(n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required.
(v. t.) To convert into coke.
Example Sentences:
(1) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(2) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(3) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
(4) And failing that, drink a Diet Coke and a beer simultaneously just before you go in.
(5) A video obtained by the Mail on Sunday showing Flowers counting out £300 after being asked for "money for the coke" also sparked calls by Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie for the current system of authorising top bankers to be overhauled.
(6) Thirty years after one of the pivotal clashes in the miners' strike of 1984 when violent confrontations erupted at the Orgreave coking plant, the area outside Sheffield could barely look more different.
(7) The environmentally exposed donors were residents from the vicinity of a coke factory; the occupationally exposed persons were cokery workers, while rural region inhabitants served as a control group.
(8) Last month one woman asked for a bag of crisps and a bottle of cherry coke and burst into tears when she got it.
(9) And while we're thinking of breaking things, check out an Italian's attempt on a world record involving a bottle of coke, some Nutella chocolate spread, some Mentos and a condom.
(10) Also, coke oven workers had slightly higher adduct values than age, sex and smoking matched controls.
(11) Approximate relative risks, which take into account race, age, and calendar years of follow-up, have been calculated for various work areas of the coke plant.
(12) Thiocyanate-assimilatig bacterium, TK 21, was isolated from activated sludge used for the treatment of thiocyanate contained in coke-oven liquor.
(13) Six normal subjects each ingested a single 12-oz can of a diet cola (Diet Coke) providing 184 mg aspartame (APM), of which 104 mg is phenylalanine (Phe), and, on another occasion, a single 12-oz can of regular cola (Coke Classic).
(14) Fuelled by latent ambition (and maybe a bit of that coke), Joan – with the help of some divine Cosgrovian intervention – decided she could turn her hand to producing ads.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical, epidemiological and evolutive characteristics of interdigital and plantar intertrigo of the feet among people working in a coking plant, a potash mine and a motorcar factory.
(16) Inoculation of different trypanosome strains into volunteers yielded positive parasitaemia for original isolates from lion, hyaena, and Coke's hartebeest.
(17) The effect is of someone with a boyish energy who has had too many Cokes, but even on bad days, says Fox, "I don't care.
(18) Not only that, it’s allowed other newspapers to declare open season on Cameron’s private life, as we see from today’s “coke parties” splash in the Sun .
(19) However, Innocent was one of the brands highlighted last year as containing high levels of sugar: a 250ml serving of its pomegranate, blueberry and acai smoothie contains 34g of sugar, around the same as a 330ml can of Coke.
(20) And, though I mixed heroin and coke [Goldin continued to use heroin but not intravenously], I never smoked crack.
Cote
Definition:
(n.) A cottage or hut.
(n.) A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.
(v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.
(v. t.) To quote.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his five-star review for Time Out New York , David Cote calls it "gobsmackingly funny".
(2) Cote ruled that that damages would be determined at a new hearing.
(3) It feels very much like the work of a cook born in Bordeaux, the place where they like to top their cote de boeuf with bone marrow, and sear it fast so that inside it is still the colour of raging knife cut.
(4) Even so – banned from leaving Italy – he was not able to join the cast on the red carpet on the Cote d'Azur, nor will he join them anywhere else outside his native land.
(5) US district judge Denise Cote ruled on Wednesday that the company played a "central role" in a conspiracy with the biggest book publishers in the US to fix prices in violation of antitrust law.
(6) In a second model, CoTE was injected at 1000 h of day 35 to a group of rats that was castrated 12-24 h prior to injection, and the animals were sacrificed 6 h later; plasma FSH levels were found to be significantly suppressed.
(7) Admissions and deaths in a pulmonary medicine ward in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, were evaluated over a 6-month period in 1989 with systematic autopsies on all patients who died.
(8) In west Africa, both HIV-2 and HIV-1 are epidemic; seroprevalence of HIV-2 is highest in southern Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Cote d'Ivoire: HIV-1 had the highest frequency in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.
(9) "On a fairly regular basis, roughly once a quarter, the CEOs of the publishers held dinners in the private dining rooms of New York restaurants, without counsel or assistants present, in order to discuss the common challenges they faced, including most prominently Amazon's pricing policies," said Cote.
(10) The population based registry of digestive tract tumours of the country of Cote-d'Or was used to assess the epidemiological and prognostic value of Ming classification.
(11) The administration of CoTE in 25-100 mg amounts to 35-day-old immature male rats, orchidectomized just prior to use, resulted in the prevention of a rise in plasma FSH levels, seen 10 h post-treatment.
(12) Cote ruled against Apple in a non-jury trial in 2013.
(13) Here's Judge Cote: In an email to Jobs, [Apple executive Eddy] Cue attributed Random House's capitulation in part to "the fact that I prevented an app from Random House from going live in the app store this week.
(14) Tim Atkin MW has tasted it twice and pronounces it "somewhere between a decent Beaujolais and an Hautes Cotes de Nuit red – light, fruity and appealing, but of no great complexity".
(15) Seven days after treatment, the faecal samples of 105 dove-cotes were negative for oocysts of E. Labbeana and E. columbarum; in six dove-cotes, infection was also virtually reduced to zero.
(16) Cote did admit that the sheer volume of negative comments opposing the final judgment meant that "hesitation is clearly appropriate in this case", saying that "there can be no denying the importance of books and authors in the quest for human knowledge and creative expression, and in supporting a free and prosperous society".
(17) This paper presents the Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation Scale (COTE Scale) for use by occupational therapists in short-term, acute-care psychiatric facilities.
(18) "People come here to beg from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, the Horn of Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Chad, Niger ... everywhere.
(19) A Colombia fan enjoys the atmosphere prior to the 2014 World Cup Brazil Group C match between Colombia and Cote D'Ivoire.
(20) Booksellers including Barnes & Noble and the American Booksellers Association had disputed the DoJ's proposed settlement, as had more than 90% of the 868 public comments received, noted US district judge Denise Cote in her decision yesterday.