(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.
Urry
Definition:
(n.) A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in confirmation of results in a previous paper (Sigworth, F. J., D. W. Urry, and K. U. Prasad.
(2) In a new report from the Campaign for Social Science, we argue that there should be a 10% increase in budgets across the board, with that extra money being directed towards cross-disciplinary research, where the social sciences have a critical role to play in addressing the big problems that will confront the UK over the next decade.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Urry ‘It’s frustrating how social sciences get sidelined in public debate’ John Urry, professor of sociology, Lancaster University, says: “There is no doubt that the casual way in which the social sciences get sidelined in public debate is frustrating.
(3) The motivation of this study was to determine whether lung tissue material without the influence of surface tension undergoes a phase transition in the 20-40 degrees C range, as does synthetic elastin studied by Urry in 1984-1986.
(4) Using Urry's gramicidin A (GA) atomic coordinates and ab into calculations, the interaction energies of a K+ ion with GA are examined.
(5) Rather the conductance differences are consistent with the decreased off-rate constant for the singly occupied state as the ionic radius decreases from that of cesium ion to sodium ion coupled with the decreased probability of the doubly occupied channel due to increased ion-ion repulsion as the channel is shortened (Urry et al.
(6) A shortened analog of gramicidin A has been shown by Urry et al.
(7) The membrane conformation of the peptide ionophore gramicidin A is shown by 19F NMR to be described by the N-terminal to N-terminal beta LD helical dimer model proposed by Urry [Urry, D.W. (1971) Proc.
(8) This direct structural approach verifies the beta-sheet hydrogen-bonding pattern proposed by Urry [Urry, D. W. (1971) Proc.
(9) The first part of this review on entropic elastic processes in protein mechanisms (Urry, 1988) demonstrated with the polypentapeptide of elastin (Val1-Pro2-Gly3-Val4-Gly5)n that elastic structure develops as the result of an inverse temperature transition and that entropic elasticity is due to internal chain dynamics in a regular nonrandom structure.
(10) A model for oxytocin has been previously proposed in which residues 3 and 4 occupy the corner positions in a beta turn (Urry, D. W., & Walter, R (1971) Proc.
(11) Treatment for over a year results in paucity of germ cells, vacuolation of Sertoli cells and reduction in Leydig cells (Lu & Steinberger 1978, Smith & Urry 1985).
(12) It is tentatively proposed that the folded conformation of oxytocin in aqueous media may contain a parallel beta-structure in the tocinamide ring consisting of two hydrogen bonds: one between the Tyr2 C = O and Asn5 peptide NH as originally proposed for the preferred conformation of oxytocin in dimethyl sulfoxide (D. W. Urry and R. Walter), and the second between he Cys1 C = O and the Cys6 NH.
(13) Of the specific models proposed for the structure of gramicidin, these data are consistent only with that of Urry.
(14) Experiments with charged derivatives of gramicidin A have been used in order to distinguish between different structural models of the dimeric channel; these studies strongly support Urry's model of a single-stranded, head-to-head associated helical dimer.
(15) The energy minimized model of the gramicidin channel, which was based on the results of Venkatachalam and Urry (1983), has a constriction at the channel entrance.
(16) The coacervate phase produced by raising the temperature of solutions of blocked alpha-elastin has water content and fibrillar structure at electron microscope level similar to fibrous elastin (Cox, B.A., Starcher, B.C., Urry, D.W. (1973) Biochim, Biophys.
(17) [Glickson, J. D., Mayers, D. F., Settine, J. M. & Urry, D. W. (1972) Biochemistry 11, 477-486] in which there is a rapid conformational order in equilibrium disorder equilibrium, the ordered structure being the left-handed beta 6.3 helix and the disordered state having local random-coil character.
(18) The tryptophan residues of gramicidin appear to be located near the membrane surface in agreement with the head-to-head dimeric structure proposed by D. W. Urry et al.
(19) Analysis of nuclear Overhauser effects, spin-spin couplings and solvent accessibility of NH groups show that the conformation of the Na+ complex of gramicidin A in detergent micelles, which in many ways mimic the phospholipid bilayer of biomembranes, is an N-terminal to N-terminal (head-to-head) dimer (Formula: see text) formed by two right-handed, single-stranded beta 6.3 helices with 6.3 residues per turn, differing from Urry's structure by handedness of the helices.
(20) Measurements with different chemically modified gramicidins in lipid bilayer membranes were used to discriminate between the dimeric pi(L,D) helix proposed by Urry and the dimeric parallel or antiparallel helices proposed by Veatch and Blout.