(n.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
(n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
(n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
(n.) Grapeshot.
Example Sentences:
(1) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
(2) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(3) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
(4) People were packed "like grapes", as one 16-year-old boy described it.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(7) Photograph: William Latkin I served these in quenelles with a little green salad and some grape focaccia.
(8) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
(9) But in the late 90s, a wave of young Croatian wine-makers started working with malvasia, a neglected Istrian white grape, unfashionable because of its perceived poor quality, and also teran, a better-regarded dark varietal.
(10) More accusations of sour grapes, racism and political interference from (much of) the rest.
(11) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(12) Main alcohol induced changes include: 1. loss of typical arrangement of elongated spermatids in the form of a "bunch of grapes", dominance of duplicated form of elongated spermatids, to a large extent loss of acrosomal formation: 2. thickening, hyalinosis, and sclerosis of lamina propria with nearly complete lack of Ca++-ATPase; 3. decrease of 3 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase and 17 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase activity in the Leydig cells, and 4. appearance of oval or spindle shaped mast cells in the interstitial tissue.
(13) This would allow more sweetcorn, grapes, sunflowers, soya and maize to be grown in Britain.
(14) The growth of Leuconostoc citrovorum ML 34, an isolate associated with the malo-lactic fermentation of wine, was stimulated in part by grape, orange, cabbage, and tomato juices.
(15) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
(16) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
(17) The profitable Napa wine industry, too, is threatened by wildfires, with winemakers concerned that smoke-infused grape skins will alter the flavor of the wines.
(18) Farm workers employed by apple-producing, grape-producing and grain (control) producing farms in low fluoride areas (F less than 0.10 ppm) were investigated.
(19) Liquid chromatography with both UV-VIS and electrochemical detection is used to structurally classify flavonoid compounds in wine and grape juice without isolation of the pure compound.
(20) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
Shiraz
Definition:
(n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Example Sentences:
(1) High school students (100 girls and 100 boys), selected randomly from four high schools in Shiraz, completed the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale.
(2) It has been the impression of clinicians that pineal calcification is infrequent in Shiraz, Iran.
(3) For the academic Shiraz Maher it comes down to identity.
(4) At least 219 Bahá'í in Iran were executed because of their religious allegiance after the 1979 Islamic revolution, and some are believed to have been buried in Shiraz.
(5) In Shiraz, the peak incidence of lymphoma, including intestinal lymphoma, is in the third decade of life; for esophageal carcinoma, it is in the fourth decade, and for gastric carcinoma, in the fifth.
(6) Shiraz Maher, a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which monitors overseas fighters, said the two had been members of the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant which has been involved with clashes with the al-Nusra Front.
(7) A case-control study of 99 bladder cancer patients admitted to Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran was evaluated.
(8) The Iranian embassy in Mezze, its turquoise mosaic front giving an exotic glimpse of Isfahan or Shiraz, looks like a fortress.
(9) When I spoke to Shiraz Maher, a senior research fellow at King’s College London who studies radicalisation up close, he put the problem concisely: “You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” Maher suggests that western foreign policy often plays the role of a hook on which jihadis can hang a much larger set of ideological, and theological, motives.
(10) An experimental study on the homogeneous transplantation of the major part of the lateral and medial femoral trochleae and trochlear groove with articular cartilage was carried out in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Pahlavi University, Shiraz.
(11) It’s identity, stupid | Shiraz Maher Read more The Moss Side area has historically had plenty of negative press relating to gang culture.
(12) A light red such as beaujolais or generic côtes du Rhône or a richer off-dry white such as a pinot gris from Alsace or New Zealand works better with the deeper, sweeter flavours that come from a tray of caramelised roast vegetables, while the meaty, earthy characters of slow-cooked vegetable stews with pulses are happiest with the same kind of robust reds (Aussie shiraz, Argentine malbec) you'd have with red meat.
(13) Oh Allah accept him as another green bird.” News of his death was also tweeted by a British-based researcher Shiraz Maher, from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College in London.
(14) The impact of 4300 serial autopsies performed in Shiraz, Iran, on scientific and clinical medicine is discussed.
(15) Three hundred and ten cultures of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus were tested for antibiotic sensitivity by the Kirby-Bauer method at the Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran.
(16) We graduated from shiraz to the local beer ("Fat Tires"), and the conversation got interesting.
(17) Shiraz Maher, a senior researcher at King’s College’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalism, said: “It is probable that Roshid died in the battle for Kobani as another of his Portsmouth counterparts, Muhammad Mehdi Hasan, is known to be fighting there, although we haven’t been able to independently verify this yet.” Maher said the centre had so far confirmed the deaths of 25 jihadists who travelled from Britain to partake in the Syrian civil war.
(18) The type, frequency, and antimicrobial sensitivity pattern of bacteria were studied at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran, during 1981, 1985, and 1987.
(19) Such observations at the Shiraz Orphanage are discussed.
(20) Height and weight of school children aged 6-12 years in Shiraz (Iran) are reported.