(n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.
(n.) A thin strip of dough, made with eggs, rolled up, cut into small pieces, and used in soup.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(2) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(3) There's a temptation to supplement that with Pot Noodles.
(4) The buyer, Monde Nissin – best known for its instant noodles – tabled its winning bid after Quorn Foods had enjoyed its best-ever six months, with sales rising by 7% across the 23 countries where its products are sold.
(5) In the middle of the afternoon its few occupants – a noodle joint, a coffee shop, a Japanese restaurant advertising “suisi”– are padlocked.
(6) The owner hauled out said blender and then, from the back of the cupboard, a beaten up old colander with a stray piece of noodle still stuck to the rim.
(7) Our office bearer has a hi-fi in that studio office and is as likely to be playing the new 45 from the hardcore band Leather or electro drone by Tim Hecker as he is to be playing a deep cut of Cincinnati soul or handbag disco or improv guitar noodlings, whether newly released from Oren Ambarchi or 30 years old from the Takoma label.
(8) Five were prepared with a potato and wheat base (noodle) and the sixth with a quinua-oats base.
(9) Quorn was recently bought for £550m by a Philippines noodle firm and has plans for global expansion.
(10) But now they do and they want rice, noodles, candies, Coke, they want everything!"
(11) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
(12) 3 Rehydrate the noodles by soaking in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
(13) All the deceased ate the noodles from one supplier.
(14) The Red Cross warns that the city faces a "potential humanitarian crisis" of water and mosquito-borne illnesses, and many shops have run out of essentials like bottled water, eggs and instant noodles.
(15) In a nearby shopping district, protesters broke windows at about 10 Japanese-style noodle shops and bars - many of them Chinese-owned.
(16) West Africa’s new convenience food is Chinese instant noodles , not fish and chips, and the supermarkets that sell them are South African-owned.
(17) Toss the noodles through the sauce, scatter with sesame and spring onions.
(18) An increase in EC risk was seen for consumption of millet soup with noodles, and also with certain sociopsychological factors, in both areas.
(19) A minute ago, there was only a fruit salad, a watermelon, and some pre-cooked rice noodles, only modestly reduced from £1.20 to 71p.
(20) We head off to the Wagamama noodle bar, which is so loud we can hardly hear each other.
Opal
Definition:
(n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several suppressors (suhD) that can specifically suppress the temperature-sensitive opal rpoH11 mutation of Escherichia coli K-12 have been isolated and characterized.
(2) Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to generate amber, ochre and opal suppressors from cloned Arabidopsis and Nicotiana tRNA(Tyr) genes.
(3) The presence of 5' homologies flanking only the transcribed genes and not the pseudogenes suggests that these regions may be regulatory control elements specifically involved in the expression of the eukaryotic opal suppressor gene.
(4) The nonsense mutants of S. pombe have been classified according to their suppressibility by defined opal and ochre suppressors into a class of efficiently suppressed opal and a class of inefficiency suppressed ochre mutants.
(5) The opal suppressor form shows moderate suppressor activity when the gene is introduced on this vector, however, the ochre suppressor form exhibits no detectable biological activity regardless of gene copy number.
(6) The rabbit genome encodes an opal suppressor tRNA gene.
(7) Using such an assay, we provide the first direct evidence that an opal suppressor tRNA gene is functional in mammalian cells.
(8) The growth patterns of nonsense mutants of RNA (GA and f2) and DNA (lambda and T4) phages suggested that KO1 carried an amber, but not ochre or opal suppressors.
(9) Opal suppressor tRNA did not accept any selenocysteine and phosphoseryl-tRNA did not change to selenocysteyl-tRNA.
(10) We report here the construction of a detailed genetic and physical map of these genes, the neighboring gene 4 and a portion of gene 10, in which 289 conditional lethal amber, opal, temperature sensitive and cold sensitive mutations are mapped into 44 small (several hundred base pair) intervals of known sequence.
(11) More than half a million people have joined the Open Air Laboratories (Opal) citizen science project, designed to get people outdoors and involved in scientific research, since its launch in 2007.
(12) We studied the above mechanisms using opal suppressor tRNA in mammals.
(13) Two mutations, Cys-318 to an opal termination codon and Cys-319 to Ser-319, were created in vitro and substituted in the chromosome in place of the normal RAS2 allele.
(14) The important role of G73 in tryptophan identity was confirmed using mutants of an opal suppressor derivative of tRNA(Trp).
(15) This study has been undertaken in order to elucidate the mechanisms of incorporation of Se into glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx), in which selenocysteine corresponds to the opal termination codon UGA on the mRNA.
(16) An opal suppressor of tRNA(Gln) (su+2UGA) containing C35 (anticodon UCA) was isolated by genetic selection and mutagenesis.
(17) A proposal of the role of animal opal suppressor phosphoseryl (Ps)-tRNA is that Ps-tRNA plays a role as an intermediate in the metabolic pathway from 3-phosphoglycerate to glycine.
(18) Suppressor [32P]phosphoseryl-tRNA, prepared using bovine seryl-tRNA synthetase and ATP:seryl-tRNA phosphotransferase, was mixed with rabbit reticulocyte lysates containing endogenous hemoglobin mRNA having the termination codon UGA (opal).
(19) OPAL concept (Old People With Active Life styles) recommends an individualized establishment of therapy instead of standard techniques to try the minimal trouble to a good quality of life for the patient.
(20) "It is so well understood, so embedded in the psyche, that people make jokes about Opal Fruits and Jammy Dodgers being one of your five a day.