What's the difference between repast and viand?

Repast


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of taking food.
  • (n.) That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment.
  • (v. t. & i.) To supply food to; to feast; to take food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The trailer used to be the hors d’oeuvre before the main course; now it’s being treated as a significant repast in its own right, a sort of antipasti before we get stuck into the spaghetti alle vongole.
  • (2) We are cheered when we observe the vulture feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us and deriving health and strength from the repast.

Viand


Definition:

  • (n.) An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) with a Viande-Foie (VF) broth culture of Clostridium perfringens together with the antitoxin A survived, whereas those receiving antitoxin C died.
  • (2) c) The strips were inoculated with a modified Viande-Levure medium containing Tween 80, vitamin K3 and hemin.
  • (3) A newspaper fantasised about Mosley's life inside, imagining a butler and unrationed viands; he sued for libel and the couple saw each other for moments at court.
  • (4) Widely credited with the best Sunday roasts in London, McGee is now turning his hand to Christmas, rustling up trademark sharing platters of delectable festive viands (two-course Christmas menu £28, three courses £32).
  • (5) The test laboratory of the "Centre technique de la salaison, de la charcuterie et des conserves de viandes" has evaluated the nitrite and nitrate salts contents of 1 468 cooked hams and shoulders.
  • (6) Only in egg-yolk triple-salt medium did all tested phospholipase-C-producing clostridia form a lecitho-vitellin precipitate after overnight incubation; 95.5% formed a high-density precipitate in the new medium as opposed to 6.1%, 6.6%, 10.6% and 20.2% of the isolates not forming a visible precipitate in liver-veal, Lombard-Dowell, McClung and Toabe modified, and "viande-levure" egg-yolk media, respectively, after the same incubation time.

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