shish kebab

Definitions

1. A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire.
   countable, uncountable
2. A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab).
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

““That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess⟳ they’d just lay⟳ there and wait⟳ until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.””

“The fibrillar crystals, which are known as shish-kebabs, develop⟳ when a 0.5% solution of polyethylene in xylene is cooled off at the rate of 1°C per hour with stirring…”

“A shish-kebab polymer crystal usually consists of a central fibril (shish) and disk-shaped folded-chain lamellae (kebab) oriented perpendicularly to the shish as shown in Fig. 18.3a.”

“Such a shish-kebab-like crystal morphology is often called shish-kebab crystals.”

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