(n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
(2) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(3) Eastbourne follows with a 100% rise, and Torquay in Devon's is also high on the list, with an 81% rise in bookings.
(4) I have had to move away from my long-term partner because of the lack of jobs, to a large extent caused by cuts to the public sector in Devon, where it constituted 27% of the workforce.
(5) Other stranded schemes include a £9m alleviation scheme for Exeter, Devon, and coastal defences at Folkestone, Kent (£22m) and Lyme Regis, Dorset (£15m).
(6) For services to the Restoration of Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon.
(7) Sadly, circumstances gave only few occasions to confirm this; they were about to move to Devon.
(8) At this stage nobody can be confident that this has happened.” Among the acute service beds at general hospitals set to be cut are 535 in Derbyshire, 400 each in Devon and West Yorkshire and 30% of all beds in hospitals in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
(9) On the basis of these in vitro data the observed defect in the Devon Rex cats can be fully explained.
(10) For services to the community in Drewsteignton, Devon.
(11) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(12) Rain has caused severe flooding in Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire , with 265 flood warnings and 288 alerts in place covering all regions in England and Wales.
(13) Sid Ward, teacher, 38, Kingsbridge, Devon (now living in Herefordshire) ‘Properties are empty, so the community is empty’ Second homes destroy the fabric of the town and spoil the very things that made it attractive to the second home owner in the first place.
(14) Gránia Fine Bridford, Devon • There are two aspects of current nursing conditions which Jeremy Hunt's pronouncements on training reform fail to address.
(15) Luciana Berger, mental health shadow minister, said Devon had spoken out “openly and honestly about the challenges facing children’s mental health under this Tory government.
(16) There's the mother of a guy who runs a little local garage where we live in Devon who fixes our cars, a family business.
(17) At the very top for GCSE results was Colyton grammar school in Devon, where all 117 GCSE pupils got at least five grades C or higher, including English and maths.
(18) Updated at 2.55pm GMT 11.44am GMT Pilot programs Natural England, Defra and local councils are currently managing six pilot programmes for biodiversity offsetting in: Devon Doncaster Essex Greater Norwich Nottinghamshire Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull The EAC was critical of the uptake in the programmes, which started in 2011, saying that the requirement for developers to opt in meant few measurable results had emerged.
(19) Devon and Cornwall Police said a 20-mile stretch of coastline - 10 miles either side of the 18-year-old's home at Newton Ferrers - has been extensively searched as well as inland areas with the help of a range of groups and emergency services.
(20) Tom Spicer and his sister Kate in the film Mission to Lars Photograph: Misison to Lars And on the big screen, documentary Mission to Lars followed a man with a learning disability as he left his Devon care home on a quest to meet his hero, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
Sausage
Definition:
(n.) An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
(n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ecological study of Micrococcus radiodurans indicated that microorganisms possessing the same morphological and radiation-resistance characteristics as that organism could be isolated from ground beef and from pork sausage.
(2) Children with familial history of spondyloarthropathies showing enthesopathy, "sausage fingers" and with the presence of HLA B27, may be classified in the group of spondyloarthropathies.
(3) To determine the etiologic role of strenuous manual tasks in relation to epicondylitis, three clinical cross-sectional examinations were performed on meatcutters (N = 102), sausage makers (N = 125), packers (N = 150), and workers in nonstrenuous tasks (N = 332).
(4) The parasite is apansporoblastic, polysporous and has characteristics not previously reported in the Microsporida: (1) an electron lucent inclusion not usually seen in Microsporida is prominent and always present; (2) extremely elongated sausage-shaped nuclei occur in the proliferative phase of parasite development; (3) the polar tube development uniquely involves the production of electron dense discs, yet results in the formation of a typical spore; and (4) polar tube development occurs prior to the final division of the multi-nucleate sporont.
(5) They now realise there's a link between human rights and the price of sausages."
(6) Streptococci were isolated from Italian dry sausage manufactured commercially with and without added starter cultures.
(7) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
(8) Transfer the dough to a clean work surface, punch out some of the air, then roll into a 30cm-long sausage.
(9) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
(10) During atriotomy of the right atrium, a large sausage-shaped mass of milky-pinkish color was found.
(11) Cultures of 68 samples of fresh pork sausage purchased locally were incubated at 37 and 43 C, with and without Tergitol No.
(12) We evaluated the effect of a compound containing alginic acid plus antacid (extra-strength Gaviscon) versus active control antacid with equal acid-neutralizing capacity on intraesophageal acid exposure following a high-fat meal (61% fat: sausage, egg, and biscuit).
(13) A quality evaluation was made of frankfurter-type sausages made from hand and mechanically deboned meat from various parts of turkey carcasses.
(14) As people, they are very different, but they have almost all gone through the same educational sausage machine to become what are known as “énarques” (as in École nationale d’administration), the folk who run the country.
(15) As a 53-year-old man who enjoys a sausage roll, I have been worrying more about my cholesterol levels recently than about the symptoms of my MS, and here comes a pill that promises to deal with both.
(16) L. monocytogenes was recovered from 20 of 41 samples of frozen ground beef, 12 of 23 samples of pork sausage, and 7 of 22 samples of poultry.
(17) The first, when the straight X-ray of the abdomen and barium followthrough demonstrate an axial stenosis of the small intestines with dilation of the proximal loops; the second (between the 7th and 20th days) when the loop affected by the hematoma takes on a characteristic "palissade" or "spring" -like sausage appearance; finally the third (after the 3rd week), when only thickening of the haustrations persists with progressive return to normal.
(18) The aim of this study was to determine the resistance of Toxoplasma gondii cysts to salt (sodium chloride) and condiments (black pepper and garlic) in fresh sausages prepared with experimentally infected pork.
(19) I regularly see my doctor, I suffer from depression.” His dietary staple is sausage rolls, four for £1 from the local Greggs store.
(20) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.