(n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
(n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
(n.) The coffee bean.
(n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
(v. i.) To bear or produce berries.
(n.) A mound; a hillock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pain relieved by antacids, age above 40 years, previous peptic ulcer disease, male sex, symptoms provoked by berries, and night pain relieved by antacids and food were found to predict organic dyspepsia with a sensitivity and specificity of approximately 70%, when applied on the observed material.
(2) The observations have been compared with those of Berry and Berry (1967) on Ashanti race of Nigerians.
(3) Total thyroidectomy removes all visible thyroid tissue although it is permissible to leave a very small remnant of tissue (less than a fraction of a gram) in the region of the ligament of Berry in order to protect the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the blood supply to the parathyroid glands.
(4) "Numerous studies have shown that, at higher speeds, traffic flow becomes more unstable," said Berry.
(5) Antibodies to immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A against Yersinia enterocolitica serotypes O:3, O:5, O:8, and O:9 and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes I and III were analyzed by enzyme immunoassay of the serum samples of 161 slaughterhouse workers, 147 pig farmers, and 114 grain or berry farmers.
(6) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Nothing came of it, but Berry did his job there.
(7) Radiological investigation showed an anterior communicating aneurysm, and postmortem examination confirmed the aneurysm to be a so-called "berry" aneurysm.
(8) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
(9) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
(10) Remove the red and black currants from their stalks and add to the berries, then tip in the water and sugar and bring to the boil.
(11) Three ways with cider vinegar • Winter salad dressing Boil two shallots with a few juniper berries and thyme leaves, then reduce 150ml cider vinegar by half and mix with the above.
(12) One patient had multiple vascular malformations including telangiectasias of the brain, medulla, and spinal cord and a berry aneurysm of the internal carotid artery; she also had a large cerebellar abscess, presumably reflecting the presence of a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula.
(13) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
(14) Mary Berry I think it works as a show because it is totally honest and I always think we encourage people to bake.
(15) Two cases are described here: in one, infection was present; in the other, there was a berry aneurysm of the middle meningeal artery with a small parietal dural angioma.
(16) We observed a four-year-old girl with Stevens-Johnson syndrome attributed to ingestion of salmon berries (Rubus spectabilis).
(17) When she refuses to watch it, Randy vomits masticated Member Berries on both of them.
(18) Two unusual proteins, discovered in African berries, possess the interesting property of having a very high specificity for the sweet receptors.
(19) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(20) Here's Berry who represents the tying run, but he strikes out to end the inning and is booed!
Thresh
Definition:
(v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
(v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
(v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
(v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.
Example Sentences:
(1) In late July and early August 1990, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among persons who had eaten a meal while attending an agricultural threshing show in North Dakota on July 28-29.
(2) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
(3) I don’t think I can continue with something that is no longer moving forward.” If he does, it will spell the end for a collection that spans the 93 years since paper discs were introduced in 1921 and includes samples from fire engines, ambulances and threshing machines.
(4) Farmer's lung, caused by the inhalation of microspores--particularly of the genus, Thermoactinomyces--has been recognised for the past 30-40 years as a condition affecting adult farm workers, especially up to the mid-sixties when undried crops were still threshed indoors.
(5) 50 patients acquired the infection during common farming activities, such as making fresh hay with a hay-cutter, handling dry hay, threshing, etc.
(6) The following substances were found to play a causal role in the development of asthma in exposed persons: penicillin dust, dust inhaled during the threshing of grain, persulfate, formalin, inorganic cooling agents.
(7) At the onset of sweating, the tympanic threshold temperature (Tty,thresh) was higher in the L phase [37.18 (SEM 0.08) degrees C] than in the F phase [36.95 (SEM 0.07) degrees C; P less than 0.01].
(8) Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals.
(9) Three neat rows of long grass in his garden are purple free-threshing spelt, grown from the "one handful of the seed in the world".
(10) A 5% level of significance was statistically recognized in the thresh old at 35 min after light adaptation between the stages IIIa and IIIb of retinopathy.
(11) Heydi had fallen in a rice-threshing machine as a baby and suffered permanent brain damage.
(12) The magnitude of the shift in Tty,thresh [0.23 (SEM 0.07) degrees C] was similar to the L-F difference in Tty observed at the end of the N exposure.
(13) The chef spent several hours studying Forbes's Heath Robinson set-up – including a threshing machine made out of BMX bike rims, scooter wheels, a Chinese sewing machine, and a rubber mat used for wiping shoes outside hospitals – and announced he would buy as much bread as Forbes was willing to sell.
(14) There are small businesses that provide a mobile threshing service, reducing post-harvest losses to less than 20%.