(a.) Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
(n.) A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(2) George Osborne gets a going over from Labour MP John Mann , after the former introduced an ill-fated tax on Cornish pasties "Yes, because I don't like him."
(3) The contents of the cysts were pasty and semisolid.
(4) 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.
(5) What to eat: Minipastéis de feijão (deep-fried bean pasties).
(6) The animals could be nourished sufficiently via the interponate with pasty food.
(7) They are firmer and less flaky than Cornish pasties and don't break, making them the perfect picnic food.
(8) In the days and weeks that followed, there were U-turns on his ill-judged charity tax, which was disastrously at odds with David Cameron's attempts to build a "big society" with the help of the charitable sector, as well as on the pasty tax and the caravan tax.
(9) The MPs' strongly worded report will stir memories at the Treasury of last year's "omnishambles" budget, when the chancellor was forced to reverse a series of key policies, including the controversial "pasty tax" and a cap on tax relief for charitable donations, after vocal public criticism.
(10) (If you're not a football fan, this was like having a chat with Jean-Paul Sartre over a pastis in a Parisian cafe.)
(11) Biodegradable pasty-type copolyesters with a relatively low molecular weight of 4500 were synthesized by direct copolycondensation of epsilon-caprolactone (CL) and delta-valerolactone (VL) in the absence of catalysts to evaluate in vivo capabilities of the polymer for implantable controlled release devices in drug delivery systems.
(12) Now the white cross on a black background is ubiquitous, fluttering outside county hall in Truro and printed on everything from souvenir boxes of fudge to pasty packaging and car bumper stickers.
(13) Listen here you pooncy, pasty faced person from some pissant place that no one cares about, half my electorate are probably in de facto relationships and they are happy, normal living people who do their very best for their families and their communities.
(14) A questionnair of 115 items was analysed by computer using a Pastis-Pascal programme (see attached).
(15) Leading the online tributes: comparisons with snooker’s Whispering Ted Lowe and with “a Dignitas satnav”, plus this from @mrchrisaddison : “If a Wild Bean Cafe pasty could talk…” Best aside Gary Lineker , during the BBC’s half-time chat, asking his star pundit: “Did you ever get away with a handball, Thierry?” Hipster count Italy: Seven beards, England: one.
(16) The reports are likely to cheer the Treasury after a fortnight that started with the granny tax debacle during the chancellor's budget and ended with George Osborne parrying questions from MPs on his reasons for applying VAT to pasties.
(17) Javid caused some surprise at Westminster when he let it be know that, even as the most junior member of the Osborne team as his PPS, he clocked most of the pitfalls in the 2012 "omnishambles" budget which became embroiled in a row over the pasty tax and the caravan tax.
(18) This last change, while perfectly defensible, may well come back to haunt the chancellor: his tax on white van man to mirror George Osborne’s pasty tax.
(19) "It has to be very well-cooked – not all white and pasty," said customer Roger.
(20) When they're just done, transfer to a warm plate and deglaze the pan with a splash of pastis.
Savory
Definition:
(a.) Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.
(n.) An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used in cooking; -- also called summer savory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(2) We found and inverse consumption relationship between savory "junk" foods and an intake of greens and root-crops (p = 0.03) and of pasta and rice (p = 0.008).
(3) Standing at the BBC bar my Head of Department, Gerald Savory, was also ordering a drink.
(4) "The hillside formed a tapestry of the blues and violets of flowering wild thyme," he recalled, "punctuated by bushes of wild rosemary, feathery shoots of wild fennel and the spring growth of oregano and winter savory – the poetry of Provence was in the air and tender tips of wild asparagus, invisible to the profane, were breaking the ground everywhere.
(5) Based on investigations of Piscator and of Savory et al., a modified Tsuchiya's reagent (ethanolic HCI-phosphotungstic acid) is used to precipitate proteins at 56 degrees C, followed by biuret spectrophotometry at 540 nm.
(6) Saliva has modulating effects on sour, salt, and the monosodium-glutamate-induced savory or umami taste.
(7) The consumers of sweet "junk" foods also ate significantly more savory "junk" food (p = 0.00009).
(8) Kimberley is making her fillings - chicken for some steamed Chinese buns and a bunch of other savory stuff that all sounds like something I'd eat a lot of at a party.
(9) The principal increase within the category of snack foods was in the intake of sweet solid items, e.g., candy bars, compared to sweet fluid, e.g., soda, or savory solid items, e.g., potato chips.
(10) When more savory food was provided, intake again remained fixed as exercise was increased, but subjects ate more throughout and maintained positive energy balance.
(11) However, more studies with different foods in a situation more similar to a normal meal are needed before it can be concluded that sweet and savory foods at the start or end of a meal always have the same effects on appetite and food intake.
(12) Beca's pudding is savory and features lamb, the juiciest of all the meats.
(13) While there, Trump made time for meetings with some of the world’s less savory leaders, but had no time for meeting with the members of civil society systematically repressed in the Middle East.
(14) The consumption of savory "junk" foods and meat products can replace nutrients of a high biological value which are found in greens and root-crops.