(v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
(v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
(v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.
(n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a linear increase in the dimensions of these zones after the chewing.
(2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(3) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
(4) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(5) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(6) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(7) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(8) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(9) Chew on this during the change: TBS notes that the Pirates are 69-17 when they score four or more runs....gulp.
(10) Relationships between chewing activities and rates of particle breakdown, passage, and digestion were also determined.
(11) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(12) Epidemiologists need to conduct studies to determine if there is an increased likelihood of developing cancer in betel chewing pregnant women and OC users due to increased sensitivity of their lymphocytes to genetic damage compared with nonchewing pregnant women and OC users.
(13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(14) The relationship of nutritional status, self-perceived chewing ability, dental status, and social isolation was examined.
(15) A cooperative multicenter study was performed to evaluate two salivary secretion methods-the chewing gum test and the Saxon test by a crossover method.
(16) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
(17) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
(18) The ability to perceive thickness differences between the incisors was more accurate after 1 hour's chewing than normally.
(19) The results show a significant difference between the cranial values of the two chewing experiences.
(20) When increasing the length of the chewing object, secretion of fluid (P less than 0.013), but not enzymes, further increased.
Phew
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) So the ECB is not on fire #phew Michael Steen (@michaelsteen) Ok.
(2) "When you have got an organisation that didn't change for a long time then goes through four years of change, there is a tendency to then go, phew, that's great, we've changed, now we can go back to normal - but if we started off at minus five out of 10, I think we are now at four out of 10.
(3) Observers described the vote as more of a referendum on Lula, while the front-page headline of one Rio newspaper yesterday exclaimed: "Phew!
(4) I said Tanja was quiet and considerate: she said the cats and I were friendly, the facilities very clean (phew!)
(5) It was also where she intended to build an academy for girls, which never happened (though Madonna still helped build classrooms), all against a backdrop of missing millions, for which Madonna's side blamed the sacked prospective academy headmistress (also the Malawian president's sister), while there has been an ongoing investigation into the role of the Kabbalah Centre in New York … and (phew) see what I mean?
(6) I’m extremely proud but it is not going to help us win the next game of football.” Explaining his point further, Coleman added: “When I say complacency, it’s not because of the group of people we’ve got, or the players; it is subconsciously a bit like: ‘Phew, we’ve done that.’ But the problem is that it is also gone.
(7) Phew,” I say laughing, “that is a relief.” Moments later, she’s back to check on me once more, and the conversation turns political.
(8) After Thomson's letter was published the company issued a short statement: "Phew what a scorcher!
(9) But this feels very natural and logical and 'phew, thank God we have at last got there'."
(10) Phew, just thought that this crazy lady had converted into this Islam nonsense and was on her way down on her knees to mumble a prayer.
(11) Take those €19.7 billions (over £16bn) off the balance sheet along with a few trifles and – phew!
(12) 7.00pm: No - phew - it's Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
(13) The coding region of pheR is identical to that of three other cloned tRNA(Phe) genes, pheU, pheV, and pheW.
(14) But before you think, "Phew, job done", Naomi Gummer , a Google executive, said last week that technology moves too fast for filters to work and that parents are to blame if their children watch porn.
(15) Phew, that's enough exercise for one week … time for a lie down.
(16) Multicopy plasmids carrying pheR, like those carrying pheU, pheV, or pheW, complement a temperature-sensitive lesion in the gene for the alpha-subunit of phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase (pheS).
(17) This summer, I was forever laying down my New Yorker or my New York Review of Books and saying: “Phew!
(18) It included a link to News Corp UK title the Sun’s notorious “Up Yours Delors” front page from 1990, aimed at the then European Commission president, with the accompanying comment: “People probably have enough evidence to judge that one for themselves.” This follows Google’s equally pithy initial response to News Corp’s latest broadside last week, when it issued the following statement referencing another infamous Sun splash headline : “Phew what a scorcher!
(19) The nucleotide sequences of the 5'-flanking DNA of pheR, pheU, and pheW are almost identical but are quite different from the same region of pheV.
(20) Smoke and lights and noise and shouting and all kinds of stuff and it was just, phew, mindblowing.