(v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
(n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reduction was more marked in the smoking glass bangle workers indicating additive effect of cigarette smoking on the small airways.
(2) In the southern state of Kerala officials are considering the distribution of "electronic bangles" which could send a signal to the nearest police station in the event of an assault.
(3) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(4) Simon Cowell once bought me a Cartier bracelet, but my favourite thing is the bangle my manager gave me from Tiffany's one Christmas.
(5) The women arrive, some in saris and matching bangles, others more low key.
(6) The cardiac cost of work and recovery pulse rates were evaluated in 38 glass bangle workers (mean age 27.8 years, SD 3.4) exposed to radiant heat (46.2 degrees C, SD 5.1) and high ambient temperature (38.2 degrees C, SD 3.4) for a mean period of 11.0 years, SD 3.5 in the glass bangle industry.
(7) Visual perception showed a downward trend among the glass bangle workers, although the MPI test indicated no personality changes.
(8) But a week later, on Friday 15 May, the bug in Perkins’s car caught his passenger, Jones, bragging: “The biggest cash robbery in history at the time and now the biggest tom [short for tomfoolery, slang for jewellery] in the fucking world, that’s what they are saying … And what a book you could write, fucking hell.” That day Perkins also said stolen Indian gold could be his pension: “I’m going to melt my good gold down.” Later, Asian necklaces, bangles and pendants were recovered.
(9) He is dressed in black, wears shades in the studio, a diamond earring, a watch that P Diddy would die for, bangles galore, every inch the rock star.
(10) Besides the cardiac stress, the cardiac cost of the work under the prevailing hot conditions in the glass bangle industry was very high, adding further to circulatory strain in these workers.
(11) The pulmonary function status of 73 glass bangle workers suffering from chronic bronchitis having varied exposures to pulmonary toxicants in the work environment was evaluated in 1984.
(12) Spirometric lung functions were evaluated in 220 asymptomatic glass bangle workers exposed to the salts of various heavy metals, such as arsenic, lead, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, cadmium, and selenium, which are used as coloring agents in the manufacture of glass bangles.
(13) alioco – The Bangles – Walk like an Egyptian and Peter Cetera – Glory of Love: "My first tape was a double 'Hits 5' cassette, it had stuff like The The - Infected (I fast forwarded this), The Bangles - Walk like an Egyptian and Peter Cetera - Glory of Love" Jiggyg – Vanila Ice and MC Hammer, Snap and 2 Unlimited: "My were caressed to the warbles of Vanila Ice and MC Hammer.
(14) The occupational and environmental factors responsible for the high prevalence of chronic bronchitis and associated ventilatory dysfunction in relatively young glass bangle workers are discussed.
(15) A year later came Parade, along with the chart-topping single Kiss (and behind it at No 2 was the Bangles’ Manic Monday, another Prince composition).
(16) The cardio-respiratory responses showed physiological strain induced by the high ambient temperature and radiant heat prevailing in the glass bangle factory.
(17) He shows off the diamond earring and two-euro bangle she bought for him.
(18) Would retro beads and bangles for a tenner, scatter cushions for £30 and "vintage" clothes at £50 really be much help for those struggling on a tiny budget?
(19) A group of 19 male children (mean age 12.1 years SEM 1.6 years) occupationally exposed to an excessively hot environment for an average duration of 2.5 years SEM 1.7 years in the glass bangle factory in Firozabad, India, were studied to evaluate the physiological strain induced by the thermal radiation (mean radiant temperature 46.2 degrees SEM 5.1 degrees C) and high ambient temperature (38.2 degrees SEM 3.4 degrees C) prevailing in the factory.
(20) A more detailed study in eight glass bangle units was therefore undertaken to make quantitative estimates of heat stress on exposed workers in the summer season.
Fritter
Definition:
(v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
(v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
(v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
(v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
(2) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
(3) Three convenience products--frozen, precooked chicken apple fritters, chicken breast fillets, and chicken patties--provided by one processor were subjectively evaluated by two taste panels of older adults, ranging in age from the sixties to middle eighties.
(4) Just as at Newcastle United last month , points had been frittered away.
(5) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(6) There's a stall devoted to petits farcis (stuffed vegetables) and another selling fresh courgette fritters.
(7) Like many women, when I had my first child I frittered it away on nappies, food and school trips.
(8) Later, he would fritter away a large part of his fortune on never-realised projects such as a theme park dedicated to racial harmony.
(9) Their candidate, Mike Thornton, presented the authority with an "invoice for wasteful spending", claiming it had frittered away millions on advertising, office furniture and consultancy fees.
(10) Skivers, on the other hand, are lazy, unreliable and manipulative, choosing to live at others' expense so that they can sleep, watch television, abuse various substances and fritter away their time.
(11) The Tap Room restaurant next door serves robust Irish dishes such as rolled pork belly with Clonakilty black pudding fritters, champ, kale and Armagh cider jus.
(12) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
(13) Instead of frittering away billions of dollars on $5 a week tax cuts for above average income earners, we should use that money for schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
(14) Noélia is a seriously good chef who serves updated Portuguese classics such as octopus fritters with coriander rice.
(15) Grey loves her way with courgettes (grated, to be made into fritters) and her gratin dauphinois.
(16) As is was already in the past, the society is nowadays again a place of scientific meeting and postgraduate medical training, whereby it has retained its traditional progressive and interdisciplinary character and will be understood as the uniting tie for the whole medicine which now tends to frittering.
(17) Science has demonstrated that each skylark needs to find the equivalent of 200 grains of wheat a day to survive cold weather, but here they were apparently frittering away their energy.
(18) He frittered away shots with successive three-putts on 10 and 11 before failing to take advantage, unlike Scott, on the two par fives that followed.
(19) 2 Heat a frying pan on a medium heat, pour a little oil into it and, when hot, spoon in small fritters.
(20) But they are just frittering it away on Flame Towers and Eurovision and the European Games.” If the Olympics and the World Cup are the top targets for ambitious rulers looking to make their mark, then beneath them sit cascading tiers of other sporting events that are increasingly sold either as an opportunity to put a country on the map or a stepping stone to landing one of the bigger fish.