(n.) A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
(n.) A composition of drugs.
(n.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(2) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(3) Quite often, when the media reports a coalition "row" between the Tories and the Lib Dems, it has been confected by one or both of them because someone thinks it suits them to be seen on opposing sides of an issue.
(4) Apart from the confected row about the renewal of Trident , the two main parties seem curiously indifferent to what is going on beyond Britain’s shores, unless it involves immigration.
(5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(6) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
(7) MIA emerged on the music scene in the mid-2000s, the perfect antidote to confection pop.
(8) Such metaphysical questions underlie the confection of her plot.
(9) In view of the considerable sales success of sugarless confections, accounting for over an estimated 30,000,000 lbs.
(10) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
(11) Fifty monkeys were fed SMA, a formula designed for human infants (9% protein, 43% carbohydrate, and 48% fat); 46 were fed one of three laboratory-confected diets varying in the amount of protein and carbohydrates provided.
(12) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
(13) The results confirmed that Lycasin would be preferred to sucrose as a sweetener for confections and medicines, although some softening of enamel by Lycasin was evident when compared to the saline controls.
(14) Andy Burnham , Caroline Flint – sensible Labour falls over itself to show who is the most realistic, where realism stands for accepting without question a vision of the country confected by their opponents.
(15) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(16) Whether this highly aerated, minimally nutritious confection was actually invented in the United States or here remains fiercely contested, though sadly the myth that Margaret Thatcher was involved in its creation while working as a research chemist at the food conglomerate J Lyons & Co has been fairly thoroughly debunked.
(17) Apart from the approach routes, particular features of the technique used were essentially the size of the frontal flap extending to orbital roof, and mainly the confection of a pericranial flap formed of epicranial aponeurosis lined with frontoparietal periosteum and pedunculated at the orbital border.
(18) Others argue that the sense of a sectarian crisis – most notably over Syria – has been confected by the Assad regime.
(19) A controversial issue will often bring a blizzard of identikit protest of apparently confected anger but while clearly this lobby was organised most of the emails and letters we received were personal and heartfelt.
(20) I know what you're thinking: Christmas DVDs, promotional tours, robotically confected controversy … none of these really feel like the answer to the question: "What would Spartacus do?"
Convection
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
(n.) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(2) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
(3) The results indicate that after the fifth breath the increase in Sn during a MBNW is diffusion independent and may constitute a sensitive index of convection-dependent inhomogeneity (CDI).
(4) Hemodiafiltration (HDF) is a new dialysis treatment that combines convective and diffusive forces.
(5) We must accept a non-convective triggering of nystagmus in extraterrestrial space.
(6) The findings suggest that patients with pseudotumour cerebri have a convective transependymal flow of water causing an interstitial brain oedema and in addition an intracellular brain water accumulation.
(7) The recovery of fluorescence due to diffusion and convection within the medium was monitored and analyzed to yield values of the diffusion coefficient and the fluid velocity.
(8) The O2 transfer mechanisms in this model include diffusion and reaction within the RBC and diffusion and convection in the medium surrounding the RBC.
(9) The "kinetic" comparison of PFD and HDF to HBD, using equal quantities of dialysate, showed no significant change in the mention of uremic toxins of small molecular weight and a more efficient capacity to extract beta 2M by the diffusive-convective methods.
(10) The airway deadspace is the volume of the airway in which gas moves chiefly by convection.
(11) The 1st breeding phase coincides with the South-West monsoons and the 2nd with the convectional rains in the month of March.
(12) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
(13) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
(14) In any situation where heat production as a result of physical exercise exceeds heat elimination from the body by radiation and convection, the body will depend on sweat secretion and evaporation for its thermoregulation.
(15) Due to the energy input and the associated thermal convection a separation of the three differently charged cell types in distinct peaks was not possible under 1 g-conditions as shown by reference experiments on the ground before launch.
(16) These mechanisms include: convective graviosmosis and related effects, gravidiffusional graviosmosis, and osmotic transport aided by gravitational force in multi-membrane systems.
(17) Both theoretical and experimental evidence indicates that only the first of these mechanisms could result in the steady-state caloric response that is observed in the absence of convection (e.g., in spaceflight and after canal plugging) and that contributes to the prone-supine asymmetry seen in caloric testing.
(18) The dead spaces for hydrogen and sulfur hexafluoride are predicted from the solution of a partial differential equation, applied to Weibel's morphometric data of the lung, and including longitudinal convection and diffusion coupled with instantaneous radial diffusion.
(19) It is concluded that in the conditions of the experiments convective mixing by the cardiac action played an insignificant role in promoting intrapulmonary mixing and transport.
(20) the circulation of blood through a cuprophane dialyzer with the dialysate compartment closed to avoid diffusion and convective transport of fluid and solutes.