(n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
(n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
(n.) The four of cards or dice.
(v. t.) To cut diagonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(2) Kurdish officials on Thursday demanded more help in catering for refugees.
(3) Many shops are now catering to these high spenders.
(4) Twenty years ago, before the reign of Charlie Mayfield, the present CEO, the company's cleaners and caterers were all outsourced to save money.
(5) The truth was that he had failed his maths O-level at his local school and completed a City and Guilds in catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology.
(6) It is suggested that a transcultural approach be adopted in managing cases in which the parents feel particularly anxious and uncomfortable about prematurely erupted teeth in order to cater for the social well-being of the child and family.
(7) This family-run stables genuinely caters for all abilities and you get to ride straight out on to Dartmoor.
(8) Quantitative observations were made of 200 groups in bars catering for young adults.
(9) The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate, caters for children with a wide range of needs; screening involving a single-assessment structure for all pupils is felt to be inappropriate.
(10) "I thought the Korean burger was quite good," the hipster goes on, without much kimchi-fired enthusiasm, "but I think a lot of people don't make their food with enough shbang … They kind of cater to the middle of the road."
(11) And the letters themselves are detailed to a fault, telling ministers far more than they need to know about the importance of the Patagonian toothfish, the single farm payment and the recent report of the Local Authority Caterers Association on school meals.
(12) Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011, has helped transform Margate into an emerging destination for the arts , while new hotels, such as the Albion House in nearby Ramsgate , cater for visitors looking for boutique-style accommodation.
(13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
(14) British commuters to mainland Europe and short-term contractors who work on the continent say the British proposal does not cater for them.
(15) PHE will continue to support local authorities to provide effective weight management services, to influence the regulation of fast food outlets and provide healthier catering in hospitals and schools, which will all help people to lose weight.
(16) A study was undertaken to determine the incidence of systemic postoperative complications and the operative mortality of patients undergoing elective aortic surgery in a hospital that caters to a homogeneous population group.
(17) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
(18) Our agreement with the LLDC will see West Ham make a substantial capital contribution towards the conversion works of a stadium on top of a multimillion-pound annual usage fee, a share of food and catering sales, plus provide extra value to the naming rights agreement.
(19) Viravaidya maintains that the tourist sex industry (catering to Americans, Europeans and Japanese) is only a contributory factor of the epidemic.
(20) During Mr Thompson's big speech in Banff three years ago, after which he was marked out by many as a DG in waiting, he laid out a vision of a multichannel age in which the BBC would move from mixed genre, high audience channels to a range of digital services catering for niche audiences.
Cauter
Definition:
(n.) A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Potential causes for bowel burn associated with tubal cauterization are discussed.
(2) In one case the origin of infection was a cauterized wart that did not appear clinically infected.
(3) The use of drugs such as polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN) 5 mg (POLIDES 5--Farmigea), provided with reepithelialization and anticomplement action, seems to promote a quicker recovery of the cauterized or vaporized zone, avoiding, at the same time, the secondary inflammatory reaction.
(4) An effort was made to neutralize the virus in loco either by infiltration of the inoculation site with povidone-iodine or with monoclonal antibodies, or by cauterization and excision.
(5) The infective lesions of the corneal epithelium (dendritic and geographic ulcers) occasionally develop into noninfective indolent or trophic ulcers, particularly under the influence of cauterizing chemicals or corticosteroids.
(6) The risk of development of malignancy in the retained stump is almost eliminated by the laparoscopic removal of the upper endocervical canal and cauterization of the lower endocervical canal and exocervix.
(7) These observations suggest that the physiological maturity of the muscle was not appreciably altered even though glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was higher (P greater than 0.05) and total phosphorylase activity was lower (P greater than 0.05) in the spinal cauterized fetuses than in the control group.
(8) The terminal innervation ratios were similar (P greater than 0.05) for muscles from control and cauterized fetuses.
(9) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
(10) Following successful cauterization, goblet cells returned.
(11) With the trend of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) toward development at an earlier age in today's population, the importance of office cauterization in preventing cervical cancer becomes apparent.
(12) In order to study congenital constriction band syndrome, we performed local cauterization of the lower limb buds of embryos in fertilized white leghorn eggs between hour 0 on day 4 (day 4-0) and day 7-0 of incubation.
(13) Application of prednisolone disodium phosphate ointment to cauterized corneas also inhibited neutrophil migration at 6 h, but increased the extravascular neutrophils at 48 h. After 6 days of treatment, corneal blood vessel growth was significantly reduced.
(14) If operative intervention is advised, it should consist of one of several limited procedures that can be safely performed with low morbidity: anal encirclement, presacral packing, sclerosing injection, or linear rectal cauterization.
(15) In operated groups an ulcer was provoked by cauterization with a metallic plate in the gastric fundus.
(16) In males the development of gonadotrophs was strongly suppressed in number and in size after the cauterization, whereas in females the suppression was less prominent.
(17) Cauterization was performed anterior to the joint in nine experimental rhesus monkeys, while eight animals served as control subjects.
(18) After cauterization of a single bleeding point, the patient again received prednisolone.
(19) Rearing environment (enriched vs. normal) and method of vibrissae removal (cauterization of follicles vs. plucking) were examined to determine specific factors that m might influence the effect of vibrissae removal.
(20) Over a 2-year period 1013 phenol cauterizations were carried out on 631 patients.