(n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.
(n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
(n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
(n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
Example Sentences:
(1) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
(2) The discount retailer, which sells products ranging from biscuits to dog food and washing-up liquid, said total sales increased more than 12% to nearly £350m in the three months to the end of December.
(3) Hence the nerves, hence the curtain twitching, hence the good tea cups and posh biscuits laid out on the table.
(4) In the spoiled samples, the highest total counts were 820 million in buttermilk biscuits.
(5) They were preparing the breakfast at our thatched hat, it was a tea and some biscuits,” Ali says.
(6) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
(7) We evaluated the effect of a compound containing alginic acid plus antacid (extra-strength Gaviscon) versus active control antacid with equal acid-neutralizing capacity on intraesophageal acid exposure following a high-fat meal (61% fat: sausage, egg, and biscuit).
(8) School-age children in Chile received 30 g of wheat-flour biscuits daily through a National School Lunch Program.
(9) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
(10) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
(11) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
(12) During a metabolic ward study, the addition of dietary fiber in the form of wheat bran biscuits to the diet of five volunteer subjects resulted in an increase in the stool wet weight and fecal solids.
(13) The dog biscuits were completely consumed significantly more often than the baits (155 of 176 [88%] for the biscuits versus 89 of 176 [50.5%] for the four baits; P less than 10(-6)), but were chewed for a significantly shorter time than the baits (mean time 34 sec for the biscuit versus 60-82 sec for the four baits: P less than 0.001).
(14) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
(15) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
(16) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
(17) ANSWERS: Maths 1 C 2 11am 3 40cm Reading 1 C 2 Fine Foods Ltd 3 Answer must refer to fact that the best before dates identify the batches of biscuits that are affected.
(18) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.
(19) Non-smokers, of both sexes, were significantly more likely than smokers to consume, frequently, fresh fruit in summer and winter, fruit juice, cooked and canned fruit, salads in summer and winter, breakfast cereals, cakes, biscuits, puddings, pasta, poultry, light desserts and preserves.
(20) It got off to a rocky start but intends to focus on Shanghai, where a rapidly growing new strata of Chinese society – the urban rich – has developed a taste for western brands from Prada to Gucci, along with French wine, Spanish olive oil and British biscuits and beer.
Spline
Definition:
(n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
(n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper addresses the latter assumption by applying a direct and flexible approach, cubic spline functions, to two widely used models: the logistic regression model for binary responses and the Cox proportional hazards regression model for survival time data.
(2) After filament images were straightened by spline-fitting, several transforms showed well-defined layer-lines arising from the helical structure of the filament.
(3) We have compared three interpolation methods (surface splines, spherical splines and tridimensional interpolation functions).
(4) The smoothing B-spline function was applied to 3, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, and 97 percentile TW2 RUS, carpal and 20-bone scores.
(5) The four parameter logistic method, which is based on an approximation of the mass action law, performed better than the Spline method, a procedure which makes no a priori assumptions about the data.
(6) The first and second derivatives of progress curves are obtained from the cubic spline function.
(7) To improve the qualitative and quantitative analysis of surfaces of protein, two new methods are proposed: one that smoothes the MS surface of Connolly with B-spline smoothing functions to highlight the significant features of the surface, and one that computes the density of surface neighborhood to allow quantitative comparison.
(8) In the model, patellofemoral joint profiles projected on a horizontal plane have been expressed as spline functions.
(9) It was demonstrated that by using a least-squares surface-fitting technique, the SPG data on the surface can accurately be described by a single parametric biquintic spline function.
(10) Approximating the signal with a linear combination of cubic B-splines with equally spaced knots, according to the linear least-squares criterion gives the desired data reduction and an elegant way to perform an automatic analysis.
(11) The practical implementation of a rapid Catmull-Rom (cardinal) spline is described, and its advantages with respect to speed and ease of use are discussed.
(12) One of these is the procedure known as one of the best automatic smoothing and differentiating techniques: generalised cross validatory spline smoothing and differentiation (GCVC).
(13) Splines, were invented nearly 30 years ago and have been shown to have desirable properties.
(14) The spline technique is superior in accuracy to sampling at eight-times the Nyquist rate and is comparable to a Fourier-transform-based interpolation algorithm.
(15) Lines representing linear regression, log-linear regression or quadratic regression were inferior to those described by linear splines.
(16) Although spline functions are by no means unknown to demographers, no simple and direct explanation of their application exists.
(17) The spline technique was used to analyse these data as continuous variables, and showed that the 'super-obese' group of families was too small to be of any practical importance.
(18) Using penalized likelihood the three curves can be fitted as cubic splines by non-linear regression, and the extent of smoothing required can be expressed in terms of smoothing parameters or equivalent degrees of freedom.
(19) In general, the bilinear and bicubic spline methods of interpolation perform about equally.
(20) The folding pathway is defined by piecewise B-spline curves and the atoms are initially positioned with respect to the local Frenet trihedra determined by the equations of the curves.