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Carton
Definition:
(n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Example Sentences:
(1) Observed proliferations of E. coli inocula in cooling cartons of product were compared with the proliferations calculated from temperature histories obtained from sites close to inocula.
(2) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(3) It hasn’t helped that one mischievous customer appears to have added a crease to the carton on the right to make it look even more like a penis.
(4) Prices for egg products used by food manufacturers and bakeries jumped more than 200% in the past month, and even large bakeries have been forced to buy eggs by the carton and crack them individually to continue production, Martin said.
(5) Instead of medicine, all the doctors could offer were cartons of fruit juice bought en masse from a nearby kiosk.
(6) The results were assessed against a temperature function integration criterion derived from studies of beef carcass and cartoned meat cooling processes.
(7) Some patients on psychiatric wards receive no visitors at all, still less ones bearing chocolate and flowers ... or cartons of cigarettes.
(8) Reports of George’s stag do at Ristorante da Ivo near St Mark’s Square with the free £3,000 meal featuring six flavours of ice cream, including takeaway cartons, initially irked me.
(9) Updated at 3.20pm BST 3.10pm BST We're now doing some 7-minute talks... First: Cancer Resaerch First one from Amy Carton of Cancer Research on programs for crowdsourcing cancer cures....(it's a bit hard to transcribe the video she's on...) She's telling us about "genegame" – where people can analyse genes on smartphones.
(10) Twelve one-half pint (approx 0.28 l) cartons of the 2% chocolate milk from this outbreak were analyzed for the quantity of SEA present in the milk.
(11) The cost of a carton of large eggs in the midwest has jumped nearly 17% to $1.39 a dozen from $1.19 since mid-April when the virus began appearing in Iowa’s chicken flocks and farmers culled their flocks to contain any spread.
(12) The current price at Tesco for a two-pint (1.136 litre) carton of milk is currently 75p.
(13) Specific growth rates, doubling times, ability to grow in pasteurized milk stored in commercial cartons, and resistance of spores to heating were determined for one strain of C. hastiforme.
(14) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
(15) It emerged that a headteacher, Elizabeth Chaplin, who runs Valence primary school in Dagenham, wrote to parents about a new rule to confiscate juice cartons from children's lunch boxes.
(16) And, of course, the carton juices contain "no added sugar" – but as we've seen, many have as much sugar in them as Coke.
(17) There are sleeping bags piled in corners of the marble floors for the hundreds staying overnight, and piles of pizza cartons and water bottles donated by local businesses or paid for by supporters round the US and the world.
(18) This spring, led by Tesco, Britain’s major retailers embarked on a price war , slashing the price of a four-pint carton of milk from £1.39 to a barely credible £1.
(19) Two blocks away, a young woman commandeered a boat to take her and several cartons of cigarettes to her grandparents, who had refused to leave and were sheltering in their undamaged upstairs flat in a part of town still under water.
(20) One has the sense that everything in these crowded frames (pictures on walls, cartons on shelves) is there for a reason, throbbing with significance.