(n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
(n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
(n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
(v. t.) To supply with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(2) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(3) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(4) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
(5) At temperatures greater than 150 degrees C the mutagenic activity of the cooked meat increased to reach a maximum at 300 degrees C. In another series of experiments, lamb patties were cooked at 250 degrees C for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min.
(6) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(7) Maillard reactions occurring during meat extract production was followed in order to reduce the formation of heterocyclic amines.
(8) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(9) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(10) 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.
(11) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(12) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(13) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(14) The seasonal rhythm in hypothalamo-hypophyseal-adrenal function was studied in 3-week-old, meat-hybrid chickens, bred under standard conditions, CRF content in the median eminence and ACTH content in the adenohypophysis showed the maximum in February, the minimum in August, to return practically to the February level by November.
(15) Eggs and chicken meat were prepared by administering 67Zn intravenously to chickens, and human milk was collected after an oral dose of 67Zn in a cola drink.
(16) In addition, livestock-rearing can use up to 200 times more water a kilogram of meat compared to a kilo of grain.
(17) We examined AMT with regard to (1) its papain activity; (2) its ability to digest meat cubes in vitro; and (3) its effect on rabbit esophageal mucosa.
(18) Sixty-four subjects were pair-matched for sex, age, weight and sitting systolic blood pressure, and were randomly allocated to receive one of two types of protein supplement: one containing proteins from meat, the other proteins from non-meat sources.
(19) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(20) The overall failure rate for meat in 2013 in local authority testing held by the FSA was 13.5%, it said.
Melt
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Milt.
(v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
(v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
(v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
(v. i.) To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
(v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
(v. i.) To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
(v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(2) The melting profile exhibited two transitions--one at about 35 degrees C and one above 50 degrees C. Our spectral data showed that helices I and II were stable during the first transition, and agreed with other data that helix III was the most likely helix to have melted.
(3) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
(4) However, significant differences in the formation and melting of the highly crystalline phase were evident between the two polar headgroup stereoisomers.
(5) The second step (50 degrees-54 degrees) involves the melting of the anticodon and miniloop regions.
(6) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
(7) The hybrids formed by the rapidly reacting fractions of both NRNA and mRNA melt over a narrow temperature range with a midpoint about 11 degrees C below that of native L cell DNA.
(8) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(9) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(10) About half of Greenland's surface ice sheet melts during a typical summer, but Zwally said he and other scientists had been recording an acceleration of that melting process over the last few decades.
(11) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(12) The decrease in melting temperature in DNA samples modified by N-AcO-AAF(DNA-AAF) was carefully reinvestigated.
(13) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
(14) Both proteins are able to protect DNA against thermal denaturation, but the differences observed in the melting profiles suggest that they interact by different mechanisms.
(15) To measure the degree of wetting of the metallic phases, silver, tin, and copper were melted in such proportions as to give specimens of silver, tin, the alpha, beta, and gamma silver-tin phases, the eutectic in the silver-copper system.
(16) In contrast to the helix-destabilizing and distortive modifications of DNA caused by ultraviolet light or N-acetoxy-2-(acetylamino)fluorene, CC-1065 increases the melting point of DNA and decreases the S1 nuclease activity.
(17) The unsaturated drug-DNA complex melts through complex thermal transitions with one broad endotherm in the same temperature region as free DNA and the other at a higher temperature which is rf (mol ligand per mol DNA in base pairs) value dependent.
(18) Melting profiles of normal, hybrid, and double heavy DNA indicated a structural change of the double heavy DNA.
(19) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(20) The mutation in pro alpha 2(I) causes increased posttranslational modification in the amino-terminal half of some pro alpha 1(I) chains, lowers the melting temperature of type I collagen molecules that incorporate a mutant pro alpha 2(I) chain, and prevents or delays the secretion of those molecules from fibroblasts in cell culture.