(a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
(n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.
Example Sentences:
(1) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(2) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
(3) The question of the psychogenesis of schizophrenia-like, maniac or depressive psychoses in epileptics until now cannot be answered because the psychosocial patterns which might condition them have not jet been investigated upon.
(4) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
(5) "There is no consistency in the outlook of the Nigerian maniacs: they use weapons produced by the very capitalist system they claim to deplore, for instance.
(6) Similarly the hypermotility of a maniacal type has a smooth and purposeful character, as far as the relation to a particular situation is concerned, which suggests that the respective topological functional structures are preserved.
(7) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
(8) Umar, a childlike 30-year-old from Rebo with a maniacal laugh, was diving for tin in exactly the same manner when his four metre-deep underwater ditch collapsed around him, knocking away his mask and air tube.
(9) The antidepressive effects of SAMe have been evident and statistically highly interesting, precocious, free from collateral effects and maniacal rebounds.
(10) And as for Boris, the other main outer – he’s a cycling maniac from Islington.
(11) If the automatic budget cuts are a brick wall, the Democrats and Republicans are the addled maniacs fighting for control of the wheel as they drive straight for it.
(12) He's a maniac, and he's on first after another base hit - Martinez strolls into third base so that means there are runners at the corners with one out and here's Alex Avila trying to put the Tigers on top early.
(13) 12 min: The two sides of Argentina: they put together a sublime 20-pass move which nearly ends in Sorin being found free in the box with a threaded pass from Veron; then Batistuta slides into Cole like a maniac.
(14) There have been attacks on our Russian and Soviet diplomats, but not something this dramatic.” Kosachev said the repercussions of the killing on Russian-Turkish relations would depend on the details of the incident: “It could have been a planned terrorist attack by extremists or it could be the work of a lone maniac.
(15) Those are the kinds of questions Trayvon Martin had to ultimately defend himself against posthumously, despite the fact the unarmed 17 year-old was killed by a gun wielding maniac (who’d eventually walk away free and later harm women ).
(16) Why do Trump’s supporters have so little faith in America’s freedoms as to think them vulnerable to a few homicidal maniacs, egged on by his friends in the gun lobby?
(17) A couple of years back, Jackie Calmes published research for Harvard’s Kennedy School about the ways in which conservative media’s maniacal “anti-establishment” orientation made it impossible for conservatives to govern.
(18) He said the president was “ maniacally focused ” on fulfilling his campaign promises and predicted a daily fight against the media, airing grievances against what he called the opposition party.
(19) Now, it’s entirely possible that these Republicans are endorsing Clinton because Trump is an unhinged maniac who has given people of all political persuasions plenty of reason to not want him anywhere near the levers of power.
(20) Combined investigation in patients with maniac-depressive psychosis revealed the close relation of depression to the direction in which changes of central and peripheral links of bodily neurohumoral system occur.
Manioc
Definition:
(n.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tucupi is a yellow sauce extracted from a manioc root that must first be boiled to remove the toxins; jambu leaf numbs the lips and tongue and, says Atala, "makes everything taste bigger".
(2) There has been a great interest to supplement manioc flour with proteins.
(3) The main components of the diets were fish, lactose free milk, caseinate, partial hydrolasate of albumin, fermented corn and soya (Soy-Ogi), medium-chain triglycerides, rice and the local foods manioc, peanuts and caterpillars.
(4) The present study was planned to show the nutritive value of a basic diet including rice, beans, manioc flour and other local foods, supplemented with different sources of proteins.
(5) It's a long way from the ruins of Aleppo to the jungle forests of Kaga Bandoro, where half its people are still hiding, barely surviving on roots and the leaves of manioc plants.
(6) Rice, beans and manioc flour are foods eaten daily in Northeast Brazil.
(7) 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).
(8) The nutrition of the population was low in protein, calories being provided mostly by manioc, but no apparent symptoms of malnutrition were observed in the parents of our patients.
(9) The diet of the Amerindians includes as the main carbohydrate staple the manioc cassava, which has also been linked to sensorineural hearing loss in some populations.
(10) Around them all are tents displaying the rich variety of regional produce - manioc and sugar cane from the north-west, apples and milk from the south, honey and nuts from the Amazon.
(11) Today, it no longer stands alone, but it continues to draw purists not only for its beer menu, but its famous grilled chicken, served with farofa (toasted manioc flour) and salad (£16 for two people) and famous coxinhas (£7 for 10).
(12) But now that ants are becoming popular in urban areas they do not hide anymore.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A ‘farofa de iça’, a toasted manioc flour with queen ants’ abdomen.
(13) Toxic (manioc, lathyrism) or deficiency (hypovitaminosis, malabsorption) causes are incriminated.
(14) They had lived there just five months, erecting mud houses and planting manioc.
(15) described a severe goiter endemia due to marked iodine deficiency and high daily intake of manioc as staple food.
(16) Other important risk factors were drinking "chimarrão" (a type of maté), use of a wood stove for cooking, and frequent consumption of charcoal-grilled meat and manioc.
(17) Histopathological changes in rat pancreas were induced by cyclic periods of experimental malnutrition or by cassava (manioc) feeding for 11 weeks.
(18) Our results show that in children who have secondary intestinal malabsorption the use of a partial hydrolysate of lactalbumin and the medium-chain triglycerides is recommended and the substitution of the manioc by rice also.
(19) The purpose of this work was to prepare a manioc leaf protein concentrate introducing some new procedures on the known methods developed by other authors.
(20) They lived in the Ouham region of Centro African Republic where some of the Authors ascertained a severe goiter endemia due to iodine deficiency and manioc consumption as staple food.