(n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
(n.) Any small sum of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(2) (Perhaps if Scotland goes independent we Londoners could join up with them, share the pound, and leave the rest of England with something Ukip-ish, like the groat?)
(3) Greene told shareholders: "When you post a first class letter we charge you the same to deliver it tomorrow in Solihull or in John O'Groats.
(4) Lane is founder of a running club and, after having both hips replaced, ran from Land's End to John O'Groats.
(5) Ileal amino acid digestibilities tended to be highest for wheat and oat groats, followed by corn, sorghum, barley and wheat middlings.
(6) Almost at John O'Groats, the beach at Ness of Duncansby sometimes has masses of shells.
(7) Mortality due to necrotic enteritis was higher among chickens fed rations based on wheat, rye, barley, and oat groats than among chickens fed corn-based rations.
(8) The slope-ratio assay rendered a relative nutritive value of 59 for Goodland oat groats, assuming 100 for whole egg protein.
(9) Protein concentrates from oil cake of tomato seeds and corn bud, and groats of safflower and flax were studied for the content of the main food substances: proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, mineral substances, as well as for the fatty acid lipid spectrum, amino acid composition of proteins and the level of available lysine.
(10) During the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd experiment the sheep received rations with additionally included soya groats, soya groats and carbamide and carbamide and carrots with 17, 18.5 and 17.7% raw protein.
(11) Commercial seed mixes for psittacines commonly contain corn, sunflower, safflower, pumpkin and squash seeds, wheat, peanuts, millet, oat groats and buckwheat, although other seeds may be present.
(12) The range in ileal digestibilities was 73.8 (sorghum) to 84.2% (wheat) for lysine, 69.6 (corn) to 81.4% (wheat) for tryptophan and 63.4 (wheat middlings) to 77.9% (oat groats) for threonine.
(13) Somewhere along the way, marathons became commonplace and a whole new breed of extreme activities came along – the Ironman triathlon ; multi-day cycle events like John O’Groats to Lands End; crazy ultra marathons like the Thames Path 100 ; and events that defy description like the Tough Mudder .
(14) "There were fewer photographers," Gough says of his second arrival at John O'Groats.
(15) A comparative study of virulence, viability and antibiotic sensitivity of Y. pestis strains grown at 28 degrees C and 37 degrees C in yeast-casein medium, yeast medium with Hottinger's meat digest and yeast medium with protein hydrolysate obtained from sunflower seed groats has been made.
(16) Gough reached John O'Groats on 22 January 2004 and the media were waiting.
(17) The company states: “Think of it as the Irish equivalent of Britain’s Land’s End to John O’Groats, but with rugged coastline, Irish music, unique landscapes and lively pubs.” Pub stops aside, the 525-mile route is definitely a significant adventure, involving six days of cycling with around 85 miles tackled each day.
(18) Gross energy digestibilities for corn, sorghum and oat groats were similar; wheat had a slightly lower (P less than .05) digestibility, followed by barley (P less than .05), with wheat middlings being the least (P less than .05) digestible.
(19) Apparent nutrient digestibilities of yellow-dent corn, low-tannin sorghum, hard red winter wheat, barley, oat groats and wheat middlings were determined near the end of the small intestine and over the total digestive tract of growing pigs.
(20) During a marathon relay from John O'Groats to Lands End (JOGLE) various blood and urine parameters were measured in the runners.
Grout
Definition:
(n.) Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.
(n.) Formerly, a kind of beer or ale.
(n.) Lees; dregs; grounds.
(n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt.
(v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two factors prevent the widespread use of the bipolar prosthesis at present: the need for femoral grouting which carries a well-documented risk of hemodynamic complications, and the higher cost of the device.
(2) That elusive must-see aura – a combination in 1993 of Hollywood’s most starred director Steven Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic’s then-unique special-effects prowess – was what made Jurassic Park the first $1bn film; 22 years later though, Spielberg is only executive-producing, and CGI is very much the bog-standard grouting of the blockbuster industry.
(3) Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout were charged in the southern district court of New York with four counts of falsification of books, wire fraud and making false statements to the US regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission .
(4) Acrylamide, widely used for the production of polymers and as a grouting agent, causes neurotoxic effects in humans and neurotoxic, genotoxic, reproductive, and carcinogenic effects in laboratory animals.
(5) A decade ago Unesco authorised archaeologists and engineers to consolidate the two niches, with props and grouting.
(6) Grout started his petition after his sons, now aged seven and nine, saw a TV promotion offering free Lego toys to Sun readers.
(7) ; (b) passive or interference mechanical fixation where the implants are allowed to move or merely positioned onto the tissue surfaces; (c) bone cement fixation which is actually a grouting material; (d) biological fixation by allowing tissues to grow into the interstices of pores or textured surfaces of implants; (e) direct chemical bonding between implant and tissues; or (f) any combination of the above techniques.
(8) They are also barred from possessing "any spray paint, marker pens, any grout pen, etching equipment, or unset paint".
(9) Grout II organisms showed a much higher induction frequency anaerobically than aerobically.
(10) Histologically, bone was seen to bond directly to the plasma-HA coating and the crystalline-HA grouting.
(11) The patients' daily record cards showed that the number of patients whose paine cleared in less than seven days was statistically significantly greater in the naproxen grout (P = 0.03).
(12) Grout's lawyers are also reported to have said he has not committed any wrongdoing.
(13) Grout took his online campaign offline, appearing with a supersized Lego imitation of a Page 3 girl outside the Sun's headquarters in Wapping, east London, and the Legoland theme park near Windsor.
(14) It is believed that this is the first such case to be recorded in the medical literature.Acrylamide is widely used as a "chemical grout".
(15) Methyl methacrylate, used as a grout during hip arthroplasty, can inadvertently become lodged between acetabular and femoral components during surgery.
(16) Grout, 48, oversaw police operations at Nice’s airport, French media reported.
(17) Alternatives include the search for other grouting materials and the development of prostheses with satisfactory surfaces for either press-fit or biologic ingrowth.
(18) Grout's petition started on 22 February, but took off after a Lego promotion appeared next to a spread featuring the nakedbreasts of 12 Hollywood actors, including Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz.
(19) At both 6 and 12 weeks, bone ingrowth was greatly enhanced by the presence of the plasma-HA coating or the crystalline-HA grouting as compared to the uncoated titanium channels.
(20) Six intra-operative deaths and two episodes of near-fatal hypotension occurred in 52 consecutive Hastings procedures (insertion of metal prosthesis grouted in acrylic cement) for subcapital fracture of the femoral neck.