(n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
(n.) An entertainment; a feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(2) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(3) Dinner is the usual “international” menu that few will bother with given the wealth of choice nearby.
(4) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(5) The Miliband dinner will be a more low key affair in London.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(7) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
(8) No association was detected between the overall frequency of fish for dinner and breast cancer risk (chi 2 trend = 1.39, p = 0.24), but there was an inverse relation with the frequency of main meals containing fish in poached form.
(9) I learned about this more extreme form of PMS a couple of weeks ago, at a conference dinner, where I ended up sitting next to Peter Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol.
(10) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
(11) Cameron is hoping Thursday’s EU talks over dinner will pave the way for a deal by February, allowing him to have a referendum next year.
(12) When you are informed that 200 children are missing, you don’t go to dinner until you have got to the bottom of it.
(13) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(14) They have insisted that they were invited to the event, Obama's first state dinner.
(15) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
(16) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
(17) I do not always require something with a pulse to have died for my dinner.
(18) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(19) During a break in shooting Emin was served a Sunday dinner.
(20) In fact, in keeping with its usual practice, the White House hasn't released any details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served or what Michelle Obama will wear and doesn't plan to until a few hours before Wednesday's event begins.
Tea
Definition:
(n.) The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, / Camellia, Chinensis). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries.
(n.) A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.
(n.) Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.
(n.) The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper.
(v. i.) To take or drink tea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(2) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(3) In contrast, the fast block by internal TEA+ appeared virtually independent of voltage.
(4) In conclusion, block of inhibitory innervation, and induction of electrical slow waves as a control mechanism for phasic contractile activity, seems to require blockade of an aminacrine- but not TEA-sensitive potassium conductance.
(5) And it means the Foreign Office dealing with those in the Middle East and North Africa who are on the side of democracy and human rights, not sitting down to tea with torturers.
(6) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
(7) The addition of chlorhexidine and saliva increased staining when used with tea.
(8) Results with the model strengthen the hypothesis that tetraethylammonium (TEA) acts on both the maximum potassium conductance (gK) and the mechanism of sodium conductance inactivation (Tauh) to lengthen the action potential as observed on the Ranvier node (fig.
(9) Sources said that when Mitchell toured the Commons tea rooms on Wednesday and Thursday, he was taken aback by the opposition to him staying put, despite Cameron's support.
(10) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
(11) You literally never see that at political rallies, though obviously at Tea Party ones they are there all the time."
(12) The acidosis-saving property of TEA is favorable for the ischemic heart.
(13) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(14) 8.04pm BST First challenge for the remaining seven is the tea loaf.
(15) While you can buy commercial formulations, I have always found that tap water, a cup of strong black tea, and some lemon juice provide enough nutrients for a lovely fermentation.
(16) Up-and-coming Tea Party favourite Ted Cruz issued a similar statementon Friday after the wave of disclosures, saying he would work with "colleagues in the Senate who share my concerns to ensure that we have all the facts about these surveillance programs".
(17) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
(18) 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).
(19) Currents through both the voltage-activated potassium channels, IK,V, and the calcium-activated potassium channels, IK,Ca, can be blocked by the membrane-impermeant K channel blocker tetraethylammonium (TEA).
(20) Replacement of sodium by tetraethylammonium (TEA) did not reduce the slow inward tail current, nor change its reversal potential.