(superl) Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
(superl) New; original; additional.
(superl) Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.
(superl) Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
(superl) In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.
(superl) Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.
(superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.
(n.) A stream or spring of fresh water.
(n.) A flood; a freshet.
(n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
(v. t.) To refresh; to freshen.
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) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(5) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(6) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
(7) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(8) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(9) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(10) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
(11) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
(12) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
(13) Many of observed functional changes in freshly reimplanted lungs are temporally related to changes in extravascular water.
(14) Three of the preparations were highly cytotoxic against autologous fresh melanoma tumor cells, but not against autologous fresh normal cells or allogeneic fresh tumor targets.
(15) The effects of ATP on choline oxidase were studied further, and a 29.4% decrease was observed in mitochondrial ATP levels from freshly isolated mitochondria from the ethanol-treated rats.
(16) Results were compared with those obtained with Ki-67 on fresh tissues.
(17) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(18) Thirty six fresh surgical specimens were collected from patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.
(19) This paper examines fresh the evidence for an inverse relationship between smoking behaviour and Parkinson's disease.
(20) In this study 470 bitches were inseminated; 405 with fresh semen into the cranial vagina and 65 with frozen semen transcervically into the uterus.
Freshen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
(v. t.) To refresh; to revive.
(v. t.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.
(v. i.) To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
(v. i.) To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 40-day adaptation of crabs to the freshened sea water results in an increase of maximal activity of Na,K-ATPase, but does not affect the enzyme affinity for ATP, Na+, K+, Mg2+ and ouabain, as well as its cooperative properties.
(2) The zesty, citrus whiff of oranges freshens up the January kitchen, drawing a line under heavy celebratory food, and lighting up the virtuous, but enticing path to a lighter, healthier diet.
(3) Heritability estimates, by year of freshening of daughter, were obtained from daughter-dam and granddaughter-granddam regressions using 61,482 triply matched first lactations of artificially sired Holstein cows obtained from the Northeast Dairy Records Processing Laboratory.
(4) One freshener contained sodium bisulfite and was used on one portion of lettuce.
(5) Children play on a concrete barrier freshened up by graffiti of a butterfly with pink wings, once a piece of the Berlin Wall.
(6) The fresheners were prepared and the lettuce was treated according to label instructions.
(7) Admittedly West Brom were obliging opponents and Tony Pulis shouldered the blame for not freshening his side up after last Monday’s 3-0 victory over Chelsea.
(8) Optimum freshening weight of a first calf heifer to maximize first lactation milk yield is between 544 and 567 kg.
(9) Group 1 included cows that were less than 6 wk from freshening when the experiment started and, therefore, received only one vaccination and cows that received two vaccinations with less than 5 days between the second vaccination and freshening.
(10) As there were few new records being released that fitted the style he wanted to play, he began re-editing old ones to freshen them up, splicing tape to make their instrumental passages longer, or snatches of vocal repeat over and over again, adding new sounds, playing them in the club with a drum machine underneath them to alter the sound of the beat: at first, he used the rhythm settings on a home organ – the mind boggles a bit as to what that must have sounded like – but soon moved on to the Roland TR-909 .
(11) In the wake of Convergence, a giant crossover that briefly sucked all its comics into an alternate universe, DC has just launched a splurge of new titles to freshen up its line.
(12) This prospective clinical trial concerns Paparella II ventilation tubes and demonstrated that (a) extracting (pulling) a tube from the tympanic membrane gives a 6-month perforation rate of 20%, (b) excising (freshening) the edge of the defect at the time of removal decreases the 6-month perforation rate to 3%, and (c) excising the edge significantly accelerates the healing of the tympanic membrane.
(13) The major current contributors to indoor odorants are human occupant odors (body odor), environmental tobacco smoke, volatile building materials, bio-odorants (particularly mold and animal-derived materials), air fresheners, deodorants, and perfumes.
(14) More recently I have campaigned against so-called “air fresheners” which pump out noxious fumes in an effort to cover everyday smells.
(15) A case is reported of a keratocyst treated by radical curettage with subsequent freshening of adjacent bone with a bur.
(16) In 2003, experts reported that the north Atlantic waters were freshening, with salt levels decreasing – a mild version of the scenario depicted in the Hollywood film The Day After Tomorrow where massive amounts of fresh water shut down warm ocean currents and cause temperatures to plunge.
(17) "Dawn freshens, her climb is done," intones the narrator, as Night Mail steams out of the darkness and into Scotland.
(18) Asked if 37-year-old breakfast DJ Chris Moyles, recently reported to have signed a new two-year deal with the station, was hindering a shift to a younger audience, Liddiment said: "It did freshen up its presenting team immediately after the trust review – a number of people left the station and a number of new people came.
(19) Whole blood and milk samples were obtained from heifers and a group of control cows 2 weeks prior to (blood only), at the time of, and 2 and 4 weeks after freshening.
(20) It was therefore proposed that an active muscle flap taken from the anterior part of the deltoid muscle (part III according to Fick) should be used to span the trophic defect in the rotator cuff, being sutured into healthy tissue following freshening up.