(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
(2) There is also an excellent – and blissfully long – section on teatime: every possible cake and bun is here in all their sugary, buttery glory.
(3) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
(4) We're currently planning on going to LouMalnati's for the buttery crust August 21, 2013 Helen Knox (@lebowski2020) @GuardianTravel where is best place for evening rooftop bar view of Chicago, pref for mojitos?
(5) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(6) Just lovely acid-sweet jam and an explosion of buttery pastry.
(7) If you're going to opine about cheese, it's best to know your washed rind (stinky) from your bloomy rind (buttery).
(8) "The once-great Paul Gascoigne was already so good by 1988 that he could score in north London derbies sans footwear," says Mark Buttery.
(9) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(10) The sausages were naturally top drawer, but that glossy, buttery, roughly worked mash, properly seasoned and brilliantly laced with sweet caramelised onions, was awesome.
(11) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
(12) A breakfast of wild mushrooms and spinach on good sourdough delivered a persuasive hillock of buttery, thoroughly seasoned funghi.
(13) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
(14) The buttery sauce is flavoured with fennel and coriander seeds, orange zest and a good slug of Marsala.
(15) People favour risottos now, but before there was risotto, there was pilaff: buttery rice mixed with onions, garlic and tomatoes that have first been fried in olive oil.
(16) Unfortunately, where the homemade stuff is rich, tender and buttery, shop‑bought tends to be pallid and disappointingly bland.
(17) I opt for the buttery Brazilian Agua Preta latte with a shot of agave syrup.
(18) Likewise, the ASA decided against banning the third most complained about ad, also by Unilever, an animated TV and online ad for Flora Buttery margarine featuring two siblings wrestling.
(19) A year-long investigation “When I started out I had never worked one of these cases and had no idea what to do,” says Finley, an amiable man with a buttery Georgia drawl.
(20) It was a cheap thing, but a pleasingly buttery colour with knobbly legs around which I used to curl my bare feet when eating breakfast.
Spence
Definition:
(n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
(n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The empirical specifications of anxiety were chosen so as to render the study comparable to previous investigations executed within the general framework of Spence's (1956, 1958) developments of Hull's (1943) notions concerning the relationship to drive level and learning task performance.
(2) Treatment of isolated C1 fractures should be governed by the rules of Spence.
(3) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
(4) Chris Spence (The Entrance) Moves to the cross benches in February amid corruption allegations.
(5) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
(6) Pavlov and his colleagues considered explanations based on the relationship between the test and trained stimuli, on reciprocal induction, and on gradients of generalized excitation and inhibition à la Spence.
(7) The cauldron of the Olympic Stadium was not the place to go into the rules and regulations," said Spence.
(8) Oxfam has already had to scale back life-saving work in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – due to unprecedented aid cuts.” Childfund Australia’s chief executive, Nigel Spence, said the budget had made “even deeper cuts to an already decimated aid budget”.
(9) Human fibroblasts in culture take up exogenous [choline-Me-3H,32P]sphingomyelin (SM) from the medium and incorporate it into cellular SM and phosphatidylcholine [Spence, Clarke & Cook (1983) J. Biol.
(10) Data from a survey of 58 gay men and 58 lesbians are compared to college men and women on Spence and Helmreich's (1978) Personality Attributes Questionnaire measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny.
(11) Meanwhile, Missouri's Democratic governor Jay Nixon looks safe in his gubernatorial re-election bid: Democratic incumbent Jay Nixon leads Republican challenger Dave Spence 53%-45%.
(12) Nita Spence, a 23-year-old energy consultant, said: "If it was open to the public, it would be a bit different.
(13) It allows the lateral breast and the tail of Spence to be radiographed in contact with the xeromammography cassette.
(14) A small cartilaginous Spence's cartilage lies in dorsolateral position towards the Chorda tympani.
(15) SHRINKING VIOLET RETURNS IN HIGHBROW DOCUSOAP UNLIKELY TO GARNER MUCH TABLOID ATTENTION Louie Spence's Showbusiness, Sky 1, 9pm – the star of Sky 1's Pineapple Dance Studios returned with his own series, debuting with 277,000 viewers, a 1.1% share of the audience.
(16) Support for this position comes from recent theoretical contributions of Bruner, Sarbin, Spence, Tulving, and others, who have emphasized narrative thought as a major form of cognition that is qualitatively different from abstract propositional or scientific thinking.
(17) As a natural outgrowth of its original function as an adoption agency, the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service moved into abortion counseling.
(18) The vote came after the general assembly heard from the Rev Elizabeth Spence, a lesbian minister from Ibrox in Glasgow.
(19) Unlike these philosophers, Spence tends to dichotomize coherence and correspondence theories of truth.
(20) Spence said it was good for Paralympic sport to see rivals emerging to challenge the supremacy of Pistorius, who had not lost a 200m race in nine years.