(n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.
(n.) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(2) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
(3) These results suggest that smoking and beer consumption are independent risk factors for colonic adenomas.
(4) A total of 194 beers (148 US and 46 Canadian) were analysed for volatile N-nitrosamines.
(5) Beer had been brewed at the site continuously since the 16th century, in 1831 becoming the home of brewers Young & Co, which maintained the pub that gave the brewery its name.
(6) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(7) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
(8) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(9) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(10) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(11) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
(12) I’ve known them for over 10 years,” said Eugene Ward, 43, clutching a bag of water bottles and beer cans.
(13) Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight Sunday • Tobacco duty will rise immediately by 1% above inflation this year, then 2% • Increase in fuel duty to be staged.
(14) Turning water into beer With support from the government, Cerut gave out small grants of around €1,000 to more than 200 women to invest in businesses such as farming, soft drinks processing and cattle-rearing.
(15) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
(16) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(17) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(18) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
(19) And failing that, drink a Diet Coke and a beer simultaneously just before you go in.
(20) Changes in the nature of the heme group have been monitored by visible absorption spectrophotometry and analysed quantitatively by a multiple wavelength method based on Beer's Law.
Dumpy
Definition:
(superl.) Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout.
(superl.) Sullen or discontented.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes are rather dumpy mice of approximately normal weight but with short limbs and tail.
(2) While the masculinization is blocked by mutations in sex determining genes required for male development (her-1 and fem-3), the lethality, dumpiness and overexpression of X-linked genes are not, indicating that the effect of sdc-2 mutations on sex determination and dosage compensation are ultimately implemented by two independent pathways.
(3) The nonmuscle mutations include dumpy and uncoordinated types that have no obvious direct effect on muscle organization.
(4) This wing shape resembles that of the mutant dumpy.
(5) Nixon’s wife has been described as “short and dumpy” and “burly in a beige jacket”.
(6) Double mutants constructed from rollers and dumpy mutants that are short and fat indicate dumpy phenotype is epistatic to roller.
(7) Twenty-eight independent sdc-2 mutations have no apparent effect in XO animals, but cause two distinct phenotypes in XX animals: masculinization, reflecting a defect in sex determination, and lethality or dumpiness, reflecting a disruption in dosage compensation.
(8) By mapping and complementation tests, we found that these suppressors are mutations of known dumpy (dpy) genes; dpy genes are required for development of normal body shape.
(9) A short, dumpy Londoner who was not, in the words of some who knew him, one of the world's greatest thinkers, Berjawi had been fighting for months in Somalia with al-Shabaab, the Islamist militant group.
(10) On the other hand, administration of these drugs to the mutant dumpy strain increases wing length, and flies with normal wings are obtained.
(11) I didn’t see dumpy 11-year-olds with basin haircuts.
(12) These data lend support to the thesis that (1) complete dumpy mutations of the olv and ov types are more frequently associated with chromosomal aberrations than those of the ol, lv, o, v and c types, and (2) fractional mutations and complete mutations of the (ol, lv, o, v, c) types are most probably point mutational events.
(13) The effectiveness of 14.1 MeV neutrons relative to 200 kV X-rays for the induction of the various kinds of dumpy mutation in mature sperm of Drosophila melanogaster was investigated.
(14) Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans dpy-13 (dumpy) gene result in a short, chunky body shape.
(15) Our results indicate that in dumpy and taxi mutants, there are no detectable modifications in the neural projections or in the number and morphology of sensory receptors.
(16) Mutant alleles of sqt-1 can interact to produce animals with a variety of mutant phenotypes: left roller, right roller, dumpy and long.
(17) Tests included those for sex-linked lethals, sex-linked visibles, a specific visible (dumpy), and translocations.
(18) Recessive and dominant epistasis of several dumpy mutations over the blistered phenotype was observed.
(19) Linden’s are dumpy, but she wears hers as a moral vest.
(20) The second short and dumpy cells are few in number and are after seen near the ostium.