(n.) A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, at Donutville USA in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, two men said they were not going to let a little cold keep them from their morning cruller.
(2) In the Noth, the Dutch farmer's wife developed real skill in using flour from home-grown wheat and rye, creating pancakes, waffles, doughnuts, crullers, and so on.
(3) At neutral pH, it consists largely of relatively homogenous, morphologically distinctive twisted rod or cruller shaped particles, with dimensions 9 x 40 nm.
(4) A small percentage (15%) of particles morphologically distinct from carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) cruller-like particles (averaging 9 x 40 nm) as determined by electron microscopy, and previously presumed to be impurities, has been removed from CEA preparations by concanavalin A (Con A) affinity chromatography.
(5) Thus, for the first time the effectiveness of the purification of a glycoprotein has been successfully monitored by electron microscopy, demonstrating that the cruller-like appearance of the CEA particle is closely related to antigenic specificity.
Culler
Definition:
(n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
Example Sentences:
(1) This delay enabled the badger cullers to drive away into the darkness and continue their work without having to suffer the terror of a journalist politely stammering, "Excuse me sir, how is the badger cull going?"
(2) "He confirmed the final licence conditions had yet to be met by the cullers but could be fulfilled at any time, meaning badgers could begin to be killed immediately.As winter approaches, time is fast running out for the cull to begin because badgers lie low in their setts in the cold weather.
(3) In the early hours of Tuesday two saboteurs in Gloucestershire found a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
(4) The lead American inspector, Floyd Culler, an expert on plutonium extraction, noted in his reports that there were newly plastered and painted walls in one of the buildings.
(5) The main reason for it in this situation is simple: the cullers know only too well that no amount of reassuring information about the cull's efficiency, humaneness or safety can disguise the fact that badgers are being shot dead and most of the country finds this distressing and would like it to stop.
(6) It highlighted one incident in Gloucestershire in which two experienced saboteurs came across a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
(7) When the government announced the cull and argued that it was necessary to tackle bovine TB, there had already been a standoff between saboteurs and cullers.
(8) Those occupations with the highest estimated rates included helicopter and agricultural pilots, demolition labourers, deer cullers and commercial deer shooters.
(9) The concerns raised in the leaked note will be celebrated by the activists, who have added heat-detecting sensors to their armoury this year to help them pick out cullers in the pitch black.
(10) This time some activists will use thermal imaging devices they say will allow them to spot cullers from up to 1km (0.6 miles) away.