(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.
Roll
Definition:
(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
(n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
(n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
(n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
(v.) That which rolls; a roller.
(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
(v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
(v.) Part; office; duty; role.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(4) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
(5) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
(6) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(7) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
(8) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(9) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
(10) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
(11) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(12) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(13) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
(14) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(15) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(16) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
(17) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(18) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(19) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
(20) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.