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Fritter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
  • (v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
  • (v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
  • (2) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
  • (3) Three convenience products--frozen, precooked chicken apple fritters, chicken breast fillets, and chicken patties--provided by one processor were subjectively evaluated by two taste panels of older adults, ranging in age from the sixties to middle eighties.
  • (4) Just as at Newcastle United last month , points had been frittered away.
  • (5) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
  • (6) There's a stall devoted to petits farcis (stuffed vegetables) and another selling fresh courgette fritters.
  • (7) Like many women, when I had my first child I frittered it away on nappies, food and school trips.
  • (8) Later, he would fritter away a large part of his fortune on never-realised projects such as a theme park dedicated to racial harmony.
  • (9) Their candidate, Mike Thornton, presented the authority with an "invoice for wasteful spending", claiming it had frittered away millions on advertising, office furniture and consultancy fees.
  • (10) Skivers, on the other hand, are lazy, unreliable and manipulative, choosing to live at others' expense so that they can sleep, watch television, abuse various substances and fritter away their time.
  • (11) The Tap Room restaurant next door serves robust Irish dishes such as rolled pork belly with Clonakilty black pudding fritters, champ, kale and Armagh cider jus.
  • (12) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
  • (13) Instead of frittering away billions of dollars on $5 a week tax cuts for above average income earners, we should use that money for schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
  • (14) Noélia is a seriously good chef who serves updated Portuguese classics such as octopus fritters with coriander rice.
  • (15) Grey loves her way with courgettes (grated, to be made into fritters) and her gratin dauphinois.
  • (16) As is was already in the past, the society is nowadays again a place of scientific meeting and postgraduate medical training, whereby it has retained its traditional progressive and interdisciplinary character and will be understood as the uniting tie for the whole medicine which now tends to frittering.
  • (17) Science has demonstrated that each skylark needs to find the equivalent of 200 grains of wheat a day to survive cold weather, but here they were apparently frittering away their energy.
  • (18) He frittered away shots with successive three-putts on 10 and 11 before failing to take advantage, unlike Scott, on the two par fives that followed.
  • (19) 2 Heat a frying pan on a medium heat, pour a little oil into it and, when hot, spoon in small fritters.
  • (20) But they are just frittering it away on Flame Towers and Eurovision and the European Games.” If the Olympics and the World Cup are the top targets for ambitious rulers looking to make their mark, then beneath them sit cascading tiers of other sporting events that are increasingly sold either as an opportunity to put a country on the map or a stepping stone to landing one of the bigger fish.

Occupy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
  • (v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
  • (v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
  • (v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.
  • (v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.
  • (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • (v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.
  • (v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (2) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (3) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
  • (4) Here we report on the identification of four loci, pim-1, bmi-1, pal-1, and bla-1, which are occupied by proviruses in 35%, 35%, 28%, and 14% of the tumors, respectively.
  • (5) The statistical figures indicated that infections diseases occupied a dominant position in 1950s, while in recent years cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors have become the major diseases.
  • (6) From the comparison of the sets of proteins labelled when A-site was free or occupied a conclusion was drawn that aminoacyl-tRNA located in ribosomal A-site affects the arrangement of deacylated tRNA in P-site.
  • (7) A spokesman for the UNHCR said that while there were many agencies working in Walungu, they had "minimal presence" in villages close to areas still occupied by Hutu militias known as FDLR.
  • (8) The first two peptides have been proposed to occupy inter-transmembrane regions while the third represented the C-terminal segment, proposed by various models to be either extracellular or intracellular.
  • (9) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
  • (10) This species has only one lung, the right, which is long and occupies most of the pleuro-peritoneal cavity.
  • (11) The area occupied by parenchymal cells, in sections comprising the entire half of the surface of the carotid body, is significantly greater in people born and living at 14,350 feet than in those at sea level.
  • (12) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
  • (13) Nursing occupied about 210 min in 8 daylight hours for the infants at 10 weeks of age, and the time spent nursing decreased at the average rate of 9.4 min per week until the infants were about 6 months old.
  • (14) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
  • (15) Occupied hyaluronate binding sites were measured by the displacement of radiolabeled cell surface hyaluronate with exogenous, unlabeled hyaluronate.
  • (16) Regarding space occupying lesions in the abdomen angiography is an aid in diagnosis and differential diagnosis and provides information on the curability.
  • (17) Cells of type-4 occupy the caudal part with a dorsorostral extension.
  • (18) While no fixed relation was found between the degree of histologic differentiation and T cell infiltration, fewer T cells were observed in the cases where cancer penetrated to the depth of cancer invasion and where it occupied a large area.
  • (19) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
  • (20) There was no statistically significant difference in basal concentrations of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), as assessed by radioimmunoassay, between right and left atrial muscle of control rats; similarly, stereological analysis showed no statistically significant difference in the fractional volume of myocytes occupied by specific heart granules, or in numerical density of granules, between right and left atria.