(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.
Soup
Definition:
(n.) A liquid food of many kinds, usually made by boiling meat and vegetables, or either of them, in water, -- commonly seasoned or flavored; strong broth.
(v. t.) To sup or swallow.
(v. t.) To breathe out.
(v. t.) To sweep. See Sweep, and Swoop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(2) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(3) Traditional dietary preparations for diarrhea such as carrot soup and products based on rice have essentially an absorbent power and do not diminish intestinal loss of water and electrolytes.
(4) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
(5) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
(6) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
(7) At the end of the experiment, the concentration of salt in soup rated as tasting most pleasant increased in the group which added the crystalline salt to food.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) Five A delta-fiber MIAs and one C-fiber MIA did not respond to mechanical or heat stimuli but did respond to injection into the electrical RF of an artificial inflammatory soup containing histamine, bradykinin, prostaglandin E1, and serotonin.
(10) Enjoying soup and celluloid, Gilliam little realised he had a year's arguing before Universal would release Brazil in America (on Christmas Day 1985).
(11) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(12) Oxfam has reported that some recipients are forced to return packages of rice, spaghetti and soup since, with no money, they are unable to pay for electricity to cook the food.
(13) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(14) The preparation of convenience soups takes only between one fifth and one eighth of the necessary time for the preparation of conventionally, of sauces only between one sixth and one twelfth of the required time.
(15) A high dose of the cholinoceptor antagonist ipratropium bromide, in the form of a nasal spray, was tested on cold air- and hot soup-induced rhinorrhea in order to determine to what extent these types of rhinorrhea are reflex-mediated hypersecretions from nasal glands.
(16) It was at an all-time low here - three handfuls of rice a day and a watery soup with leaves floating in it.
(17) The BBMs between Bosch and Rodriguez include references to code names for numerous banned substances, such as: Gummies (troches containing testosterone); Pink Food or Pink Cream (a transdermal cream containing testosterone); Blue or PM Cream (a transdermal cream containing testosterone); Liquid Soup or Red Liquid (a melted or liquefied form of a troche containing testosterone); and Cojete or Rocket (a subcutaneous syringe containing, among other things IGF1, [insulin growth factor].
(18) The levels of migration of mineral hydrocarbons from polystyrene cups and glasses have been measured into aqueous food simulants as well as lager, beer, cola, sparkling apple juice, lemon barley water, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, lemon tea and chicken soup.
(19) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
(20) An experiment explored how well young, middle-aged, and elderly subjects could discriminate the presence or absence of the spice marjoram in a soup prepared according to a published recipe.