(n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
(n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
(n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.
(n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
(n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
Example Sentences:
(1) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(2) Two different flying saucers can appear on screen – a large one that fires inaccurately, and a smaller one that is much more deadly.
(3) And these are not just breadsticks and saucers of olives, but a choice of sizeable, filling mini-meals.
(4) The opening lines sounded a bit like a personal manifesto for a new kind of lightness (they were, he later claimed, something of an admonition from Rachel): "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes.
(5) The guidelines now being proposed by Mr Abbott mean that basically the only thing the CEFC could invest in is flying saucers, because anything that is any closer to development than that, Mr Abbott has conveniently saying is an established technology.” Shorten said is “personally supportive” of having the CEFC continue beyond 2020.
(6) The saucer-like defects of lymphocyte migration that are present in the basal lamina beneath the squamous epithelium of the skin were not observed in rat foregut.
(7) Rising 70 metres above the treetops on the edge of Flushing Meadows in New York are a trio of concrete watchtowers, their circular platforms topped with rusting rotor blades, like flying saucers retired from service.
(8) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
(9) Of these cases, 71.4% were treated by saucerization, followed by secondary closure or by skin grafting.
(10) People often proclaim: "I won't believe in ghosts [or flying saucers, angels, etc.]
(11) The preferred treatment is repair of the posterior capsular disruption with saucerization of the remaining meniscus.
(12) The edges of the defects were usually thickened; in some areas they were saucer-shaped but in two cases there was erosion of the outer table of the skull at a distance from the margin of the defect, the erosion being related to an extracranial fluid-filled cavity in continuity with a porencephalic cyst.
(13) It started to produce super-stable, saucer-like short boards designed to make it virtually impossible to catch an edge.
(14) Cup by saucer, manufacturing was farmed out – to Indonesia in the case of Royal Doulton – and hundreds of years of Irish and English glass and ceramic making began to topple.
(15) In addition, the use of the SA primer (3% N-methacryloyl 5-aminosalicylic acid in 80% ethanol) and the LVR (visible light-cured, 33% microfilled low viscous Bis-GMA resin) dramatically improved the adhesion and adaptability of the composite restoration in the saucer cavity at the cervical area.
(16) restorations with margins located 50 per cent in dentine and 50 per cent in enamel) using Scotchbond VLC or Scotchbond 2 bonded to dentine in conventional and saucer-shaped cavities were evaluated.
(17) With further incubation, some of these colonies do not increase in diameter (arrested dome), some form an expanding annular monolayer of cells around the central mount (fried egg), and some grow by enlarging the central mound into a low multilayered disc (saucer).
(18) His Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, a flying saucer on a stalk outside Rio, has some of the worst spaces ever conceived – all sloping walls and curves and glass in the wrong places – for showing art.
(19) We all remember the terrible letdown of The Phantom Menace , all of us saucer-eyed nostalgists and nerds excitably gathered outside the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End, ready for the first-ever showing, and hardly able to believe that it was actually happening.
(20) The treatment consisted chiefly of sequestrectomies and saucerizations supported by 3--12 months of lincomycin treatment.
Teacup
Definition:
(n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, Eurostar ran adverts in Belgium for its trains to London depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup.
(3) I see the teacup with my eyes, but my brain refuses to send me the teacup message.
(4) Compared with working out if there is a real threat of nuclear war from the world's last full-dress totalitarian state, this may seem like a storm in a British teacup.
(5) Was it the greatest scandal in modern science or a storm in a teacup whipped up by climate sceptics and an uncritical media?
(6) Phillips, who described the issue as "a storm in a teacup", said the defence of fair comment was "one of the most difficult areas of the law of defamation".
(7) In his reading of the situation, his history with the Klan is a storm in a teacup, something the media only brings up to discredit his current criticism of international Zionism.
(8) I find these debates about reading as enjoyably incensing as anyone – and, just to be clear, I deplore the restrictions placed on prisoners' access to books , which seems less of a storm in a teacup and more of a violation of basic human rights.
(9) While the supreme court agreed in its judgment this morning with the solicitor advocate for the defendants that the case was "a storm in a teacup", they noted: "The storm is considerable.
(10) I remember feeling hungry; they gave us just a teacup.
(11) To take away those unique courses is to take away the heart of Soas.” Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university Read more But the row was described as a “storm in a teacup” by a university spokesperson, who said the letter had been sent in error, and although cuts and savings did have to be made at Soas, no decisions had yet been taken.
(12) There, his mother, in her mid-30s, dressed in a spotless white blouse, and with a Lady Diana-like haircut, was reading a newspaper and sipping from a genteel white teacup.
(13) Half-udder comparisons were made using 56 cows for 2 months, in an experiment involving high bacterial challenge, to assess the combined effects of 5 min overmilking and pulsation failure (resulting from the use of shortened teacup liners) on teat condition and mastitis.
(14) But usually comics ride out these teacup-sized Twitterstorms - or indeed their real-world equivalents.
(15) Nobody wants a commemorative teacup of Kate on a stepladder doing the bathroom.
(16) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
(17) For those who had never heard of Lord Rennard , in the teacup of the Lib Dem party he is a storming figure.
(18) Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage."
(19) Someone informed me in the comments that Ruby has been engaged in a "Twitter row" but I just googled it and it sounds like a storm in a teacup.
(20) "I would say to you this is a bit of a storm in a teacup.