(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.
Soap
Definition:
(n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not.
(v. t.) To rub or wash over with soap.
(v. t.) To flatter; to wheedle.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
(2) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(3) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(4) Soap is regarded as a cosmetic rather than an agent for removal of microorganisms.
(5) Soap handwash failed to prevent transient colonization in 12 of 12 (100%) experiments; alcohol in 5 of 12 (42%) (risk ratio 2.4, 95% confidence interval 1.2-4.7).
(6) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
(7) As a viewer you really feel for him.” Mental illness is not the only health issue soap operas are approaching from a more understanding angle.
(8) A comparative evaluation of the effects of soaps and detergents on pH behaviour and lipids level on the skin surface and duration of their restitution was carried out.
(10) Moderate maternal toxicity was observed among mice treated with LAS, 0.3% and mild maternal toxicity in rats receiving LAS 3% or soap 30% and rabbits receiving LAS 0.3%.
(11) Although Kazinsky has successfully proved that there is life beyond the UK soaps, he's well aware that landing a Hollywood role is not an instant passport to fame and fortune – or even professional satisfaction.
(12) A variety of soaps, detergents, germicides, and protective gloves are available for use by health care workers.
(13) The move echoes its decision earlier this year to move another soap, Coronation Street, to Sundays to go head to head with the last episode of hit BBC1 drama Call The Midwife .
(14) He initially dreamed of being an actor, studying drama at Sydney and bagging minor roles in Aussie soaps and second-league features.
(15) You say we should consider the matter of the universality of the BBC, but surely the golden thread that runs through the concept of the BBC is that we all pay in and we should all get something out – and that includes my constituents as well as his constituents, those who like opera and those who like soap opera.” Whittingdale replied: “Even if I wanted to close down Strictly Come Dancing, which I don’t, it would be completely wrong for the government to try and decide which programmes the BBC should make and which they shouldn’t.
(16) The BBC will cut short a controversial cot death story in EastEnders that looks set to become the long-running soap's most complained-about plotline to date.
(17) The antibacterial soap also reduced the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus on the skin, mostly by virtually eliminating it from areas other than the axilla.
(18) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
(19) Therapists responded to a questionnaire following the study to assess their attitudes on using the SOAP note.
(20) Thus soaps are sacrosanct, Murderland with Robbie Coltrane is in, but Al Murray's Pub Landlord is definitely out, because it "goes down like a cup of cold sick in Scotland, a cockney landlord shouting at an audience".