(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.
Provide
Definition:
(v. t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
(v. t.) To supply; to afford; to contribute.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
(v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
(v. t.) To foresee.
(v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
(v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
(v. i.) To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(5) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(6) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(7) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(8) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(9) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(10) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(11) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(12) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(13) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(14) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
(15) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(16) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
(17) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(18) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
(19) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.