(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.
Titbit
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tidbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(2) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
(3) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
(4) Fans have become used to titbits about upcoming films being leaked at conventions such as D23 and San Diego's annual Comic Con, though it is rare for Hollywood executives to be booed for failing to come up with the goods.
(5) Listen to the audience Marvel’s imminent big announcement will potentially bring with it even more release dates, and given the recent Spider-Man news , maybe some crossover titbits as well.
(6) The gallery is filled with interesting and sometimes important titbits, but there is little acknowledgment of climate change’s “evil twin”, ocean acidification, nor of the millions of human respiratory casualties caused each year by the combustion of all fossil fuels, nor of the urgent need to couple cessation of carbon extraction with the establishment of clean feasible alternatives, notably, but not exclusively, sun, wind and hydrogen.
(7) But she offers a few titbits pointing to a radical youth.
(8) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(9) Cross-examined by White, she denied a suggestion that she had been in the past, a "habitual serial seller of titbits to the press".
(10) THE (NOT SO) MYSTERIOUS BRISTOL DOWNS LEAGUE "A friend recently hit me with the trivia titbit that Bristol are the city represented at the most levels of the English league system, by virtue of something called the Bristol Downs League, that sits below all other regional leagues," wrote David Whale before Christmas.
(11) He sings along to Arthur Askey's The Christening , which turns into the Beatles' Paperback Writer , and constantly feeds us useless titbits – who knew that David Bowie shaved off his eyebrows because he was so upset that Mott The Hoople wouldn't record a cover of Drive In Saturday , or that in Jamaica Jim Reeves is more of a hero than Bob Marley ?
(12) Her communist sympathies have been fanned almost to the point of fanaticism owing to her upbringing in Rhodesia MI5 continued to monitor Lessing’s movements, speeches and writing, and eagerly passed titbits on to the South African police.
(13) His Yves Saint Laurent first collection was shown to buyers in June, but the rest of us have had to be content with titbits.
(14) William Clark, the diplomatic correspondent, brought titbits from embassy dinners, high tables or episcopal gatherings.
(15) Sampson grasped his opportunity and turned the paper's gossip column into a dazzling showcase of insider titbits.
(16) 2.07pm BST Chelsea team titbits: Frank Lampard, who has been ill this week, and John Terry haven't travelled to Cardiff, Sky Sports News reports.
(17) Cooper says: • Mario Draghi’s Grand Plan: BGC’s ECB watcher, Broker Kevin, fears that only “titbits” will be offered this Thursday and that the challenges of getting an agreement means that we will have to wait longer for the final Grand Plan.
(18) Inspectors have gone round schools asking teachers whether they are homophobes and telling others their school will fail inspection because they're not teaching "anti-terrorism", while Gove's media allies have been fed inflammatory titbits to justify the campaign.
(19) The low protein intake was due to a poor intake of energy as well as a high consumption of refreshing drinks and titbits, both a little nourishment.
(20) "A friend recently hit me with the trivia titbit that Bristol are the city represented at the most levels of the English league system, by virtue of something called the Bristol Downs League, that sits below all other regional leagues," writes David Whale.