(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(3) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(4) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(5) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(6) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(7) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(8) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(9) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(10) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(11) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(12) Leukocytes were isolated by centrifugation from milk collected at postinjection hour 16.
(13) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(14) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(15) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(16) Increasing dietary protein percent raised milk protein percent but not protein yield or yield of other milk components, milk yield, SCM yield, or DM intake.
(17) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(18) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
(19) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(20) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
Milkman
Definition:
(n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Nobel prize-winning author's novel Song of Solomon, which traces the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead, was suspended from and then reinstated to the curriculum at a school in Shelby, Michigan in May following complaints from parents about sexual and violent content.
(2) His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman" - appraising Gary Neville's parentage in 1996.
(3) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(4) The unions themselves are recognizing that the old system is broken and they need to retool and try new strategies and new things, and that’s what the fast food strikes represent,” says Professor Ruth Milkman of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (Cuny), who has co-authored a new report on the progress of the labor movement in New York and the rest of the US.
(5) When Perry was four, she ran off with the milkman (this is why, he tells me, he has always hated cliches) and married him.
(6) [The public] are not going to shout ‘fucking poof’, they’re more likely to say: ‘Oh, it’s Grayson Perry , mate, like on the TV’.” Born in 1960 to a working class family in Chelmsford, the heart of Essex, Perry’s mother ran off with the milkman when he was four.
(7) If you're now picturing Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West then think again, because these cars move pretty fast and this terrific promotional film by British ad agency Dare certainly makes sure we know it.
(8) The authors present the survey of the history, diagnostics and treatment of osteomalacia with special treatment to Looser zone and Milkman syndrome.
(9) We still practise our best writing in greeting cards, and if anyone still has a milkman I presume communication remains by scribbled note (or do you text the milky now?
(10) The authors present the case study of Milkman-Looser syndrome in a 83 years old female patient.
(11) The main symptoms of osteomalacia are: bone pain; muscular weakness (commonly as pelvic girdle myopathy); Looser-Milkman pseudofractures or more often a pattern of generalized demineralization at X-ray.
(12) Similarly, the McCarthy brothers, who invested over £30m in V2, Branson's second music company, lost all their money and, unable even to pay the milkman, faced personal bankruptcy.
(13) The franchisers themselves are tightly squeezed with costs,” says Milkman.
(14) Those who have benefited so far include: Esther McVey (a woman, obviously, and an MP from the Wirral, who has moved up at DWP from disabilities minister to employment minister); Sajid Javid (the Lancashire-born son of a bus driver, who has moved up at the Treasury from economic secretary to financial secretary); Nicky Morgan (the MP for Loughborough in the Midlands who is moving from the whips office to the Treasury); Mike Penning (the former fireman who has become a minister of state at the DWP, having held the same rank at the more obscure Northern Ireland Office); and Greg Clark (the Middlesbrough-born son of a milkman, who moves sides from the Treasury to the Cabinet Office but who will now attend cabinet).
(15) Nonetheless, it frequently surpasses or supplements radiographic findings in evaluating the focal complications of metabolic bone disease, including fractures, microfractures, stress fractures, vertebral compressions, Milkman-Looser zones, aseptic necrosis, and acute infarction.
(16) In every case Worboys, a one-time milkman, backed up his story with a fat wad of cash, on one occasion fanning it out like a quiz show contestant, and his tall tale – which he called his "banter" – about winning a fortune in the lottery, or at a roulette table.
(17) Late that night I put a note out for the milkman asking him to leave bread, butter and eggs, and in the morning our breakfast was waiting on the doorstep.
(18) Today’s strikes are different from previous ones in a number of ways, demonstrating the willingness to innovate, said Milkman.
(19) Pryce understood immediately how lucky she was to have been able to make provision for her family before she received her sentence, leaving cheques, she writes, "for the pest control man, the milkman and generally for ensuring that the house and my children who lived there would survive my absence, at least financially".
(20) And the numbers are still small – around 24% in both New York state and New York City – but the turnaround of the “relentless decline” is significant, suggested Milkman.