(v. i.) To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.
(v. i.) To sound with a low, rumbling noise.
(v. t.) To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low voice; as, to mutter threats.
(n.) Repressed or obscure utterance.
Example Sentences:
(1) When accused of muttering it while reciting Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo, during filming of BBC2s Top Gear, he said he had not, that he would absolutely never use "the most racist word of them all".
(2) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
(3) Brownites used to mutter bitterly about their hero for failing to compete with Tony Blair after the death of John Smith.
(4) And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream.
(5) Sampson became the discreet, muttering centre of a web, connected by telephone and letter, telegram and fax, to an astounding cast of world leaders and commentarians, film stars and novelists.
(6) For what it's worth, Labour lost on a whopping great 18% swing to the Tories, yet despite an awful lot of muttering absolutely nothing happened.
(7) True, he has trounced them so thoroughly that any mutterings of future challenges are an empty blast of sour breath.
(8) Two years as a minister is plenty of time to stack up enemies, or at least a few mutterings that you’ve made a hash of the job.
(9) Obviously it should be scoffed down in a box set, like a Supersize V Superskinny obese person's enormo-breakfast, before a period of lying green-faced in a darkened room, listening to experimental jazz, muttering, "Carrie can't let another mistake happen!
(10) "It's going to destroy property prices in this area," muttered one.
(11) As he checks the woman’s heart with a stethoscope, he explains exactly what is about to happen to her – the nurses will hook her up to an EKG machine, among other procedures – and gets the woman to lie down, still muttering at the original nurse but pliable.
(12) "Any politician that claims to you that they're an ordinary person is not telling you the truth," Miliband mutters, half smiling and wincing.
(13) Even the most fervent haters of the BBC can only mutter and mumble when Attenborough productions are mentioned.
(14) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
(15) Not via muttering idiots, but upfront, with an acrid twist.
(16) He’s not just a straight-talker, he’s a man who reliably says the things politicians dream their opponents will be caught muttering within range of forgotten radio-mics – except he declaims them on a podium in front of thousands.
(17) ", seconds before splashing about in the sub-zero Atlantic muttering "bugger".
(18) Bit of muttering about justifying selling one's own grandmother Updated at 1.21pm BST 1.06pm BST As Barb Jacobson, of the European Citizen's initiative for a basic income, puts it, a basic income should be high enough for everyone to have a dignified life in society, and to take part in society.
(19) One woman muttered angrily to her companion: "It is the dumbing down of America."
(20) Some of the mutterings from Threadneedle Street are not the stuff to give the troops."
Peas
Definition:
(pl. ) of Pea
Example Sentences:
(1) The fibre of carrot and cabbage was similarly composed of nearly equal amounts of neutral and acidic polysaccharides, whereas pea-hull fibre had four times as much neutral as acidic polysaccharides.
(2) Treatment of tall peas with the growth retardant AMO-1618 reduces growth and oxidase activity.
(3) An element located between 60 bases and 137 bases upstream from the poly(A) addition sites in a pea rbcS gene was needed for functioning of these sites.
(4) Microsomal membrane preparations from growing regions of etiolated pea stems catalyzed the transfer of [14C]fucosyl units from GDP-[U-14C]-L-fucose into exogenously added xyloglucan acceptors, as well as into endogenous xyloglucan.
(5) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(6) Substitution of para-ethoxyamphetamine (PEA), para-methoxyamphetamine (PMA), or saline produced similar results; in all cases responding decreased substantially.
(7) One type of competitive interaction among rhizobia is that between nonnodulating and nodulating strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum on primitive pea genotypes.
(8) AMPH, TYR, PEA and OCT had qualitatively similar effects on endogenous DA and [3H]DA release.
(9) Positive cDNA clones isolated from both a pea leaf and embryo lambda gt11 expression library using an antibody raised against the purified lipoamide dehydrogenase proved to be the product of a single gene.
(10) The pea lectin disappeared slowlier from the intestinal contents than did the three other radiolabelled proteins (2 h) which gave the highest radioactive materials in the livers.
(11) Several biochemical abnormalities are associated with the deficiency of AP activity, e.g., increased urinary excretion of inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) and phosphoethanolamine (PEA).
(12) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
(13) Mepyramine antagonized the effects of 2-MH, PEA and H, and partially antagonized the depression induced by 4-MH.
(14) In comparing amphetamine-induced stereotypy with PEA-induced stereotypy, we found that the alpha-adrenergic blocking agents phentolamine and phenoxybenzamine selectively antagonize PEA stereotypy, whereas the beta-adrenergic blocking agent propranolol fails to alter significantly stereotypies evoked by PEA or amphetamine administration.
(15) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
(16) Both PMA and PEA had effects on response rate which were similar to those of amphetamine, although PMA had slightly greater rate-decreasing effects than the other two compounds.
(17) The results showed that the pea ctDNA circular dimers consisted of two monomer length units integrated in tandem repeat.
(18) The effects of 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) and L-tyrosine on the efflux of free and conjugated DA, 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and homovanillic acid from slices from striatum in rats were studied under quiescent conditions and during release evoked by 40 mM K+ or by 5 X 10(-5) M phenylethylamine (PEA).
(19) The processes were stimulated in a digital computer (taking pea purée canned in cans 307 x 409 as the product analyzed).
(20) [14C]Fucose-labeled XG nonasaccharide was synthesized by pea fucosyltransferase and shown to be incorporated into polymeric XG in the presence of seed XG-ase without the net production of new reducing chain ends, even while the loss of XG viscosity and XG depolymerization were enhanced.