(n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
(n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
(v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.
(v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
(n.) One who, or that which, butts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(3) The design and results obtained by this program are illustrated by the determination of water and milk solids-not-fat contents in butter, using data collected monthly over a period of 19 years.
(4) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.
(5) The paper presents the data on the chemical composition and the technology of manufacturing a new sort of butter for child's and dietetic nutrition.
(6) The absorption times of the two drugs from suppositories with cocoa butter and Witepsol H 15 were relatively short.
(7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(8) Safflower oil, a highly unsaturated fat, added to a diet with cholesterol resulted in at least as high an incidence of cholesterol gallstones as butter added to the same diet.
(9) Weanling male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets containing 20% by weight corn, soybean or low erucic acid rapeseed oils or mixtures of the latter two with cocoa butter or triolein for 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks.
(10) For the filling, cream the remaining butter with the sugar until very creamy.
(11) Sixteen United Kingdom analytical laboratories participated in an evaluation of 3 commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits for analysis of aflatoxin in peanut butter.
(12) It was found in the study that the greatest part of milk fats consumed at home consists of butter and low-fat milk.
(13) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
(14) 1.46am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st With Gonzalez at the plate "the Dodgers butter and egg man" says Vin Scully, Kelly throws a wild pitch all the way back to the wall.
(15) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
(16) 2 Ten minutes before the potatoes are ready, melt 25g of the butter in a large nonstick frying pan and fry the bacon until lightly coloured.
(17) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(18) In a casserole over a medium heat, fry the onions in the oil and butter for 5 minutes, to soften.
(19) During 4 weeks male Wistar rats (initial weight 140-150 g) were on feed containing as lipid component 6% butter and 3% fish oil obtained from Sardinops sagax melanosticta (n3 PUFA-diet).
(20) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
Shortening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorten
(n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
(n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(2) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(3) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
(4) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(5) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(6) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
(7) Isometric exercise induces a significant shortening of both intervals although minor for QT so that the ratio significantly increases in comparison to baseline (p less than .001).
(8) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(9) In the V fibers, APD was lengthened by F, Q, and B, and shortened by L and M. The drug-induced changes in the relation between APD and CL were as in the P fibers.
(10) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
(11) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(12) Strong correlations were found also between postsystolic shortening and thickening measured immediately before reperfusion and systolic shortening and thickening measured after recovery at 2-3 weeks (r = 0.73, n = 28; p less than 0.001 for shortening; r = 0.79, n = 12; p less than 0.01 for thickening).
(13) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
(14) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(15) Accordingly, RV systolic SL shortening did not rise despite the substantial augmentation in RV outflow.
(16) Chloroquine administration shortened the time taken to reach peak plasma paracetamol concentration (tmax) in five of the volunteers.
(17) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(18) An algorithm for the treatment of cryptococcosis complicating AIDS may shorten the duration of primary intravenous AB therapy.
(19) VT returned to control levels, expiratory time shortened, and breathing frequency increased.
(20) Isotonically, peak muscle shortening was reduced in the left muscle, whereas time to peak shortening was prolonged in the right myocardium.