(n.) A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has been feeding the press morsel by juicy morsel to keep the story alive, and the fear within the PP is not only that he has more information but that he is holding back the most damning evidence.
(2) Roy Jenkins, the Chancellor, was desperate for some reassuring morsel to feed the bankers hungrily circling the floundering pound.
(3) These 12-peso morsels are pure corazón Mexicano (heart of Mexico).
(4) It was found in the first experiment that monkeys with total removal of the inferotemporal visual area (TIT monkeys) showed a significant elevation of the discrimination limen for visual patterns of reduced sizes even when compared to monkeys with removal of lateral striate cortex (LS monkeys); yet in a food-morsel (raisin) detection test the TIT monkeys performed as well as normal monkeys, although the LS monkeys showed significant deficits.
(5) The removed femoral head is morselized in the bone mill and packed into the prepared femoral canal to enhance a tight fit.
(6) These were combined with four different bone augmentation constructs, using nonstructural morselized fresh-frozen allograft or segmental freeze-dried allograft.
(7) Demineralization increased with increasing sucrose content of the cookies and reached a plateau when cookies containing 1.08 g sucrose per morsel were administered.
(8) As Hazan notes, the Italians like to describe such dishes as "un bocone da cardinale", or a "morsel for a cardinal".
(9) Here is a list of 10 morsels that, I hope, give a taste of the pleasures to be had.
(10) Customers from all walks of life happily devour their succulent char-roasted morsels of goodness, while downing ice-cold beer or horchata , a milky-looking drink made from rice.
(11) On many occasions bulk graft requires conversion to cancellous morselized graft to fill defects.
(12) The results of eighteen acetabular reconstructions in which a bipolar prosthesis and morseled bone grafts were used for a major acetabular defect were evaluated.
(13) The papers also show how MI5 appeared to seek a trade of information about Libyan dissidents in London for morsels of intelligence gleaned from Tripoli – despite Libya's reputation for torturing prisoners.
(14) Javier Gomez sucks the last morsels of meat from the leg bone of an agouti , a large Amazonian rodent, his creased face belying his 44 years.
(15) Worse for Tsvangirai, there is at least a morsel of truth in the accusations against him.
(16) Van Gaal's press conference here, after a training session with his Netherlands-based players in the hotel grounds, was a breezy affair but when questioned about United he offered only the odd morsel in response.
(17) Newly formed bone was observed in the marrow spaces and along the morselized autograft bone chips, which had been surgically placed in the medullary canal at the time of implantation.
(18) Clearly, the greatest thing on TV right now is Channel 4's Homeland ( Sun, 9pm ), a strong acquisition, currently being fed to the UK in measly weekly ad-filled 45-minute morsels.
(19) One-hundred percent morselized HA-TCP, a 50:50 mixture of morselized HA-TCP, and autogenous cancellous bone, and 100% autogenous cancellous bone were used to bridge 2.5-cm defects in the left ulnae of three groups of six dogs each.
(20) In return for surrendering their country – the essence of Aboriginality – communities will receive morsels of rent, which the government will take from Indigenous mining royalties.
Titbit
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tidbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(2) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
(3) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
(4) Fans have become used to titbits about upcoming films being leaked at conventions such as D23 and San Diego's annual Comic Con, though it is rare for Hollywood executives to be booed for failing to come up with the goods.
(5) Listen to the audience Marvel’s imminent big announcement will potentially bring with it even more release dates, and given the recent Spider-Man news , maybe some crossover titbits as well.
(6) The gallery is filled with interesting and sometimes important titbits, but there is little acknowledgment of climate change’s “evil twin”, ocean acidification, nor of the millions of human respiratory casualties caused each year by the combustion of all fossil fuels, nor of the urgent need to couple cessation of carbon extraction with the establishment of clean feasible alternatives, notably, but not exclusively, sun, wind and hydrogen.
(7) But she offers a few titbits pointing to a radical youth.
(8) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(9) Cross-examined by White, she denied a suggestion that she had been in the past, a "habitual serial seller of titbits to the press".
(10) THE (NOT SO) MYSTERIOUS BRISTOL DOWNS LEAGUE "A friend recently hit me with the trivia titbit that Bristol are the city represented at the most levels of the English league system, by virtue of something called the Bristol Downs League, that sits below all other regional leagues," wrote David Whale before Christmas.
(11) He sings along to Arthur Askey's The Christening , which turns into the Beatles' Paperback Writer , and constantly feeds us useless titbits – who knew that David Bowie shaved off his eyebrows because he was so upset that Mott The Hoople wouldn't record a cover of Drive In Saturday , or that in Jamaica Jim Reeves is more of a hero than Bob Marley ?
(12) Her communist sympathies have been fanned almost to the point of fanaticism owing to her upbringing in Rhodesia MI5 continued to monitor Lessing’s movements, speeches and writing, and eagerly passed titbits on to the South African police.
(13) His Yves Saint Laurent first collection was shown to buyers in June, but the rest of us have had to be content with titbits.
(14) William Clark, the diplomatic correspondent, brought titbits from embassy dinners, high tables or episcopal gatherings.
(15) Sampson grasped his opportunity and turned the paper's gossip column into a dazzling showcase of insider titbits.
(16) 2.07pm BST Chelsea team titbits: Frank Lampard, who has been ill this week, and John Terry haven't travelled to Cardiff, Sky Sports News reports.
(17) Cooper says: • Mario Draghi’s Grand Plan: BGC’s ECB watcher, Broker Kevin, fears that only “titbits” will be offered this Thursday and that the challenges of getting an agreement means that we will have to wait longer for the final Grand Plan.
(18) Inspectors have gone round schools asking teachers whether they are homophobes and telling others their school will fail inspection because they're not teaching "anti-terrorism", while Gove's media allies have been fed inflammatory titbits to justify the campaign.
(19) The low protein intake was due to a poor intake of energy as well as a high consumption of refreshing drinks and titbits, both a little nourishment.
(20) "A friend recently hit me with the trivia titbit that Bristol are the city represented at the most levels of the English league system, by virtue of something called the Bristol Downs League, that sits below all other regional leagues," writes David Whale.