Grubs - English meaning

verb

Cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.

Usage examples:

They bake their own bread and cakes

noun

The action of cooking food by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.

Usage examples:

He picked up what was to become a consuming interest in baking

adjective

(of the weather or a place) extremely hot.

Usage examples:

Deep winters and baking summers

noun

Food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked.

Usage examples:

A loaf of bread

verb

Coat (food) with breadcrumbs before cooking.

Usage examples:

Bread the chicken and fry it in oil.

noun

A basic food made from flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked

Usage examples:

[ u ] a slice/loaf of bread

noun

A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling.

Usage examples:

Spheniscus species generally use unlined nests in burrows, crevices, caves, or surface scrapes.

verb

(of an animal) make a hole or tunnel, typically for use as a dwelling.

Usage examples:

Moles burrowing away underground

noun

The larva of a butterfly or moth, which has a segmented wormlike body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of appendages similar to legs.

Usage examples:

Flying to several sites to deposit eggs is a strategy used by all moths and butterflies whose cater…

noun

A small animal with a narrow body and many legs, and which feeds on the leaves of plants and later develops into a butterfly or moth (= flying insect)

noun

The practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients.

Usage examples:

He developed an interest in cooking

verb

Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.

Usage examples:

Shall i cook dinner tonight?

noun

The skill or activity of preparing and heating food to be eaten

Usage examples:

My mother always hated cooking., southern/italian cooking

noun

A style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country, region, or establishment.

Usage examples:

Much venetian cuisine is based on seafood

noun

A style of cooking

Usage examples:

Southern/japanese/mexican cuisine

verb

Reach inside a receptacle and search for something.

Usage examples:

She delved in her pocket

verb

To search, especially as if by digging, in order to find a thing or information

Usage examples:

She delved into her pocket to find some change.

verb

To reach into something or under the surface of something trying find an object

Usage examples:

Delve into she delved into her pocket to find some change., delve for i grabbed my bag and delved f…

verb

Break up and move earth with a tool or machine, or with hands, paws, snout, etc.

Usage examples:

The boar had been digging for roots

noun

An act or spell of digging.

Usage examples:

A thorough dig of the whole plot

verb

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth

verb

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.

Usage examples:

He was eating a hot dog

noun

Light food or snacks.

Usage examples:

These make great party eats

abbreviation

Tanzania (international vehicle registration).

verb

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.

Usage examples:

He was eating a hot dog

noun

Light food or snacks.

Usage examples:

These make great party eats

abbreviation

Tanzania (international vehicle registration).

noun

Items of food.

Usage examples:

The farm grows a variety of tropical plants yielding an amazing assortment of fruits and other edib…

adjective

Fit or suitable to be eaten.

Usage examples:

The shrub has small edible berries

verb

Make (a hole or channel) by digging.

Usage examples:

The cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench

verb

To dig a hole or channel in the ground, or to make a hole or channel by removing earth

Usage examples:

[ i ] we’ll be excavating here for the foundation of the building., [ t ] archaeologists are excava…

verb

Travel through (an unfamiliar area) in order to learn about it.

Usage examples:

He explored the fontainebleau forest

verb

To travel to a new place to learn about it or become familiar with it

Usage examples:

[ t ] they set out to explore the city., we have to explore new ways to market our products., many …

noun

The money paid for a journey on public transport.

Usage examples:

We should go to seville, but we cannot afford the air fare

verb

Perform in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular period.

Usage examples:

The party fared badly in the elections

noun

The money that you pay for traveling on a vehicle such as a bus or train

Usage examples:

We shared a taxi and split the fare., middle eastern fare, middle-income families will fare better/…

noun

A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water.

Usage examples:

The huge lakes are now devoid of fish

verb

Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line.

Usage examples:

He was fishing for pike

verb

Mend or strengthen with a fish.

noun

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.

Usage examples:

We need food and water

noun

Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal

noun

Something that can be taken in by an animal and used to keep it alive and allow it to grow or develop, or such things considered as a whole

Usage examples:

[ u ] baby/cat food, [ c ] there were a lot of frozen foods in the refrigerator., [ u ] he has had …

noun

A substance suitable for consumption as food.

Usage examples:

The people depend on sago starch as a basic foodstuff

noun

Any substance used as food

noun

A substance that is used as food or to make food

Usage examples:

Straw is a valuable by-product for farmers as an animal bedding and foodstuff., basic/essential foo…

verb

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.

Usage examples:

In the autumn they hunted deer

noun

An act of hunting wild animals or game.

Usage examples:

A bear-hunt

noun

The active immature form of an insect, especially one that differs greatly from the adult and forms the stage between egg and pupa, e.g. a caterpillar or grub.

Usage examples:

Putsi flies have normal four life cycle stage like most insects - egg, larvae, pupa and adult.

noun

A soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter.

Usage examples:

The maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages

noun

A creature like a very small worm (= an animal with a soft body and no arms or legs) that later develops into a flying insect

noun

Any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten.

Usage examples:

The evening meal

noun

An occasion when food is served or eaten, esp. breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or the food itself on such an occasion

Usage examples:

I don’t enjoy preparing three meals a day every day.

noun

An occasion when food is eaten, or the food which is eaten on such an occasion

Usage examples:

Go out/take sb out for a meal he took the whole team out for a meal at the end of the project., hav…

noun

The food necessary for growth, health, and good condition.

Usage examples:

Tubers from which plants obtain nourishment

noun

Food that you need to grow and stay healthy

Usage examples:

Young babies obtain all the nourishment they need from their mother's milk.

noun

Nourishment; sustenance.

Usage examples:

The bees reprocess the food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it

verb

Jab or prod (someone or something) with one's finger or a sharp object.

Usage examples:

He poked benny in the ribs and pointed

noun

An act of poking someone or something.

Usage examples:

She gave the fire a poke

noun

A bag or small sack.

Usage examples:

He fished out a poke of crisps from under the counter

noun

A blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body.

Usage examples:

The surgeon passes the probe over the surgical site again and excises more specimen if elevated rad…

verb

Physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument.

Usage examples:

Hands probed his body from top to bottom

verb

To search into or examine something

Usage examples:

[ i ] investigators are probing into new evidence in the case., [ t ] using a special instrument, t…

noun

The action of providing or supplying something for use.

Usage examples:

New contracts for the provision of services

verb

Supply with food, drink, or equipment, especially for a journey.

Usage examples:

Civilian contractors were responsible for provisioning these armies

noun

Something that is needed or wanted, or the act of considering the need for something and arranging for it

Usage examples:

[ u ] when designing buildings in california, you have to make some provision for earthquakes., [ c…

noun

A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.

Usage examples:

1947 saw the bread ration reduced

verb

Allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a commodity).

Usage examples:

Petrol was so strictly rationed that bikes were always in demand

plural noun

The food given to someone at one time, esp. to soldiers

Usage examples:

He fed prisoners the same rations he fed his own troops.

noun

A light snack or drink.

Usage examples:

Light refreshments are available

noun

A gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.

Usage examples:

A hunting rifle

verb

Make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.

Usage examples:

There are four basic ways to rifle a gun barrel

verb

Search through something in a hurried way in order to find or steal something.

Usage examples:

She rifled through the cassette tapes

noun

The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres.

Usage examples:

Cacti have deep and spreading roots

verb

Cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots.

Usage examples:

Root your own cuttings from stock plants

noun

An act of rooting.

Usage examples:

I had a root through the open drawers

verb

Another term for root2.

Usage examples:

The terriers scuttled off to rootle through the brushwood

verb

Cause to get up or start moving; rouse.

Usage examples:

I rousted him out of bed with a cup of coffee

verb

Search unsystematically and untidily through something.

Usage examples:

He rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief

noun

An unsystematic and untidy search.

Usage examples:

Open up the box and have a rummage around

verb

Clean or brighten the surface of (something) by rubbing it hard, typically with an abrasive or detergent.

Usage examples:

She scoured the cooker

noun

The action of scouring or the state of being scoured, especially by swift-flowing water.

Usage examples:

The scour of the tide may cause lateral erosion

verb

Subject (a place, text, etc.) to a thorough search in order to locate something.

Usage examples:

David scoured each newspaper for an article on the murder

verb

Scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something.

Usage examples:

She scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase

noun

An act of scratching or scrambling for something.

Usage examples:

He heard the scrabble of claws behind him

verb

To move your hands or fingers quickly to find and pick up something, esp. something that you cannot see

Usage examples:

She scrabbled around in her bag, trying to find her keys.

verb

Try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.

Usage examples:

I searched among the rocks, but there was nothing

noun

An act of searching for someone or something.

Usage examples:

The police carried out a thorough search of the premises

verb

Look or seek

noun

A substance or object that is solid rather than liquid or fluid.

Usage examples:

I was reminded of high school physics where we learned that solids conduct sound better than both l…

adjective

Firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid.

Usage examples:

The stream was frozen solid

adjective

Having three dimensions.

Usage examples:

A solid figure with six plane faces

noun

A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed.

Usage examples:

The squirrel has a store of food

verb

Keep or accumulate (something) for future use.

Usage examples:

A small room used for storing furniture

noun

The action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself, especially at a minimal level.

Usage examples:

The minimum income needed for subsistence

noun

What a person needs in order to stay alive

Usage examples:

Art satisfies a need beyond mere subsistence., palau’s economy is based on subsistence agriculture …

noun

The state of having what you need in order to stay alive, but no more

Usage examples:

Many people in the town feed their families by subsistence, an economic lifestyle characterized by …

verb

Make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide.

Usage examples:

The farm supplies apples to cider makers

noun

A stock or amount of something supplied or available for use.

Usage examples:

A farm with good water supply

plural noun

Food and other ordinary goods needed by people every day

Usage examples:

On their fourth day out, the climbers began to run low on supplies.

noun

Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment.

Usage examples:

Poor rural economies turned to potatoes for sustenance

noun

Food, or the energy and other things food provides people and animals to keep them strong and healthy

Usage examples:

The ranch animals get a lot of their sustenance from grazing.

noun

An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.

Usage examples:

A road tunnel through the pyrenees

verb

Short for wind tunnel.

plural noun

Food; provisions.