(v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
(v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
(v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
(v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.
(v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
(v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
(v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
(v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
(v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
(2) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(3) Four of the eight arms were baited on all trials of a given session.
(4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(5) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
(6) Direct cultivation of the clinical material in Czapek liquid culture medium without carbon source and containing a paraffin rod (pariffin-bait technic), as well as the routin T.B.
(7) Specific methods, utilizing thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography, were developed for determining the compound in stomach contents and corn bait.
(8) Fungi were isolated from the samples by the method of hair baiting (To-Ka-Va).
(9) Presence, absence, color and perforations of plastic bags did not alter bait acceptance.
(10) The toxicities of Raid Max Roach Bait (sulfluramid) and COMBAT Roach Control System (hydramethylnon) to susceptible and field-collected German cockroaches were examined.
(11) When battery operated CDC miniature incandescent and black light traps (with and without light bulbs) were operated with and without CO2, the rank of trap effectiveness for total numbers of female Culicoides variipennis caught was: black light plus CO2; CO2-baited trap without light bulb; black light without CO2; incandescent light plus CO2 and incandescent light without CO2.
(12) Diurnal human bait catches yielded 1,427 female mosquitoes in 27 species.
(13) And as a large number of schools did not take the bait, the government now says it will require all schools to become academies, regardless of the wishes of parents and communities.
(14) One of the chickens in the traps was positive for microfilariae of Cardiofilaria four weeks after exposure as bait.
(15) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(16) During 70 all night bait collections from January to December 1989, a total of 2290 An.
(17) By contrast, ticks were attracted to CO2 baits during daytime only between May and mid-December.
(18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(19) Fluoroacetic acid from tissue (1 g) and bait (10 g) extracts was first partitioned into ethyl acetate and then into 0.5 M benzyldimethylphenylammonium hydroxide.
(20) After a 1-week dispersal period 69 baited blow-fly traps were placed in different habitat types and at varying distances around the release point.
Luncheon
Definition:
(n.) A lump of food.
(n.) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.
(v. i.) To take luncheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 106 persons identified as eating the luncheon, 60 (56.6 per cent) became ill.
(2) On Day 3, they ate fish at the luncheon and dinner meals.
(3) We spoke with Sheypuk (DS) and Hammer (CH), who met at a cerebral palsy luncheon and became fast friends, about the show and their shared goal to change the fashion industry.
(4) Dr. Waugaman presented the information in this article to more than 700 students who attended a Student Luncheon on August 6.
(5) October 15, 2013 7.48pm BST Democratic Senators emerged from what some said was one of the most frustrated luncheon meetings they'd ever witnessed, Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) reports: A visibly angry Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, summarized the mood when he said John Boehner had killed the momentum that had gathered behind their bipartisan deal.
(6) An outbreak of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning occurred among attendees of a firehouse luncheon.
(7) And those 10 days always broke down the same way: we’d go out looking for exteriors, do pick-up shots and informal portraits at resorts or luncheons and then set up the big shoot in the house.” What was he like to work for?
(8) Lady Jekyll's "Luncheon for a Motor Excursion" from Kitchen Essays is a case in point; she paints a wonderful portrait of a picnic furnished with "the luncheon-basket from among the wedding presents of a richer age", and that essential thermos of mulled claret.
(9) December 8, 2014 At the luncheon, Kate met with several successful Britons living in New York, including actor Matthew Rhys.
(10) In occupational rehabilitation they are concerned with monthly luncheon, play entertainment games, go to movies, beauty parlors, ceramics, sewing activities, learning to read and write, and some parties in relevant national dates, all this at the hospital premises.
(11) The diplomats, we meet each other, we go to each other's receptions, we are sometimes invited by colleagues to attend a dinner or a working luncheon.
(12) Ammonia content in relation with sensory changes was studied in four kinds of meat cans (Pork in Natural Juice, Beef with Bacon, Luncheon Meat, and Liver Pâté), stored for 36 months under constant conditions (average temperature 21 degrees C. average relative humidity 73%).
(13) In the wake of the uproar, DeVos made a more concerted effort to acknowledge the barriers to education faced by African Americans while addressing a luncheon with HBCU leaders in Washington on Tuesday.
(14) The luncheon meat samples gave the lowest total bacterial counts and seemed to be free of coliforms.
(15) The incriminated meal was a salad buffet luncheon served on May 31.
(16) And now, Lady Diana having departed to that great Hons Cupboard in the sky, there remains only the octogenarian Duchess of Devonshire, the sprightliest literary luncheon-goer imaginable, and the only person I have ever met to have spoken to Hitler.
(17) If extended home care is not feasible, the creative diabetes educator will devise other educational opportunities, such as home videos, telephone support networks, special childbirth classes for women with gestational diabetes, and luncheon meetings at which nutritionally correct meals are served.
(18) (It was there I learned of a local hostess, a well-to-do lady with liberal intentions and a comically earnest air, who had thrown a luncheon at her penthouse "to rap about rape.")
(19) In 2014, Trump told a press luncheon that he “spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer”.
(20) Black children reported more servings of eggs, luncheon meat, pork, poultry, and total protein than did white children.