(n.) A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.
(n.) A trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such is the case for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(2) Caricom is creating a reparations commission to press the issue, said Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who has been leading the effort.
(3) SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES Errol Newton Fitzrose Allen.
(4) But this time it wasn't for cannabis: it was for attempting to import nearly half a tonne of cocaine from Bequia in the Grenadines into Britain.
(5) in a single dose in a glass of milk with grenadine, daily at 8:00 A.M. from the 2nd to the 21st day.
(6) Child-to-woman ratios in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are related to the educational attainment of women in a census district, the percentage of men engaged in agriculture, whether the district has direct access to the outside world through a port or airport, and, when the other variables are controlled, the stability of a district's population.
(7) The method has been applied successfully to the determination of sorbic acid in a wide range of food samples including beverages, cake, cake mate, garlic bread sprinkle, onion juice, oyster flavoured sauce and grenadine syrup.
(8) Larval populations of the mosquito Aedes aegypti were suppressed by predatory Toxorhynchites moctezuma mosquito larvae released systematically in a village on Union Island (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) during March-December 1988.
(9) Loss of children to rural-urban and international migration has replaced mortality as the leading cause of child loss in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(10) Serosurveys conducted in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and other countries show high HIV seroprevalence among homosexuals (15-40%), prisoners (4-10%), prostitutes (up to 13%), and cocaine users (2%); at present, prevalence in the general population continues to be low.
(11) on the first day and a glass of milk with grenadine daily at 8:00 A.M. from the 2nd to the 21st day.
(12) After this was sold in 1958, Colin bought Mustique, then a very parched island in the Grenadines, for £45,000.
(13) Mix with the grenadine syrup if you have a sweet tooth.
(14) This paper describes the maternal and child health (MCH) system in the Caribbean island community of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG); compares MCH indicators in SVG with those in developed and developing nations; describes the role of the nurse-midwife in the delivery of MCH services; and examines the growing problem of recruitment and retention (brain drain) of nurse-midwives.
(15) St Vincent and the Grenadines gained its independence in 1979.
(16) • Ian Hypolite (St Vincent and the Grenadines) banned for 30 days, 15 days suspended for six months, fined SFr300.
(17) In March 1989, first instar Toxorhynchites moctezuma larvae were introduced into all potential Aedes aegypti oviposition sites (n = 214) that contained water in the village of Clifton on Union Island in St. Vincent and The Grenadines.
(18) The background, history, sociodemographic characteristics, and health services in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are described.
(19) • The cases of David Frederick (Cayman Islands) and Joseph Delves (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) were closed since they are no longer football officials.
(20) Slipping a cheeky, thin slice of raw beetroot in while its cooking will help give a vibrant pink colour, as will a splash of grenadine.
Mandarin
Definition:
(n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
(n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not so much a problem affecting a specific cultivation, but rather a conflict of food security.” Citrus crops have already been hit by the heat this year, with production of some types of mandarins and clementines forecast to be down by as much as 25%.
(2) Chinese New Year is a public holiday and in Glodok, Mandarin and other dialects are spoken openly.
(3) The non-English parts of the UK are represented by Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the former British ambassador to the United Nations and Foreign Office mandarin who chaired the All Wales convention on the Welsh assembly's lawmaking powers, Professor Charlie Jeffery, of Edinburgh University's academy of government, and Professor Yvonne Galligan, of Queen's University Belfast.
(4) The purpose of the present study is to explore both the effects of age and the semantic and syntactic structures of reading materials on the omission rate of "de", the most frequently used character in Mandarin.
(5) Despite the country’s tremendous fiscal consolidation – a record in the history of the EU – senior EU mandarins, from the euro group president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, to the monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn, and Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, are all at pains to emphasise that there is still “a great deal to be done” (even if Schauble has increasingly adopted a sweet tone when he speaks about matters Greek).
(6) "The way we acquired information was sometimes illegal," Humphrey said in Mandarin.
(7) Indeed, there is a rising anxiety amongst US public and private sector mandarins surrounding Iran’s apparent digital prowess, as evinced by research the Guardian was briefed on ahead of its September release.
(8) Sir Stephen Lamport, the prince’s former private secretary, and the veteran Whitehall mandarin Sir Alex Allan, were called to give evidence in favour of keeping the letters secret, but they failed to persuade the three tribunal judges, who ordered the letters to be published in September 2012.
(9) She experienced asthmatic attacks while picking leaves and harvesting mandarin oranges.
(10) It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door – an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and überchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering.
(11) The requests were originally refused by Whitehall mandarins, who were supported by the information commissioner in a December 2009 ruling.
(12) As Johnson piled the pressure on Romney, the Republican was at the nearby Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for a fundraiser in central London on Thursday night.
(13) After activists staged stunts outside Mandarin Oriental Hotels in London and New York and people took to the hotel chain’s Facebook page to voice their disapproval, it was only a matter of days before Astra issued a statement announcing an immediate moratorium on deforestation .
(14) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(15) Winterton challenged the £1.1m cost of an audit of MPs' expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
(16) David Cameron has accused him of cowardice, his mandarins are being accused of bias and UK ministers are trying to usurp his role as Scotland's most influential ambassador.
(17) The Mandarin could have been a better villain, maybe.")
(18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
(19) The Institute for Government has just produced research which points out that neither the Foreign Office nor the Treasury has ever been headed by a female mandarin.
(20) I know of no one here,” an anonymous senior official told the Guardian at the time, “who would dissent from the view that morale is the worst in living memory.” The part of the Treasury where the threatened mandarins worked became known as “the corridor of death”.