(n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
(v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
(v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meat loaf systems were also employed to determine the effects of protein additives to meat under actual meat loaf conditions.
(2) 8.04pm BST First challenge for the remaining seven is the tea loaf.
(3) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(4) However when given the choice, they preferred to reduce the weight of a loaf rather than increasing the price.
(5) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
(6) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
(7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
(8) Premier was hit by soaring wheat prices following a Russian export ban and has warned the wheat shortage could raise the price of bread by at least 5p a loaf.
(9) Parkinson says: “Walking up the Sugar Loaf with him was amazing.
(10) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
(11) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
(12) The third major unique property of wheat flour doughs is their ability to set in the oven during baking, and thereby to produce a rigid loaf of bread.
(13) So, from one basic bread dough, you can make the family loaf and have a bit of fun in the kitchen too.
(14) Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively.
(15) Here it’s called pljeskavica and a bun is not a typical bun, but a tiny round loaf of bread called lepinja .
(16) He described how, during the trip back home in the taxi with his wife, he kept on crying.” Fred Ballinger, the composer he plays, loafs around a high-tone Swiss spa hotel with his old pal Mick, a veteran Hollywood film director played by Harvey Keitel , and casts a wearied eye over human frailties – both his own and those of people around him.
(17) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
(18) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
(19) When he was young, his father would leave a loaf for him in the oven.
(20) Researchers have calculated that white medium-sliced bread has a carbon footprint of 1,244g of CO 2 equivalent per loaf.
Nut
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
(n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
(n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
(n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(v. i.) To gather nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(2) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(3) 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.
(4) Boric acid, propionic acid and potassium metabisulphite were used for the control of aflatoxin B1 on betel nuts.
(5) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(6) The effects of addition of ethanol to diets containing rapeseed or ground nut oil on the metabolic conversions of 14 14C erucic and 9-10 3H oleic acid were studied in the rat liver.
(7) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(8) Woodcock said: “The way [Miliband] was trying to appeal to people … was nuts.
(9) Electrophoresis of the piñon nut extract demonstrated 30 bands, three of which (in the 66 to 68,000 dalton range) bound IgE in the patient's serum in an immunoblot.
(10) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(11) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(12) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(13) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
(14) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
(15) Onto one of the harder nuts to crack this season is best foreign film .
(16) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(17) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(18) Toxicological study was carried out in rats with chloroform-soluble fraction of the nuts of Semecarpus anacardium to determine its safe non-toxic dose.
(19) The specificity and cross-reactivity of IgE antibodies to different nut antigens was investigated by RAST inhibition with serums from 5 patients having high levels of IgE antibody.
(20) Fresh fruit and vegetable sales rose by about 5% while fish, poultry and nuts saw similar growth.