(v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
(v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
(v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the dynamics of the changes occurring in the curve of restoration of the test response amplitude in the thalamo-cortical fibers to the pared stimulation of the medial lemniscus with various actions on the somatosensory ared.
(2) I loved that attention to detail, everything pared down to the bone."
(3) However, the announcements made at the tail-end of the Labour administrations have been pared back or delayed as ministers attempt to balance public spending cuts with infrastructure improvements.
(4) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
(5) Canada and Australia feel the squeeze in wake of Chinese economic slowdown Read more Japan’s Nikkei brushed aside an unexpected drop in the country’s industrial output to close up 2.7%, paring losses for the quarter to 14.1%, its deepest since 2010.
(6) It has not passed audit since 1994 and makes Britain's Ministry of Defence seem a haven of cheese-paring efficiency .
(7) These radical reactions should be considered when using human nail parings to estimate accidental exposure to ionizing radiation.
(8) The fact markets pared back this bounce soon after the announcement may in some respects reflect growing market concern that central banks are delving into a tit-for-tat currency devaluation war,” said Angus Nicholson at the online trading firm IG in Melbourne.
(9) Her first BBC series since her drug revelations and split from Charles Saatchi, it promises a “new pared-down approach to cooking and eating”.
(10) The NHS has pared back so much over the last 20 years, it now carries almost no flab.
(11) The cure rate was 84% for sheep that were only footbathed, 72% for those foot pared and footbathed, 72% for those foot pared, footbathed and given penicillin, and 88% for those vaccinated and footbathed.
(12) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(13) The work and pensions secretary believes that restricting child benefit, which could save £1bn a year, could help Osborne achieve his cuts rather than “cheese paring” all benefits.
(14) The assumption that problem-oriented records help teach critical thinking was tested by co-paring clinical recordings and case study data for a group of beginning nursing students who were taught problem-oriented charting with a group who were taught traditional charting.
(15) It was assumed that the pared-down track programme compared with Beijing, stripped of most of the meaningful endurance events, might work to Great Britain's disadvantage, but the opposite appears to be the case.
(16) It is not possible that doing nothing will be cheaper than doing something; that budget cuts, pared-down services and postcode lotteries will yield anything but higher costs and more human misery.
(17) However, when the upstream sequence was pared down to base number -118, the regulatory response to O2, H2, and Ni levels was negated.
(18) Thus, it is the presence of noisy, incoherent dot motion, rather than brief lifetimes, that causes such poor performance on the stimulus of Newsome and Pare (1988).
(19) But while the Bank has only slightly pared back its growth forecasts since its last Inflation Report in August, the same can’t be said of inflation.
(20) The director of such high-risk projects as the National Theatre's runaway hit War Horse and its more recent smash, The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night-Time , as well as the dark, pared-down Port , which recently opened at the Lyttelton, she has never knowingly opted for a theatrical safe bet.
Pate
Definition:
(a.) See Patte.
(n.) A pie. See Patty.
(n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.
(n.) The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
(n.) The skin of a calf's head.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
(2) The cosedimentation of PATE with LPSLC was remarkably affected by pH or ionic strength.
(3) The cosedimentation was diminished by acetylation of the free amino groups of PATE.
(4) It was found that the PATE was produced extracellularly during the negative logarithmic death phase of the organism.
(5) One area she offers an opinion on is the Prince of Wales’s pate.
(6) Each ingested a 300-g meal containing 99mTc-labeled liver pate.
(7) The crackers have a flavour not unlike rye – try them with this dairy-free smoked mackerel pate, which is, made using sweet potato as a base instead of butter or cream.
(8) PATE was isolated from the precipitate by gel chromatography.
(9) Endo-pectate lyase (PATE) from Erwinia carotovora was selectively cosedimented with extracellularly produced lipopolysaccharide-lipid complex (LPSLC) through dialysis of the cell free culture broth.
(10) The technique employs homograft tympanic membrane with ossicles en bloc for the middle ear reconstruction and a homograft dura form and autogenous bone pate is used to recreate the bony posterior ear canal wall.
(11) Accusing citizens of Iowa of a ‘voting violation’ based on Iowa caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act,” Pate said in a statement.
(12) At a congress in Prague, he suddenly donned the keffiyeh, or traditional chequered head-dress, which, as well as hiding his entirely bald pate, became his emblem.
(13) Approximating Hitch's walrus-like features took four hours in makeup every day: the prosthetic jowls and nose, the balding pate, the trademark underbite, the fat suit.
(14) Last month Bishop Richard Pates, chair of the committee on international justice and peace for the US conference of Catholic bishops, wrote to the defence secretary Chuck Hagel noting the opposition of the International Committee of the Red Cross to force-feeding.
(15) The initial rate of PATE activity increased up to 60 C, about 16-fold higher than that observed at room temperature.
(16) Foods examined included soft cheeses, fermented meat sausages, pates and salads.
(17) He recently joined a host of celebrities – including Joanna Lumley, Roger Moore and Ricky Gervais – in backing a campaign to stop Fortnum and Mason selling pate de foie gras.
(18) Paper chromatographic studies and viscosity measurements disclosed the random cleaving nature of the enzyme an endo-PATE.
(19) The cosedimentation of the PATE with LPSLC was initiated by decreasing conductivity of the solution and terminated at approx 1 m siemens (mScm-1).
(20) A recent newspaper columnist suspected that the average football fan was unable to 'relate to' the average foreign import, but ask anyone at Highbury whether they could 'relate to' Jimmy Carter, Steve Morrow, David Hillier, Vince Bartram, Eddie McGoldrick, Ian Selley, Andy Linighan, Colin Pates, John Hartson and Chris Kiwomya I personally couldn't relate to any of them, but a relationship was foisted on me anyway, through George Graham's side of the family, and they embarrassed me frequently, at weddings, parties and home games.