(n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
(n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
(v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
(v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(2) These percentages suggest that a better fermentation took place in those silages containing forages.
(3) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(4) They were divided into three groups and fed the following forages during the winter of 1972-1973.
(5) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(6) Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) were trained with 2 successively presented targets differing in color or odor, one of which always contained a 5-microliters drop of 50% sucrose solution and the other, a 5-microliters drop of 20% sucrose solution.
(7) Results of trials designed to determine forage production at various stocking densities may not reflect the nutritive value of the forage, but instead the severity of parasite exposure.
(8) Masticated forages followed trends similar to those of nonmasticated forages, but the effect of mastication was not consistent.
(9) Length, size, and interval between eating bouts were determined for four forages with two lactating dairy cows.
(10) The present analysis underscores the point that metabolic rate, like foraging behavior, should be thought of as evolutionarily labile.
(11) Forage contents of CP and ash showed a cubic (P less than .05) response to advancing stage of regrowth, with highest (23.6 and 11.0%, respectively) and lowest (14.7 and 9.1%, respectively) values for both fractions occurring at wk 1 and 5, respectively.
(12) Sheep placed near a highway and fed with forage from an uncontaminated area showed an increase of lead levels in the blood, comparable to that of the previous experiment.
(13) An increased cancer incidence has also been found in geographical areas with low selenium contents in forage crops (Shamberger et al 1976).
(14) An enzymatic procedure using Trichoderma viride carbohydrases, a fungal hemicellulase, and pepsin was developed to provide a laboratory method for predicting forage digestibility.
(15) Since there exist transitory forms between diametrically opposite manifestations of such behavior, possibly the process of individual acquirement of capabilities necessary for fulfilling foraging function occurs.
(16) Comparisons of these ancient Sri Lankans with other prehistoric skeletal series from South Asia and elsewhere support the hypothesis that muscular-skeletal robusticity was a significant physical adaptation of earlier hunting-foraging populations.
(17) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
(18) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(19) Four crossbred wether lambs (38 kg) with permanent ruminal and abomasal cannulae were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square arrangement of treatments to determine the effect of feeding frequency (FF) on forage fiber and N utilization.
(20) In Experiment 2, 17 mature Holstein cows were used in an identical design except that alfalfa haylage was used as the forage.
Raspberry
Definition:
(n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
(n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Full set list, show one (thanks to princevault.com ) Take Me With U (acoustic) Raspberry Beret (acoustic) U Got The Look (acoustic) Instrumental jam (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Q & A (1) incl.
(2) The hydrolysis of the ellagitannins was not catalyzed by any of the purified enzymes tested, and components of the raspberry extract were found to inhibit the purified esterases noncompetitively.
(3) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(4) A programmable DIY robot kit, Rapiro builds a bot around either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino board, allowing kids and adults to construct and programme their own robot.
(5) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
(6) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(7) Would any coalition minister dare use the phrase on a genuinely public platform without expecting raspberries and ribaldry?
(8) I have a photo of him on my bookshelf, blowing a raspberry, wearing a Stetson and sticking two fingers up.
(9) Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) has isometric, 33 nm diameter particles and a bipartite RNA genome.
(10) Computing had become lacklustre and even boring The Raspberry Pi started life as an idea to bring computing in schools back to the era of the BBC Micro in the early 1980s, which inspired children to learn how a computer worked and allowed them to discover what was possible through learning to code.
(11) The raspberries were probably contaminated at the time of picking.
(12) It aims to put a friendlier face on the pioneering Raspberry Pi computer: parents pay $129 to get a case, speaker and keyboard, although their children still have to build the computer before they can start exploring its Kano Blocks visual programming language.
(13) By all means, adapt it to your taste: I've swapped the usual raspberry jam for a sharper blackcurrant, but cherry or bramble jam, or even marmalade might work nicely, too.
(14) Nobody will eat all the raspberries or finish the yoghurt.
(15) The Kano kit builds on top of the incredible success of the Raspberry Pi, adds a speaker, and easy-to-assemble kit, and makes it more accessible to more people – a simple to use “experience layer” over a Raspberry Pi, as Klein puts it.
(16) In August 2012, the Raspberry Pi was available to purchase through British high street retailers, with a revised "B" version released in September 2012 with twice the amount of RAM .
(17) The Raspberry Pi allows us to standardise across the globe,” he explained.
(18) Northern blot analysis with cDNA probes to RNA-3 (1 kb) of raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) revealed extensive sequence homology with RBDV RNA-2 (2.2 kb).
(19) The box includes everything required to build a computer short of a screen, including a Raspberry Pi, a case, wireless keyboard with trackpad, cables, Wi-Fi dongle, and even a speaker.
(20) A nucleotide sequence is reported for RNA-3, the smallest of the three major RNA species found in particles of raspberry bushy dwaft virus (RBDV).