(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.
Greengrocer
Definition:
(n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(2) I remember coming out of South Kensington station one evening and seeing these very strange new things on sale (at the greengrocers) called avocado pears.
(3) The queues at my local Turkish greengrocer are much longer just lately, and people's baskets piled much higher.
(4) There are two bakers, two butchers, two wet fish shops, three greengrocers, two general food stores, two florists, two bookshops, three newsagents, and an ironmonger's which sells an astonishing range of goods, including four sorts of mole trap.
(5) Bridget Gubbins Morpeth, Northumberland • Visiting a greengrocer’s shop, I asked for a melon ( Letters , 5 August).
(6) Preservation of old-fashioned English values, the flag of St George hanging from every public building and greengrocers with English accents selling cox's apples in imperial measures.
(7) Born in Leicester, the son, grandson and great-grandson of greengrocers, he left school with four O-levels and joined Leicester City's youth team in 1976.
(8) Two months later, in August 2001, greengrocer Habil Kılıç, 38, was shot twice in his shop in the Munich suburbs.
(9) In Bristol, the proliferation of local micro-breweries, vinyl revival record stores and pop-up greengrocers is mirrored in the rise of a new breed of grassroots congregation, attracting younger, trendier demographics with considerable success.
(10) Round the corner at 28 rue de l'Evêché, rubbing shoulders with a greengrocers and a charcuterie, we found the workshop and tiny boutique Cecile aux Etoiles, full of gorgeous clothes in deceptively simple designs made by Cecile, who is on hand for on-the-spot alterations.
(11) It was the second day of Shorten’s promised three-week tour of the supermarkets and greengrocers of key Australian electorates, which began with a visit to Woolworths in Queanbeyan on Tuesday and the now infamous inquiry: “What’s your favourite type of lettuce?” That awkward attempt at small talk has since spurred a national debate about salad greens but not, unfortunately for Shorten, a debate about whether the Turnbull government intends to increase the GST to 15%.
(12) This recreation of a Victorian town comes with pub, pharmacy, greengrocers, drapers, printers, candle-makers, workers' cottages, bakery and even a chip shop.
(13) The new fees mean our future leaders are unlikely to be the daughters of greengrocers like Margaret Thatcher, or sons of vicars like Gordon Brown.
(14) Photograph: Martin Pope for the Guardian Tracy Brown has run Crab Apple greengrocers for the past eight years.
(15) If shops like us close it will be catastrophic for the town.” Greengrocers Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tracy Brown, of Crab Apple greengrocers: ‘It’s ludicrous we are no longer considered a small business’.
(16) There's such a feeling for your neighbour here Ottery St Mary, Devon Percy Franks, 80, pensioner I was a greengrocer in Ottery for 49 years, but also ran a coal business and a wood business.
(17) If you get through a lot, a whole box from a greengrocer will work out significantly cheaper.
(18) Perhaps I'll start a new show, Made in Dollis Hill, similar but set a few miles north, starring me, my neighbours, John the greengrocer, with his van.
(19) Two weeks later, in Hamburg, 500km north, Süleyman Taşköprü, 31, was shot three times and died in his greengrocer’s shop.
(20) The greengrocer's has a huge Ramadan calendar outside, but in the middle of a bright afternoon there are a great many people eating and drinking in public.