What's the difference between porridge and water?

Porridge


Definition:

  • (n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (2) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
  • (3) During pregnancy, a mother should be encouraged to eat less saturated fat and drink few sugary drinks while eating more brown rice, brown bread and porridge, added Poston.
  • (4) 2 Crumble the blue cheese into the porridge and then cook on a medium heat, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until it thickens to your liking.
  • (5) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.
  • (6) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
  • (7) The antimicrobial effects of the different processes involved in the preparation of fermented maize dough porridge were assessed.
  • (8) Breakfast in the hub is disappointing – with porridge and drinks served in paper cups – and costs an extra £5.
  • (9) Lady Jenkin’s “let them eat porridge” outburst overshadowed the Church of England’s Feeding Britain report launch.
  • (10) Fine in the sense of plain porridge, or a grey day on which it neither rains, blows nor shines.
  • (11) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
  • (12) I drag myself out of bed about 7.30am, grab some porridge with honey and bananas for breakfast and – if I'm in university that day – walk to campus, which is about two minutes away.
  • (13) Porridge with blue cheese and honey-roasted walnuts Columbiahillen's porridge adapts a Transylvanian recipe, turning the decidedly non-traditional combination of blue cheese, walnuts and honey into a comforting lunch or breakfast.
  • (14) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
  • (15) In boiling tests with neutral porridge no migration of aluminium into the test matrix was observed from the pan.
  • (16) I had a large bowl of porridge today, which cost 4p.
  • (17) David Henderson, who lived to 107, gave credit to porridge, prunes, and never going to bed on a full stomach.
  • (18) But it doesn't stop there – shoppers are also stocking up on frozen salmon or cod fillets, ready-made frozen curries, chocolate-chip cookies and porridge oats.
  • (19) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
  • (20) For eight months we have lived on porridge and bread and smuggled yogurt,” says Nabil, a jovial clerk employed by a pharmaceutical company, who did not want his full name published for security reasons.

Water


Definition:

  • (n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
  • (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
  • (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
  • (n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
  • (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
  • (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
  • (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
  • (v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
  • (v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
  • (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
  • (n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
  • (v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
  • (6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
  • (8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
  • (16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
  • (17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
  • (19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).