(v. t.) To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
(v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synapses or other sites that might be responsible for exciting these muscles during crumpling have not been found.
(2) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(3) A sixth conducting pathway is the epithelial system, which mediates crumpling, a response involving the radial muscles without pacemaker intervention.
(4) The BBC had a great subject: working-class, postwar Britain was being revealed.” Frears, a great crumpled bear of a man whom I met at his regular cafe in Notting Hill, said: “I tell you what: it’s really the growth of management you should be writing about.
(5) Congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA) was described by Beals and Hecht as an autosomal dominant disorder distinct from Marfan syndrome and comprising joint contractures, arachnodactyly, scoliosis, and a distinct "crumpled ear" deformity.
(6) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
(7) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
(8) It is the details of Martin's story that catch in the throat: his anxiety about his mother's wellbeing; his conviction that if he had been more helpful she would have wanted him to stay; his gentle care for the neighbourhood cats; the crumpled piece of bread he carries in his pocket for comfort.
(9) Louis van Gaal described it as “one of our best matches this season” and, even if he was exaggerating at times, talking about their opening 35 minutes being “unbelievably good,” it says a lot about Leicester that they refused to crumple.
(10) pedicaled subcutis muscle flaps, free tissue flaps or bone chips) we see no crumpling up of the obliterated areas and no retractions.
(11) Dressed in black Armani and heels, she walked the corridors, perching on desks reminding the crumpled agents that they were not only talented but handsome.
(12) We describe a male neonate with severe arachnodactyly, hypermobility of the fingers, flexion contractures of elbows, wrists, hips, and knees, micrognathia, crumpled ears, rockerbottom feet, loose redundant skin, and ocular abnormalities.
(13) The hands and feet appeared to be swollen and crumpled.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Crumpled Guggenheim … inside the rotunda.
(15) He began to make still-life photographs of his own discarded clothes, battered and crumpled and suggestively sexual, as if they still held the scent and warmth of the person who had worn them.
(16) The manner in which they had crumpled was almost shocking to see.
(17) The new houses paid for by the casino revenues, clustered together in their own neighbourhoods, stand out from the crumpled homes that have endured decades of desert winds.
(18) It is argued that these swollen and crumpled fiber knots are slowly degenerating fibers.
(19) Two triangular lobes jut into this space on either side, housing science and technology labs, their faceted forms giving it all the look of a crumpled New York Guggenheim rotunda .
(20) "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."
Mash
Definition:
(n.) A mesh.
(n.) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
(n.) A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
(n.) A mess; trouble.
(v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(2) The others received a cookie and chocolate mashed diet (C.C.
(3) The overall differences between swine fed mash-cholesterol and those fed milk-cholesterol diets appear to result from more efficient absorption of both neutral and acid steroids in the milk-cholesterol group only partially compensated for by decreased cholesterol synthesis.
(4) An excitable audience filled Glasgow's all-smoking, all-drinking Old Fruitmarket with shouted requests to Zevon who, at 53, looks a little mashed up by life.
(5) • You could use any left-over mashed potato to make your next batch of farls.
(6) When given a choice between two mashes of equal caloric density but differing flavors, rats (Rattus norvegicus) show a robust preference for the flavor previously associated with a higher calorie food.
(7) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
(8) The recommendations are duly translated into procedures that the staff of each agency must follow – a new recording form or assessment procedure, more meetings – Mashs (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs), the Laming report's safeguarding children boards, child protection plan meetings and so forth.
(9) Blind duplicate samples of starch, diluted lemon juice, wine cooler, dehydrated seafood, and instant mashed potatoes were analyzed without spiking and with added sulfite at 2 levels.
(10) In Experiment 1, laying hens on a proprietary layer mash were compared with hens rested from lay by the feeding of whole grain barley.
(11) Last week Target made an announcement on its website, under a mash-up of the company logo and a rainbow: “We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” It was the most high-profile statement on bathrooms from a major company, and drew cheers from supporters.
(12) Combine the sweet potatoes and the onion, sprinkle with cardamom, salt and pepper and mash, adding more butter if desired.
(13) The two groups were compared to control animals fed on AN-free mash.
(14) Vegetable use was most common in the low-risk area, whereas mashed potatoes, cabbage, and farinaceous dishes dominated in the high-risk area.
(15) To make the guacamole, peel the avocado, remove the stone, and mash in a bowl with a little salt and pepper and the lime juice.
(16) Complete degradation was observed for ochratoxin A from moderately contaminated barley lots and for citrinin added to mash.
(17) Rekulak said earlier this week that he had always wanted to do a mash-up of a famous literary novel.
(18) Three groups were fed a mineral-free mash which contained a cation exchange resin and chelator.
(19) Both the increase in eating rate and the decrease in intake, at high sucrose concentration, were markedly attenuated in stressed animals (which therefore had higher intakes of very sweet mash and lower rates of eating, relative to control animals).
(20) Heating of enterotoxin-containing tempe mash reduced enterotoxin A by 99.7% as measured with ELISA and animal feeding methods.