(n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.
(n.) Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
(2) In nondiabetics, cooked flummery gave a lesser glycemic response at some time points than uncooked flummery.
(3) No sub-royal flummery will keep politicians at bay.
(4) For all its importance, Congress has not been cluttered up with the sort of gilt-edged flummery that spoils Westminster, and Mr Brown benefited from this.
(5) It would exclude a whole section of our customers and force them to buy in the chain supermarkets.” His and his staff’s livelihood, a piece of the area’s social fabric and a shop that sells extremely good products without the flummery and expense that accompanies many high-end delis will, together with the other vital businesses in the arches, disappear.
(6) Even if you look past the Downton Abbey flummery of titles that formalise and enshrine inequality, and even if you get beyond the absurd anachronisms that somehow endure into the 21st century – Commander of the British Empire – too much about the system suggests a society that has got its priorities skewed.
(7) He portrayed himself as an individualistic local MP, deeply critical of parliamentary flummery and opposed to the whip system, but accepted appointment as the then Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe's chief whip in 1975.
(8) The cooked blended beans gave a greater plasma glucose response and a lesser hormonal response than a cooked flummery (containing cornstarch, protein and fat) in nondiabetics.
(9) The arcane flummery brings forth dusty academics in Vaticanology, the Act of Settlement and laws of Monegasque succession.
(10) It works because, beneath all the flummery and phantasmagoria, the tentacular vines and the drooping purple "gems", "M de l'Aubépine", as usual, has uncovered something dark in the nature of human relations - in this case the instinct for parents, and perhaps especially fathers, to wish to grow their daughters in their own image and according to their own design, and, worse, to make sure that once grown those daughters are never capable of true biological (or in the Rappaccini case, horticultural) separation.
Oatmeal
Definition:
(n.) Meal made of oats.
(n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(2) Seven of eight populations of mice living in premises where alternative food supplies were limited were successfully controlled when medium oatmeal bait containing gophacide at 0.1% was laid directly for 4 days.
(3) Four animals were fed a diet of oatmeal and tuna fish that provided only 4% of the vitamin A contained in their control rations (15 vs. 367% of the canine recommended daily intake).
(4) The drink is made in the age-old way: sap from the heart of the plant fermented for a week or two, then mixed and muddled with all manner of fruits, vegetables and grains – perhaps guava, celery or oatmeal – in a curado .
(5) To provide objective evidence of functional smooth-muscle impairment in Duchenne's dystrophy, we performed gastric-emptying studies in 11 patients and 11 normal controls, using technetium-99m radionuclide scintigraphy in a test meal of oatmeal.
(6) While both groups continued to follow the AHA diet, Group 1 was instructed to include 2 oz (56 g, dry wt) of oatmeal, isocalorically substituted for other carbohydrate foods.
(7) Serves 8–10 For the sweet pastry 110g butter, softened 135g caster sugar 1 tsp baking powder 225g strong flour, plus extra for dusting A pinch of salt 125ml double cream For the filling 225g golden syrup 50g dark treacle 220ml double cream 75g oatmeal or fresh white breadcrumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1 tbsp lemon juice Extra-thick or clotted cream, to serve 1 For the pastry, cream the butter and sugar together.
(8) We studied the role of altered gastric emptying in 50 patients before surgery, 1-4 weeks after surgery, and 2-24 months after surgery using technetium-99m pentetate in water for liquid meals and a Tc-99m styrene divinylbenzene copolymer resin in oatmeal for semisolid meals.
(9) Three animal proteins (casein, beef, fish) and 6 vegetable proteins (soy, pea, peanut meal, rapeseed, oatmeal, wheat gluten) were tested.
(10) Six groups received either oatmeal or oat bran at doses (dry weight) of 28 g (1 oz), 56 g (2 oz), and 84 g (3 oz).
(11) A combination of calciferol (vitamin D(2)) and warfarin, each at 0.025% in medium oatmeal bait, failed to control six of seven house-mouse (Mus musculus L.) populations infesting urban and farm buildings.
(12) Six experiments were made in growing pigs to investigate the effects of substituting bran, oatmeal byproduct, pectin and guar gum for barley on gastric emptying rate, pH and dry matter of digesta and on the dry matter content and rate of passage of digesta to the terminal ileum and overall.
(13) In laboratory feeding tests, family groups of wild mice maintained in pens and conditioned to feeding on plain foods were offered flupropadine at either 0.10%, 0.15%, 0.18% or 0.20% in pinhead oatmeal bait.
(14) The palatability of glycerine and six oils, each included at 5% in pinhead oatmeal, was compared in a similar manner.The most favoured food was found to be whole canary seed (Phalaris canariensis).
(15) Meals composed either of raw rolled oats, oatmeal porridge or a mixture of raw rolled oats with raisins were served.
(16) The highest yield of proteolytic enzymes was found with the inoculation material obtained on oatmeal flakes with single shaking of the substrate.
(17) People brought enchiladas, sandwiches, oatmeal cookies.
(18) Nineteen isolates of Ctenomyces serratus including three pairs of tester strains were crossed in all possible combinations on diluted Pablum cereal agar with added salts, oatmeal salts agar-Medium E, and soil and hair medium.
(19) (2) An agar-surface cultivation on oatmeal - yeast extract - malt extract (OMYM) medium, containing oatmeal, yeast extract, malt extract, glucose and trace elements, was most suitable for the antibiotic production.
(20) Vitamin losses in grinding millet, non-grinding oatmeal and grinding rice were evaluated considering their treatment with methyl bromide and cereal cooking.