(1) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(2) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(3) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(4) Boric acid, propionic acid and potassium metabisulphite were used for the control of aflatoxin B1 on betel nuts.
(5) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(6) The effects of addition of ethanol to diets containing rapeseed or ground nut oil on the metabolic conversions of 14 14C erucic and 9-10 3H oleic acid were studied in the rat liver.
(7) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(8) Woodcock said: “The way [Miliband] was trying to appeal to people … was nuts.
(9) Electrophoresis of the piñon nut extract demonstrated 30 bands, three of which (in the 66 to 68,000 dalton range) bound IgE in the patient's serum in an immunoblot.
(10) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(11) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(12) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(13) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
(14) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
(15) Onto one of the harder nuts to crack this season is best foreign film .
(16) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(17) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(18) Toxicological study was carried out in rats with chloroform-soluble fraction of the nuts of Semecarpus anacardium to determine its safe non-toxic dose.
(19) The specificity and cross-reactivity of IgE antibodies to different nut antigens was investigated by RAST inhibition with serums from 5 patients having high levels of IgE antibody.
(20) Fresh fruit and vegetable sales rose by about 5% while fish, poultry and nuts saw similar growth.
Rack
Definition:
(n.) Same as Arrack.
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
(n.) A wreck; destruction.
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
(n.) A fast amble.
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.
(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
(a.) A distaff.
(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.
(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 250 borrowers contacted the Guardian to tell us how and why they borrowed and how their debts racked up.
(2) When the two sides played here 77 days earlier Stoke had racked up a 5-0 lead by half-time, the first time that had happened to Liverpool since 1976, but this time Hughes’s attackers had no delicacy around the penalty area.
(3) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(4) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(5) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(6) Against small diurnal fluctuations, stable vertical gradients (about 1 degree C between tops and bottoms of racks) were observed among one hour averages of room air temperatures.
(7) TfL has tried to minimise congestion by issuing permits for roadworks but said it had encountered a “repeat offender” in BT, which has racked up thousands of pounds in fines.
(8) The prospect of further demonstrations and strikes has raised fears of social unrest in a country that has been racked by street violence for the past 18 months.
(9) The second biggest YouTube channel in July 2014 was DisneyCollector, with its collection of toy-unboxing videos racking up 268m views in the month, putting it ahead of musician Shakira’s 226.6m views.
(10) Contact time (in seconds) to a circular metal rack positioned in the center of the animal activity monitor was also recorded as goal-directed exploratory activity.
(11) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(12) Removal of a cage from the rack and getting out a rat caused increase in plasma concentrations of corticosterone in its remaining cage mates.
(13) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
(14) Adoboli racked up the giant losses undetected through three means, Wass said.
(15) Certain smears, such as from semen or from serous fluids where malignancy is suspected or known, must be stained on separate racks.
(16) That enthusiasm for elegant, understated clothing and bags has paid off, as Prada has bucked the downturn to open stores around the world – 63 in the year to last September – and rack up €409m (£352m) in profit in the first three quarters of 2012, a huge rise of 50% year on year, boosted by an increase of 41% in Asian sales.
(17) At any other moment, Chilcot would have been the all-consuming subject of national debate for days or even weeks, with Blair on the rack.
(18) Over the next few years, he racked up a series of successful expeditions to peaks in the Himalayas and elsewhere, including in 1983 the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna II, just shy of 8,000m.
(19) Utensil drying racks were found in 56.0% of the households.
(20) A film based on a smutty book that now litters the racks of every last charity shop.