What's the difference between food and grandiloquent?

Food


Definition:

  • (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
  • (n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
  • (v. t.) To supply with food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (2) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (6) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (7) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (9) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
  • (10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (11) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
  • (12) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
  • (13) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
  • (14) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
  • (15) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
  • (16) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
  • (17) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (18) The UNTR rats were subjected to a continuous food restriction to maintain body weights equal to those of the TR rats.
  • (19) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
  • (20) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.

Grandiloquent


Definition:

  • (a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accepting an award he said: "At the risk of sounding grandiloquent, I would like to thank you, the American industry.
  • (2) "There are no accordions without Tulle and no Tulle without accordions," they tell visitors, with a certain grandiloquence.
  • (3) It began with suitably grandiloquent flourish: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.
  • (4) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
  • (5) There is no evidence whatsoever that cutting tax credits will mean wages will rise Sustained wage rises need higher productivity, but, as the Economist puts it , “the French could take Friday off and still produce more than Britons do in a week.” Osborne spoke grandiloquently about the “march of the makers”, but this quarter’s weak GDP growth reveals construction has slumped by 2.2% and manufacturing by 0.3%.
  • (6) This grandiloquent psychiatrist-poet, a bear of a man with waves of white hair, has played the role of national martyr throughout the proceedings.
  • (7) They included Sir Peter Tapsell, now father of the Commons, whose grandiloquent style of speech prompted Hoggart to suggest that monks must be writing down his every word on vellum.
  • (8) In the fourth volume of his account of the first world war, published in 1929, Churchill had grandiloquently pronounced: “The conclusion of the Great War raised England to the highest position she has yet attained.” That was dubious then, but he could not possibly have said as much after VE Day.
  • (9) He resents the slur and goes to great lengths to impress journalists with his grandiloquence.
  • (10) If the Turner prize provides a rough-and-ready compass bearing for visual art in Britain, the needle has for some time been twitching towards this grandiose, grandiloquent, sometimes rough-and-ready city.
  • (11) The same fate has befallen the grandiloquent mansions of other men before and since.