(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.
Pollock
Definition:
(n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The content of unsaturated fatty acids in walleye pollock PRM is 1.4 times greater than in frog PRM.
(2) "She's presumably in there now doing all the news programmes by herself," said Ian Pollock, chair of the NUJ London branch at the BBC.
(3) Body composition was evaluated using anthropometric methods (according to Garrow Webster, Durnin-Womersley, modified Durnin-Womersley and Jackson-Pollock) and impedance measurement in which resistive bioelectric impedance is measured using a tetrapolar technique.
(4) According to a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, large and bottom-dwelling species carry most risk, which means cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, skate and sole from the waters in question could be off limits for years, .
(5) It comprises 13% of the pollock nuclear DNA with a copy number of 5 x 10(5) per haploid genome.
(6) Margaret Pollock, a retired dentist who organises the local yes campaign, said that 20 shops in the town were lying empty.
(7) But most of the collection, including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and many others, remains in the vaults and basement.
(8) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(9) His-96 is therefore one of several neighboring amino acids of the kringle portion of fragment 1 that displays highly unusual chemistry (see also Asn-101 [Welsch, D.J., & Nelsestuen, G. L. (1988) Biochemistry 27 4946-4952] and Lys-97 [Pollock, J.S., Zapata, G.A., Weber, D.J., Berkowitz, P., Deerfield, D.W., II, Olson, D.L., Koehler, K.A., Pedersen, L.G., & Hiskey, R.G.
(10) It’s important we get our heads around these impacts, so we can make the right decisions,” Pollock said.
(11) Body density and percent body fatness were determined after weight loss according to four commonly used skinfold equations: Pollock (P); Durnin-Rahaman (D-R); Durnin-Womersley (D-W); and, Jackson-Pollock (J-P).
(12) Fragmentation of wall-eyed pollock and bovine rhodopsins by papain in the photoreceptor membrane was studied by sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis.
(13) Tested equations were those reported for body density by Sloan, Wilmore, Jackson and Pollock, Durnin and Womersley, Lohman, and Pollock et al.
(14) She reads: “The look in his eyes was as much as we could take…” Pollock sighs: “Oh, that’s really desperate.” There was also the case of 10-year-old Curtis Elton, a talented pianist whose hands have been insured.
(15) Pollock is the first to note the limitations of her study and the sample size it analysed.
(16) And we had a massive amount of support from parents for our decision.” Pollock stops short of calling for rugby to be banned, but she does believe that every parent whose child plays rugby should be in no doubt of the risks they face.
(17) The initial rate of lipid peroxidation (LPO) in photoreceptor membranes (PRM) of walleye pollock is 1.8--2.3 times higher than in frog PRM.
(18) As the job description for the post made clear, whoever was appointed was going to have to report to the chief executive, Cressida Pollock, who by her own admission knows very little about opera, and presumably would have to get their artistic plans approved by her.
(19) Pollock say the DA is sensitive to the concerns of the community – not least its resistance to long custodial sentences.
(20) Only later did I read Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander that begins: "On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood..." Twombly came of agein the America of Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists.