(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
(v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(2) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(3) It's not that Thompson isn't a a very good player – he and Steph Curry have been running one of the most potent offensives in the NBA over the last two years or so and he's obviously a much better defensive player than Love.
(4) Is eating curry occasionally proof of the "growing Indianisation of British culture"?
(5) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
(6) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
(7) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(8) Almond lamb curry: Atul Kochhar This dish derives its main flavour from a spice blend called vadagam, which can be a little tedious to make.
(9) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
(10) Though BA none producing mutants which were blocked at the steps 1, 10 and 13, respectively in BA biosynthesis also converted BA to BA dimer and If, the mutants blocked at the step 11 (alanylation) could not curry out the conversion.
(11) Stephen Curry , a structural biologist at Imperial College London, says that scientists need to come to a new arrangement with publishers fit for the online age and that "for a long time, we've been taken for a ride and it's got ridiculous".
(12) For him, a good night out was driving around Glasgow or some other part of the west of Scotland, helping activists climb up ladders, putting up posters, and then piling into a curry shop.
(13) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(14) @Stephen_Curry is a professor of structural biology at Imperial College, vice-chair of Science is Vital and a director of CaSE .
(15) William McDougall , infrastructure engineer and transport consultant who has worked on several projects in Victoria , including an early study into the link: “Having studied the East West Link several times over the years, I’m convinced that it’s not needed.“ Dr Alan March , associate professor of urban planning at Melbourne University: “I look at this as a choice about where public investment and resources are going and, when it is compared with other short-term and long-term choices that could be made, this is not a good choice.” Dr John Stone , lecturer in transport policy, University of Melbourne: “This project has problems because the only credible cost benefit analysis has shown that it is not going to make a return on the investment that we make.” Professor Graham Currie , Australia’s first professor of public transport, at Monash University, with 30 years experience as a transit planner: “Is it a good idea to build more motorways in inner areas?
(16) Curry averaged .9 rebounds per game and 2.1 points per game on 46.2% field goal shooting throughout 14 games, one of which he started.
(17) "They have freshly-prepared home-made soups, vegetable curries, and other items more often found in an upmarket restaurant than a football ground bar."
(18) I have a feeling that this one might stand for a while.” Golden State stormed to an early lead behind Curry’s hot shooting, heading into the locker room at half time leading by 20 points.
(19) A Currys promise of a £101 saving on a Samsung TV was not as good as it looked, as the £748 price tag was only a pound less than on the eve of Black Friday and it had been on promotion at £699 in September.
(20) If he was safe he would have made an attempt to get in touch with somebody.” Family members of a young couple, Chloe Rutherford, 17 and Liam Curry, 19, from South Shields, were also in Manchester searching for them.
Malay
Definition:
(n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
(a.) Alt. of Malayan
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
(2) Women with little or no education, rural residents, and those of Malay ethnicity are found to give less reliable data.
(3) While 88.9% of the Malay infants were breast-fed, only 69.7% of the Indian infants and 42.3% of the Chinese infants were breast-fed.
(4) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(5) G6PD deficiency is common in all three ethnic groups (Malays, Chinese, and Indians) in Malaysia and screening is recommended.
(6) Racially the Malay drug abusers had the highest exposure rate (54.2%).
(7) There were no statistically significant differences in the immune status by sex and by ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays and Indians).
(8) There was a tendency for women in the 2nd group who failed to return within 6 weeks for interval sterilization to be Moslem Malays, to have a nuclear family, and to have 1 or no sons.
(9) Age-adjusted incidence rates among Chinese males and females were 17·3 and 7·3 per 100,000; among Malay males and females, the rates were 2·5 and 0·3 and among Indian males, 1·1.
(10) 90.9% of these were from Chinese and none from Malay patients.
(11) Most patients (76) were of Malay descent, while 52 patients were Chinese, and two came from elsewhere.
(12) The typical breast feeding mother was more likely to be a Malay, with lower family income and residing in the rural area.
(13) Almost 20% reacted positively at dilutions of 1:64 or higher and eight among the Orang Asli and Malays gave the highest titres of 1:256.
(14) Genetic distance analyses by both cluster and principal components models were performed between Koreans and eight other populations (Koreans in China, Japanese, Han Chinese, Mongolians, Zhuangs, Malays, Javanese, and Soviet Asians) on the basis of 47 alleles controlled by 15 polymorphic loci.
(15) It was also determined that Malay women were more likely to return to the clinic than Chinese or Indians and Pakistanis.
(16) National data show that the perinatal mortality amongst the Malays is higher than that of the Chinese but less than that of the Indians.
(17) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(18) This was an 8-mth-old Malay boy who was clinically diagnosed to have stage I Wilms' tumor.
(19) All the cases were Malays and most of the accidents occurred before the Hari Raya Idilfitri festive seasons.
(20) The results did not support an association between ISLE and acetylator status: the frequencies of slow acetylators in the ISLE patients who were Malaysian Chinese and Malay were 13 and 38% respectively.