(n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.
(v. t.) To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.
(v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.
(v. i.) To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutagens detectable by Salmonella typhimurium TA98, after activation by liver S-9 fraction, are formed when meat is cooked by frying, broiling and boiling.
(2) Frying or broiling of meat or fish yields powerful genotoxic carcinogens such as 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and related amino-imidazo azaarene carcinogens.
(3) Further studies appear warranted to determine whether some of the adverse effects of environmental carcinogens, as found in cigarette smoke, charcoal-broiled meats, and industrial wastes, might be alleviated by dietary intervention.
(4) A high pressure liquid chromatographic procedure has been developed and applied to the analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's) in 70 samples of smoked food products commercially available in Canada, and in 6 charcoal broiled meats.
(5) Initial applications have been demonstrated in the analysis of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (MeIQ) in broiled salmon flesh.
(6) The ratios of the average concentrations of APAP in plasma to those of phenacetin markedly increased after the charcoal-broiled beef diet.
(7) Treatment of broiled chicken with 0.5-3 mM nitrite, which is a physiologically feasible concentration in the human stomach under some conditions, induced direct-acting mutagenicity.
(8) Sugimura and associates discovered new types of mutagens as heterocyclic amines that are formed during frying or broiling of meats and fish.
(9) We have synthesized 11 heterocyclic aromatic amines with chemical structures related to that of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f] quinoline (IQ), a potent mutagen occurring in broiled sardines, fried beef and beef extract.
(10) The rat granuloma pouch assay was used to assess the in vivo mutagenic potential of 2-amino-3-methyl-imidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ), a heterocyclic aromatic amine which is formed during the frying of meat and broiling of fish.
(11) Initial application is demonstrated in the analysis of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (MeIQ) in broiled salmon.
(12) Smoke formed during pan-broiling of lean pork was recovered at 3 different pan temperatures: 200, 250 and 300 degrees C, using an efficient device for collection of aerosol and volatiles.
(13) The addition of bran reduced BPH activity to 65% of that observed with the fiber-free, charcoal-broiled beef diet.
(14) Participants who achieved the greatest success reported substituting baking and broiling for frying as their method of food preparation, exercising routinely, eating smaller portions of food, and setting goals for weight loss.
(15) The effect of cooking time on mutagenic activity in crust, pan residue and smoke from pan-broiled pork patties was studied in the Ames Salmonella mutagenicity test system.
(16) The meat mutagens are usually produced in the crust of animal foods during frying, broiling, and baking.
(17) The flavour of the broiled meat indicated deterioration after 11 days of storage.
(18) High levels of mutagenic activity are formed rapidly when frying, or more slowly during broiling.
(19) The central and eastern parts of the state are ribbed with dry mountain ranges and wide, high deserts, broiling in summer and freezing in winter.
(20) Four test were performed to each patient with the intake of: (a) 400 ml of water, (b) 100 g (c) 300 g and (d) 500 g of broiled stems of O. streptacantha Lem.
Fray
Definition:
(n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.
(v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
(v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray.
(v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
(v. i.) To rub.
(v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.
(n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(2) In comparison with the controls, the isoproterenol-treated (Group A), the Ca-treated (Group B), and the diltiazem-posttreated (Groups E and F) showed severe myocardial cell damage, such as sarcolemmal disruption, mitochondrial swelling, intramitochondrial electron-dense granules, membranous structures along mitochondrial cristae, thickening or close packing of the Z-lines, separation of cell junctions, frayed myofibrils, clumping of chromatin, and intracellular fluid accumulation.
(3) Carefully pull the frayed seam over the original seam line and pin in place.
(4) Miliband steps back into the fray as ex-Labour MP Chris Mullin said the party should bring back "grown ups" such as ex-chancellor Alistair Darling, while Tony Blair's former spin chief Alastair Campbell said Labour had made a mistake by failing to defend Gordon Brown's economic record.
(5) De Blasio and Bratton have promised to mend the frayed relations between police officers and the city's minority communities.
(6) Failing to get her voice heard above the fray is the biggest danger.
(7) On the frayed, far south-western outskirts of Bogotá, the largest, poorest and most violent barrio in the Colombian capital stretches into the haze up the mountainside as far as the eye can see.
(8) But when I check in a week later, at the height of the expenses storm, the optimism is sounding a tad frayed.
(9) These included torn or frayed menisci and those which were displaced, usually in a mesial direction.
(10) The shops on Main Street were mostly empty, paint fraying on the window panes.
(11) The fraying may be a consequence of proteolytic processing of the precursor of the inhibitor protein during entry into the mitochondrion.
(12) Relations between the bank and the Cambodian government have frayed over plans by a property developer to fill in a lake in the middle of Phnom Penh to build luxury flats and high-end shops.
(13) The Al Ahly ultras say they will rejoin the fray when the time is right.
(14) If you only have an 20cm tin you can use that instead, but don't use all the batter – about 80% will suffice – otherwise you'll end up with a volcanic overspill, cake soldered to the floor of the oven and a frayed temper.
(15) Laszlo Andor, the EU's employment commissioner, warned that record unemployment and fraying welfare systems in southern Europe risk creating a new divide in the continent.
(16) But we may be permitted to hope there is now a chance that something of the old Canada, committed to moderation and multiculturalism at home and to multilateralism and cooperation abroad, will re-emerge from the fray.
(17) Type II alveolar cells increased in number and showed vacuolization, fraying and membrane disruption of their lamellar inclusions.
(18) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(19) Now that Obama has thrown the dice and joined the fray in Syria, Britain will feel increasing pressure to do more to help.
(20) Both dyed and undyed sutures were consistently better than surgical gut with respect to pliability, strength, ease of passage, ease of tying, fraying, knot security, and overall handling.