(v. t.) To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.
(v. t.) To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.
(v. i.) To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.
(n.) A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
(n.) Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
(n.) A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
(n.) That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
(n.) The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(2) In government, Abbott had relished the daily combat but his officials complained he wasn’t enamoured by detailed policy work.
(3) Moyes is relishing the visit by Chelsea and said: "I came for this sort of level but I came to win trophies and if you are going to win them then you do need to beat teams like Chelsea and Manchester City because that's the way our league is.
(4) On the other hand, if past experience is anything to go by, this government isn’t shy of a U-turn ; and, if Whittingdale and his advisers aren’t completely deaf, they may at least detect that he would do well to keep the relish out of his voice as he announces the steps he intends to take.
(5) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(6) "He made the law seem interesting, which it isn't, and he played his part with enormous relish."
(7) The former Tours player is, meanwhile, relishing the challenge of such a step up in class.
(8) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(9) Grigson is clearly relishing the task ahead, having already toured major investors and playing a key role in the pay dispute, which ultimately resulted in Sly Bailey stepping down after a decade running the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People and 140 regional newspapers late on Thursday.
(10) Local MPs accused the 54-year-old American of "relishing antagonistic confrontation" during negotiations with unions over the future of the TCP plant.
(11) Kadyrov has warmed to the foreign agent theme with relish.
(12) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
(13) In theory, Beijing could step in to stop him being sent back, but it would be unlikely to relish an all-out public row with the US .
(14) A war between local parties and the parliamentary Labour party is not something Corbyn would relish.
(15) Eighteen-year-old Zhu Guilin said he usually preferred pop music, but relished competing with his class in the red song competitions that swept Chongqing at Bo's behest.
(16) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
(17) Disaster awaits a Conservative government that appears to relish the cuts it makes.
(18) Merkel grimly submitted to an executive fashion makeover after the media sneered at her frumpy look; now she clearly relishes shining out in jewel-toned jackets from a forest of dark suits at G20 meetings.
(19) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
(20) Another acquaintance argues that Dimbleby may believe the BBC "has got itself into a bit of a mess" by allowing Griffin to appear on the show, and may not relish introducing the BNP leader.
Tenon
Definition:
(n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
(v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meticulous handling of the graft (using a Goeller trephine and Tenon's traction sutures), filleting Tenon's capsule and avoiding cautery of the graft bed may minimize graft necrosis and atrophy.
(2) Sub-Tenon injection was compared to other delivery techniques.
(3) In one of the patients, a Tenon's conjunctival flap was advanced to cover the defect, and was unsuccessful with the spicules of the hydroxyapatite eroding through the vascular flap after 1 month.
(4) Clinical observations and histologic studies provide new anatomic information concerning the course of the anterior ciliary vessels in the sub-Tenon's region.
(5) Migration assays were conducted in 48-well micro-chemotaxis chambers, using rabbit aqueous humour which has been previously identified as a powerful chemoattractant for Tenon's fibroblasts, and fibronectin as the stimuli for migration.
(6) Tenon's and conjunctiva are sutured over the scleral homograft.
(7) Large areas of denuded and in many cases ischemic sclera were covered with Tenon flaps, which were prepared and advanced from the parabulbar undamaged connective tissue.
(8) If a method of trabeculectomy could be devised so that the conjunctiva and tenon's capsule were not injured, the failure rate might be reduced.
(9) In the process of closing scleral wounds caused by various conditions, incarceration of conjunctiva, Tenon's capsule, or vitreous in the wound can occur unexpectedly.
(10) These findings support the role of fibroblasts in failure of filtration surgery for glaucoma and suggest a role for 5HT in serum-derived Tenon's fibroplasia.
(11) It consists in the following: a collagen hemostatic sponge, connected to a silicone tube, is implanted into the sub-Tenon's space; the drugs are administered via this tube.
(12) With good illumination and magnification and a careful search of the sub-Tenon's capsule space it is unusual to need to explore the orbital fat to retrieve the muscle.
(13) Patients with a primary implant, an acrylic ball covered with sclera inserted within Tenon's capsule, had better cosmetic results and a lower complication rate and fewer needed any other therapeutic measures.
(14) Tenon's capsule and the conjunctiva are closed separately.
(15) After surgical excision of the scarred cystic conjunctiva and Tenon's fascia surrounding the leaking bleb, relatively uninvolved conjunctiva and Tenon's fascia are mobilized with the help of a large relaxing incision in the superior fornix and sutured over the area of filtration.
(16) In the orbit of man as well as the cynomolgus monkey three localizations of PC cells were detected: (1) Tenon's capsule along the ciliary arteries at the level of the entrance of the arteries into the eyeball, (2) Tenon's capsule along the ciliary nerves at the level of the entrance into the eyeball, and (3) the sclera around the ciliary arteries and nerves.
(17) For revascularization, the Tenon's capsule is used.
(18) We have investigated the cell types involved in outgrowth from human Tenon's layer explants in culture.
(19) The surgical technique involves creation of a tenon and mortise which not only preserves the insertions of both the labiomental muscles and at least some of the suprahyoid muscles but also improves the stability of transosseous fixation.
(20) I asked Paul Belsman at accountants RSM Tenon to crunch my numbers for me.