What's the difference between bread and war?

Bread


Definition:

  • (a.) To spread.
  • (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
  • (n.) Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • (v. t.) To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (3) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
  • (4) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
  • (5) Some oligomers of N-acetyl-glucosamine were also effective in blocking the inhibitory effect of "bread" wheat gliadin peptides.
  • (6) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (7) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (8) For the consumer, it’s a convenient way to buy local groceries, everything from vegetables to fish, cheese and bread is all sold on one website and can be collected from one place.” There are now over 450 assemblies in France and Belgium, and the company is launching in Britain, Germany and Spain.
  • (9) But the co-founder of London's Prufrock cafe says that producing great espresso is "no more complicated than making bread".
  • (10) Approximately 80 g labeled bread was consumed by each subject, providing a total calcium load of 13.3 mg.
  • (11) The feeding test indicated a relatively low toxicity of molded bread.
  • (12) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
  • (13) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
  • (14) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
  • (15) In both cases the postprandial glucose response was lower after rye bread than after wheat bread.
  • (16) Rheological properties of flour and quality parameters of bread are changed to a greater or lesser extent, among other, by addition of free amino acids.
  • (17) We have studied the effects of dextrose, rice, potato, corn, and bread on postprandial plasma glucose and insulin responses in 16 subjects.
  • (18) A probable explanation for the well maintained serum folate levels in late pregnancy as well as in other populations studied in this report may be the high dietary intake of Iranian bread made from wheat flour of high extraction rate.
  • (19) Studies in normal or iron deficient adults also demonstrated a better absorption of iron from NaFeEDTA than from Fe2(SO4)3 whether these compounds were given in an aqueous solution (5 mg Fe) or with a standard meal consisting of beans, tortillas, bread, and coffee providing also a total of 5 mg Fe.
  • (20) A similar meal in which guar was added to the bread and pectin to the marmalade resulted in significant reductions of blood glucose at 15 min (P less than 0.002) and 30 min (P less than 0.01).

War


Definition:

  • (a.) Ware; aware.
  • (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
  • (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
  • (n.) Instruments of war.
  • (n.) Forces; army.
  • (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
  • (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
  • (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
  • (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
  • (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
  • (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
  • (2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (5) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (6) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (7) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
  • (8) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (9) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
  • (11) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (12) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (13) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
  • (14) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
  • (15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
  • (16) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (17) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (18) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
  • (19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (20) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.

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