(v. t.) Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
(v. t.) Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.
(v. t.) A treat, or drink money.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(2) Standards may be developed for the use of alcoholic beverages by healthy persons, based on these considerations.
(3) Similarly, ingestion of the unsweetened beverage had no significant effect on plasma phenylalanine concentration.
(4) 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.
(5) The results of this study indicate that the degree of impairment after alcohol ingestion in a socially relevant manner is not dependent on the type of beverage consumed, but only on the resulting blood alcohol concentration.
(6) This response may have been influenced by the consumption of beverages containing osmotically active solutes such as sodium and glucose.
(7) At gestational weeks 16 and 21 (second trimester) and 30 and 35 (third trimester) the women were interviewed at home; they provided oral responses concerning their food and beverage consumption during the previous 24 hours.
(8) The Office for National Statistics reported a drop in output across the manufacturing sector, from pharmaceutical firm to makers of computers, electronic & optical products; and food products, beverages & tobacco goods.
(9) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
(10) Also little amount of n-propanol were detected in blood, which could not be reduced to the alcoholic beverages.
(11) Supplementation of the soya-bean beverage either with phosphorus and Ca or with P, Ca and methionine, to concentrations identical to those in milk, restored growth and bone mineralization.
(12) A total of 192 women with a clinical and thermographic diagnosis of fibrocystic breast disease were randomly assigned to four groups on the basis of two-by-two factorial design: (1) abstention from MTX-containing beverages, (2) abstention from alcohol, (3) abstention from MTX and alcohol, and (4) no dietary advice.
(13) The labeling of alcoholic beverages as 'vitamin enriched' could result in changes in the community's beliefs about alcohol and in increased alcohol consumption.
(14) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
(15) The risk of exceeding the Acceptable Daily Intake concerns only regular consumers (40-75 years old) of alcoholic beverages, particularly wine, the main vector.
(16) In the other, each serving of beverage provided 600 mg APM, a dose equivalent to the amount provided by 36 oz of APM-sweetened diet beverage.
(17) Confirming the presence of biologically active phytoestrogens in beer and their possible presence in other beverages, suggests that there may be clinically significant effects related to sustained exposure to phytoestrogens contained in alcoholic beverages.
(18) Approximately half of all respondents surveyed in Ontario are satisfied with current pricing of alcoholic beverages, and approximately two-thirds of all drinkers surveyed would pay more if higher prices would help reduce the prevalence of alcoholism.
(19) This study shows that restricting consumption of confectionery and beverages may be effective in preventing dental caries; however, encouragement of toothbrushing may not be effective in limiting dental caries progression.
(20) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
Whig
Definition:
(n.) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
(n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
(n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.
(n.) One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) As EP Thompson noted in the final chapter of Whigs and Hunters, where he reviewed the history of law in Britain, no complex society can operate without a system of law even if there is a “whole inheritance” of struggle about what that is and how it should be applied.
(2) "The chapter which primes applicants' knowledge about history is permeated with the sort of Whig views of the world-civilising mission of the British realm which have encouraged generations of Etonians and Harrovians to play their role in the great imperial enterprise.
(3) A New York Times article from 1973, "Freedom of Expression Taking Hold in Liberia" , describes Porte's lonely crusade under the True Whig regime as coming to an end.
(4) As 1066 and All That put it: "The Whigs said George I was king."
(5) Seven strains were made with pairwise combinations of whiA and B mutations with whiG, H and I mutations and with each other.
(6) Fillmore – an unmemorable man with a memorable name who often finds himself on lists of America’s worst presidents – was tapped to run by the Whig Party to run for vice president in 1848 because, as a moderate northerner, his presence was supposed to balance war hero Zachary Taylor, a slave-holding southerner, on the top of the ticket.
(7) High copy number of an intact whiG gene caused sporulation in vegetative hyphae that are usually fated to lyse without sporulating.
(8) After The Making came Whigs & Hunters , a book on the Black Acts – the notorious Georgian legislation that criminalised not only the killing of deer, but also any suspicious activity that might hint at the intention to kill deer.
(9) Fillmore’s most notable act as president was throwing his weight behind the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, which simultaneously angered northern liberal Whigs as well as some southerners in slave-holding states.
(10) However, the introduction of many copies of a sigma 28-dependent promoter from B. subtilis into S. coelicolor reduced sporulation, suggesting partial sequestration of the whiG gene product by the foreign promoter sequences.
(11) There were 60 family members and servants living in the house in the early 17th century, and it was later home to Charles Watson-Wentworth, a British Whig politician who served twice as prime minister.
(12) In the mycelial prokaryote S. coelicolor, whiG is a gene dispensable for growth but needed for the earliest stages of spore formation in aerial hyphae.
(13) We propose that the level of whiG sigma factor is crucial in determining the developmental fate of hyphae.
(14) Transcription from P1 and P2 was observed during surface culture in strains carrying mutations blocking aerial mycelium formation (bldA and bldB) or the formation of spores in aerial mycelium (whiA, whiB, whiG, and whiH).
(15) Nucleotide sequencing indicates that whiG encodes an RNA polymerase sigma factor highly similar to the motility sigma factor (sigma 28) of B. subtilis.
(16) With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, many Democrats and Whigs grew disgusted with how partisan politics was ruining America and many bolted to the Know Nothings because, while they were anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant, they were also anti-slavery.
(17) Whig leaders began openly negotiating with William of Orange, whose wife, Mary, was second in line to the throne, a Stuart but a Protestant.
(18) The double mutants always closely resembled one of the single mutant parent strains in morphology and a consistent scheme of epistasis was obtained--whiG being epistatic to whiH, A, B and I; whiH to whiA, B and I; and whiA or B to whiI.
(19) The towering historian of the left EP Thompson agreed with him, and conjured a pitiless elite of aristocratic Whigs, unrelenting in the exhibition of authority.
(20) Burke was, of course, a Whig rather than a Tory: Dr Emily Jones’s new monograph, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, adroitly traces the ways in which later Tories rewrote Burke’s wider legacy to foreground the revolutions, claiming him as one of their own.