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Keg


Definition:

  • (n.) A small cask or barrel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: supplied Nauru: a powder keg waiting to ignite All the signs suggest a moment of crisis is approaching on Nauru .
  • (2) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
  • (3) On the front line in Brazil’s war on Zika: ‘I felt I was in a horror movie’ Read more In global health security terms, this is a potential powder keg.
  • (4) Eight cask pumps showcase Leeds beers (try the pale or the dark mild, Midnight Bell) and four guests, with keg lines, such as a craft lager from York micro Hop Studio, adding interest.
  • (5) Taiwan is another powder keg that could be ignited by widening US-China confrontation.
  • (6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (7) The molecule resembles a keg 105 A along the 4-fold axis and 132 A in diameter at the widest point of the keg.
  • (8) The brain tumor models were produced in syngeneic Wister-King-Aptekman male rats with stereotaxic inoculation of ethylnitrosourea-induced glioma cells (KEG-1).
  • (9) Quality beers are now being produced in kegs, bottles and even cans, helping craft brewers offset the rapid decline of high street pubs.
  • (10) Many craft beers, including BrewDog’s, do not qualify as real ale under Camra’s strict criteria simply because, although some are served from casks, most come in kegs, bottles and cans, and with added CO2.
  • (11) Long before Brewdog opened, Port Street was already turning Mancunians on to explosively hoppy US imports, edgy craft keg beers and impoverishing those who couldn't resist that second bottle of Alesmith Speedway Stout (750ml, £18).
  • (12) Prices for the craft keg beers (from £4.60 a pint) can get silly, but it goes with the territory.
  • (13) This real ale redoubt for dissenting Village drinkers serves six cask ales (from local outfits such as Little Valley, Beartown, Dunham Massey, etc), two craft keg beers from Bury's Outstanding and a short, solid list of imported bottled beers, including Flying Dog's Raging Bitch and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout.
  • (14) Looking back, that was a powder keg waiting for a match.
  • (15) Many in Camra still believe that cask is good and keg is bad.
  • (16) Others include Blackshore Stout and a dry hopped keg lager.
  • (17) She felt the lack of political will to tackle public health issues was a powder keg waiting to explode in one way or the other,” said her brother Albert, a GP based in the UK.
  • (18) This article reviews the most recent literature and discusses the author's "powder keg and tinderbox" theory of idiopathic calcium stone disease.
  • (19) It’s that people will choose not to buy something that they don’t like or want.” Ryan claims to have been dreaming of slashing social programs since his days doing keg stands, and when he and other Republicans managed to push the similarly disastrous American Health Care Act through the House, they wheeled out cases of beer to celebrate.
  • (20) Feral Hop Hog IPA, Swan Valley, WA It was only three years ago that a Melbourne pub, the Great Northern Hotel, first secured a few kegs of beer from WA’s Feral Brewing.

Key


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.
  • (n.) An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
  • (n.) That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
  • (n.) A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.
  • (n.) That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.
  • (n.) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
  • (n.) The last board of a floor when laid down.
  • (n.) A keystone.
  • (n.) That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
  • (n.) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
  • (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.
  • (n.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
  • (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.
  • (n.) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
  • (n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
  • (v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (2) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (3) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (4) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (5) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
  • (6) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
  • (7) It is suggested that the low-density lipoprotein receptors in human fetal liver may play a key role in the regulation of the serum cholesterol levels during gestation.
  • (8) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
  • (9) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
  • (10) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (11) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
  • (12) Acetylcholinesterase is a key enzyme in cholinergic neurotransmission for hydrolyzing acetylcholine and has been shown to possess arylacylamidase activity in addition to esterase activity.
  • (13) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
  • (14) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
  • (15) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
  • (16) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
  • (17) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
  • (18) Teaching procedures then establish and build these key components to fluency.
  • (19) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
  • (20) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).

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