(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.
Soda
Definition:
(n.) Sodium oxide or hydroxide.
(n.) Popularly, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aerobically, the gyrase inhibitors increased the expression of sodA::lacZ in the presence or absence of either paraquat or the iron chelator 2,2'-dipyridyl.
(2) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
(3) It is hard to determine the impact on obesity and disease, in part because so few sugar taxes have been passed The World Health Organisation calls soda taxes the most effective strategy for improving diet (along with subsidising fruit and vegetables).
(4) Beliefs best differentiating among the three groups were: (1) superiority of taste of their "own" sodas, (2) perceived efficiency to quench thirst, and (3) perceived compatibility with other menu items.
(5) An Australian walked into a bar in Edinburgh and asked for a scotch and soda.
(6) The precise location of the rhaT gene, encoding rhamnose permease, has been established between sodA and rhaC at 3605-3607 kb of Kohara's physical map, which corresponds to 88.4 min on the Escherichia coli chromosomal map.
(7) This procedure employed a column chromatography on DE-52, followed by three steps of HPLC procedures with threonine-Sepharose (prepared as described in this report), TSK gel Phenyl-5PW (Toyo Soda), and TSK gel G3000SW (Toyo Soda) columns.
(8) DNA minor components were not found in haloalkalophilic microorganisms from soda saline soils in contrast to those from soda lakes.
(9) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
(10) As obesity and diabetes rates soar around the world, a soda tax is one of the top recommendations of global health experts.
(11) In Mexico, the soda industry responded with more than arguments about exercise – it responded with money.
(12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
(13) The proper name of this panel is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."
(14) Fast "inactivation" of the potassium current is seen with patch pipettes fabricated from soft glass (soda glass or potash lead glass), and is probably caused by block of the potassium channels by di- or multivalent cations released from the glass.
(15) Serves 2 100ml bourbon or whisky 250ml soda water 2 lemon slices 2 sprigs of rosemary For the syrup (makes about 250ml) 225ml lemon juice (5-6 lemons) 120g sugar 4-6 sprigs of rosemary 1 Combine all the syrup ingredients in a medium saucepan, then heat until just boiling.
(16) Annie's soda bread Photograph: Pai9arhonalcna for the Guardian Easy peasy and very tasty.
(17) Detection limits of 0.063 ng of As(III), 0.037 ng of As(v), 0.032 ng of DMA and 0.080 ng of MMA in club soda were achieved using the He-Ar plasma source.
(18) People no longer huddled together where they worked but had to drive out of town to the oil and gas fields and the mine that extracted trona (a mineral used to make baking soda, glass, detergents and textiles).
(19) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
(20) Consumption of 0% mustard meal and 15% soybean meal, 7.5% mustard meal and 7.5% soybean meal, or 15% mustard meal and 0% soybean meal rations did not differ in palatability studies with 10 group-fed lactating cows when the mustard meal was treated with 3% caustic soda.