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Milk


Definition:

  • (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.

Mill


Definition:

  • (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
  • (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
  • (n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
  • (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
  • (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
  • (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
  • (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
  • (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  • (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  • (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
  • (n.) A pugilistic.
  • (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
  • (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
  • (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
  • (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  • (n.) To beat with the fists.
  • (n.) To roll into bars, as steel.
  • (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (2) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
  • (4) This is a report on a male patient of 71 years of age who had been a graphite mill worker for about 14 years.
  • (5) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
  • (6) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
  • (7) Airborne endotoxin also was estimated in the different work places of the mill.
  • (8) 800,000 U and 1.5 mill U SK recanalized infarct-related arteries at a rate of 78%.
  • (9) A cross-sectional study of 315 animal feed workers was undertaken in 14 animal feed mills in the Netherlands.
  • (10) A study was conducted to estimate the exposure-response relationship for tremolite-actinolite fiber exposure and radiographic findings among 184 men employed at a Montana vermiculite mine and mill.
  • (11) Mills said the operators' maps, which he copied, showed the mark was to be the site of a detonation.
  • (12) Two hundred and seventy-one men seen in 1963, who worked in a pulp and a paper mill, were followed up ten years later, in 1973.
  • (13) No significant changes in respiratory function or bronchial responsiveness related to exposure to hydrogen sulphide in the pulp mill workers were found.
  • (14) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
  • (15) To create a new bank, which we understand is an option, which could be called Glyn Mills, is ridiculously back to the future.
  • (16) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
  • (17) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
  • (18) The concentration of hyaluronan was measured in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of 18 control subjects and 27 workers from the asbestos mills and mines of Québec, 9 without asbestosis and 18 with asbestosis.
  • (19) The erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum from Aotus trivirgatus were grown in Mill Hill medium.
  • (20) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.

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