(v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
(v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(3) Perhaps the powers from on high will decide that picnics in Kensington Gardens can only comprise quinoa salads and raw broccoli.
(4) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(5) The beaches were empty until we happened across a popular picnic spot: a fresh water source made it the greenest place for miles around, and locals took their cows there to drink.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rolling Acres' picnic place.
(7) The section between Odeceixe and São Teotonio, which you can access at Odeceixe bridge, is really beautiful and diverse, running along the Seixe river, then through eucalyptus forest – take a picnic.
(8) We need a space like Juhu beach, that’s open to the public, where kids can go play or have a picnic.” For more than a decade, Mumbai agencies have been petitioning federal port authorities to open some part of the 730-hectare docklands for public use, as other port cities around the world have done.
(9) You'll find farm animals, a tearoom and a picnic spot.
(10) Virgin1 is expected to disappear and BSkyB may well take advantage of Ofcom's backing for Picnic, its proposed digital terrestrial subscription service, in the regulator's pay-TV ruling.
(11) By the time I arrived in Nice, the picnic on the beach had been called off, but I was soon absorbed into the extended family of this pair of single mothers and avid social networkers.
(12) The village has marked the spot, on a field on the edge of the village, with an EU flag and some picnic tables.
(13) The title of the piece, I’d love to Have You Over For Dinner ... but the House Isn’t Finished, would not seem so out of place today, nor would the temporary decor – a picnic table in the kitchen, a couch borrowed from a friend – chronicled within.
(14) But it hasn't got any wittier than this people-free image of a deconstructed picnic, with only the shooting stick and binoculars to tell you that we're off to the races.
(15) They are firmer and less flaky than Cornish pasties and don't break, making them the perfect picnic food.
(16) You keep putting the same people in the same job and expect a different outcome.” I met Conway at a Republican picnic in Ohio’s Mahoning County, known as ground zero for these crossover voters.
(17) You can make it complicated – but I've had some great times in a graveyard on a picnic blanket, and, indeed, up against bins around the back of a club – and I'd like something of that very British, make-do spirit to be represented somewhere in British sex fiction in 2014.
(18) Television and radio spots, with donor recognition pins, certificates, receptions, and picnics are utilized.
(19) But half a mile up the road the clergy were in the middle of a big gay picnic and had no problem with anyone using their building.
(20) Sky is understood to have considered launching an internet version of Picnic, an IPTV service.
Picric
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The renal tissue was fixed with a mixture of buffered picric acid-paraformaldehyde-glutaraldehyde and immunostained with the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method for the electron microscope with the following steps: antikallikrein antiserum, anti-IgG serum, peroxidase-antiperoxidase complex, 3-3' diaminobenzidine-H2O2, and post-staining with osmium tetroxide.
(2) We found that the picric acid paraformaldehyde perfusion provided satisfactory conditions of fixation for visualizing the progesterone receptor in sections of frozen tissue.
(3) The effect of picric acid on the release of [14C]acetylcholine has been investigated in isolated ileal synaptosomes of guinea-pig.
(4) Microscopic inspection of successive sections at intervals of 100 mu was performed following fixation and optical demonstration of all lymph nodes in a picric acid medium.
(5) The animals received picric application to the mucosa of either the pharyngolaryngeal or the hard palate region.
(6) In human skin, basement membranes were fully demonstrated on paraffin sections fixed by PLP fixative or by 4% formalin, but only partially on sections fixed by picric acid-containing fixatives.
(7) The technique is based on picric acid in ethyl alcohol fixation and saponin red cell lysis, followed by mithramycin staining for DNA.
(8) Special attention was given to the hematoxylin basic fuchsin picric acid stain and it was noted that the basic fuchsin was taken up by contracted or damaged myocytes, which according to their morphology in suspension revealed irregular contractions, but not by undamaged or necrotic myocytes.
(9) We report a discrepancy between serum creatinine levels obtained by the method based on alkaline picric acid (Jaffé reaction) and that by automated analyzer employing enzymatic assay based on peroxidase-coupled reaction in a patient with renal dysfunction taking Ethamsylate, a capillary vessel stabilizer.
(10) Application of dark field microscopy to sections fixed with picric acid--formalin and stained with crotonaldehydefuchsin allows the demonstration of neurosecretory granules in the neurones of the suprachiasmatic nuclei of normal rats.
(11) When the tissue was fixed first in formalin followed by picric acid and stained in SIPC, a clear differentiation of interphase nuclei into four color classes, viz., green, orange, red and brown can be recorded.
(12) In order to simplify diagnostic susceptibility testing of mycobacteria against thiacetazone, hydroxylamine, p-nitrobenzoic acid and picric acid, we modified the standard procedure by using Middlebrook 7H11 agar in a single quadrant petri dish.
(13) Organs of hens treated with picric acid (1%), trichloroacetic acid (10%), and sulphosalicylic acid were used for the protein precipitation.
(14) Picric acid (10 micrograms per plate) demonstrated mutagenicity (both frame shift and base substitution-gype mutations) only after activation with a rat liver homogenate preparation.
(15) These include the use of picric acid to precipitate proteins followed by alkalization, or the use of alkaline picrate after protein precipitation and adsorption to Fuller's earth.
(16) HBFP technique is capricious and the differentiation step should be controlled stringently; ethanolic picric acid, therefore, is recommended as a differentiation fluid.
(17) Rats were perfused with 2% paraformaldehyde + 0.15% picric acid in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, then transferred to the buffer.
(18) However, picric acid did not initiate the release of 5-hydroxytryptamine.
(19) During growth, the mutant HL PM-1 transiently accumulated an orange-red metabolite, which was identified as a hydride-Meisenheimer complex of picric acid.
(20) The reaction was also inhibited by picric acid and epsilon-TNP-aminocaproic acid.