(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.
Skewer
Definition:
(n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
(v. t.) To fasten with skewers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because he had said so many damning things out in the open, it hardly seemed necessary to skewer his personal life.
(2) The secondary devices include cerclage, hemicerclage, or interfragmentary wires, skewer-pins, screws, and external skeletal fixators.
(3) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(4) The size and appearance of the wound corresponded to those of the horizontal section of a skewer used by the assailant.
(5) Enjoy tapas – grilled artichoke, skewers of chicken, grilled prawns, cheese or salty hot pork on warm bread – while standing at the marble bar, or raciones at a table round the back.
(6) Spoon into the prepared tin, smooth the top and bake for 25 minutes (or until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean).
(7) Such a fatal case due to a single stabbing of the medullar oblongata by the chance gliding of a skewer through the small, narrow atlantoaxial interspace is considered to be exceptional.
(8) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(9) The sharp-witted late-night TV star, who regularly skewers the foibles of other celebrities, found himself on the end of the same treatment after being at the centre of a bizarre blackmail plot over the sexual affairs he had with younger female staff members.
(10) In the 1980s, the debt timebomb was due to Opec's petrodollars being recycled through western banks to poor people in the developing world, who were skewered when inflation and interest rates took off.
(11) Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches.
(12) The list of films from the last couple years is long and includes The International , where the enemy is a bank, to comedies such as The Other Guys and Despicable Me where offhand jokes skewer banks and bankers even in children's films.
(13) Langham said Armando Iannucci, who created The Thick of It, the painfully black, expletive-heavy, government-skewering comedy, describes prime minister Hugh Abbot - the character played by Langham - as someone who is in the process of selling his soul to the devil, but the transaction is not yet quite complete.
(14) That was the message from the Institute for Fiscal Studies as it skewered George Osborne over the spending plans laid out in the autumn statement.
(15) The first came with the founding of Gawker in 2002 as a gossip blog that skewered celebrities and New York media figures.
(16) Check with a skewer: if it comes out clean, it's done.
(17) This sets up the importance of both parents from the start, and skewers the discrimination endemic in many societies, including the UK, where women of child-bearing age are less likely to get jobs for fear they might at some point need maternity leave.
(18) To emphasise the point, he skewers a bit of chicken on his plate and holds it up with a grin.
(19) Cecil the lion's killer joins long list of big game hunters skewered on social media Read more Kathleen Garrigan, spokeswoman for the conservation group African Wildlife Foundation, said on Tuesday that while listing the African lion as threatened under the act would be most successful in stopping the import of hunting trophies, private companies such as airlines could help in curbing the transport of the trophies.
(20) But in a culture that still tells women that the most important job title they’ll ever hold is “mother” – and with Republicans at the ready to skewer anyone who hints at anything but pure reverence for women who stay at home – Clinton’s message is actually quite subversive.