(n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
(n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You've just reminded me I have to go to the tripe shop tomorrow," one correspondent tells him.
(2) But Fergus's parents came into the restaurant and reported back that they enjoyed the tripe and onions – which reminds me of the smell of elephant's cage.
(3) Trim the tripe and pass the vinegar … Nothing, of course, diminishes the fact that BuzzFeed is an internet phenomenon – and an increasingly ominous media contender whenever publishers gather.
(4) A comparison was made of the multiplication of bacteria in specimens of tripe processed in different ways.
(5) Tripe Catalan I am no fonder of boiled knitting than the next man, but I assure you that this is rather different from normal tripe.
(6) Boris Johnson tweeted on Saturday night that reports of a challenge were “tripe”.
(7) Serves 1, takes 2¼ hours tenpence worth of tripe (maybe ¼lb) 2 onions salt, pepper handfuls of herbs 2 tomatoes 1 dessertspoon tomato paste Prepare a pot of water with the seasonings and one of the onions in it; into this, averting your eyes, empty the piece of damp blanket you will have received from the butcher.
(8) He calls the Keynesian idea that you can raise economic activity by increasing the budget deficit "tripe".
(9) "That is absolute tripe," say Bredon Conservatives, sitting on the lawn.
(10) The talking of tripe with the tufty-headed fellows from the estate agent.
(11) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(12) In cancer patients with tripe palms alone, the most common underlying neoplasm was pulmonary carcinoma (53% of cases), whereas patients with both tripe palms and acanthosis nigricans frequently had gastric (35% of cases) or pulmonary (11% of cases) carcinomas.
(13) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(14) There are times – archetypal digital times – when too much hype and PR tripe gets in the way.
(15) Harris said the bishop's comments were "ill-informed tripe".
(16) The majority (94%) of published cases of tripe palms occurred in patients with cancer; only five patients showed no evidence of an associated malignancy.
(17) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(18) Much of the exported pork will be offal, tripe, trotters, ears and other parts of the so- called "fifth quarter" – the parts Brits tend to turn their nose up at, but the Chinese savour.
(19) His anti-Muslim tripe was not an isolated incident of bigotry.
(20) We describe two patients with triple palms and pulmonary tumors, and review the 77 patients with idiopathic- and malignancy-associated tripe palms reported in the world literature.
Valueless
Definition:
(a.) Being of no value; having no worth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alleged contrast between the descriptive clinical (and according to a German author like Jaspers literary and superficial) French psychiatry and the scientific theoretical (and for the most aggressive French authors valueless) German one was a recurrent theme.
(2) Antibiotics are valueless in decreasing the incidence of local septic complications, such as empyema or pericholecystic abscess formation.
(3) Guy Foster, head of research at Brewin Dolphin, says gold is a curious asset: “It is supposed to be a store of value, but by conventional investment metrics it is almost valueless.” You can invest in exchange traded funds such as the SPDR Gold Trust, which tracks the spot price of gold; a gold miner such as Randgold Resources; or buy bullion or coins.
(4) The semantic differential scheme consisted (apart from six distractor pairs) of the following semantic pairs: (a) negative-positive, (b) valueless-valuable, (c) bad-good, (d) onesided-manysided, (e) unimportant-important, and (f) stupid-smart.
(5) Pretreatment with heparin was virtually valueless, while methylprednisolone offered temporary protection.
(6) It is therefore suggested that bacteriostatic agents may be valueless for prophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis.
(7) Most indigenous trees in Africa coppice when cut, their stumps looking like tangled weeds and valueless scrub to the unknowing eye.
(8) The test is thus valueless for carrier detection, and reasons are given why it should be so.
(9) All of this would have been valueless if the series had been clumsy, but it wasn't.
(10) Forests have historically been seen as valueless, and forestry as backwards – neither of them worthy of inclusion in 'development' strategies, or of the usual set of policy instruments encouraging proper investment, such as tax incentives and appropriate credit.
(11) Weight-bearing activity has been commonly considered to be essential for the beneficial effects of exercise on the skeleton, and, therefore, swimming has been considered valueless in the maintenance of bone mass.
(12) If – eventually – the companies cannot, for the sake of the human race, be allowed to extract a great many of the assets they own, then many of those assets will in time become valueless.
(13) The positive gallium scintigraphy results were clinically rated as valuable, questionable or valueless according to their contribution to the diagnosis.
(14) And he talked about the importance of songs: "Songs that we are now being told are valueless, by self-proclaimed revolutionary freedom fighters, posing as Robin Hood.
(15) By contaminating the horn, you reduce the reward and the horn becomes a valueless product.
(16) Histologic typing is valueless in predicting tumor behavior.
(17) Foundation trusts will have an agenda to maximise income, even though that means they will carry out valueless activities in order to do so.
(18) For marrows or mild or moderately reduced cellularity the subjective estimate of cellularity was almost valueless both in terms of accuracy and reproducibility.
(19) Financial analysts, including Mark Carney the governor of the Bank of England , have warned that a carbon price will render many fossil fuel reserves valueless.
(20) Other historical findings are either valueless or should be used to reassure these usually anxious women.