(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.
Sideboard
Definition:
(n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
(2) On a sideboard, not yet opened, is a magnum of Grand Siècle champagne, sent by her label when Goulding's summer single, Burn – throbbing, clubby, ubiquitous – went to No 1 for three weeks in July.
(3) There are Warhols in the loo, Bacons in the kitchen, Giacomettis on the sideboard, Toback at the centre of the conversation, but as yet no Tyson.
(4) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
(5) It is hard to imagine Margaret Thatcher pondering how much she was allowed for table lamps or Aneurin Bevan being called to account for his 'overspend' on sideboards.
(6) "I even put a sideboard in the window last week," Montgomery says.
(7) Last year, he also claimed £389 for crockery, £200 for two new bed headboards, £849 for a table and chairs, £59 for a desk, £499 for a sideboard and £85 for a shoe rack.
(8) It was very nice to get an Oscar but now it just rusts and tarnishes on the sideboard near the TV.
(9) So get them off the sideboard and into the kitchen.
(10) Two tiny model wind turbines sit among a nest of picture frames on the sideboard that showcase their 15 great-grandchildren.
(11) "With respect to Ade, if he has come out with that, Ade has not been around for the last couple of years and the boss has put silverware on the sideboard in that time.
(12) In the two front rooms, up a step from the kitchen level and so only a few inches deep in water, chairs are piled on sofas, tables on sideboards.
(13) And – la pièce de résistance – I have a lovely sideboard, bought after a long search on eBay, on which fruit, cheese and alcohol may patiently await diners' attention.
(14) The Capital One Cup may not be the grandest object on anyone’s sideboard, but it is where Mourinho started in England – against Liverpool – and in that 2004-05 season it went quite well with sitting on top of the Premier League.