(n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(2) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
(3) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
(4) The madreporic ("caviar") prosthesis is a hinged knee prosthesis that can be inserted without the use of cement.
(5) But before he can leave the store he meets Doug, the husband of the producer who has promised to read his script, wheeling a shopping cart with his child and "a four-figure avalanche of shellfish, cheeses, meats, and caviars".
(6) Palmer also appeared on Channel Nine's Today show, where he launched an angry tirade against Murdoch and Thomas, describing Thomas as "like Black Caviar with a broken leg".
(7) (And if I'm being honest, I might sneak in a few mouthfuls of foie gras and caviar, too.)
(8) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(9) "It was celebrated with champagne and Iranian caviar at MHL's Mayfair offices and was widely reported in the financial press as a groundbreaking event," writes David Lascelles in his recently published biography of Zombanakis.
(11) Twitter users are mocking the DWP’s latest misstep with the inevitable hashtag #fakedwpstories (“since the jobcentre sanctioned me I only eat caviar”; “I save so much on trousers now all that money isn’t burning holes in my pockets”), and rightly so.
(12) Allegations of “caviar diplomacy” have swirled around the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly for years, with Azerbaijan accused of offering cash and luxury gifts in exchange for favourable votes.
(13) David died in the early hours of 22 May 1992, having enjoyed a good bottle of chablis and some caviar brought to her bedside by friends.
(14) The rest of the team helped, but he was the Black Caviar who got us here, but the point is that in terms of thinking about the future it’s not a change of personality; it is what does that bring; how does that improve our situation.
(15) One night, eating with her parents at a caviar house off the Champs Elysées, she was introduced to the television star Jacques Martin.
(16) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
(17) With 50 film premieres, a caviar-and-blinis-studded conference and lavish digs at the Hotel Astoria (which claims Rasputin, Thatcher and Bush are former guests), it has attracted Russian oligarchs, US heavyweights HBO and Showtime, and the French director François Ozon.
(18) I often exchanged grubby dollars or packets of Marlboro for tins of caviar from slightly sinister gold-toothed charmers.
(19) Out of 399 human faeces examined during the first eight months (1975) for the presence of NCV vibrios, one vibrio parahaemolyticus strains has been isolated from a man with acute gastro-enteritis (gastric and abdominal pains, nausea, diarrhoea, headache, general weakness), after having a meal with salted caviar.
(20) Be adventurous… It's time for parma ham, mozzarella and caviar lunchboxes.
Sturgeon
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the debate, Sturgeon clearly signalled she was open to working with Ed Miliband, at one point saying: “I agree with Ed.” She challenged the Labour leader to join her in seeking an end austerity and said the SNP was his “ally” in trying to roll back a tide of privatisation in the NHS.
(2) Within an hour of his speech, Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish deputy first minister, was making the opposite case at an SNP event in Glasgow.
(3) The SNP can now contend that it is not they who are the reckless parochialists To an extent that is not widely appreciated, Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to go for broke by calling for a fresh plebiscite represents a dramatic shift in her strategy.
(4) But Sturgeon stressed she had not yet made that decision.
(5) They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman’s “pink bus” but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates’ returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, “used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies – at a cost of £35,000”.
(6) This week a ComRes poll for ITV News focusing on Labour’s 40 Scottish seats found that the SNP had a six-point lead, putting Sturgeon’s party on the brink of winning about 28 new seats and close to becoming the third largest party at Westminster.
(7) MW Sturgeon was the shortest leader on show but, what she lacked in height, she made up for in assertiveness.
(8) Gaby Hinsliff Everyone wants their own Sturgeon now Where do we find a Nicola Sturgeon?
(9) The inoculated and primary cell cultures of fish (carp, salmon, and sturgeon) have been studied.
(10) There have been reports that civil servants were working on a deadline of Christmas this year while Theresa May has indicated that she wants to secure the support of the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, before beginning the exit process.
(11) One proposal was that Sturgeon could resign, sparking a Scottish parliamentary election to seek a mandate, but her advisers say she already has a mandate.
(12) Fragments that consisted mainly of two polysaccharide chains joined by a short polypeptide bridge (doublets) were prepared from chondroitin sulphate-proteins of lamprey, sturgeon, elasmobranch and ox connective tissues after hydrolysis with trypsin and chymotrypsin.
(13) Nicola Sturgeon’s hopes of gaining support for her bid to keep Scotland in the European Union despite the UK’s vote to leave have been dealt a blow after the Spanish prime minister warned: “If the United Kingdom leaves … Scotland leaves.” Brexit explained: Corbyn Speaking in Brussels, where the Scottish first minister held a series of meetings to lobby for Scotland , Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, said that although he would gladly hear Sturgeon’s case, he was not in a position to enter into talks on Scotland’s future separately from the UK.
(14) Claiming that Labour and Lib Dem plans to shift some but not all tax powers to Edinburgh were "demonstrably inadequate" to meet Scotland's needs, Sturgeon told an audience of businesspeople in Glasgow on Monday: "The no campaign has no plan.
(15) Meanwhile, their portrayal of Red Ed as a rabid lefty has been utterly blindsided, because Sturgeon has taken every opportunity to emphasise that she doesn’t think Miliband is very lefty at all.
(16) With seven senior cabinet ministers now endorsing Sturgeon and none objecting, Russell told the Guardian Sturgeon was unequivocally the strongest and most popular candidate: "I'm absolutely certain she's the best candidate; I can't conceive of another one better qualified or more experienced, or more trusted by the party."
(17) In an interview with the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson, the first minister said: “If there was a vote in the House of Commons to repeal the privatisation of the health service that has been seen in England, we would vote for that because that would help to protect Scotland’s budget.” The intervention by Sturgeon is designed to answer the central Labour warning to voters in Scotland: that a vote for the SNP could end up helping the Tories by diminishing Labour.
(18) Prof David Bell, an economist with the University of Stirling and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said Sturgeon’s decision to reject Osborne’s new £45,000 threshold for the 40p rate would mean the 340,000 Scots earning over £43,000 would pay an effective tax rate of 52p for every pound they earned between £43,000 and £45,000.
(19) I’m happy to see Nicola Sturgeon bringing the constitutional independence referendum back on the table.
(20) Sturgeon’s aide said that while the Scottish government documents referred only DELand did not factor in AME, she said that did not mean that that extra money could not be allocated to welfare budgets.