(n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
(n.) The okra plant or its pods.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Texas gumbo doesn’t taste quite the same.” He misses the organic way that “New Orleans culture bubbles from the bottom up, from the streets, the neighbourhoods, the working class people especially”, but said he is happy in Houston.
(2) Debbie Jones was at a supermarket collecting the ingredients for a warm winter meal in advance of Friday "I'm going to make a gumbo, then try and lay it in for tomorrow," Jones said.
(3) So many different people from so many different places adding their ideas to this beautiful American gumbo,” he said.
(4) Rugare Gumbo, who has known Mugabe for 50 years, was this week expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party amid bitter factional infighting.
(5) In Louisiana's big cities, the celebrations have long revolved around a mess of floats, majorettes, and college-boy hi-jinks; here, as proved by a day I spend in and around Mamou, the focus of the day is a compelling ritual known as Le Courir (The Run) De Mardi Gras - when an all-male crowd, many of them on horseback, dress in absurdly overblown costume and slowly circuit the surrounding fields, calling at local farms to collect the ingredients for a communal gumbo.
(6) Spokesman Rugare Gumbo said: "There's no alternative but to accept the reality on the ground.
(7) To talk about a coup is unbelievable.” Gumbo first met Mugabe in prison in 1964 during the liberation struggle against white minority rule in what was then Rhodesia.
(8) For some of us, that’s unacceptable.” The president intended to build a dynasty, Gumbo added, starting with the first lady.
(9) To me, it doesn’t make sense.” Gumbo claimed that he, vice-president Joice Mujuru and other senior figures are being purged because they objected to Mugabe’s plan to name himself president for life and Grace – dubbed “DisGrace” and “First Shopper” by critics – as his deputy instead of holding internal elections.
(10) He was young and vibrant; now he’s a tired old man.” Neither Gumbo nor Mujuru was present at the Zanu-PF congress, held in a cavernous tent on a field hastily named “Robert Mugabe Square” with a service road called “Dr Grace Mugabe Way”.
(11) Rugare Gumbo, a party spokesman, said: "Our view is that PAC is just there to destabilise the situation in southern Africa.
(12) I learned how to make gumbo from people I met from Louisiana.
(13) What helped win the locals over was PBS's Dioko, the first ever hip-hop track in Wolof, a fascinating gumbo of ancient Arabic and European languages with a charm not unlike Caribbean creole.
(14) All photographs: Richard Bienvenu The city that gave the world jazz, gumbo and Mardi Gras, New Orleans is one of the few places on the planet that can boast its own music, cuisine and unique cultural heritage.
(15) Gumbo, 74, responded: “The rubbish they’re talking about, trying to assassinate him … They used the word ’assassinate’ to frighten people.
(16) I feel betrayed,” Gumbo said in his first interview since his expulsion.
(17) She invited Hillary over to a lunch of gumbo on her very first day in Fayetteville, and the chemistry worked.
(18) But Gumbo rejected the charge and accused the 90-year-old of authoritarianism as he seeks to appoint his controversial wife, Grace Mugabe , as his deputy and heir apparent.
(19) And the dishes we make involve the whole fish – gumbo, escabeche , potted crayfish, Swedish-style crayfish in shell... A growing interest in American cuisine has helped.
(20) Rugare Gumbo, spokesman for Zanu-PF, said: "What we know is he died in a fire accident at his home this morning.
Soil
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
(n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
(n.) Land; country.
(n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
(v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
(n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
(n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
(n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
(n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
(2) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(3) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(4) Fourteen soil bacteriophages active against Rhizobium trifolii W19 have been studied which fall into four structural groups.
(5) Recoveries of these 3 herbicides added to soil, wheat, and barley samples at 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm levels were between 65 and 93%.
(6) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(7) While undoubtedly a good understanding of soil microbiology in terms of pedology exists, little is presently known about unsaturated subsoils, and aquifers.
(8) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.
(9) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(10) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(11) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(12) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(13) High concentrations of mercury, cadmium, and lead have also been observed in urban soils.
(14) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(15) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(16) Recent reports incriminating Acanthamoeba, a small free-living amoeba, wide-spread in environmental soils and waters, in acanthamoebic keratitis cases wearing soft contact lenses, drew attention to cleaning solutions for contact lenses.
(17) An enzyme (nitrilase) that converts the herbicide bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) to its metabolite 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzoic acid was shown to be plasmid encoded in the natural soil isolate Klebsiella ozaenae.
(18) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
(19) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(20) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.