(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
(n.) A boar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mrs Brawne role is quiet, but has the visceral quality that marks Fox's best work; she is a widow, trying to negotiate her daughter's passion for the penniless Keats and the pressing financial need for her to marry well.
(2) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
(3) Campaign magazine says: “To help propel an agency to the top through its strategic work takes some doing, but to keep it there for ten years demonstrates a scary strength of will.” When they named her as top media planner for the second year they wrote “the brains behind the brawn of MediaCom her impact and influence on the business remain second to none”.
(4) It was taken over by Brawn GP, who went on to win the constructors' title in the current season, which ended in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
(5) People need to aspire to become partners.” Miranda Brawn, a barrister and a director at Daiwa Capital Markets, said it was important for young people to have role models or mentors so they could see people like themselves in senior legal positions.
(6) Both teams played with three central defenders, which felt sophisticated, but this contest was all about brawn.
(7) But while Brawn supported the idea of an apprenticeship, she was worried that it would come up against snobbery, and there was a general concern among those at the roundtable that without support from the top of the legal profession it could lead to a two-tier system.
(8) Now 43, the boy from Quebec city has gained a little brawn and is no longer quite so feline and delicate.
(9) Their creative cuisine has seduced local Parisians and the place is packed out every lunchtime for dishes such as smoked haddock and cabbage chowder, pork brawn and prune pâté, and lamb chops with broad beans and crunchy puntarella (chicory).
(10) Indeed, with his mixture of brawn and earthy charm, Pratt is increasingly coming to resemble a more contemporary Hollywood star: Harrison Ford.
(11) It was not a party political debate, not left versus right, spooks vs traitors, or even brains versus brawn, though critics of GCHQ and the NSA could probably muster more GCSEs and PhDs on Thursday than the muscular "Spying is what spies do" spooks lobby, several of whom have "interesting" CVs.
(12) I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn.
(13) Fox's other new work is the film Bright Star, a biopic of John Keats and his love Fanny Brawne, whose mother Fox plays.
(14) Under the auspices of Peter Wright, the FIA’s president of the safety commission, the panel comprised such figures as Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali, Emerson Fittipaldi and Alex Wurz.
(15) • One hour from £17, kayakrepublic.dk emilydevon Family rafting adventure in Sweden Facebook Twitter Pinterest Building our own timber log raft was a real family team exercise: our 13-year-old became the knots and rope expert, the 15-year-old provided the brawn and the eight-year-old verbally supervised.
(16) Last year's How to Train Your Dragon, for example, bravely centred on a wimpy geek – a feminised hero who relied on brain rather than brawn, thus winning the affections of a physically superior female.
(17) He has to rely on brains, brawn and guts, nothing else.
(18) They laboured to deal with Romelu Lukaku’s brawn, and the invention of Ross Barkley, Aaron Lennon and Kevin Mirallas in midfield, with team-mates forever galloping upfield in support.
(19) Wielding a mixture of legal and diplomatic brawn, the letter warned the institutions to "bear in mind … the sovereignty dispute and … the consequences of any unlawful hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Argentine continenal shelf in proximity to the Malvinas [Falkland] islands".
(20) The property boom, at least in the London area, is also pushing wages for bricklayers above £100,000 a year, according to a report by consultancy EC Harris, after a "brawn drain" of labourers during the recession has left the capital with a shortage of skilled workers.
Prawn
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(2) Wetlands also act as nursery grounds for juvenile fish and prawns.
(3) The small prawns found on the shore during the winter exhibited a much altered behaviour.
(4) The survival rate of the prawns reared under L0:D24 photoperiod was also higher than that of other groups.
(5) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(6) In view of reports that the nerve fibers of the sea prawn conduct impulses more rapidly than other invertebrate nerves and look like myelinated vertebrate nerves in the light microscope, prawn nerve fibers were studied with the electron microscope.
(7) This summer’s shocking revelations about slavery in the Thai fishing industry , which supplies prawns to UK supermarkets, demonstrate that voluntary systems are failing to identify and eradicate these practices.
(8) In all the insecticide exposed prawn tissues, Ammonia levels were significantly increased and a shift in the nitrogen metabolism towards the synthesis of urea and glutamine was observed.
(9) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(10) Ridgeback prawns formed beta-D-glucosides in small quantities, preferring conjugation of p-nitrophenol and 4-nitro-m-cresol to form sulphates and unknown conjugates through a unique conjugation pathway.
(11) 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 for N-acetyl) of chitosan were prepared from prawn shell chitosan, and their susceptibility towards a lysozyme from hen egg-white, three microbial chitinases and a chitinase from potato skins was examined.
(12) At Maní, this quintessential Brazilian fruit comes in the form of a fuchsia-coloured cold soup with a prawn steamed in cachaça.
(13) Dab on a little water to help the cornflour stick to the prawns if necessary.
(14) Hepatopancreatic brush border membrane vesicles of the freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii and the marine lobster, Homarus americanus exhibited 22Na uptake which was Cl-independent, amiloride sensitive, and stimulated by a transmembrane H gradient (Hi greater than Ho).
(15) A prawn of 15 mm carapace length could not eliminate all snails.
(16) Changes in hepatopancreas, muscle and gill tissue nitrogen metabolic profiles were studied in a penaeid prawn, Penaeus indicus, following its exposure to sublethal concentrations of methylparathion, carbaryl and aldrin.
(17) Serves 2 1 lemon, very thinly sliced 1 tsp salt 1 tsp caster sugar For the garam masala 1 tsp black peppercorns 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp coriander seeds 2 cardamom pods, seeds only ½ tsp ground cinnamon 1 whole clove For the prawns 2 small shallots, halved 10g ginger, finely grated 2 garlic cloves, finely grated ½ tsp chilli flakes 2 rosemary sprigs, leaves picked and finely chopped 125g tenderstem broccoli, sliced into thirds 200g large prawns, peeled 5g each of basil and coriander, leaves picked 1 Place the lemon slices in a bowl and sprinkle both sides with the salt and caster sugar.
(18) Enjoy tapas – grilled artichoke, skewers of chicken, grilled prawns, cheese or salty hot pork on warm bread – while standing at the marble bar, or raciones at a table round the back.
(19) Effects of phorbol ester (PE) (4 beta-phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate) on transmitter release were studied in the deep extensor neuromuscular system of the prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii.
(20) Population experiments demonstrated that a prawn of 25 mm carapace length could eliminate 95% of a population of 80 snails in a 20-1 aquarium within 20 days and all snails by day 40.