(n.) One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.
(n.) A dog that rouses game.
Example Sentences:
(1) Very little inhibition occurred if the inhibitory strain was added together with the starter culture.
(2) It’s not an entirely controversy-free choice, considering that Harden hasn’t been a starter for more than two seasons, doesn’t have the best track record as far as being a team player goes and at times has been bad enough on defense that you could make an entire YouTube playlist devoted entirely to clips of him failing to make any defensive effort whatsoever.
(3) Day-old broiler type chicks were fed a practical starter ration for three weeks, sacrificed and the D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.s), phosphoserine phosphatase (E.C.3.1.3.3.
(4) Press treatment of the McCann family following the tragic disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, for starters.
(5) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(6) But tangled up in its visions of thousands of new “starter homes” – 5,000 more of which were promised on Monday, when the government said it was going to directly commission housebuilding on five sites in the south of England – are an array of drastic measures aimed at what remains of England’s council homes.
(7) Streptococci were isolated from Italian dry sausage manufactured commercially with and without added starter cultures.
(8) Under these conditions, 7 pediococci, 16 lactobacilli, and 18 commercial meat starter cultures were successfully analyzed by plate count to yield a differential assessment of the lactobacilli and pediococci present without interference from the 9 other genera tested.
(9) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
(10) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(11) These data clearly show that after fresh yogurt ingestion, viable starter culture reaches the duodenum and contains beta-galactosidase activity.
(12) A Home Office source said: “This is a complete non-starter.
(13) The starter homes should cost no more than £450,000 in London and no more than £250,000 outside the capital.
(14) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
(15) The non-proteinogenic amino acid may serve as precursor of cyclopentenyl fatty acids via aleprolic acid, the starter molecule for these long-chain compounds.
(16) Fielder has accounted for more outs in this series than some of the Sox starters.
(17) We will make these starter homes 20 per cent cheaper by exempting them from a raft of taxes and by using brownfield land.
(18) When you take out a share of those 31 homes for shared ownership, 80% market rent homes, and starter homes, each of which developers will prioritise as they are more lucrative, the number left for genuinely affordable social rent is minuscule, if it exists at all.
(19) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
(20) Bill-O said that there were roughly 200 more white police shooting victims in 2013 than black police shooting victims, but that argument’s a non-starter when you consider there are about 185 million more white people in the United States , even if you call the problem “minuscule” .
Whitebait
Definition:
(n.) The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England.
(n.) A small translucent fish (Salanx Chinensis) abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as the European whitebait.
(2) But even if his health permits, Niitsuma knows he may never again get the chance to board his boat and head out into the Pacific in search of sole, whitebait, flounder and greenling.
(3) "Production and sales are about half of what they were before the tsunami, but it's just enough for us to make a living," Hachiya says, adding that the lucrative clam and whitebait trade would be restarted soon.
(4) Try the blanchbait, a plumper alternative to whitebait, deep fried and served with a chunk of bread and salad.
(5) One end of the waterfront is all bleeping arcades; the other is a Victorian crescent lined with handsome balconies and great little shops – such as Peter’s Fish Factory (96 Harbour Parade) for excellent whitebait and chips; Hunky Dory (24 High Street), for astonishing bric-a-brac under the slogan “Retro Goodness Vintage Cool”; and GB Pizza Co (14a Marine Drive), with its wood-fired oven.
(6) He's also up to speed on sustainability: skate, whitebait and eel are no longer on the menu at the 10 restaurants he oversees as chef-director of the Caprice group, including J Sheekey in London's Covent Garden, where he was head chef for seven years.