(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.
Pater
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Pater Daniel laughs, then holds up five fingers: there are five priests in Piraeus, and soon there will only be one.
(2) The establishment of transformation of primary rodent cells by human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA requires glucocorticoid hormones (Pater et al., Nature 335, 832-835, 1988).
(3) The study design used the single Pro-Pater Sao Paulo clinic and a single intervention, i.e., the mass media promotional campaign.
(4) However, it has been shown (Willan and Pater, 1986, Biometrics 42, 593-599) that the crossover analysis is more powerful than the parallel analysis if the residual carryover, expressed as a proportion of treatment effect, is less than 2- square root of 2(1 - rho), where rho is the intrasubject correlation coefficient.
(5) Other heroes of his are Shelley and Blake, Samuel Johnson and Walter Pater, Yeats, DH Lawrence and Joyce, and, among more recent figures, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.
(6) These children grew up with that atmosphere ... 'You must be worthy of grand-pater'."
(7) Inside, Pater Daniel, the head priest, says that he's noticed a lot more "well-dressed, clean" people taking free meals from the church.
(8) We have previously reported (Pater et al., Nature 335, 832-835, 1988) the glucocorticoid hormone-dependent oncogenic transformation of primary baby rat kidney (BRK) cells by a combination of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA and the activated form of the human Ha-ras-1 (ras) oncogene.
(9) The programmers seemed to group themes in batches this year, so the early days of the festival had female film-makers, then we moved through a couple of days of sex and paedophilia (bordello movie The House of Tolerance , Austrian film Michael ), before fathers and sons took over ( Tree of Life , Le Gamin au Vélo , Footnote ), then French politics ( La Conquête , Pater ), then depression ( The Beaver , Melancholia ), antisemitism ( The Beaver , Melancholia ) and, eventually, sexual politics (Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In , The Source ).
(10) I'm sure their parents have brought them up to namecheck much posher stuff than that – it must have been a dagger to Mater and Pater's hearts that the Harvey Nicks food hall wasn't mentioned even once.
(11) Transformation of primary human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells as selected by either focus assay or growth in soft agar after their transfection with BK virus (BKV) DNA alone or BKV DNA plus the activated form of human Ha-ras oncogene has been previously reported (A. Pater and M. M. Pater, J. Virol.