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Boutade


Definition:

  • (n.) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.

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Caprice


Definition:

  • (v. i.) An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
  • (v. i.) See Capriccio.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's not Le Caprice - but it's not Belmarsh either," he writes.
  • (2) injection capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acid delayed the onset of picrotoxin-induced clonic convulsion in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (3) Myristic and palmitic acids were converted to the corresponding omega-and (omega-1)-hydroxy fatty acids, whereas lauric acid was converted only to 12-hydroxylauric acid, and capric acid, to 9-and 10-hydroxycapric acids together with an unknown polar acid.
  • (4) A personal pension pot, so called, is subject to the caprice of both stock markets and interest rates.
  • (5) In each dietary condition, in vitro incorporation of exogenously added fatty acids (ranging from capric to oleic acid) was studied in epididymal adipose glycerides.
  • (6) In trial 3, a teat germicide aged at ambient temperature for 33 mo, which was originally formulated to contain 1% Lauricidin, 5% caprylic and capric acids, and 6% lactic acid, was evaluated.
  • (7) To metabolize extracellular superoxide radicals effectively at or near cell membranes, we synthesized amphipathic superoxide dismutase (SOD) derivatives (AC-SOD) by covalently linking hydrophobic fatty acids with different chain lengths, such as caprylic acid, capric acid, lauric acid and myristic acid, to the lysyl amino groups of the enzyme.
  • (8) But even Tim Oliver of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, who advances this vision , says the UK would be a junior partner, dependent on the caprices of European institutions, trying to negotiate bilateral free trade deals from a position of weakness.
  • (9) Milk of Egyptian women contained significantly higher percentages of capric, lauric, myristic, linoleic and arachidonic acids, saturated fatty acids (SFA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).
  • (10) A considerable portion of capric and caprylic acid was absorbed through the lymph duct, although to a lesser extent than was linoleic acid.
  • (11) Lauric and myristic acids were preferentially metabolized to their omega-1 hydroxy counterparts while no hydroxylation occurred when capric acid was used as the substrate.
  • (12) The seed lipids of Cuphea were first discovered in the 1960s to contain high percentages of several medium-chain fatty acids, including caprylic, capric, lauric, and myristic acid.
  • (13) The increase in the synaptic potential was significant with arachidonic acid (100 microM), oleic acid (100 microM), myristic acid (250 microM) and capric acid (250 microM).
  • (14) Capric, lauric, palmitoleic, linoleic, and arachidonic acids each inhibited the rate of angiotensin I production in vitro (P less than 0.01).
  • (15) Hydrolysis, followed by analysis by thin-layer chromatography, paper chromatography, gas chromatography, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry showed that the radioactivity was greatest in the medium-chain n-fatty acids, caprylic (C8) and capric (C10) acids.
  • (16) Inhibition is strongest in the presence of caprylic, capric and lauric acid (C8-C12) i.e.
  • (17) A similar trend was observed when the medium-chain fatty acid was caprylic acid instead of capric acid.
  • (18) To scavenge superoxide radicals on the outer surface of corneal epithelial cells, the authors synthesized an acylated SOD derivative (AC-SOD) by linking capric acid.
  • (19) The interference of hyperthermia and ionizing radiation, respectively, with the effects of capric (10:0), lauric (12:0), myristic (14:0), oleic (cis-18:1) and elaidic (trans-18:1) acids on the osmotic resistance of human erythrocytes was investigated.
  • (20) Tim Hughes is chef director at Caprice Holdings; caprice-holdings.co.uk Yong Shuang Peng’s dry-fried prawns Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Dry-fried prawns are highly addictive – these are hot, spicy, aromatic and crispy.

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