(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
(v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
(v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
(v. i.) To bear fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(4) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(5) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
(6) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
(7) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(8) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(11) It is not likely that this is going to be fruitful.
(12) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
(13) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(14) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(15) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(16) (2) The Bunsen-Roscoe Law of Reciprocity was found to hold for the photoinduction of fruiting bodies for the interval 36 to 2000 sec with light of 448 nm.
(17) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
(18) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
(19) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(20) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Peeler
Definition:
(n.) One who peels or strips.
(n.) A pillager.
(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The physics staff had succeeded in sealing off a vacuum tube for the betatron, and further developments involved field flattening, exposure measurements, collimation, stray electron control, phantom tests, and development of a beam peeler.
(2) In the course of investigation of the relationship between hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the wood industry 45 popple peelers were studied.
(3) Dress makers were mostly affected by nickel, while orange sellers and peelers were positive to orange peel, fragrance mix, balsam of Peru and formaldehyde in varying combinations.
(4) Even now, two years after the expenses scandal first engulfed Parliament, it is this single item that seems to resonate most in the public consciousness as the embodiment of the sense of entitlement that led politicians to make claims for everything from massage chairs to garlic peelers.
(5) The advantages of the potato peeler technic include better immobility of the lesion being curetted, more effective control of bleeding, and greater stability and increased flexibility and movement of the hand holding the curet.
(6) July 6, 2015 Senate Republican leader Harvey Peeler said that he would oppose the bill to remove the flag, saying that his ancestors owned slaves and that taking down the flag cannot change that history.
(7) It is a revealing exercise: two large strawberries, six radishes, one easy peeler (despite the packaging specifying two) each make a portion.
(8) Using a peeler, thinly slice the cucumber until you get down to the seeds, turn the cucumber and repeat the process until all the flesh has been removed.
(9) She keeps a vegetable peeler "like a pencil sharpener" on her desk, along with a bag of carrots, tomatoes and radishes.
(10) The procedure for curettage is discussed and the mechanics of two technics, the pencil technic and the potato peeler technic, are described.
(11) Evidence was previously presented to support the thesis that chronic pain is activated by neuronal elements that make up the multisynaptic short axon core of the reticular system (Andy and Peeler 1985).
(12) Those Smash robots, which used to fall about laughing at potato peelers, must be rusting with chagrin.
(13) Cake forks, coffee spoons, a peeler and a £16.99 clothes airer were among the miscellaneous items Gove reclaimed expenditure on.