(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.
Tripe
Definition:
(n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
(n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You've just reminded me I have to go to the tripe shop tomorrow," one correspondent tells him.
(2) But Fergus's parents came into the restaurant and reported back that they enjoyed the tripe and onions – which reminds me of the smell of elephant's cage.
(3) Trim the tripe and pass the vinegar … Nothing, of course, diminishes the fact that BuzzFeed is an internet phenomenon – and an increasingly ominous media contender whenever publishers gather.
(4) A comparison was made of the multiplication of bacteria in specimens of tripe processed in different ways.
(5) Tripe Catalan I am no fonder of boiled knitting than the next man, but I assure you that this is rather different from normal tripe.
(6) Boris Johnson tweeted on Saturday night that reports of a challenge were “tripe”.
(7) Serves 1, takes 2¼ hours tenpence worth of tripe (maybe ¼lb) 2 onions salt, pepper handfuls of herbs 2 tomatoes 1 dessertspoon tomato paste Prepare a pot of water with the seasonings and one of the onions in it; into this, averting your eyes, empty the piece of damp blanket you will have received from the butcher.
(8) He calls the Keynesian idea that you can raise economic activity by increasing the budget deficit "tripe".
(9) "That is absolute tripe," say Bredon Conservatives, sitting on the lawn.
(10) The talking of tripe with the tufty-headed fellows from the estate agent.
(11) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(12) In cancer patients with tripe palms alone, the most common underlying neoplasm was pulmonary carcinoma (53% of cases), whereas patients with both tripe palms and acanthosis nigricans frequently had gastric (35% of cases) or pulmonary (11% of cases) carcinomas.
(13) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(14) There are times – archetypal digital times – when too much hype and PR tripe gets in the way.
(15) Harris said the bishop's comments were "ill-informed tripe".
(16) The majority (94%) of published cases of tripe palms occurred in patients with cancer; only five patients showed no evidence of an associated malignancy.
(17) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(18) Much of the exported pork will be offal, tripe, trotters, ears and other parts of the so- called "fifth quarter" – the parts Brits tend to turn their nose up at, but the Chinese savour.
(19) His anti-Muslim tripe was not an isolated incident of bigotry.
(20) We describe two patients with triple palms and pulmonary tumors, and review the 77 patients with idiopathic- and malignancy-associated tripe palms reported in the world literature.