(n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Norwegian researchers looked at all the sources of caffeine ingested by the pregnant women, including coffee, tea and fizzy drinks, along with cakes and desserts containing cocoa (which has lots of caffeine).
(2) But each version is named after a dessert (Frozen Yogurt, Jelly Bean) – insufficiently manly, suggested Rob Beschizza.
(3) And there is no dessert; and he tries to commit suicide.
(4) So, to make up for it he orders dessert and fills our glasses, though we drain them quickly for we must move on, perhaps inevitably, to the Spotted Pig.
(5) Non-smokers, of both sexes, were significantly more likely than smokers to consume, frequently, fresh fruit in summer and winter, fruit juice, cooked and canned fruit, salads in summer and winter, breakfast cereals, cakes, biscuits, puddings, pasta, poultry, light desserts and preserves.
(6) "You can't live like the man on the street who's had dessert or cake.
(7) Colleen : For dessert, I made a mango syllabub, inspired by Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds; the fruit represented the sunset, and I studded the cream with edible diamonds to make it look sky-like.
(8) The scent of grilled seafood and herbs; a refreshing salad; some tiny potatoes with summer herbs and a frivolous dessert of fruit and cream is not too much to ask.
(9) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
(10) All in all, 65% of the study group had a weekly consumption of larger beer, 6% of strong beer, 52% of red or white wine, 12% of dessert wine, and 27% of spirits.
(11) The results indicate that the food patterns of older persons can be well categorized as light eaters, heavy eaters, or consumers of large amounts of alcoholic beverages, salty snack products, animal fat products, legumes, or sweets and desserts.
(12) Throw in the fromage du jour for dessert and you can do two courses for £10 on the nose.
(13) The highest quality versions of the traditional love-it-or-loathe-it dessert require as long as 10 months to mature before they reach our shelves.
(14) Two hundred and fifty samples of five different foods: desserts, soups, mousses, pre-cooked "polenta" and mashed potatoes, were examined.
(15) After commenters reacted negatively to a video in which Doré and her friends referred to not eating dessert at lunch because of the need to fit into their fashion week outfits, Doré responded with a post attacking the double standards and dishonesty rife in the media, where ultra-slender actresses maintain a pretence of eating cheeseburgers.
(16) The between-meal consumption of sugary desserts was also significantly associated with high DMFT scores.
(17) On the "winter harvest-themed menu" at the White House: First course Brussels sprouts, applewood smoked bacon Second course Spring garden lettuces, shallot dressing, shaved breakfast radish, cucumbers and avocados Main course Bison wellington, a red wine reduction, French beans, cipollini onions Dessert Warm meyer lemon steamed pudding with Idaho huckleberry sauce and newtown pippin apples American wines
(18) Some of the difference in intake occurred in the dessert itself.
(19) "Yellowcake" now refers to a type of dessert, not uranium; a "roadmap" is not a plan to extricate your nation from war, but a thing your smartphone has that tells you how exactly to get to Starbucks.
(20) During the binge meal, patients spent more of their meal time eating dessert and snacks than did control subjects and began their dessert and snack consumption earlier than control subjects.
Dissert
Definition:
(v. i.) To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
Example Sentences:
(1) At university she did her dissertation on child sexual abuse and prostitution, but became inspired to campaign against sexual violence when she volunteered for the organisation that stages the one-woman play, the Vagina Monologues.
(2) We reviewed four unpublished dissertations that used Levinson's theory to study women's adult development.
(3) • Students would be stretched by being asked to write dissertations of up to 5,000 words.
(4) The purpose of his dissertation, he added, was to analyse "how to create more just and democratic global governing institutions", focusing on the importance of the role of "civil society".
(5) The scientific programme is represented by 21 books, 388 papers and 158 dissertations.
(6) Firstly we turn to Will Bouma, who with a degree in Environmental Studies and a 2003 dissertation entitled 'Greening Football, Environmental Management in Premier League Football' should know what he is talking about.
(7) This article is motivated by the current hypothesis [Kim et al., Psychological, Physiological and Behavioural Studies in Hearing (Delft U. P., The Netherlands, 1980); Neely, Doctoral dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1981); de Boer, J. Acoust.
(8) A simple technique, developed in Phillips (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 1987), is used to approximate cov(theta MH, pi), i = 1, 2, where theta MH is the Mantel-Haenszel log-odds-ratio estimator for a 2 x 2 x K table and the pi are the sample marginal proportions.
(9) After completing his doctoral dissertation in Germany, Bergoglio served as a confessor and spiritual director in Cordoba.
(10) The 'three-point-attachment model' of the substrate splitting, proposed by Daniels [(1983) Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh] for the analogous liver enzyme, was applicable for beta-D-glucosidase from pig kidney too.
(11) Finally, the parameters used to describe the stopped flow results can also be used to simulate quantitatively O2 uptake time courses obtained from previous studies with thin films of red cells (Sinha, A. K. (1969) Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Francisco; Thews, G. (1959) Arch.
(12) The search produced references to 2,431 journal articles, 102 books, 79 popular magazine articles, and 551 doctoral dissertations.
(13) This is very positive and welcome news and a key recommendation of my dissertation, however the findings show that this news alone won't make all the difference.
(14) A 3, 1173 (1986)] and their failure to acknowledge the magnitude scaling aspect of B. C. Wilson's work [B. C. Wilson, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1964)].
(15) She said she is withholding around £400 in rent after continuous disruptions – including workmen walking past her window all day long and a rodent infestation – made it impossible for her to stay while she completed her master’s dissertation.
(16) The scientific programme is represented by two books, 197 papers and 117 dissertations.
(17) 2 recent dissertations (Hughes, 1988; Miller, 1986) from the University of Waterloo are summarized, each of which supports the neodissociative view that hypnotic behavior can be purposeful (in the sense that the suggested state of affairs is achieved) and nonvolitional (in the sense that the suggested state of affairs is not achieved by high level executive initiative and ongoing effort).
(18) D. in medicine could be obtained after having defended the inaugural dissertation.
(19) The Italian prosecutors have been keen to find out whose idea it was that Regeni should write his PhD dissertation on independent unions, and the street vendors’ union especially.
(20) On the basis of the author's examinations described in his candidate's dissertation "syndesmolysis trigonum"--pathognostic for syndesmolysis--is dealt with.