(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.
Jelly
Definition:
(n.) Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.
(n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.
(v. i.) To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
(2) Those fed royal jelly as larvae emerge as queens and do little but lay eggs.
(3) Following stereotactic biopsy, which yielded a homogeneous jelly-like material, the mass was removed microsurgically and was found to be most like a colloid cyst on histological examination.
(4) Earlier studies have shown that a substance(s) released from the egg jelly of the toad Bufo arenarum is required for fertilization.
(5) In forest, removal of olfactory substances from the human skin, by vigorous washing and application of petroleum jelly, or by wearing impermeable clothing, greatly reduced the numbers of flies attracted.
(6) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
(7) During heart development in the chick some of the endocardial cells that cover the cushion areas leave the cushion endocardium, seed the underlying cardiac jelly, and are transformed into mesenchyme.
(8) It is concluded that lignocaine jelly with the use of a spray significantly increases post-operative side-effects.
(9) We report the case of a child who sustained partial thickness burns from a garlic-petroleum jelly plaster, which had been applied at the direction of a naturopathic physician.
(10) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(11) A phantom, electrically adaptable for simulation of various tissues, was developed using agar as the jelly.
(12) The authors' in vitro results, in conjunction with the observations from their two cases, suggest that lidocaine jelly mixed with 1 to 3 parts normal saline may be useful in managing certain types of endotracheal tube cuff incompetence.
(13) These results indicate that the Na+ requirement for the acrosome reaction induced by jelly is lost when triggering is by high pH.
(14) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(15) The fucose-sulfate glycoconjugate (FSG) component of sea urchin egg jelly that induces an acrosome reaction in spermatozoa-stimulated multiple Ca2+-dependent phospholipid changes in the sperm cell head and flagellum.
(16) Under natural conditions, the permeability change which results in Ca+2 influx may be induced in echinoid sperm by egg jelly and may occur in mammalian sperm during capacitation.
(17) But each version is named after a dessert (Frozen Yogurt, Jelly Bean) – insufficiently manly, suggested Rob Beschizza.
(18) Petroleum jelly was always used, to prevent heating and desiccation of the specimens.
(19) Jelly release and hydration appears dependent on both a trypsin-like protease and Ca++ and Mg++ ions.
(20) Add to the dough and gently incorporate by hand, mixing the cheese and jelly evenly into the dough.