What's the difference between gibberish and rhubarb?

Gibberish


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.
  • (a.) Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (2) When Ray Moore – now the former chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, home of the eponymous tournament – said the ladies should get down on their knees to give thanks for the brilliance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because otherwise no one would pay any attention to female tennis players at all, he was talking the kind of gibberish usually heard from people who haven’t thought about the subject at all.
  • (3) If you followed the remarks as they are written in the official transcript, the president elect was talking gibberish.
  • (4) A committee of MPs last week criticised Uber for creating “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” contracts to ensure that its drivers remained self-employed.
  • (5) "From which dusty basement did they dig out the venomous Stalinist spider who wrote that gibberish?"
  • (6) A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber’s contracts with drivers as “gibberish” and “almost unintelligible” as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.
  • (7) That’s why Trump’s 100 days of gibberish aren’t just disorienting and silly – they’re dangerous.
  • (8) His one decent story was sent as a cable in Latin to keep it secret, but the foreign desk assumed it was gibberish and binned it; he was out of town when the biggest story of the war, concerning a mysterious British financier who tried to stymie the Italian advance, broke; and the Mail quickly lost faith in him and told him to return.
  • (9) You think he’s talking gibberish but there are things going on that you need to piece together.
  • (10) Even if we accept this defence, the basic principle of pushing together independent samples, without any population weighting, is a recipe for producing statistical gibberish.
  • (11) Be sure and set your TV closed captioning to gibberish,” read one tweet.
  • (12) The documentary Reel Bad Arabs does an exhaustive analysis of this stereotype, but examples include Eugene Levy in Father of the Bride II (who gets extra points for donning brown-face and talking in gibberish), Spiros Focás in Jewel of the Nile, Richard Romanus in Protocol.
  • (13) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
  • (14) I don't want to sound pernickety, or apply Goveian strictures to the language, hampering its development and fluidity, but if we allow "issues" to swamp it, we'll soon all be talking deathly national curriculum and corporate gibberish and the world will be a much drearier place.
  • (15) Frank Field, chair of the work and pensions select committee that is carrying out an investigation into the so-called gig economy , said: “Quite frankly the Uber contract is gibberish.
  • (16) It perplexed British critics when it toured here last year, not only because it mingled English with Spanish, French and what sounded alarmingly like gibberish, but because it approached this most familiar of tragedies with a disarming lack of reverence.
  • (17) His argument that there are “alternatives” to abortion when a pregnancy is life-threatening is pure gibberish .
  • (18) The speeches, in a mixture of Hausa and the local Tangale, must have sounded like gibberish to her.
  • (19) When Desiigner becomes president in 12 years and changes the lyrics of the Star-Spangled Banner to some mindless gibberish about BMWs, it will be their fault.
  • (20) He has described her as 'wasted, talking gibberish'.

Rhubarb


Definition:

  • (n.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.
  • (n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.
  • (n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
  • (2) From lettuce and string beans quercetin was isolated (after chemical hydrolysis) and in rhubarb emodin, an anthraquinon, was detected.
  • (3) Proanthocyanidins (dimers and oligomers of polyhydroxy-flavan-3-ols) were only found in the testa of broad beans, beans, and peas with coloured flowers, and in rhubarb stalks.
  • (4) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
  • (5) The results suggested that: (1) the virus may be one of pathogenetic factor of the hemorrhagic pancreatitis; (2) the rhubarb was effective in the treatment of hemorrhagic pancreatitis under our experimental conditions.
  • (6) An earlier version of the rhubarb self-saucing pudding failed to add the milk in the listed ingredients and how and when to do it.
  • (7) As soon as it has melted, add the rhubarb and cook over a low heat until just tender.
  • (8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
  • (9) The custard base and rhubarb can cook at the same time.
  • (10) The first group included beef and fish broths, boiled meat, rye bread, cabbage, tomato, apple, cherry and black currant juices, rhubarb infusion, fresh kefir, carrot and pumpkin purees.
  • (11) Recipe supplied by Bronte Aurell, Scandi Kitchen, scandikitchen.co.uk Vanilla-fried rhubarb on sugar brioche Almost like jam on toast, the rich sugary brioche is a good backdrop to the sharp rhubarb.
  • (12) (uncorrected values), plum (Prunus domestica), rhubarb (Rheum rhaponticum), banana (Musa cavendishii), mango (Mangifera indica), pear (Pyrus communis), cantaloup (Cucumis melo) and pineapple (Ananas comosus) (uncorrected values).
  • (13) 9 Spread the meringue over the rhubarb, using the back of a spoon to create some peaks and swirls and place in the hot oven for 15-20 minutes or until the meringue topping is golden brown.
  • (14) Burr, 38, who also holds a first-class degree in biodiversity and conservation from London’s Birkbeck College, has been heralded as the favourite to win not least because he has been named star baker a record five times, particularly impressing Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood in doughnut week with his rhubarb and custard zeppole.
  • (15) In the main study the foods were either (a) divided into the calculated bite-size normal portions or (b) the portions were mashed (rhubarb pie), untreated (rice) or finely ground (raw carrot).
  • (16) The above description indicate that Rhubarb could promote immune response.
  • (17) One guest said the food – smoked rainbow trout, pan-fried guinea fowl, rhubarb and elderflower tart – wasn't memorable.
  • (18) Among several hydroxylated metabolites of emodin, a fungal anthraquinone and constituent of rhubarb, 2-hydroxyemodin was a direct-acting mutagen showing a large electron-spin resonance (ESR) signal in the presence of DNA, especially at alkaline pH.
  • (19) 4 Spread the rhubarb into the base of the prepared dish and spoon the batter on top.
  • (20) Once it has started to colour, divide between four plates, then top with the rhubarb and butter.