(n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with diabetes mellitus, the duration of wound treatment in use of the millet oil reduced by 16 days when compared to that in using the sea-buckthorn oil.
(2) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(3) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
(4) The antibodies were tested against whole wheat gliadin and its alpha, beta, gamma, and omega subfractions, and the prolamins of rye, barley, oats, maize, millet, rice, and sorghum.
(5) F. napiforme and F. nygamai also may be important because of their association with the food grains millet and sorghum.
(6) Hays offered included two sorghum-sudan, four barley, four oat and two pearl millet.
(7) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
(8) Staple foodstuffs with a high buffer content (unmilled rice, unrefined wheat and a millet [ragi]) placed in the stomach after pyloric ligation are also protective, but those with a low buffer content (milled rice, tapioca, sorghum and maize) are not protective.
(9) The conventional wisdom is that trees compete with crops, but FMNR has increased millet harvests from 430kg to 750kg a hectare, according to World Vision, which supports 39,000 hectares (96,000 acres) of FMNR in Kaffrine.
(10) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
(11) A replicated 4 x 4 Latin square digestion trial was conducted to determine apparent nutrient digestibilities and N and energy balances for soft red winter wheat, Beagle 82 triticale, Florico triticale, and pearl millet using finishing pigs fitted with ileal T-cannulas.
(12) Another new nitrosamine, N-2-methylpropyl-N-methylacetonyl nitrosamine, was isolated in millet and wheat flour after similar treatment.
(13) It found they have lost much of their harvested crops of rice, maize, wheat and millet, and seeds for future planting, which are now buried under collapsed homes.
(14) Cross-reactivity between rice, wheat, corn, Japanese millet and Italian millet in Poaceae family were studied by absorption test, radioallergosorbent test (RAST), and RAST inhibition assay.
(15) Daily gains of steers were similar with both forages except in 1975 when those fed on pearl millet grew 19 per cent faster than those on Guinea grass.
(16) Accelerated natural lactic fermentation in mixtures of water and ground sorghum, millet and pigeon pea was obtained by gradual selection of lactic acid bacteria, through inoculum recycling.
(17) The author visited China in 1981 and 1984 and obtained data comparing the incidence of duodenal ulcer in the rice eating districts of the south with the incidence in the wheat, maize and millet eating areas of the north.
(18) Chemical nature and biological activity of miliacine that is contained in millet oil have been studied.
(19) Mixed culture fermentation of pearl millet flour with Saccharomyces diastaticus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus fermentum brought about an improvement in its biological utilisation in rats.
(20) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.
Ottoman
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.
(n.) A Turk.
(n.) A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.
Example Sentences:
(1) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(2) [Note: This is a reference to the end of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924].
(3) One was of Isa Boljetini, an Albanian nationalist who led uprisings against the Ottomans and the Serbs in 1912 and 1913.
(4) Viper #149 was inoculated orally by stomach tube with 5.0 X 10(4) sporulated oocysts of C. simplex obtained from the feces of an Ottoman viper, V. x. xanthina and began passing unsporulated oocysts of C. simplex 121 days post-inoculation (DPI).
(5) The country’s post-Soviet history has been defined by two diplomatic disputes with its neighbours: a quest to get Turkey to agree that the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during the late Ottoman era constituted genocide; and the search for a political settlement to a conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory .
(6) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
(7) Split into four geographic locations, in Iraq's north, eastern Syria, south-eastern Turkey and western Iran, the Kurds' quest for statehood has remained elusive ever since the Ottoman empire was carved up almost a century ago.
(8) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
(9) On one side are the Kurds , an ethnic group which missed out on a homeland when the Ottoman Empire was divided up at the end of the first world war.
(10) The coast of western Asia is less than 100 miles away and these strategically located rocks have been fought over for centuries – by the Crusaders, the Ottomans, the British and the Germans, among others.
(11) But its history is violent, from the bridge's beginnings in 1571 under Ottoman rulers, with saboteurs put to death horribly right on this spot, through Austro-Hungarian takeover and two world wars.
(12) A few nights before the evacuation, I drank hot chocolate topped with cream with a Libyan photographer friend at a city-centre cafe nicknamed The Clock after a nearby handsome clock tower, presented to the city long ago by an Ottoman pasha.
(13) He defended the reconstruction of the Ottoman barracks as a matter of "respecting history".
(14) It was a disappointing moment for Turks to learn that the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to approve a resolution describing the massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the first world war as genocide.
(15) Elgin was British ambassador to the Ottoman empire, of which Athens had been a part for 350 years.
(16) • The US administration doubts the Turkish government's dependability as an ally , describing it as having little understanding of the outside world and its foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu's "neo-Ottoman visions" as exceptionally dangerous.
(17) • +30 22740 22045 Don’t miss Chios made its fortune from the harvesting of mastic, a tree resin once chewed in the harems of Ottoman Istanbul.
(18) The basilica was turned into an imperial mosque under the Ottomans when they conquered the city in 1453, and converted into a museum after the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923.
(19) It was left to Erdoğan’s wife, Emine, however, to make this a stand-out International Women’s Day, by describing the old-style Ottoman harem as “an educational establishment for preparing women for life”.
(20) Russia was hugely powerful, had defeated the Ottoman empire in a dozen wars, but had also played a decisive part in protecting the new Turkish republic.