Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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masticate \MAS-tih-kayt\, transitive verb:
masticate \MAS-tih-kayt\, transitive verb:
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1. To grind or crush with or as if with the teeth in preparation for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, "to masticate food."
1. To grind or crush with or as if with the teeth in preparation for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, "to masticate food."
2. To crush or knead (rubber, for example) into a pulp.
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intransitive verb:
intransitive verb:
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1. To chew food.
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While the B.O. and his family masticate their barbecued ribs and other high fat, high cholesterol, tasty but bad for you foods, they come out on Saturday morning TV and tell all the little kids how they should eat proper nutritional foods like fresh vegetables and fruits - hypocrites!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Honestly, folks, the people at the next table ordered the same dish, and I watched as a young couple tried in vain to masticate those fossilized pieces of "toast."-- Pat Bruno, "Hits and misses", Chicago Sun-Times, June 2002
Honestly, folks, the people at the next table ordered the same dish, and I watched as a young couple tried in vain to masticate those fossilized pieces of "toast."-- Pat Bruno, "Hits and misses", Chicago Sun-Times, June 2002
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Their powerful jaws allow hyenas to masticate not only flesh and entrails, but bones, horns, and even the teeth of their prey.-- Sam Tauschek, "A Hyena is no laughing matter", Sports Afield, May 2001
Their powerful jaws allow hyenas to masticate not only flesh and entrails, but bones, horns, and even the teeth of their prey.-- Sam Tauschek, "A Hyena is no laughing matter", Sports Afield, May 2001
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In 1820, Thomas Hancock invented a machine that could masticate, mix and soften rubber.-- Rikki Lamba, "Effect of carbon black on dynamic properties", Rubber World, April 1, 2000
In 1820, Thomas Hancock invented a machine that could masticate, mix and soften rubber.-- Rikki Lamba, "Effect of carbon black on dynamic properties", Rubber World, April 1, 2000
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The middle ear gives us our sound bite, our capacity to masticate without being forced to turn a momentarily deaf ear to the world, as most other vertebrates are.-- Natalie Angier, "In Mammals, a Complex Journey to the Middle Ear ", New York Times, October 12, 2009
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Masticate comes from the past participle of Late Latin masticare, "to chew," from Greek mastichan, "to gnash the teeth." The noun form is mastication.
Masticate comes from the past participle of Late Latin masticare, "to chew," from Greek mastichan, "to gnash the teeth." The noun form is mastication.
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