(v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
(v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
(v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
(v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
(v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
(v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
(v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
(v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
(2) The pace of growth for both Aldi and fellow German discounter Lidl has slowed over the past year, but Barnes said the no-frills chains would continue to take market share from traditional players such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.
(3) 5 Don't assume no-frills will be the cheapest option Always check which airlines are flying the route you are interested in – try Skyscanner.net .
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fancy that … Savages, a French-style cafe Fernando’s is a hole-in-the-wall no-frills Portuguese restaurant, just off Russell Road in Richmond Hill, with juicy chicken and prawns served straight from the grill.
(5) The spleens of a frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus was histo-anatomically studied.
(6) New Tesco House – the squat 1970s tower block on a grim industrial estate that the supermarket has called home for more than 40 years – used to be held up by former boss Sir Terry Leahy as a symbol of the “no-frills” corporate culture that was good for customers.
(7) They didn't seem to mind, but a group of young, well-dressed girls turned their noses up ... whether at us or at the no-frills service I wasn't sure.
(8) Baiano's no-frills bar existed several years before pacification and has become all the more happening since, attracting visitors from outside the favela.
(9) Three molecular forms of immunoglobulins: pentamer, dimer and monomer, were isolated from serum of the frill shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, the most primitive extant shark.
(10) The squeeze is encouraging shoppers to go to "no frills" chains such as Lidl and Iceland, which posted sales uplifts that were streets ahead of that of the big four supermarkets.
(11) At night, in Rome's no-frills Teatro Olimpico, on the banks of the Tiber, the playwright looks more like Humpty Dumpty than Italy's Prime Minister.
(12) As chairman of easyJet since 2010, he has been embroiled in rows with the no-frills airline's founder and largest shareholder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou .
(13) We discovered the no-frills Burmese Restaurant and Library (there is no library) in one of those moments.
(14) Was this always the plan, to go so ludicrously ballistic years ahead of the next general election, or has the scale of Corbyn’s support in the Labour movement and the novelty of his no-frills personality and raw unplasticated ideas thrown Tory spinmeisters into a panic?
(15) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
(16) Price: £9.95 Polar Gear travel mug from Robert Dyas This is a no-frills stainless steel travel mug – it will keep your coffee hot and your soft drinks cool.
(17) Picking up on Tory-run Barnet council's idea of running no-frills services like budget airline Ryanair, Miliband said: "The Ryanair model may be an OK way to run an airline but it is no way to run a hospital, a care home or any of our public services."
(18) KINDLE free Amazon's e-reader app narrowly gets the nod over Apple's own iBooks, with fewer visual frills but a large collection of ebooks, including regular discounts and offers.
(19) EasyBook could recruit the chair of the Booker judges, Stella Rimington , as CEO and offer a no-frills novel-reading experience that goes from A to B and does not tax the brain.
(20) No frills - we'll pick out all the most essential details you need to know.
Grill
Definition:
(v. t.) A gridiron.
(v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
(n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.
(n.) To torment, as if by broiling.
Example Sentences:
(1) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(2) With the election only a week away, the three grillings were seen as critical to the outcome of the closest election for a generation.
(3) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
(4) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(5) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
(6) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(7) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
(8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(9) However, it’s the views of the Cascade mountains from Portland City Grill on the 30th floor that really grab the attention.
(10) There's nothing worse than a semi-raw grilled tomato, so make sure they're cooked properly all the way through and a bit caramelised on top.
(11) BP credit rating downgraded after Tony Hayward's grilling by Congress 19 June One of BP's partners, Anadarko Petroleum, refuses to accept any responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion despite owning a quarter of the well.
(12) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
(13) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
(14) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(15) "It would have looked very bad if these battles were going on while Vella was being grilled by MEPs," said Micklewright.
(16) • £585, +30 22710 32217, perleas.gr Greek island holiday guide: Crete Read more Where to eat Fabrika In an old olive press in the market town of Volissos, this taverna specialises in grilled meat (done properly over charcoal).
(17) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
(18) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(19) The neutral fractions of yakitori grilled for 3, 5, and 7 min contained 3.8, 19, and 43 ng, respectively, of 1-nitropyrene per gram of yakitori, accounting for 3.0, 2.7, and 1.3%, respectively, of the total extract mutagenicity.
(20) And here's our full story: Service sector growing at fastest pace since 1997 10.29am GMT MPs grill Wonga: Payday lenders admit making changes Wonga has also admitted it was forced to make changes to its sales practices following an Office of Fair Trading investigation,as the hearing before MPs continued...