(n.) A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
(n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
(n.) Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.
(v. t.) To sprinkle or season with pepper.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds.
(v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at).
Example Sentences:
(1) Her mother had only senile pigmented modification of the fundus and her three daughters had mild macular pigmented changes, like "salt and pepper."
(2) We review the toxicity of capsaicin and comment briefly on the use of hot peppers in child abuse.
(3) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(4) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(5) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
(7) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(8) If they’re actually rubber bullets, they’ll kill you.” After making a similar statement during an interview with KSDK , he said that his officers had instead used “little balls full of pepper spray”.
(9) Mainly though, the pamphlet – which you can read in its original form in the Women's Library in east London – is fulminating rightwingness, peppered with self-publicising, a proto-Melanie Phillips with an extra PhD.
(10) It was a particularly brave – or rash – thing to say given that South Carolina is one of the most heavily militarised states in America and is peppered with military bases .
(11) Following the success of that release – and with the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's still months away – Brian Wilson imagined an orchestral and psychedelic suite showcasing the group's vocal harmonies.
(12) Suzanne Pepper, a political commentator, said Beijing was hoping, through its intervention, to stamp out growing calls for independence and prevent such ideas infiltrating Hong Kong’s parliament.
(13) Fleischhauer has been selling other models, similar to the Guardian Angel II, to police and security customers as alternatives to Tasers – police in Germany, Japan and Switzerland have all bought Piexon pepper pistols.
(14) Ten pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) inbred lines were successfully differentiated by two-dimensional electrophoresis with immobilized pH gradients.
(15) These may involve either nutrition, as in calcium deficiency in some lettuce varieties, tomato, and bell peppers, or direct toxicity (chloride or sodium toxicity, or both) in tree and vine crops.
(16) New information is presented on the analysis of bean yellow mosaic virus amino terminal epitopes as well as on the identification of amino terminal antigenic determinants shared between strains of bean yellow mosaic virus and pepper mottle virus.
(17) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
(18) It is speculated that one or more constituents of black pepper may be responsible for tumour induction in the organs of the Egyptian toad Bufo regularis.
(19) Police responded by firing teargas and pepper spray in an effort to secure the entrance road to the shelter, which has been built to accommodate 600 people.
(20) The aim of this study was to determine the resistance of Toxoplasma gondii cysts to salt (sodium chloride) and condiments (black pepper and garlic) in fresh sausages prepared with experimentally infected pork.
Robbin
Definition:
(n.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.
(n.) See Ropeband.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antibodies were raised against a component specific for Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma of mol.
(2) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
(3) Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, said: "It's also troubling because it is consistent with perhaps the most aggressive administration ever against reporters doing their jobs – providing information that citizens need to know about our government."
(4) There is an ebola of Isis in your Baskin Robbins right now.
(5) 96:1064-1071; Robbins, A. R., C. Oliver, J. L. Bateman, S. S. Krag, C. J. Galloway, and I. Mellman.
(6) Three classes of non-histone proteins were obtained from hamster Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma and liver nuclei following separation of nucleic acids with the polyethylene glycol-dextran mixture and fractionation of nuclear proteins on hydroxylapatite in a salt-glycerol-phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride system at increasing concentrations of Na+ and K+ phosphate buffer, pH 6.8.
(7) Having not just one do so well is a big deal, but having so many – Heaven is for Real, God’s Not Dead and Son of God – all come along and do well in the space of this year is unprecedented,” says Shawn Robbins, an analyst at boxoffice.com .
(8) Networks future The key to this expansion – and a phrase that's over-used at TV industry conferences – is "good content", but Robbins added a twist to the familiar claim that quality is what will separate winners from losers in the entertainment world.
(9) The most senior officials coordinating the negotiations, Sabine Weyand, who is the European commission’s deputy chief negotiator, and Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, will also meet in the afternoon.
(10) Robbins said the paintings reflected Pérez Simón's tastes.
(11) It was tested in Syrian hamster 6 days after heterotransplantation of Kirkman-Robbins hepatoma.
(12) The above metabolic changes associated with cell wall components followed rapid kinetics similar to those involved in the formation of the phytoalexin kievitone in the elicited cultures [Robbins, M. P. et al.
(13) Robbins says the workforce has welcomed the initiative warmly: "There's a lot of emphasis on making people feel comfortable coming to work.
(14) 'All I know,' concludes Robbins 'is that there isn't a day when I'm not approached about that film - approached by people who say how important that film is to them, who tell me that they've seen it 20, 30, 40 times, and who are just so...
(15) With a DNA probe derived from the cloned CHS1 gene that codes for chitin synthase I [Bulawa, C. E., Slater, M., Cabib, E., Au-Young, J., Sburlati, A., Adair, W. L. and Robbins, P. (1986) Cell 46, 213-225] a Northern analysis was conducted of CHS1-specific transcripts.
(16) For Tim Robbins, the true significance of The Shawshank Redemption has nothing to do with religion, but resides in the fact that 'it's a film in which you actually see a relationship between two men which isn't based on car chases, or scoring some women, or some kind of caper'.
(17) Malcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire, attacks the Browne review , on which the government has based its new policy: "David Willetts has said that the Browne review will rank alongside the Dearing report and the Robbins report as one of the landmark policy reviews in British higher education.
(18) The purified mitochondrial enzyme is similar to the cytosolic glutamine transaminase K whose beta-lyase activity with S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-L-cysteine (DCVC) is regulated by concurrent transamination (Stevens, J. L., Robbins, J. D., and Byrd, R. A.
(19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
(20) "Kids really don't care where the content is coming from, just as long as it speaks to them," said Robbins.