(n.) A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
(n.) A feast; an entertainment.
(v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed it is hard to see what this junket is really about, other than to have a thoroughly good time.
(2) It was slightly unfair of me because I already disliked him – the only junket I've ever done was with him, and he kept everyone waiting for 10 hours, then turned up for about one minute.
(3) He dined with developers in private, at a huge property junket in Cannes called Mipim, and publicly announced his grand bargain with capital: they should be allowed to build as big as they wanted, as long as he could take a tithe of the proceeds to spend on such things as affordable housing.
(4) AstraZeneca, however, did not sponsor any doctors to go to conferences in 2012, a major departure for a pharmaceutical company, because the bad publicity surrounding drug company junkets made it rethink its policy.
(5) Ratner's initial gaffe came during a junket for his new film Tower Heist last week.
(6) Tarantino himself seemed irritated when questioned on the issue of whether Hollywood contributes to gun violence at a junket for his new film on Saturday in New York.
(7) The pair are due in the city this week for a press junket and tonight’s (Tuesday’s) Italian premiere of Noah.
(8) The junkets and lunches are now largely in the past, says the bond man.
(9) The Queensland premier and mayors are on a dangerous junket to promote a damaging project.
(10) It’s now packed at weekends – but retains its quirky, homely feel – with people converging from far and wide for pre-ordered paella, and the heartily recommended house speciality, cuajadera , a saffron-rich seafood stew (intriguingly, erroneously translated as “junket of sandpiper” on the menu).
(11) He is likely getting fed up with the other role that comes with the Bond territory – doing endless interviews, press junkets and promotions, a Groundhog Day of feigned enthusiasm, gushing superlatives and identical answers to identical questions.
(12) We arrived at this ghastly junket, was given our 15-minute slot, which is tricky because on Front Row we run eight or nine minutes, so you've got to hit the ground running.
(13) Almodóvar cancelled a press junket on Wednesday for his newest film Julieta after facing scrutiny over his financial arrangements.
(14) A round halfway through I'm Still Here , the 2010 documentary chronicling Joaquin Phoenix 's short-lived rap career and apparent retirement from acting, he undertakes a shambolic press junket, snapping when a journalist asks if it's all a hoax.
(15) The cables, which first surfaced with the Wikileaks disclosures two years ago, described a series of separate public relations strategies, unrolled at dozens of press junkets and biotech conferences, aimed at convincing scientists, media, industry, farmers, elected officials and others of the safety and benefits of GM products.
(16) They have to do these junkets all the time and any excitement faded when they made their first trip to the Cement Manufacturers Trade Expo in Brazil.
(17) British ministers on Olympic partnership junkets had "to raise the question of human rights" at every meeting.
(18) He also allegedly hosted lavish junkets for these African officials at which he handed out almost $400,000 in cash.
(19) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.
(20) Dismissing Rio+20 and other mega-conferences as mere junkets was a "totally irresponsible way of thinking" he said.
Rennet
Definition:
(n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.
(v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
(2) Proteolytic activities of chymosin, bovine pepsin, Mucor miehei rennet, Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly Endothia parasitica) rennet, trypsin, and chymotrypsin on kappa-casein macropeptide were measured.
(3) Variables assayed were milk pasteurization, utilization of lactic acid starter by direct application, substitution of the kid rennet by commercial calf rennet, and cheese maturation for a one-month period.
(4) Sphingomyelins were isolated from mucosal layers of bovine rennet stomach, duodenum, jejunoileum, and colon ascendens.
(5) Milk containing L. monocytogenes was coagulated with gluconic acid, HCl, or rennet, and cottage cheese curd was prepared.
(6) The PER of acid casein (3.15) and milk retentate (3.19) had the same value, whereas caseinates and rennet-casein had lower efficiency (between 2.95 and 2.57).
(7) A mixture of two similar on their specificity enzymes chymosin and bovine pepsin was isolated from rennet by the chromatography on these sorbents.
(8) beta-Caseins isolated from buffalo's and cow's milk were hydrolysed either with rennet or with microbial proteases from Mucor miehei, M. pusillus Lindt or Endothia parasitica.
(9) alphaS-Caseins were isolated from buffalo's and cow's milk and hydrolyzed with rennet, bovine pepsin, microbial proteases from Mucor miebei, Mucor pusillus Lindt, and Endotbia parasitica.
(10) Carbamylation of buffalo beta-casein was found to retard its proteolysis by all the enzymes but particularly by rennet and M. miehei protease.
(11) Proximate chemical analysis and determinations of sodium chloride and titratible acidity in milk, cheese, dry abomasum and rennet, were carried out.
(12) Whole milk sham-fed to calves exhibits immediate, sharp decreases in pH and rennet coagulation time resulting from liberation of free fatty acids by pregastric esterase.
(13) Sphingosine was the predominant base in all these fractions, and only in rennet stomach were smaller amounts of the C17 and C20 homologs present.
(14) Special test run variations of pretested assays demonstrated the possibilities to define the EBL status of dairy cattle herds up to 50 lactating cows without preparation of the bulk milk sample and up 100 after concentration of the antibodies by the rennet-ammonium sulfate method.
(15) Rennet or abomasal fluid was used as the clotting agent.
(16) Rennet powder proved to be fairly stable after a 17-month storage at 4 C. Within the same period, a crystalline chymosin solution kept at --18 C lost 30 to 50% of its activity.
(17) Taking the same weight ratio between whey and curd, the following results were obtained: a) The aflatoxin M1-distribution in whey and curd was not changed with increasing amounts of rennet, thus decreasing the renneting time at constant renneting temperatures.
(18) A microbiological screening program was instituted to search for an animal rennet substitute.
(19) We observed the levels of vitamin E in the blood serum of calves after peroral application of Combinal E (1 ml contains 20 mg of tocopherol acetate in water solution), after application through a fistula into the rennet stomach and after an intramuscular injection of Erevit (1 ml contains 300 mg of tocopherol acetate in vegetable oil).
(20) The role of milk proteins in the gelation of sterile milk concentrates, destabilization of frozen milk, rennet-clotting of milk, and stabilization of the fat emulsion in milk is also described.