter in 2008 .
(5) Gems has a massive personality, Liz may have fallen down in that regard.” She went on: “If I think Liz Jones has got a face that looks like it’s just walked into a patio door then that’s the line she’s going to get.
(6) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(7) The island is big enough to cope with this, though, especially in the off season, and still contains some gems.
(8) According to several criteria, the microcosm system was stable and healthy throughout the experiment and the addition of the GEM did not affect the total number of extractable CFU (I. Wagner-Döbler, R. Pipke, K. N. Timmis, and D. F. Dwyer, Appl.
(9) "He couldn't beat a ten-year old with exactly the same kick," reports Costas Tsioras, who sends in this gem: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Oh dear.
(10) GEMs added at initial densities of 10(6) to 10(7) bacteria per ml of activated sludge declined to stable population densities of 10(4) to 10(5) bacteria per ml.
(11) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(12) Potencies for the induction of peroxisomal fatty acyl-CoA oxidase (FACO) and microsomal laurate hydroxylase (LH) were determined for clofibric acid (CPIB), ciprofibrate (Cipro) and gemfibrozil (Gem) in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes based on complete concentration-response analysis and determination of theoretical maximum inductive responses for Cipro.
(13) Their second album slumped in the charts, guitarist Gem Archer fractured his skull , and Liam Gallagher split with his wife, Nicole Appleton.
(14) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(15) Subgroup 2 fell between subgroups 1 and 3 including serovars dakota, naam, bogvere, birkini, smithi, ndambari, gem, ndahambukuje and mwogolo.
(16) So Zhou Enlai’s famous reply was actually quite banal – yet is now universally reinterpreted as a gem of sempiternal Chinese wisdom.
(17) The authors study the effects of severe sepsis due to pathogenic gems in large quantity an healing of the suture of the ileum in the rabbit.
(18) In this paper, we present the consensus statement from a national conference on research priorities and methodologies for studying geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) programs.
(19) There are so many little gems that are clearly mantras of people who have been through meetings.
(20) "It is an architectural gem and the artistic heart of Glasgow.