(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.
Entree
Definition:
(n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
(n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stapes is assigned the highest rating (2 points), while all other entrees on the scale are 1 point.
(2) His entree to the Conservative high command came through work and social contacts.
(3) Taste was the primary reason given by patrons for their entree choice, regardless of whether or not it was labeled.
(4) Because entrees contribute substantially to total meal fat content, we evaluated a cafeteria-based intervention for increasing the purchase rate of low-fat entrees (M = 6.83 g) relative to nonlow-fat entrees (M = 25.59 g).
(5) The three lowest calorie food selections within three food categories (i.e., salads, vegetables, entrees) were identified by labels.
(6) Entrees are sweet potato and coconut soup and for dessert there’s a triple chocolate torte with salted caramel burnt fig, vincotto spheres and espresso creamacotta.
(7) He used his celebrity status, his entree to the BBC and his connections with other stars as bait with which to draw young girls into his sphere.” In addition to unnamed supervisors and technical staff who worked on shows like Top of the Pops, Smith lists other examples of people who knew or suspected Savile was behaving inappropriately or illegally.
(8) Eating food from the first-class menu was associated with illness (p = 0.09), and eating a tourist-class entree was protective (p less than 0.01).
(9) A bacteriological survey of meat pies, frozen prepared dinners and entrees indicated that their bacterial populations were related to the components, the environment and handling in manufacture.
(10) Research in production times of vegetarian entrees provides a basis for comparison of production times of menu items for cost analysis.
(11) Category 4 contains foods high in Na and low in K relative to high energy: bread, rice, luncheon meats, commercial cookies and pastries, and fast food entrees.
(12) The NRA’s entree to the Koch world stems in part from bonds that the gun group’s top officials have forged.
(13) It was his move to Los Angeles, where he became bureau chief, which gave him his entree to war reporting.
(14) After the Wuss Island revelations we dine on medium rare steak (perfect) and kingfish with pigfish as the entree.
(15) On-site preparation was limited to rethermalization of frozen entrees and portioning of bulk-delivered items.
(16) Four Regional Health Protection Branch laboratories each compared aerobic colony counts obtained after "stomaching" and blending, for a minimum of 10 samples in each of the seven food groups: dry pastas; chocolate and cocoa powders; frozen entrees (macaroni and cheese, chow mein, chop suey, fried rice, seafood casseroles, and Salisbury steak); nonfat dry milk; shrimp and crabmeats; spices; and breakfast sausages.
(17) The intervention, which cost $80.00, produced significant increases (i.e., from 20% to 35%) in the purchase rate of LF entrees.
(18) Neither device could be said to offer an entree to instant liver surgery.
(19) Not one to miss an opportunity, Abbott cut in right after the soft entree: "And we don't want to give rise to a whole lot of mischief-making.
(20) "I often think how lucky I am to have them as owners; a magazine like ours could be easily run as an entree into society," he says.