(v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
(v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(2) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
(3) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
(4) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
(5) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
(6) French adolescents eat as the preceding generation even if some behaviors (snacks, fastfood) may appear very different from those in adults.
(7) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(8) The relations between reported frequency of consumption of 18 common snack foods, SES variables, and oral health scores were studied in 92 12-year-old children from three inner-city schools in Rochester, New York.
(9) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(10) The cluster with the poorest dietary intake (high intake of fat, cholesterol, and alcohol; low intake of dietary fibre) showed on average a high consumption of animal products (except milk), fats and oils, snacks, and alcoholic beverages, and a low consumption of fruit, potatoes, vegetables, and sugar rich products.
(11) Two snacks ranked of approximately equal medium appeal were individually chosen from an array by each of 86 children (ages 4 years, 4 months to 7 years, 2 months).
(12) This involves ceaseless snacking of foodstuff with a low glycaemic load, foods that are mainly hummus or things that remind you of hummus or things that are called "hummus" but aren't, in an attempt to appeal to people who only eat hummus (butterbean hummus.
(13) The streets surrounding it are where locals go for snacks ( xiao chi ); Huguosi Xiaochi is a popular joint, as well as many other restaurants on the same stretch.
(14) But the long-term future of North Korea may be partly determined by a small, round, sugary snack from the South given as a reward to North Korean workers, say analysts.
(15) Feeling peckish, I ride to the lake’s official and slightly gaudy Strandbad, which is free to get in and has several snack stalls.
(16) However, its major interest could be observed during snacks and meals in order to control precisely post-prandial glucose variations, in association with blood glucose self-monitoring.
(17) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
(18) The consumption of a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor meal or snack can increase the synthesis of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin; proteins block this effect.
(19) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
(20) In addition, extrudates were utilized to prepare snacks of better nutritional quality than existing similar commercial products.
Square
Definition:
(n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.
(n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
(n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
(n.) A square piece or fragment.
(n.) A pane of glass.
(n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(n.) One hundred superficial feet.
(n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
(n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
(n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.
(n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
(n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
(n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
(n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
(n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
(n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
(a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
(a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
(a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
(a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
(a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
(a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
(a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
(a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
(n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.
(n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
(n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
(n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
(n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
(n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
(n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
(n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
(v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
(v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
(v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(2) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(3) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(4) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
(5) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
(6) At 1 month the rate of production of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha per square millimeter of surface area of experimental segments was normal.
(7) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
(8) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
(9) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(10) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
(11) Concentrations of DLIS were detectable in significantly more (58.3%) of the 12 CHF patients (group A) who were not receiving digoxin than in the 22 normal volunteers tested (13.6%) (P less than 0.05 by both chi-square and Fisher's exact test).
(12) According to the duration of filtered QRS (fQRS), to the voltage of root mean square of the terminal 40 ms (RMS 40) and to the duration of low amplitude terminal components of the sinus cycles, ventricular late potentials were detected in nine out of 29 subjects.
(13) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(14) The overall median density was 123 cells per field, which corresponds to 6,950 cells per square mm.
(15) The structure of Mn(III) superoxide dismutase (Mn(III)SOD) from Thermus thermophilus, a tetramer of chains 203 residues in length, has been refined by restrained least-squares methods.
(16) SSR was evoked by square wave electric stimulation through a pair of surface electrodes placed on the unilateral forearm.
(17) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(18) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(19) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(20) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.