(n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
(n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(2) Others in more agreeable confines should take this opportunity to load up on trans-fats and get set for what should be a cracker.
(3) Regardless of when or how that occurs, one thing is believed – there will not be an end to cracker night.
(4) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(5) McGovern, the award-winning creator of dramas including Cracker, said the whole team currently working on the third series of The Street , including executive producer Sita Williams, at producer ITV Studios' Manchester base could be made redundant.
(6) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(7) Joe Wilkinson 'Instead of Jokes in a Christmas crackers they should put in something more useful, like the rules to Kabaddi or instructions on how to delete your internet history.'
(8) Comparisons between parents and childrens reports of food frequencies and portion sizes revealed the best correlations for beverages, bread-cereals-crackers, meat-fish-poultry, and mixed dishes.
(9) When asked what cracker night says about life in the Territory, Carmichael points towards personal freedom.
(10) Though the last team to win the league having been outside the top three at Christmas were Arsenal (who were sixth as the crackers were pulled) way back in 1997-98, plenty of sides have come from even further back.
(11) Nutritional ideas and products that are the outcomes of the early vegetarian movement include a commitment to high fiber diets, the popularity of breakfast cereals, and the graham cracker.
(12) Schuster has been commissioning editor of comedy at Sky since 2011, working on shows including Little Crackers and The Kumars for Sky1 and A Young Doctor's Notebook and Psychobitches for Sky Arts.
(13) Cookies, crackers, and potato chips were most retentive, whereas caramels, jelly beans, raisins, and milk chocolate bars were among those poorly retained.
(14) Nicholas Evans is a celebrated storyteller, and the story he tells me is a cracker.
(15) The meals consisted of starch crackers fed at the rate of 1 g carbohydrate from starch per kilogram body weight.
(16) However, during the 1990s Granada and others continued to make acclaimed programmes such as Cracker, The Darling Buds of May and period dramas Oliver Twist and Moll Flanders.
(17) The test fiber was consumed in crackers that contained approximately 7.5 gm fiber from psyllium gum, wheat bran, or a combination of the two sources.
(18) McGovern, the award-winning creator of The Street and other dramas including Cracker, said on BBC Radio 4's Front Row last night that he would not take the drama to another producer when ITV's Manchester drama department is scrapped as part of the latest round of cuts at the broadcaster.
(19) Once delivered, the ethane will be fed into “crackers” which break apart the gas and turn it into ethylene, which is used in a wide range of plastic products, such as plastic bags and – according to one Ineos man, the packaging for Pot Noodles.
(20) On basal esophageal manometry, 275 patients had a normal response, 64 patients had findings of high-amplitude peristalsis or "nut-cracker" esophagus, and 11 patients exhibited changes of diffuse esophageal spasm.
Fluted
Definition:
(a.) Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
(a.) Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flute
Example Sentences:
(1) The 12-fluted bur caused no clinically identifiable marks on the enamel surface.
(2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
(3) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
(4) The musician group was comprised of 31 brass instrument players, and 31 reed instrument or flute players.
(5) I also love music – I taught myself Chinese traditional instruments, such as the bamboo flute, and brought them to Britain.
(6) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(7) More than 1,000 republican dissidents, their supporters and seven flute bands marched from the nationalist Ardoyne district, through the north of the city to central Belfast.
(8) He admired a portrait of a girl playing a flute and was amused by the pictures of North Korea’s late leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, which hung high on the wall in the middle of the room, as is common in government buildings.
(9) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
(10) The simplified technique of insertion, the strength of the device, and the results of this study indicate that the fluted subtrochanteric rod has several advantages over other available devices.
(11) He dropped karate lessons and started learning the flute.
(12) Debris was also recorded on the land and flute spiral surfaces with morphological changes on the dentinal walls.
(13) A series of identically matched pairs of fresh-frozen canine femora (approximating human radii in size and dimension) were used to mechanically compare pull-out strength between 4 mm predrilled, self-tapping, half-pins and 4 mm self-drilling, self-tapping half-pins with drill bit-like cutting flutes.
(14) The word still makes me blench – Orangemen marching, Gazza playing an imaginary flute to Rangers fans, sectarian hatreds.
(15) Listening to Temples' Prisms three and half decades on, to its shimmering Beach-Boys-in-66 sonics and baroque arrangement (warning: features prominent use of flutes), you might feel similarly baffled.
(16) The stepped fluted rod is designed as a single unit and has exceptional bending strength and rigidity as well as excellent torsional load-carrying capacity.
(17) I have developed a flute-pick for peeling preretinal membranes in the presence of surface or intravitreal hemorrhages.
(18) One hundred ninety-three of 196 acute nonpathologic femoral shaft fractures were treated consecutively with intramedullary nailing using the fluted rod.
(19) Penetrability of the bovine teat duct to Escherichia coli endotoxin solution was measured before and after reaming the duct with a polypropylene tube, a steel twist drill bit, or a fluted drill point.
(20) The influences of surface structures, such as threads, cuts, holes, perforations, and flutes, are demonstrated.