What's the difference between loaf and quartern?

Loaf


Definition:

  • (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.

Quartern


Definition:

  • (n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
  • (n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combining the present results with X-ray crystallographic data on the adenine--and guanine--aromatic amino acid interactions, we summarize the structural characteristics observed in the stacking interaction of the N-quarternized nucleic acid base with the aromatic amino acid and discuss their biological implications, especially in connection with the significance of N-protonation of nucleic acid base for selective recognition by protein.
  • (2) In order to investigate the mode of interaction between the N-quarternized cytosine base and the aromatic amino acid, the crystal structure of the 3-methyl-cytidine-5'-monophosphate:tryptamine complex was analyzed by X-ray diffraction.
  • (3) A new antithrombogenic polymer was synthesized by photoinduced graft copolymerization of both a hydrophilic polymer and a cationic polymer to hydrophobic poly (vinyl chloride) copolymer, and by quarternizing and heparinizing the obtained graft copolymer.
  • (4) Starting from metacaine (ethyl m-aminobenzoate), derivatives of different basicity were produced by N-dimethylization, N-quarternization and by preparing a corresponding aliphatic amine.
  • (5) 5-HT3 receptor antagonists competed for [3H]-quipazine binding with high nanomolar affinities in the three preparations and the rank order of affinity was: (S)-zacopride > quarternized ICS 205-930 2 granisetron > ondansetron > ICS 205-209 (R)-zacopride > quipazine > renzapride > MDL-72222 > butanopride > metoclopramide.

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