(superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
(superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
(superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
(superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
(superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
(v. t.) To make mellow.
(v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, these somewhat mellow headlines mask a year of considerable underlying progress for Mr Clarke and Tesco to our minds.
(2) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
(3) I think after those 60 seconds of mellow, we're safely back in Manic mode now.
(4) I hope that with this court ruling China will start to mellow and south-east Asian countries won’t have to live in fear of them anymore.
(5) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
(6) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(7) In the film , we meet a considerably mellower grade of psychopath.
(8) We have obtained expression of the beta-N-acetylglucosamine-binding receptor from chicken hepatocytes in Xenopus oocytes by injecting mRNA synthesized in vitro from a full length cDNA cloned into an expression vector (Mellow et al: J. Biol Chem 263: 5468-5473, 1988).
(9) You don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't see life in a more glowing way.
(10) The 34-year-old CSKA Moscow midfielder may have mellowed off the pitch but on it his will to win remains as strong as ever, as England can expect to discover when the teams meet in Marseille on Saturday night.
(11) The track I’d play at sunset in Ibiza Medina: You And I I always drop this song when I want to mellow out the crowd yet still have them engaged in the melody, as the lyrics are so simple yet effective.
(12) Mellow Birds The British brand brought instant coffee to a tea-drinking nation in the 1970s.
(13) Either mellow or frenetic masking music was played for half the students in each group.
(14) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
(15) Whether these hard times will mellow his external ambitions or fuel further revanchist adventurism is now a key question.
(16) Attitudes toward him have mellowed to the point that well-known Vietnam draft dodger Bill Clinton, in reviewing Caro's latest volume in the New York Times , could write that he found plenty to admire in LBJ and never hated him the way that many of his generation did.
(17) At times he talks with a soft, cooing seduction, mellow in voice and avuncular in manner.
(18) By turn mellow and electrifying, it channels funk's rawness and the warmth of house music into what at first glance appears to be pop, but is actually much more fluid.
(19) "I'm like, fine, take it, let's get it over with," he remembers, his mellow, late-night radio voice at odds with his imposing physique.
(20) And finally we had an appearance by the eminent Lord Grabiner QC on behalf of the Liverpool board, who eased to his feet and held forth in a voice that was smooth, mellow, unhurried and as finely textured as particularly well-aged pipe tobacco.
Rich
Definition:
(superl.) Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.
(superl.) Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.
(superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.
(superl.) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.
(superl.) Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.
(superl.) Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.
(superl.) Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.
(superl.) Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.
(superl.) Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.
(v. t.) To enrich.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(2) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(3) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(4) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(8) 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.
(9) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(10) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
(11) At constant arterial pO2, changes in coronary flow were associated with changes in energy-rich phosphates, but not systematically with changes in coronary venous pO2.
(12) To understand the reason for the opposite effect of the molar ratio observed at the middle of and at four residues away from the lysine-rich sequence, actual cross-linked residue(s) was (were) determined by subjecting cross-linked product to a protein sequencer.
(13) The diet increased the formation of a cholesterol-rich very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), decreased high density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated cholesterol and phospholipids, but had virtually no effect on low density lipoprotein (LDL)-lipids.
(14) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(15) The slow alpha-lipoprotein was distributed in the range of densities between low density and high density lipoproteins and was rich in apoprotein E. This abnormal lipoprotein of PBC was observed in those in Stages II and III but not in those in Stage I.
(16) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(17) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(18) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(19) In the perfused rat liver, ursodeoxycholate in high dose produces an HCO3- -rich hypercholeresis which we have shown previously to be inhibited by replacement of perfusate Na+ with Li+ or by addition of amiloride (or amiloride analogues).
(20) B cells from both sources gained immediate access to extrafollicular areas of secondary lymphoid organs rich in interdigitating cells and T cells.