(v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
(v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
(v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
(v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
(v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling
(v. t.) To begin and not complete.
(v. i.) To become soft or muddy.
Example Sentences:
(1) No association was detected between the overall frequency of fish for dinner and breast cancer risk (chi 2 trend = 1.39, p = 0.24), but there was an inverse relation with the frequency of main meals containing fish in poached form.
(2) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(3) People talk about poaching, but in the long-term it’s also about securing space for habitat.
(4) Defensively we made a lot of mistakes.” It was not the prettiest goal, but it was a strike that showed just how valuable poaching reflexes can still be in a game that has largely moved away from the sniffer type of forward (although Bacca is far more rounded than that).
(5) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
(6) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
(7) Poaching has gradually reduced since then but remains well above sustainable levels.
(8) New head of the UK operations Jackie Hunt, who was poached from Standard Life last year, received £3.5m despite having joined the board only in September – including a "one-off relocation payment" of £188,679.
(9) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(10) But Scanlon said there were some encouraging signs, including in parts of eastern Africa , such as in Kenya, where the poaching trend has declined.
(11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(12) Civil unrest has also led to the illegal poaching of mountain gorillas.
(13) Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
(14) Game rangers have had their arms upgraded to take on the poaching gangs, and the military, operating under an unofficial shoot-to-kill policy, has been brought into Kruger National Park, where hundreds of rhino have been lost.
(15) To stop poached horn from entering the legal market, suppliers can fit legal horns with traceable transponders and DNA signatures for less than 200 dollars per horn, he says.
(16) Edna Molewa, South Africa's minister of water and environmental affairs, told an anti-poaching street parade on Sunday that the trade was also a threat to the country's tourism industry.
(17) On the other hand big universities will be able to establish significant funds, which will be used to poach students from other universities rather than helping the disadvantaged.
(18) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(19) The delegates are expected to consider on Friday a more controversial topic: a call to resume the legal ivory trade as a way to stop the recent rise in elephant poaching in Africa .
(20) I asked her what she thought of the freezing weather here and she said she was used to it.” At lunch, Kate dined on herb-infused vegetable terrine, poached salmon with dill hollandaise sauce, lemon pearl barley risotto and sautéed vegetables.
Roast
Definition:
(v. t.) To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
(v. t.) To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
(v. t.) To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
(v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
(v. t.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
(v. t.) To banter severely.
(v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
(v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.
(n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
(a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(3) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(4) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(5) "We were originally going to start a café," Hoffmann says, "but then the economy broke so we started roasting in a railway arch."
(6) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(7) Of the 15 furans eight methylvinylfurans, dimethyl-vinylfurans and alkenylfurans, which had not been previously found in roasted foodstuffs, should be specially mentioned.
(8) On the other hand, two min of dry roasting resulted in complete removal of oligosaccharides whereas germination resulted in about 30-40% decrease after 1 and 2 days, respectively.
(9) My roast beef sandwich with crispy onions and celeriac was tasty, although the decision to serve it on a slight sweet buttermilk roll is a curious one.
(10) Male rats were fed both popped amaranths and roasted amaranth.
(11) Roasting its own single estate coffees, Tailor Made also looks great, with a high ceiling decorated with tailoring patterns and a huge sgraffito (scraped plaster) bust.
(12) When various proportions of roasted beans and corn were fed at a level of 8.3% protein in the diet, a mixture in which 40% to 60% of the protein was provided by either beans or corn had a PER essentially the same as casein.
(13) The last roast came from John McCain, The Daily Show’s once most frequent guest during the 00s .
(14) Phenolic compounds and aromatic hydrocarbons are components in many foods and often typical flavoring substances for example of roasted and smoked products.
(15) Mix the halved sprouts with the oil and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then spread out on an oven tray lined with baking paper and roast for 10 minutes, until cooked through and golden-brown but still crunchy, then remove from the oven.
(16) While the chicken is roasting, halve the charentais melon and discard the seeds, then remove the flesh from the skin with a sharp knife and slice into thick, juicy pieces, putting them and any juice into a large mixing bowl.
(17) Dehulled lupins commercially roasted at low, moderate, and high temperatures resulted in ruminal in situ N disappearances of 59, 47, and 43% for the respective temperatures.
(18) Raw whole cottonseed (CS), extruded whole cottonseed (ECS), and roasted whole cottonseed (RCS) were fed in diets containing 17% crude protein and composed of 42% whole cottonseed, 26% corn grain and 29% hay supplemented with dry molasses, vitamins and minerals.
(19) A liquid chromatographic method for the determination of ochratoxin A in coffee beans (green and roast), instant coffee, and coffee drink is described.
(20) A comparative study of roasting, cooking with and without calcium hydroxide and extrusion cooking on the protein quality of Canavalia was conducted.