(n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
(n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
(n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
(v. t. & i.) To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
(2) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
(3) One product failed to release its chlorpheniramine even when ground in a mortar and pestle in HCl solution, but did release drug in H3PO4 solution.
(4) The Chelex resin beads were ground in a mortar-pestle to form ground Chelex resin beads.
(5) 2 Mash the preserved lemon – flesh and skin – in a pestle and mortar and place in a glass with the lime juice, syrup and mint.
(6) Patterns of prosthetic failure included fracture, fraying, and compressive deformation or rotary wear ("motar and pestle") of the silicone radial head; a prosthetic stem fracture was also present.
(7) This system allows the bone cartilage on the surface to receive an even impact on the whole section through the piston-like action of the pressure pestle, thus making it possible for the crushed cartilage to be evenly extended in all directions.
(8) The only way to prepare high molecular weight rapidly labelled RNA and polysomes was to grind freeze-dried cells together with kieselguhr with a mortar and pestle.
(9) Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a mortar, add a quarter-teaspoon of salt, and pound with a pestle to a rough paste.
(10) The data show that a rigorous washing routine must be followed to achieve a "clean" mortar and pestle.
(11) It was shown that encapsulated cells dried with acetone and ground to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle retain their capsules.
(12) The best type of seaweed to use is "aonori" flakes, but most dried seaweed can be ground in a pestle and mortar.
(13) Peel and mash the garlic with a pestle and mortar or in a blender with the egg yolk, olive oil, vinegar, mustard and harissa.
(14) Three different methods of tissue processing have been assessed: (i) freeze-clamping (-196 degrees C), using grooved, aluminium tongs which produce frozen cylinders of tissue (3 mm diameter) which fit directly into esr tubes; (ii) grinding of freeze-clamped tissue with a porcelain pestle and mortar; (iii) lyophilization of ground, freeze-clamped, tissue.
(15) The anvil has a rounded surface enclosed by cylindrical walls, while the pressure pestle functions as a piston within the cylindrical walls.
(16) The pestle, rubbing against the gutta-percha inside the amalgam capsule, generates enough frictional heat to blend the gutta-percha and the eucalyptol.
(17) 3 Put the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and bash until the pods split.
(18) With the microblending technique a mean of 9.4 green plants and 0.4 albino plants were regenerated per plated anther while a mean of only 2.8 green and 0.17 albino plants per anther were regenerated from microspores isolated after pestle maceration of the anthers.
(19) Roughly crush the peppercorns and fennel using a pestle and mortar.
(20) 2 In a pestle and mortar (or using a large knife) make the garlic into a paste by squashing it into a little salt.
Rub
Definition:
(v. t.) To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
(v. t.) To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
(v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
(v. t.) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
(v. t.) To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
(v. t.) To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
(v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
(v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
(v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
(n.) The act of rubbing; friction.
(n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
(n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.
(n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
(n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.
(n.) A chance.
(n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
(2) Rubbed rings, but not intact ones, contracted when Ca2+ was added to a previously Ca2+-free medium containing angiotensin II or adrenaline.
(3) Immediately after eye rubbing the conjunctival epithelium was histologically disrupted and 50% of the mast cells showed evidence of degranulation.
(4) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
(5) Long-term rubbing of a pressure stocking and splint was believed to be responsible for breakdown in the graft of the patient who had a hypertrophic scar.
(6) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
(7) The specific endonuclease Bam HI from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (RUB 500) has been purified to apparent homogeneity.
(8) Ultz, who is also a well-known stage designer, is the only white person in the company - something the play rubs his nose in.
(9) Who was the asshole who threw the bottle?” Matt asked, rubbing his sore spot.
(10) The fibromas were transmitted by intradermal and subcutaneous inoculation and by rubbing the virus preparation into tattoo sites.
(11) With advancing age, the ATP-induced relaxation in the rubbed rings decreased and was abolished.
(12) In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association describes “frotteurism” as “recurrent, intense, or arousing sexual urges or fantasies, that involve touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person”.
(13) Rubbed (endothelium-denuded) ring preparations at the age of 4-6 weeks showed a dose-dependent relaxation similar to that of the unrubbed rings.
(14) We found positive reactions in the prick test and rubbing test to the scales of the lizard Egernia cunninghami and others, which the patient kept as house-pets at this time or earlier.
(15) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
(16) Ten rubs occurred in patients with pericardial effusion, five of whom had tamponade.
(17) But this will only rub more salt into the wounds at home.
(18) During each scratch cycle, the monoarticular knee extensor muscle is active when the limb rubs against the stimulated site, and there is rhythmic alternation between hip protractor and hip retractor muscle activity (Robertson et al., 1985).
(19) Oscar Pistorius rubs his face as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial at a packed high court in Pretoria on May 5.
(20) Did it actually happen, that run of singles so strange and yet so strong that they rose to the higher reaches of the hit parade, rubbing shoulders with Showaddywaddy and the Nolans on Top of the Pops?