(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.
Think
Definition:
(v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
(v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
(v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
(v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
(v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
(v. t.) To presume; to venture.
(v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
(v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
(v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(3) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(4) I think part of it is you can either go places where that's bound to happen.
(5) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
(6) Well I think [that’s] because we’ve made changes in the game,” said Goodell.
(7) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
(8) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(9) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(10) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
(11) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(12) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(13) This new way of thinking is reflected in the 1992 AAMR definition of what mental retardation is (Luckasson et al., 1992).
(14) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
(15) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(16) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(17) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(18) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
(19) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(20) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.