(n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
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.
Oats
Definition:
(pl. ) of Oat
Example Sentences:
(1) Gyrate atrophy is a hereditary chorioretinal degenerative disease caused by a deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme, ornithine aminotransferase (OAT).
(2) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(3) The in vitro transcript probes could detect 1 ng of purified virus and as little as 1 microliter of sap extracts prepared from infected oat shoots.
(4) Four patients with coeliac disease, who had shown complete mucosal recovery after prolonged treatment with a strict gluten-free diet, volunteered to consume oats in addition to their gluten-free diet for a period of one month and were studied by jejunal biopsy before and after the experimental period.
(5) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(6) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(7) Sensory evaluation of rolled oats, raw or cooked, 1 and 3 months after irradiation with 0.1 Mrad indicated no significant quality difference between unirradiated and irradiated samples packaged under nitrogen.
(8) The ratio of paraoxon insensitive AHAT to OAT to NAT of PABA to NAT of 2-AF appears to be 1:2:11:22 using freshly made cytosols from frozen livers.
(9) The histology bears a striking resemblance to that of oat cell carcinoma of the lung, occasionally showing rosette formation, mucin secretion, and intracytoplasmic argyrophil granules in each case.
(10) Sera from patients with oat cell carcinoma and one patient with ductal carcinoma of the breast produced nuclear and cytoplasmic staining of neurons throughout the central nervous system.
(11) The encouraging response rate suggests a future role for these drugs in combination, especially for vincristine and bleomycin, with other agents showing activity in squamous and oat cell carcinoma.
(12) Histochemically and immunohistochemically, argyrophilic granules and neuron-specific enolase, neuroendocrine markers, were detected more frequently in the oat cell type rather than in the intermediate type.
(13) A neonate was delivered by a cesarean section without evidence of carcinoma, but a thorough pathologic examination of the placenta showed intervillous metastasis of the maternal oat cell carcinoma.
(14) The inhibitory effect of oat products on iron absorption is sufficiently marked to be a serious consideration if such products are more regularly consumed.
(15) Autonomic dysfunction associated with Eaton Lambert syndrome in a patient with oat cell carcinoma of the lung is reported.
(16) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
(17) The planning of treatment in patients with non-oat cell carcinoma of the lung requires an extensive diagnostic work-up.
(18) The method was applicable to corn, wheat, and barley at detection levels of 1 ppm, and oats at 1.5 ppm.
(19) Twelve of the 17 oat cell carcinomas and one of the epidermoid carcinomas expressed the antigen.
(20) Overestimation was higher (up to 8 points) when the losses were high, as for oats, or when degradability was low, as for fish meal.