(a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
(a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
(n.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
Example Sentences:
(1) The improved economic status of the aged has been documented by a series of surveys beginning in 1941-42 and carried out from time to time until 1972 and biennially since 1976.
(2) In both sexes, at all ages, all-cause, cardiovascular, and coronary mortality rates increased progressively in relation to antecedent heart rates determined biennially.
(3) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(4) Cigarette smoking cessation and resumption patterns are presented from biennial examination data from the Framingham Study for the years 1956-1978.
(5) My exploded shed was made in 1991, but it wasn't until it was shown at São Paulo Biennial in 1994 that it became well-known."
(6) Events such as the Glasgow International and Manchester International are now must-sees, and the Folkestone Biennial looks like following suit.
(7) More than one in four myocardial infarctions that occurred over 30 years in the Framingham Study were detected only because of routine biennial electrocardiographic examinations.
(8) Assessments are made during routine surveys by field technicians, monthly by the Radiation Safety Officer, and biennially by an independent radiological expert.
(9) The obese classification was based on maximum body mass index (BMI) over the 16 available biennial examinations of the Framingham Heart Study.
(10) The selection of this population and the success in following it through biennial clinical examinations and indirect surveillance for deaths and hospitalizations are described.
(11) Based on 472 stroke events occurring during 10 years' follow-up from biennial examinations 9 and 14, stroke probabilities were computed using the Cox proportional hazards model for each sex based on a point system.
(12) The subjects consisted of 143 males and 208 females aged 58-88 years at the 15th biennial examination in 1978.
(13) During the tenth biennial examination of the Framingham Study, 1315 participants who were free of cardiovascular disease had fibrinogen levels measured.
(14) The festival was co-founded by Erlend Mogård-Larsen and curator Helga-Marie Nordby , who got the idea after working on an art biennial in Lofoten, Norway in 2010.
(15) It is the first time the biennial competition has been held in the UK for over 40 years.
(16) The hypothesis that obesity-related hypertension is relatively innocuous was explored by an examination of cardiovascular events over 34 years of follow-up when related to biennially measured weights and blood pressures using time-dependent covariate proportional hazards analysis.
(17) Perhaps his most significant international contribution was co-founding in 1978, with John Peatling, the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (Isrev), bringing together international scholars at biennial conferences, initially held alternately in Europe and North America.
(18) Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, took a clipboard and with mayor Ed Lee scoured San Francisco streets last week for the biennial homeless count.
(19) In terms of the bienniale itself, I was not so interested in what was happening on Riva degli Schiavoni [where some of the yachts are moored].
(20) More young people are joining the dole queue, with the youth unemployment rate increasing from 8.8% in 2008 to 13.3% in 2014, according to the biennial welfare report card from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Parsley
Definition:
(n.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(2) Southern hybridization with genomic DNA suggested that only one or two copies of the respective gene(s) are present in the parsley genome.
(3) The procedure reported here is for the extraction and determination of prometryn and 2 metabolites, 2-amino-4-isopropylamino-6-methyl-thio-1,3,5-triazine and 2,4-diamino-6-methylthio-1,3,5-triazine, in parsley.
(4) Furthermore, isolated nuclei from parsley exhibited a powerful nucleoside triphosphatase (NTPase) activity.
(5) In our experience the occurrence of urticaria, angioedema or anaphylaxis after meals in Chinese or Indonesian restaurants is more often due to IgE-mediated Type I food allergy, caused by consumption of shrimp, peanut or spices, in particular those of the parsley family (e.g.
(6) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
(7) Microsomal fractions isolated from parsley cell suspension cultures, which had been challenged with an elicitor from either Alternaria carthami or Phytophthora megasperma f. sp.
(8) parsley, chives, thyme, fennel or another herb for the parsley.
(9) Finely chop the remaining parsley, tip it into a bowl, then mix in the onion and remaining lemon juice.
(10) We were excited and looking forward to having a field behind with cow parsley and skylarks.
(11) Parsley and carrot cells were labelled with [32P]orthophosphate.
(12) Only 4 of the analysed 21 vegetables exhibited fluorine contents exceeding those admitted by the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (2.5 mg F per 1 kg of vegetable wet weight); they included: young beet leaves, parsley tops, lettuce and sorrel.
(13) The parsley chalcone synthase promoter contains two cis "units" that are light-responsive.
(14) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
(15) Furthermore hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives (salicylic, gentisic and vanillic acid) occur in cornsalad, sweet fennel, parsley and spinach in small concentrations; cornsalad shows p-hydroxybenzoic acid (ca.
(16) Irradiation of previously dark-grown cell suspension cultures from parsley (Petroselinum hortense Hoffm.)
(17) The absorption and circular dichroic (CD) spectra of parsley plastocyanin (PC) were measured in order to determine the effects of changes in primary amino acid sequence on both the copper center and protein components of the PC molecule.
(18) Serves 4 For the brisket 2.5kg salted brisket on the bone 2 onions with skin, cleaned 3 litres water 4 bay leaves 6 peppercorns 1 bunch of parsley, with stalks For the dumplings 200g suet 400g self-raising flour 1 bunch of young carrots, peeled 2 sticks celery, cut into 2cm lengths 1 Rinse any excess salt from the beef.
(19) The cytochrome had a midpoint redox potential of +365 mV and was oxidised very rapidly by parsley plastocyanin.
(20) These elements were measured in cabbages, tomatoes, carrots, parsley, celery (root and leaves), red beet and potatoes.