(v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough.
(v. t.) Fig.: To treat or form as by kneading; to beat.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3 Tip the dough on to a clean work surface and knead well.
(2) Spray-dried and speed-kneaded powders, two types of granules and tablets were prepared with water-soluble gelatin.
(3) Keep kneading until the dough no longer sticks to the board.
(4) Lightly beat the eggs, combine with the flour and a pinch or two of salt, and knead for 5-10 minutes, depending how much you're making.
(5) The dissolution behavior of ibuprofen from a kneaded mixture with low-molecular gelatin (LM gelatin) has been studied in comparison to kneaded mixtures prepared with other additives.
(6) Turn out on to a floured surface and knead until smooth.
(7) Solid, undissolved particles in macrocorpuscular form, are "kneaded" into the mucosa during their passage through the digestive tract.
(8) Oral administrations of the kneaded mixture to beagle dogs showed the LM gelatin to be most effective in accelerating the absorption rate of ibuprofen among the additives used.
(9) 8.23pm BST Kim's kneading action is extremely energetic.
(10) The applied methods of preparation are well known industrial process as dry mixing (simple physical mixture), co-milling, kneading, coprecipitation, freeze drying, wet granulation methods.
(11) The industrial precooked rice flour imparted great adhesivity, thus difficulty in the kneading, a fact which could lead to rejection by the consumer.
(12) Continue kneading in no particular fashion for a full five minutes then put the dough into a floured bowl and set aside, covered with clingfilm or a clean tea towel, until it has risen to double its size.
(13) No differences in tissue reaction were recorded when the cement past was applied after normal and prolonged kneading.
(14) The amounts of EDB were reduced to 30 to 50% of the original amounts by kneading the dough, and to below 1.5% by baking.
(15) This result, coupled with the previous finding that a certain time is required to attain an equilibrium size granule, explains why there exists an optimum kneading time for a wet granulation from a mechanical performance point of view.
(16) The basic motor function of the colon is to mix and knead its contents, propel them slowly in the caudad direction, hold them in the distal colon until defecation, and provide a strong propulsive force during defecation.
(17) With prolonged kneading, a large amount of the water-soluble excipients dissolves in the granulating fluid, and these two factors make the drying slower.
(18) ‘Or,’ he continues, ‘I will press the baby to bring the head up.’ He firmly kneads the pregnant belly, slowly encouraging the foetus until: ‘Bingo.
(19) I think of him every time I look at the night sky - we must kneads (what?)
(20) The dissolution characteristics of furosemide are improved in tablets made from the kneaded product.
Pinch
Definition:
(v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
(v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
(v. t.) To plait.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
(v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
(v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
(v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
(v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
(n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
(n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
(n.) Pian; pang.
(n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
Example Sentences:
(1) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
(2) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(3) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
(4) To mimic physiological conditions, synaptosomes, which are pinched off presynaptic nerve termini, were used.
(5) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
(6) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
(7) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(8) Other small endocytic vesicles pinch off from the surface, move deeper into the cytoplasm and fuse with the lateral plasmalemma; their protein content is emptied into the intercellular space by exocytosis.
(9) It is suggested that the optimal way to diagnose microsporidiosis is by light microscopical examination of duodenal pinch biopsy specimens.
(10) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
(11) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.
(12) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
(13) The term "barons" hasn't really had any meaning since the Combination Act of 1799 ; at a pinch 1825 , when the legislation to prevent the activity of unions was passed again, in the Combination of Workmen Act.
(14) A temporary pinching off of the spermatic cord was carried out in 100 male Wistar rats in order to evaluate the effect of a limited period of ischaemia on the testicular parenchyma.
(15) It involved bringing in Kyle Beckerman alongside Jermaine Jones in the base of midfield and asking Jones to pinch in when necessary and get forward when possible.
(16) Neurons were first classified as on-cells if they fired faster during noxious pinch or as off-cells if they fired slower.
(17) The pinch technique has been found to be useful in repairing cosmetic eyelid deformities.
(18) It is proposed that pinch-induced immobility is mediated by both dopaminergic and cholinergic systems.
(19) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
(20) Pharmacological analysis of the involvement of the brain catecholamines in tail-pinch behavior suggests that it is critically dependent on the nigrostriatal dopamine system.