(n.) That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
(n.) That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.
(n.) That which imparts to anything a peculiar odor or taste, gratifying to the sense of smell, or the nicer perceptions of the palate; a substance which flavors.
(n.) That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
(v. t.) To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(2) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
(3) The present experiments examined flavor differences among starches.
(4) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(5) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
(6) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(7) Effects of taste deprivation and selective taste exposure during the suckling period on adult preference for flavored solutions was examined.
(8) When given a choice between two mashes of equal caloric density but differing flavors, rats (Rattus norvegicus) show a robust preference for the flavor previously associated with a higher calorie food.
(9) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
(10) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
(11) Similar correlation coefficients were obtained between salivary gland androst-16-ene steroid levels measured using either the complete or simplified versions of the colorimetric assay and the off-aroma and off-flavor sensory scores.
(12) Appropriate sweeteners, flavoring agents, preservatives, humectants, and pH adjusters were then added.
(13) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
(14) Since gustatory-visceral afferent information reaches insular cortex via 2-3 synaptic relays, autonomic, olfactory and gustatory inputs may interact at this level, and, as suggested previously for the mouse, play a key integrative role in flavor perception.
(15) Responding by squirrel monkeys was maintained under a 30-response fixed-ratio schedule of food presentation; during different sessions responding produced either sucrose-flavored or banana-flavored food pellets.
(16) Eugenol is widely used as a food flavoring agent and a dental analgesic.
(17) Hence, exogenous CRF is capable of inducing both flavor preference and aversion in a dose- and situation-dependent manner.
(18) These results suggest that the gustatory contribution to the flavor denoted by the Japanese word "umami" may be mediated, in part, by neurons that also respond to chemical described by humans as sweet.
(19) It is significant, and in contrast to other published research, that flavor conditioning was not disrupted when the distinctive cues paired with the drug during preexposure were absent at the time of the flavor-drug pairing.
(20) Two cues, either size or flavor of food pellet, were conditionally paired with either malaise induced by x-ray or pain induced by shock in four groups of rats.
Grape
Definition:
(n.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
(n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
(n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
(n.) Grapeshot.
Example Sentences:
(1) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
(2) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(3) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
(4) People were packed "like grapes", as one 16-year-old boy described it.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(7) Photograph: William Latkin I served these in quenelles with a little green salad and some grape focaccia.
(8) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
(9) But in the late 90s, a wave of young Croatian wine-makers started working with malvasia, a neglected Istrian white grape, unfashionable because of its perceived poor quality, and also teran, a better-regarded dark varietal.
(10) More accusations of sour grapes, racism and political interference from (much of) the rest.
(11) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(12) Main alcohol induced changes include: 1. loss of typical arrangement of elongated spermatids in the form of a "bunch of grapes", dominance of duplicated form of elongated spermatids, to a large extent loss of acrosomal formation: 2. thickening, hyalinosis, and sclerosis of lamina propria with nearly complete lack of Ca++-ATPase; 3. decrease of 3 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase and 17 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase activity in the Leydig cells, and 4. appearance of oval or spindle shaped mast cells in the interstitial tissue.
(13) This would allow more sweetcorn, grapes, sunflowers, soya and maize to be grown in Britain.
(14) The growth of Leuconostoc citrovorum ML 34, an isolate associated with the malo-lactic fermentation of wine, was stimulated in part by grape, orange, cabbage, and tomato juices.
(15) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
(16) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
(17) The profitable Napa wine industry, too, is threatened by wildfires, with winemakers concerned that smoke-infused grape skins will alter the flavor of the wines.
(18) Farm workers employed by apple-producing, grape-producing and grain (control) producing farms in low fluoride areas (F less than 0.10 ppm) were investigated.
(19) Liquid chromatography with both UV-VIS and electrochemical detection is used to structurally classify flavonoid compounds in wine and grape juice without isolation of the pure compound.
(20) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.