(n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
Example Sentences:
(1) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
(2) This astrocyte precursor labels with the monoclonal antibody A2B5, is highly migratory, proliferates in response to serum and platelet-derived growth factor, and differentiates into process-bearing astrocytes, many of which subsequently assume a "pancake"-shaped morphology.
(3) The Scottish argue that it was they who introduced the risen pancake (known north of the border as drop scones) to the Americas.
(4) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
(5) Now place a tablespoon of pani pol into the pancake, and roll it up, folding in the sides.
(6) "They are like a series of interconnected pancakes," said Casey Walther, a water expert who was a consultant with Unesco on the project, and now works with Gachet.
(7) They are part of a family of Irish potato breads and pancakes which include boxty, potato fadge and stampy.
(8) When it comes to cooking okonomiyaki, there are two styles – "Hiroshima style", where the plain pancake is grilled, then topped with the chosen cooked ingredients, or "Osaka style", where all the ingredients are mixed into the batter, then cooked more like a frittata.
(9) Most Malaysians buy their popiah skins ready-made, but it's perfectly acceptable for home cooks to use an egg-based pancake mixture.
(10) Two subtypes of astrocytes, pancake and stellate, were differentiated morphologically.
(11) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(12) Buildings are battered and pockmarked or floors pancaked on top of each other.
(13) I was one of the session musicians and when I got to the studio a pasty, 98lb, orange-haired man covered in white pancake makeup came through the door.
(14) To make the pancakes, use a non-stick pan or cured cast-iron pan, and lightly apply some vegetable oil to the pan with a tissue.
(15) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
(16) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
(17) When it comes to the all-important flipping stage, Lanlard tends to lose his nerve: he uses a palette knife instead, thereby forfeiting his chance to make a wish when the airborne pancake is caught in the pan.
(18) The result is a decadent pancake that has the syrupy sweetness associated with gulab jamun , jangiri and other Indian sweets.
(19) Okonomiyaki – Japanese vegetable pancakes Okonomiyaki stands for "as you like it" – perfect for Shrove Tuesday when you could change that to "whatever you have" if you want to follow tradition and use up your stocks.
(20) Whole wheat breads, pumpernickel bread, and pancakes from mix constituted a grain subgroup with highest nutrient content, lowest cholesterol and sugar, lower fat, and higher sodium.
Prop
Definition:
(n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.
(v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.
(v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) The calcium channel blockers 'DMDP' [N-3,4-dimethoxyphenethyl)-N-methyl-2-(2-naphthyl-m-dithane-2-prop ylamine)] and verapamil inhibited the active efflux of adriamycin from adriamycin-resistant P388 leukemia cells but had no effect on the drug-sensitive cell line.
(2) Moscovici added that France wants the summit to set up a eurozone banking union, which would take on responsibility for propping up failing banks and guarantee depositors' savings across the 17 countries.
(3) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
(4) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
(5) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
(6) 15 human tumour cell lines (lung, breast and colon) have been evaluated for their sensitivity to the quinone based anti-cancer drugs Mitomycin C, Porfiromycin, and EO9 (3-hydroxymethyl-5-aziridinyl-1-methyl-2-(IH-indole-4,7-dione)prop-beta- en-alpha-ol).
(7) Although the CBI supported the reforms, there was heavy lobbying from other EU business groups to reject the reforms, that would have helped to prop up the price of carbon dioxide permits to businesses.
(8) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
(9) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
(10) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
(11) A variety of interventional endovascular instruments have been produced and used in a wide field of pathologies: balloons for proximal clamping, distal embolization by particles, arterial desobstruction by seeking devices, propping of vascular lumen by stenting, in situ infusion of drugs (fibrinolysis), filters, foreign body retrieval systems.
(12) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(13) Prop therapy also reduced atrial and RV hypertrophy.
(14) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
(15) However, charities must expect to be "pit props" to some extent.
(16) He pointed out that some of the fall was down to the expiry of a government scheme expiring that had "artificially propped up" the housing market over the past year.
(17) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
(18) The compound (E)-4-2-(5,6,7,8)tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphtalenyl)prop enyl benzoic acid (Ro 1374-10) was approximately 2-3 orders of magnitude more potent than all-trans-retinoic acid in inhibiting breast carcinoma cell proliferation while the compound SRI-6409-40, which differs from Ro 1374-10 only by the position of a methyl group, was 50-fold more potent than Ro 1374-10.
(19) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
(20) The collapsing economy was propped up only by loans from wealthy Gulf countries.