(n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.
Example Sentences:
(1) He cooked it in his attic flat for a friend, an editor for the gourmands' bible Cuisine et Vins de France .
(2) Goalkeeping gourmand and former chef Ben Foster might be on his way to Tottenham to replace Hugo Lloris , who looks Paris Saint-Germain bound.
(3) Shops are crammed with lemon products: try the jams and liqueurs from Maison Herbin (2 rue du Vieux Collège), lemon-infused olive oil from Oliviers & Co , and lemon biscuits from La Cure Gourmande , both on rue Saint-Michel.
(4) He is a rogue and a bon viveur and gourmand but a loyal man.
(5) We may never reach the dizzy levels of addiction to this herb shown by the late, great American gourmand James Beard, who wrote, "I believe if ever I had to practise cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon to go around", but I hope I've convinced you that tarragon is just as good for a little culinary rough and tumble as it is for the rarefied world of starched white linen and towering toques.
(6) Photograph: Mary Louise Munkegaard For dedicated gourmands, though, it’s all about Restaurant Kadeau.
(7) The first pub in Ireland to be given a Bib Gourmand (an award for quality food at affordable prices) in the Michelin Guide, Wild Honey is a relaxed and traditional Victorian coaching inn with some modern design touches.
(8) The rational economic choice, even for an alcoholic gourmand who likes wearing jewels, would be to schedule a knees-up for 10 January.
(9) Chef Clare Johnson's cooking has earned her a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
(10) Hitchcock, the grocer's son and lifelong gourmand, would doubtless have ordered something hearty like the beef Wellington and potatoes (he rarely ate a meal that didn't include them), washed down with a good claret; Jones opts for potted shrimps and a Diet Coke.
(11) There were Monty Python records and books and an action figure of Mr Creosote, the blowsy gourmand who explodes in The Meaning of Life after ingesting one simple mint, wafer-thin.
(12) Birdwatchers head to the Mawddach estuary, while gourmands stalk local lamb and samphire.
(13) The pot-au-feu became Olney's calling card, granting him entry to some of the most august kitchens in Paris and leading to a revolutionary column in Cuisine et Vins de France : "Un Americain (Gourmand) à Paris: le Menu de Richard Olney".
(14) Gourmands who enjoy Bubble Bobble King Prawns in a "Rice Krispie-style batter" (10 for £1) will be fascinated to watch their journey from drawing board to make-or-break taste test, where less successful "alcoholic jelly shots" are adjudged as "a bit soapy", "violently sweet" and "a glob of gum".
(15) Forced to take their faces out of the buffet and give their South American cousins a hand, many Fifa gourmands have utterly freaked out at the prospect of having to do some work towards the four-yearly beano that swelled their coffers to the tune of $631m in South Africa.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.