(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.
Sweetie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(2) The society has taken another step to protect the pandas' value to the zoo by trademarking their popular, anglicised names, Sunshine and Sweetie, to prevent pirate merchandising.
(3) And when Tian Tian (Sweetie) is seated and eating, she seems very human in her movements.
(4) "[Then] he goes along and says, 'I've done a great deal for Europe, I've wrecked the nuclear deterrent, the Americans will be even more angry with the small contribution we make to Nato and now I would like these special sweeties kept for me.'
(5) On Apple's App Store it was Candy Crush Saga , the sweetie-themed match-three puzzle game that has stuck to the upper reaches of the top-grossing chart since its release in November 2012.
(6) Grandparents have long been treasured for their contribution to pocket money and the sweetie jar – but the extent of the reliance on their generosity has been revealed in a new report.
(7) Mandelson could better understand that the New Labour project, like sweeties at the check-out counter, was a catchy little number for a while but insufficiently nourishing or robust in ideas to feed the political appetite for very long.
(8) Britain, too, has stepped back from support so unequivocal that Clare Short, then Labour's international development secretary, called Kagame "a sweetie" and Tony Blair established a foundation to help the man he calls a "visionary leader" to govern.
(9) Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine) will fly out from Chengdu on Sunday on a jet emblazoned with a panda portrait.
(10) 12.46am BST Ann Romney was asked what advice she gave her husband to prepare for tonight's debate, and she said she told Mitt: You know what sweetie, you had five boys.
(11) The guns are more pumped, the giggle less nervous, but Hoult is still a genuine sweetie.
(12) A BBC spokesperson said: "Including Sweetie as one for the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human.
(13) "Do they genuinely believe that the crofters will capitulate if a big enough financial sweetie is dangled in front of them?
(14) A German police officer told me, 'You're crazy sweetie, you can't do that, you cannot prohibit men from buying sex, it's totally impossible.'
(15) Sweetie and Sunlight were born in 2003 and lived at the Ya'an reserve in Chengdu, China.
(16) Thousands of women tweeted that this was "sexist" because Sweetie hadn't achieved anything significant and, anyway, pandas weren't women.
(17) A fairly badly drawn stick-puppet girl and gorilla throw each other a chocolate sweetie covered in hundreds and thousands.
(18) Impulsivity is a characteristic of sweety bulimics, dysphoria and affective lability characterise salty ones.
(19) However much you rationally accept that TV channels and sweetie manufacturers are profit-driven entities, it's still tough to break the emotional conviction that they couldn't possibly be invested in anything that might cause harm to your child.
(20) A post-1994 outpouring of western guilt has, many argue, allowed Kagame to escape criticism for running an authoritarian regime that ruthlessly crushes dissent, including the alleged assassination of opponents abroad .Clinton has described him "one of the greatest leaders of our time", Tony Blair called him a "visionary leader" and former international development secretary Clare Short infamously said of him: "Such a sweetie."