(n.) A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
Example Sentences:
(1) By late afternoon, the intersection of North Avenue and Fulton Avenue had been turned into what one man – bottles of cognac in each hand – called an “open bar”.
(2) Chronic beer and wine intake and acute intoxication with cognac suggest - up to now - the enhancing effect of beverage congeners.
(3) Back in the good old days of le Tour, riders would stop en route at local bars and fill their bidons with wine and cognac.
(4) He probably had an inkling he wasn't going to share a cognac with Kissinger that evening, but it spoke volumes that he tried.
(5) Drunk on cognac and disoriented by the darkness as he stumbled down onto the tarmac at Genoa’s Christopher Columbus airport at around 3.40am on 22 July, 1966, the defender could not immediately identify the fruit but he did know one thing: “It definitely wasn’t fresh” .
(6) Among the buyers was a Shanghai-based Chinese importer of French wines who bought half the Cognac on sale and the most expensive Petrus.
(7) Born into a family of cognac merchants, Monnet became the greatest behind-the-scenes fixer in modern history.
(8) Very frequently it is not money that is given, but some expensive gift, like expensive cognac.
(9) The drugs employed were: ethyl alcohol, cognac, hexobarbital, diazepam, imipramine and chloralose.
(10) As with the response to the tests of 2006, 2009 and 2013, the UN is considering punitive sanctions but Korean specialist Andrei Lankov argued that this would merely result in depriving the elite of their “Hennessey cognac and Godiva chocolate”.
(11) There’s more to Armenia than cognac, carpets and its most famous daughter, Kim Kardashian .
(12) Foreign media wrote about his love for sushi and cognac.
(13) Such sanctions will allow politicians to explain to their voters that they are punishing a rogue regime in all ways imaginable – for instance, depriving the leadership of Hennessey cognac and Godiva chocolate.
(14) Sexual parameters indicated that sexual behaviour is drastically affected by cognac consumption.
(15) Tweet of the week Top-tier trolling (or on-message post-Brexit optimism) from the Foreign Office: Foreign Office (FCO) (@foreignoffice) More Scotch Whisky is sold in one month in France than Cognac in a year.
(16) If you are unable to get online on Thursday, email your views to globaldevpros@theguardian.com or follow our tweets using the hashtag #globaldevlive Panelists Matthieu Cognac, youth employment specialist, International Labour Organisation , Bangkok, Thailand.
(17) Is there a reason why the world's powerful, gathering at the exclusive resort to sip cognac and eat blinis, should care?
(18) The effects of chronic consumption of some beverages (plum-brandy 24% and cognac 20%) upon preimplantation development in rats were studied.
(19) The results showed that the ingestion of cognac leads to significant alterations in the sexual behaviour of the male rat.
(20) Oral, intragastric, and intraduodenal administrations of ethanol do not release gastrin, whereas beer and white and red wine but not whisky and cognac are potent stimulants of gastric acid secretion and release gastrin in humans.
Distilled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Distill
Example Sentences:
(1) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(2) A transient increase in the membrane potential was observed when distilled water was applied to the membrane adapted to an appropriate salt solution, which was similar to the water response observed in taste cells.
(3) The distribution of the kations in the hair can be changed by washing with distilled water.
(4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
(5) Only a drastic osmotic shock in distillated water as a mean to disrupt mitochondrial membrane was found to strongly increase the actual rate of the rotenone-sensitive activity.
(6) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(7) Sections are brought to water, stained in Delafield's alum hematoxylin for 10 minutes, washed in tap water for 10 minutes, counterstained in 1% Procion brillant orange M-GS for 15 minutes and washed in distilled water for 10 minutes.
(8) Surfaces of the specimens made with slurry water were significantly harder than those of specimens made with distilled water.
(9) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
(10) We find that freeze-drying is the most reliable and easy method for molecules that withstand distilled water; freeze-etching can be successfully applied to transmembrane proteins (even in the presence of detergents or salt); the glycerol-spray technique provides an excellent alternative to the cryotechniques in particular for studies of single linear molecules.
(11) The effect of intravenously administered distilled water was examined alone and during alkalization in a patient with gross hematuria associated with the sickle cell trait.
(12) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(13) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(14) Added NADH had no effect on O2 consumption at 80 mosM but sharply stimulated it when platelet suspensions were exposed to 60 mosM media by pretreatment with distilled water.
(15) Thai rice (25 g) was boiled with 500 ml of distilled water for 30 min.
(16) Acidic rinsing resulted in an immediate 90% reduction in exhaled ammonia in all subjects, and a return to 50% of baseline levels occurred within 1 h. Depletion that resulted from tooth brushing or distilled water alone was not significant.
(17) No growth of Coccidioides immitis occurred when fluid from infected tissue or arthrospores suspended in distilled water were plated on the surface of Sabouraud medium, solidified with refined agar, and containing 20 mg of polymyxin B per liter.
(18) A traction test of bodies prepared from Superpont C + B wal also to assess the range of firmness in relation to the period of storage in distilled water.
(19) 0-2-0-4 mM-NaCl show lower rates of net salt loss in distilled water and higher rates of net salt uptake form dilute NaCl solutions than do populations from freshwaters of ca.
(20) The vesicles suspended in saline retained 100 kilodalton protein of which amount is correlated with prodigiosin level, but the 100 kDa protein was found in the supernatant when the vesicles were lysed in distilled water.