(v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
(v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
(v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
(n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.
(v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.
(v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
Example Sentences:
(1) The usefulness of rectal biopsy is now largely confined to Batten's disease, which was found in 32 (34 per cent of the total).
(2) Nonesterified dolichols have been measured in the urinary sediment of 20 patients with the late infantile and juvenile forms of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease), in 15 patients with other storage and neurodegenerative disorders and in 10 control subjects.
(3) Asked why Muslims had been singled out, rather than followers of other faiths, Batten said: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?
(4) Application of the formula in 3 patients with the juvenile CLF, the M. Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt, resulted in a mitigated course of the disease.
(5) On Tuesday, the Guardian reported that Batten supported the creation of a code of conduct for British Muslims and argued for a ban on new mosques in Britain.
(6) He attacked, battened down the hatches on his serve and was merciless in the tie-break, levelling the match with a well-placed volley.
(7) Ukip also has history with Assange: Gerard Batten, a Ukip member of the European parliament (MEP) , defended the Wikileaks founder in a speech in the European parliament in 2011.
(8) Skin biopsy is a reliable method for diagnosis of Batten disease; it is probably not reliable in Kufs disease.
(9) The present data indicate that a group of ten patients with Batten's syndrome showed reduced activity of erythrocyte glutathione (GSH) peroxidase (Px) (glutathione: H2O2 oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.9.)
(10) The large amplitude discharges reported with photic stimulation in children with the late infantile form of Batten disease were not elicited in the dog model.
(11) Batten also repeated his view that some Muslim texts need updating, claiming some say "kill Jews wherever you find them and various things like that".
(12) Asked on Tuesday whether he still believed Muslims should sign the charter, Batten said: "I don't suppose the pope would disagree with it or the archbishop of Canterbury or anybody else.
(13) Batten told Newsnight: “I’m not interested in being part of a European political party.
(14) Thus there is evidence for molecular and genetic heterogeneity in Batten disease.
(15) Mary Honeyball, a Labour MEP for London, said that Batten "represents the ugliest side of Ukip".
(16) The linoleic acid content of serum lipids was measured in 10 paitents with Batten's disease and 11 healthy control subjects by gas liquid chromatography.
(17) Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love.
(18) Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL, Batten disease) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by progressive mental retardation, cortical atrophy, seizures, and retinal degeneration.
(19) Farage said: "This was a private publication from Gerard Batten in 2006 and its contents are not and never have been Ukip policy.
(20) Another leaked email shows that the party's immigration spokesman, Gerard Batten, warned Ukip officials that he and other MEPs could face jail if they carried out Bown's demands.
Fatten
Definition:
(v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
(v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
(v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its director, Susanne Logstrup, warned that replacing glucose and sucrose with "healthier" fructose might make people think a drink or food was less fattening.
(2) While out of 2,394 pigs raised in small private farms, 1.67% were positive with high infection rates, none of the pigs raised on a modern breeding and fattening farm were seropositive.
(3) Ulcers developed during all seasons and all stages of fattening, but were more common during the first 45 days of winter-initiated fattening than during other times.
(4) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
(5) Recently the disease in sheep and goats is marked by increased incidence and severe cases which cause many losses especially among lambs in fattening farms.
(6) Eight variants of recipes for mixtures of straw and concentrated feed with 10 to 60 per cent straw more or less finely ground (86 to 314 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) and fattening feed for lambs (50 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) were checked concerning the digestibility of crude nutrients for fullgrown wethers and 60 to 80-, 80 to 100-and 100 to 120-day-old lambs which had been ablactated at an age of 60 days.
(7) The effect of 100 ppm of Fe in milk replacer on some hematological and tissue Fe variables was studied during the first 7 wk of the fattening period in two groups of eight calves with low or high initial blood hemoglobin concentrations.
(8) As the concentrations of contaminants in the stable microclimate decrease, papular dermatitis starts declining and the susceptible part of the population of fattened pigs remains latently (free of symptoms) hidden in the population.
(9) Marked increases in hepatic malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activities were associated in birds with premigratory fattening.
(10) The effect of different iron concentrations in the milk replacer on the development of iron deficiency anaemia during a fattening period of 28 weeks was studied in three groups of 14 calves.
(11) In this field trial, the repercussions of 2 administration forms of oxfendazole, namely a single administration of a front-loaded device (group 1; n = 18) and a repeated administration of a 90.6 per cent oral suspension (group 2; n = 18), were compared in first season-grazing double-muscled fattening bulls.
(12) To determine whether degree of weight gain, diet composition, or some special mechanism militating against adipocyte hyperplasia may underlie the absence of adipocyte hyperplasia in hibernators, male Richardson's ground squirrels, Spermophilus richardsonii, were fed a fattening high-fat diet for either 5 mo or 1 yr.
(13) Five fattening rounds were completed and a total number of 2,400 fattening pigs took part in this study.
(14) The efficiency of utilization of the ME of the dried lucerne for growth and fattening was higher (P less than 0.01) when given in the ground pelleted form (0.533), than in the chopped form (0.284).
(15) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(16) In the subtropical finch, spotted munia (Lonchura punctulata), circanual rhythms (of gonads, fattening, feeding) have been demonstrated in an information-free environment of continuous illumination (LL), rendering it an ideal model for research on the physiology of the circannual clock.
(17) The "recovery" so far consists primarily of vaporous paper money – inflated stock prices and bounding home prices that provide a "wealth effect" but don't actually fatten anyone's bank accounts or pay anyone's bills.
(18) The content of free amino acids in the three proofed tissues of fattening hybrids with a high demand of amino acids and a high protein synthesis performance was considerably above the values for rats as they are given in technical literature.
(19) For the fattening farm the following elements of confinement management were negatively correlated with pulmonary function: fully slatted floor, an automatic feeding system, natural ventilation, and the use of dust masks.
(20) Thus fattened for market, a basket-case operation became an investment proposition which – in the words of one London stockbroker – promises " a royal return on your money ".