(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.
Trimming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trim
() a. from Trim, v.
(n.) The act of one who trims.
(n.) That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the pluraltrimmings. --.
(n.) The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(2) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
(3) Castanospermine (Cas), an inhibitor of alpha-glucosidase I, blocks "trimming" of the N-linked oligosaccharide Glc3Man9GlcNAc2, thus preventing normal glycoprotein maturation.
(4) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
(5) The carboxymethyl cellulose block was trimmed and a piece of copy paper was attached to the surface of the block with cellulose tape.
(6) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
(7) Asda and Morrisons have already shed thousands of staff by trimming management jobs in stores and behind the scenes.
(8) Likewise, a neoplasm may regrow locally or metastasize if a surgical border infiltrated with neoplastic cells is falsely assumed to be an artifactual trimming border.
(9) However, trimmed hams and loins from the 20-ppm RAC treatment represented a greater (P less than .05) percentage of carcass weight than did those from control animals.
(10) Players were warned before this year's tournament that officials would be rigorously enforcing its rules on "almost entirely white" clothing – meaning that the bright underwear, coloured soles and conspicuously contrasting trim spotted in previous years would be outlawed.
(11) It is suggested that C-terminal trimming of Lb to produce Lb' results in an increase in negative charge and is responsible for its slower migration in SDS-PAGE.
(12) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
(13) This difference was abrogated when the precursors were treated with glycopeptidase F. In the intracellular small chain a difference was observed in the size of carbohydrate chains that were cleavable with endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H. Sequence analysis of the N-termini of mature intracellular cathepsin D indicated a N-terminal trimming in both large and small chains from both human and transfected hamster cells.
(14) Forced four-variable regression equations were used to predict the percentage (chilled carcass weight basis) yield of boneless subprimals at the three fat trim levels as influenced by sex class, frame size, muscle score, and adjusted 12th-rib fat thickness.
(15) In the second trial 24 grafts without velours trimming (Cooley II, Meadox), 24 grafts manufactured by a new warp-knitting procedure without velours trimming (Protegraft 2000, B. Braun AG) and 24 identical grafts of B. Braun AG but with gelatine impregnation were evaluated.
(16) Strain effects were noted in rate of feed consumption following beak trimming.
(17) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
(18) The results showed that Kind had a slight color change delta E* = -1.72, Trim demonstrated the most color change delta E* = -13.84, while the remaining resins demonstrated a noticeable change in color due to in vitro aging.
(19) 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.
(20) Examples are provided of one-, two- and three-cycle trimmings.