(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.
Slice
Definition:
(v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
(v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
(v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
(v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.
(v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
(v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
(v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
(v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
(v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
(v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(3) This difference was abolished by exposure of the slices to propranolol, a beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist.
(4) All three compounds were also very similar in their effects on [3H]5HT release from superfused rat striatal slices.
(5) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(6) The present in vitro studies show that it is found as beta-endorphin in bovine pituitary slices incubated with radioactive amino acid precursor [35S]methionine.
(7) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(8) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(9) Tubules and cells were released from slices of kidney cortex by collagenase.
(10) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
(11) This study evaluated the in vitro renin release, tissue cyclic AMP content (TcAMPc), and tissue renin content (TRC) changes with time, in response to administration of dopamine (DOP) and of the dopamine-receptor blocking agent pimozide (PIM) to renal cortical slices from sodium deficient (SD) rats.
(12) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(13) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
(14) Prostate slices were perfused with a medium containing [(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]androstenedione, or 5alpha-dihydro-[(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]testosterone.
(15) The adenylate cyclase activator forskolin as well as 8-bromo-cyclic AMP enhanced the electrically evoked release of 3H-noradrenaline and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine from superfused rat neocortical slices and that of 3H-dopamine from neostriatal slices with comparable EC50's of about 0.5 and 50 microM, respectively, without affecting spontaneous tritium efflux.
(16) Aspartate levels and release from rat striatal slices following the inhibition of glutamine synthetase (GS) by methionine sulfoximine (MSO) were studied.
(17) The effects of stimulus-evoked potassium release on the excitability of presynaptic axons were studied in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.
(18) The A1-selective agonist R-(-)N6-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (10 microM) decreased 100 microM NMDA-evoked [3H]norepinephrine release by 27%; this was reversed by the P1 antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT, 10 microM), indicating that NMDA-evoked norepinephrine release from cortical slices is susceptible to purinergic modulation.
(19) In vitro addition of denbufylline (10(-8)-10(-4) M) produced no significant change in [3H]choline uptake in striatal slices, while denbufylline (10(-4) M) increased high (20 mM) potassium-evoked endogenous ACh release from striatal slices.
(20) Under the electron microscope, slices appeared vacuolated near the cut surfaces, but well preserved internally (greater than 40 micron from the edge).