(n.) A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
(n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
(v.t.) To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(2) Study of the environmental pollution (ambient air, drinking water, food and fodder) in southern Ukraine industrial region and study of congenital developmental defects were carried out.
(3) Compare the billions lost through tax avoidance to the £1.2bn lost through benefit fraud, an issue that remains the news fodder of choice for the rightwing press.
(4) After 48 hours the animals were given concentrated fodder, after 52 hours exclusively hay.
(5) The results indicate that the intensity of morphological changes in the liver depends on the time of giving fodder.
(6) wearefriendlyfires.com Ceremoniously slow and with a mood of solemn self-satisfaction and reflective pride, the most I can say about this is every note of it is archetypal national anthem fodder.
(7) During a research project on the occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes 194 strains were isolated in southern West Germany during the years 1972 to 1974:154 from soil and plant samples (20.3%), 16 from feces of deer and stag (15.7%), 9 from old moldy fodder and wildlife feeding grounds (27.2%), and 8 from birds (17.3%).
(8) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(9) He likes the policy bit of politics rather more than the showbusiness, and there is no fodder for gossip in his personal life.
(10) Thus the forbidden grass-feeding of cattle--already turned out to pasture--was not kept, the prohibition of whey fodder was issued very early and whey had to be thickened.
(11) These are bacilli employed for production of vitamins, enzymes, insecticides; streptomycetes--the producers of antibiotics; yeasts applied in bakery industry, in production of fodder proteins; pseudomonads which will be helpful in development of effective biological means for protection of environment, etc.
(12) He added: "It is now clear that the BBC failed the students, who were unwitting human fodder used to fulfil John Sweeney and his wife's personal ambition to film inside North Korea.
(13) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(14) With ileum cannulated sows were tested the apparent precaecal and faecal digestibility of crude nutrients from raw and thermically treated fodder sugar beets of size "Rosamona".
(15) Whatever the precise facts, a heady cocktail of gender, religion and alleged terrorism feeds into the story of the "white widow", making it likely to provide fodder for tabloid front pages for some time to come.
(16) Amazon has been accused of using authors as " cannon fodder " and "human shields", after it removed pre-orders of Hachette books, slowed their delivery and removed its usual discounts from the titles in the US.
(17) It is important to investigate whether supplementary feeding with commercially available fodder, hay, and minerals would result in better economy in reindeer breeding.
(18) Fodder with the entire dose admixed is rejected by the pig.
(19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
(20) "A lot of people support the coup because they were sick of young soldiers being sent up north to be used as cannon fodder."
Folder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) To expedite the development of a personal library data base by medical students, we created MEDFILE, a preprinted, cross-indexed file folder system for organizing the medical literature.
(2) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
(3) The Faulkner folder has proved to be optimal, allowing for easy and atraumatic folding and insertion.
(4) Yet to judge by the howls when Apple made the latest album free to download to all of the 800m or so iTunes account holders (by automatically adding it to their “Purchased” folder), there’s nothing the internet hates more than getting music for free.
(5) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
(6) We need to help children in care treasure the objects that tell their life story Read more These books, a cross between photo album, scrapbook and folder, are a statutory requirement for all children going into adoption placements .
(7) This information was then used to design appropriate educational materials, including folders, photographs, flip-charts, and posters.
(8) But Pavlov stressed that it is highly unlikely anyone other than the perpetrator - the person who holds the folder's "passphrase" , or password - will be able to force their way into the encrypted "All7z" folder.
(9) Conversion to A4 folders in the practice provided an opportunity to develop a diagramatic representation of family structure and thus create for each patient a family ;portrait.'
(10) In the runup to the 2001 election campaign he and I spent several anxious hours searching for a mislaid folder containing the entire Labour advertising campaign.
(11) A new concept for filing medical records in general practice is described, based on an A4-size folder; in experimental use in 40 practices doctors were generally in favour of the new system.
(12) Each patient's family is provided with a folder containing detailed information about the patient's current treatment.
(13) Maybe it was back last December, on a trip to Afghanistan, when I saw that the young army officer briefing us had a snapshot of a small boy paper-clipped to his folder.
(14) The ocular lenses were foldable with a forcep (Faulker Folder) and inserted into the eye through a 4 mm incision.
(15) In simple terms, instead of having to create multiple folders to organise documents, users will be able to assign files with multiple tags, which can later be used to search.
(16) But it ended up in the company’s spam folder, so the breach was not discovered until the company was contacted by the Financial Times on Monday, the paper said (£).
(17) These folder variables ranged in nature from quantitative measures of academic performance to demographic information and types of extracurricular activity.
(18) A mysterious encrypted folder released online last week containing a further 220,245 private emails exchanged between climate scientists includes another message from the perpetrator, the Guardian has learned.
(19) She says she keeps the hate mail she's received in an email folder entitled "Do not look", and as a new round has started coming in, she has stuck to this rule.
(20) A procedure for converting the medical record envelopes now used in general practice to an A4-sized record folder is described.