(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.
Steam
Definition:
(n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
(n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
(n.) Any exhalation.
(v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.
(v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
(v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam.
(v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
(v. t.) To exhale.
(v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
(2) It could perhaps be used in natural gas stations, where a synthetic gas is first produced by reacting the methane with steam to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
(3) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(4) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
(5) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(6) Yet they seem ignorant of what's steaming down the track towards them.
(7) But Soriot sounds like a boss who would prefer to succeed under his own steam.
(8) Beans were steamed-blanched at 100 degrees C for 2 minutes, and then canned and autoclaved at 121 degrees C for 10 minutes.
(9) Both those models are running out of steam," he said.
(10) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
(11) Do not write a steaming novella to the chair of governors complaining that your son’s civil rights have been denied.
(12) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
(13) Acid hydrolysis followed by steam distillation released more than 95% of the acetyl groups from the two major nucleoproteins.
(14) "For example, making use of more rigorous testing methodologies pre-launch to improve game quality and prevent SimCity-style launch debacles; engaging with, listening to and rewarding its games' communities more readily; learning from, rather than dismissing, the successful practices of competitors such as Steam, etc."
(15) The meat preserves had been prepared in a butcher's shop and heated in a "cooking pot", the steam holes of which had been stopped up and the lid of which had been made heavier in order to reach a temperature above 100 degrees C. Inadequate sterilization and errors in processing are suggested as possible causes.
(16) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
(17) Data are presented which show the potential for release of viable microorganisms into the atmosphere from high-vacuum steam sterilizers during the evacuation cycle preceding application of steam under pressure.
(18) 2 Drop in the camomile flowers (or a camomile teabag) and keep at a steeping temperature – no bubbles, just gentle steaming.
(19) He steamed with anger and, although it was encouraging to see him stand up to the rough stuff, there may yet be an anxious wait on scan results.
(20) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.