(n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take that into consideration and it's actually rather refreshing that a 22-year-old from the suburbs of Detroit will pick up her chopsticks and at least try the shar pei .
(2) A chopstick or something similar will keep the bag from resting on the leaves, which can cause scorching.
(3) The case of a 53-year-old man who attempted suicide by introducing a wooden chopstick through his nostril into his brain is reported.
(4) 3 Then the whole table joins in; everyone dips in with their chopsticks and tosses the ingredients together, lifting them high and crying "lo hei" – Cantonese for "tossing luck".
(5) After about 2 minutes, turn the fish and poach for another 2 minutes, by which time it should be just tender to the bone: poke a chopstick into the thickest part of the flesh to make sure (it should come away easily from the backbone).
(6) Case 2: This 6-year-old female could not grasp chopsticks and had neck pain 10 minutes after being pulled up by the right arm by her father.
(7) We are talking in Faulkes's lab at Queen Mary University in the East End of London, surrounded on all sides by his home-made rat-run of Perspex tubing in which 70 or so naked mole rats – each between 10cm and 20cm long – are scurrying, climbing over and under one another, backing up and beetling forward, worrying at anything in their path with their protruding incisors, teeth that they can move independently like chopsticks, all to apparently urgent purpose.
(8) They blame weak law enforcement in Africa and growing demand for ivory products like chopsticks and ivory jewellery mostly in China, Thailand and other Asian countries.
(9) For convenience, Gt was initially measured in culture dishes using a commercially available "chopstick" electrode system.
(10) aliettedb via GuardianWitness Serves 4 3 tbsp nuoc màu (caramel sauce) 400g pork belly, skin on 400g pork shoulder 2 tbsp nuoc mam (fish sauce), or to taste 1 onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped ½-1 tsp salt 1 tsp ground pepper 330ml coconut water 4 eggs Sugar, to taste Rice and pickled vegetables, to serve 1 Cut the pork into small, chopstick-sized chunks.
(11) She had great difficulty in buttoning, unbuttoning, using chopsticks and writing, because she was no longer able to feel her fingers in space.
(12) The dishes we had at the Farming Family Happiness were meant to be shared, and as the pretty woman with the broad face brought them to the table, the man across from me beamed and reached for his chopsticks.
(13) The discrepancy was due to a nonuniform current field produced by the chopstick electrodes.
(14) The patient had contact with his dog such as he kissed it frequently, gave it food with his chopsticks et al.. From the mouth of the people who kiss one's dog, we detected Pasteurella of the same character of bacteria as from the mouth of the dog.
(15) "I don't think of myself as a musical actress… but I think the good thing about Roxie Hart is that she's a wannabe, so even if your leg doesn't come up to here" – she signals with her chopsticks to a point halfway up the wall – "it's OK." Now that Borgen has come to an end, she's looking forward to getting back on stage.
(16) I took five years of piano and I still can't play Chopsticks – I just didn't have the discipline.
(17) The passage which was removed in the Chinese translation read: "While on camera during the banquet honouring Gorbachev, Deng, hands shaking, let a piece of dumpling drop from his chopsticks."
(18) And then it happens again, on screen this time, to a man whose all four limbs have been skewered to his chair with steel chopsticks.
(19) Chinese diners who enjoy bear bile, tiger bones and pangolin meat now have a new reason to lay down their chopsticks.
(20) We all need people to purchase things they don’t need; to buy things that, while not necessary, are fun – like chocolate, toys, booze, DVDs – and then, to keep the economy growing, also to buy things that vaguely seem like they might be fun if you don’t think that hard about it, like Darth Vader showerheads and lightsaber chopsticks.
Fork
Definition:
(v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
(n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
(n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
(n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
(n.) The gibbet.
(v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
(v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
(5) Although later studies have suggested that fork encounter during termination is an active process involving specific termination sites and the tus protein, the coupling mechanism between termination and cell division remains to be elucidated.
(6) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
(7) The position of replication origins and replication forks relative to the nuclear matrix was analysed by autoradiography.
(8) Electron microscopy of the replicating molecules, after digestion with restriction endonucleases, showed that the replication fork proceeds exclusively counter-clockwise towards the unc operon.
(9) The retarded fork progression and shorter initiation intervals may result either from the continued operation of a subset of replication units resistant to the inhibition of protein synthesis, or be manifestations of the inhibition of protein synthesis on all active sites.
(10) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(11) However, the mean length of the single-stranded gaps in Drosophila forks is less than 200 nucleotide residues, much shorter than the gaps in phage forks.
(12) The vibrations generated by tapping a simplified mandible model were similar to those of the transverse type of a bar and tuning fork.
(13) Using this system, we have studied the cycle of Okazaki fragment synthesis at the replication fork.
(14) It speaks with forked tongues Leave aside the now acknowledged mistake of featuring Lampitt in the party political broadcast.
(15) "It's important to remember that at every point when there has been a fork in the road about whether Britain should retreat or lead, when we have led we have always surprised ourselves and others about how successfully we can lead," he says.
(16) Relaxation protein could replace the combined action of an endonuclease and a ligase ahead of the replication fork.
(17) They’re not excited but, dammit, they’ll make the best of what’s there, who’s got a fork?
(18) In the slower second stage of breakdown, the aberrant DNA replication intermediates remained nicked and strongly associated with protein as they underwent DNA replication fork breakage and recombinational changes to produce high molecular weight forms.
(19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
(20) The government is at a fork in the road on prisons policy.