(n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(2) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(3) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
(4) The SNL gig turned out to be a grueling experience, and she walked away after just one season.
(5) A suggestion to overcome this has been to develop a tablet for addition to the rice gruel.
(6) Jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged a judge in Moscow today to end his days "slurping gruel" in prison, saying the fate of every Russian was tied up with his own.
(7) Since rice is far more available in rural homes (95%) than any type of sugar (30%) and rice gruel is a widely accepted food during illness, a field trial was conducted in three areas (total population, 68,345) to compare the acceptability and use of rice-based ORT with that of sugar-based ORT.
(8) Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP for North East Somerset, told the prime minister: “The thin gruel has been further watered down.
(9) The survival of strains of Campylobacter jejuni and enteropathogenic and enterotoxigenic (LT) Escherichia coli was investigated in mahewu, a traditional fermented cereal gruel.
(10) During culinary treatment these changes are levelled out, but in the end the level of virtually all types of sugar is higher in the gruel cooked with hydrothermally treated grit than in that prepared with initial, untreated grit.
(11) Another effective process to improve protein and energy digestibilities is fermentation (souring) of cereal gruels.
(12) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.
(13) US investigators are unlikely to visit the scene of the destruction, which has been the setting for a grueling fight between Isis and the US’s Syrian Arab and Kurdish proxy forces since 21 May.
(14) All birds were fasted for 24 hr on days 4-5, another blood sample taken, and then refed the usual gruel.
(15) Freshly prepared commercial baby milks were compared to the freshly prepared local gruel and were found similar.
(16) Almost all gruel samples stimulated peroxidation of rat liver microsomes, and this was usually inhibited by the iron-ion chelator desferrioxamine.
(17) The results obtained by a radioisotope dilution (RID) method for the determination of vitamin B12 in gruel were compared with those obtained by a standard microbiological assay with Lactobacillus leichmannii.
(18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(19) Though breast feeding was universal and of adequate duration, milk production was mostly inadequate because of too early supplementation with low-energy cereal gruels with little or no protein-enrichment.
(20) Timing of announcements for a potential transition team was unclear, but the aide was willing to indulge an exhausted press corps and speculate on when they might finally be safe taking a break from a grueling schedule that for some had spanned more than two years trailing Clinton.
Watery
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
(a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
(a.) Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.
(a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(2) An oral glucose electrolyte solution is often used in place of intravenous therapy in diarrheal diseases caused by Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic E. coli, and undiagnosed watery diarrheal diseases.
(3) The majority of the children had an acute onset of watery diarrhea.
(4) A 6-month-old girl from upstate New York had a fever of 40 C for two weeks and green watery diarrhea, and irritability was noted when she was handled.
(5) In 44% of cases the principal clinical signs were a watery discharge and a blood stained discharge.
(6) The CT scan revealed a space-occupying lesion with watery fluid in the left cranial fossa, which was divided into two parts by a thin septum.
(7) The infant girl passed large amounts of watery stools, but tolerated feeds well.
(8) The first child, a female, presented with irritability, jitteriness and watery diarrhea at three days of age.
(9) A second peak of watery diarrhea in the winter from November to January and was seen primarily in children less than 2 years old.
(10) A 40 year old woman presented with a 10 year history of watery diarrhoea and an acute quadriparesis.
(11) Mortality was high among animals with acute watery or hemorrhagic diarrhea.
(12) was always above 25 per cent from patients with dysentery and greater than 7 per cent from those with watery diarrhoea during the post-epidemic years.
(13) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(14) The therapeutic efficacy of Bioflorin (Streptococcus faecium SF68; Gipharmex, Milan, Italy) in acute watery diarrhea was evaluated in 183 Bangladeshi adults.
(15) Collagenous colitis is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder of the colon associated with watery diarrhea, minimal to normal endoscopic findings, and a pathognomonic subepithelial band of collagen.
(16) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
(17) It was at an all-time low here - three handfuls of rice a day and a watery soup with leaves floating in it.
(18) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(19) A patient is reported who had undergone right adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma and 15 yr later developed a recurrence in the same site complicated by the watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, achlorhydria syndrome.
(20) In another study in which 130 watery stools from routine specimens of patients of all ages were investigated, 36% were positive for pathogens with 11% bacteria, 18% viruses and 7% mixed pathogens.