(n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
(n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.
(n.) A sort of droll or fool.
(n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.
(n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
Example Sentences:
(1) The macaroni became slightly dark in color with increasing additions of FPC.
(2) Barbara Mikulski said Clinton would fight for “macaroni and cheese” issues, boasting again of her taste for down-to-earth food.
(3) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(4) Studied were the possibilities of inducing iron deficiency anemia in young rats through feeding with cow milk and macaroni having no eggs.
(5) Interconnection between the number of pathogenic staphylococci and the presence of enterotoxin in cooked macaroni products was studied.
(6) Rice and peas, macaroni cheese, homemade coleslaw and curried goat, so legendary have the dinners become that TV producers have even approached the family about making a reality show.
(7) Use of dimethyl sulfoxide to solubilize starch, or elevated temperature to extract S components, had no effect on the distribution of DF between S and I fractions of peas and macaroni.
(8) When Kraft went public, in 2001, it gave investors big baskets of Kraft foods like Oreos and macaroni and cheese.
(9) Eight healthy male volunteers ate four test meals on consecutive mornings and in random order; the meals were 50 g carbohydrate taken as a 20% glucose solution or as boiled macaroni with and without supplementation with 6 g salt.
(10) The authors determined (in vitro) the amino-acid composition and the enzymatic cleavage of protein and starch as well as (in vivo) the biological value of synthetic macaroni produced on the basis of casein, soybean protein and cotton-seed protein.
(11) Foods were distributed into: Group A (the least perishable goods: sugar, beans, rice, oil, salt), Group B (moderately perishable goods: biscuits, chocolate, manioc flour, corn, meal, dried skim milk, macaroni, sugar-cane syrup, canned sardines, ground corn) and Group C (the most perishable goods: dried and salted fish and meat).
(12) Macaroni penguins do not breed until 6-8 years of age whereas gentoo penguins first breed at 2 years of age.
(13) In macaroni penguins plasma levels of all hormones, except LH in males, were significantly elevated at the time of arrival at the breeding colony.
(14) Technical modifications that have helped to reduce the morbidity after IT in rats include 1) minimizing mechanical and ischemic injuries to grafts during the donor procedure, 2) marking the portal vein and aortic conduit with sutures to ensure correct orientation of the graft, 3) using a macaroni noodle to stent the intestinal anastomosis, and 4) administering large volumes of crystalloid to maintain a normal blood pressure during the donor and recipient surgeries.
(15) Each of 15 nonobese healthy women received no wafers and four different amounts (39, 104, 169, and 234 kcal) of the fiber wafer with water, in a ratio of 13 kcal (and 0.565 g psyllium) wafer per 41.67 g water, 30 minutes prior to a test meal of macaroni and beef, on nonconsecutive days.
(16) Weanling Wistar rats were used in the biological assay to measure the macaroni protein quality at the different supplementation levels.
(17) Some individual 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old macaroni penguins had circulating testosterone levels within the range of peak values in adults, suggesting that in males, gonads were physiologically mature several years in advance of the age of first breeding.
(18) The biological value of synthetic macaroni is mainly determined by the composition of the initial mixture.
(19) Following copulation, plasma levels of LH, testosterone, and estradiol decreased to basal levels in both sexes and species and, except for a transient increase in testosterone in male macaroni penguins, remained low through to the end of molt.
(20) At the end of the fourth week of the experiment some rats showed a slight difference in the growth curve, specially the animals fed macaroni without lysine.
Pipe
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
(n.) The key or sound of the voice.
(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.
(n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(2) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(3) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(4) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(6) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
(7) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
(8) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(9) Vibratome sectons are incubated at 37 degrees C for 60 min in 0.1 M Pipes buffer, pH 7.8, containing 3 mM cerium chloride and 0.1 mM sodium urate.
(10) Women smokers, cigar, and pipe smokers also face an increased risk for lung cancer.
(11) While studying forced inhale the diaphragms were set up at Fleish pipe airflow input.
(12) In addition, the risk of lung cancer associated with other methods of tobacco consumption--in particular, the use of bamboo water-pipes and long-stem pipes--is uncertain.
(13) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
(14) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
(15) The in vitro binding properties of 1-(cyclopropylmethyl)-4-(2'-(4''-fluorophenyl)-2'-oxoethyl)pipe ridi ne HBr, [3H]DuP 734, a novel sigma receptor ligand, were examined in homogenates of guinea pig brain.
(16) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
(17) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
(18) One company will effectively control the only data pipe going into a near majority of American homes, whether that’s internet TV or phones,” Stoltz said.
(19) Radical species are formed from the piperazine ring-based buffers Hepes (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid), Epps 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazinepropanesulfonic acid, and Pipes 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid, but not from Mes (4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid) which contains a morpholine ring.
(20) "Two guys came and spent several hours tracking down the cause, which turned out to be a blocked pipe.