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That will change when getting congealed fat off pans stops being someone else's job.While the demand for service survives the Servant Problem, standards of housekeeping also tend to fall.
Yet here too Ms George finds heroes: the "flushers" who don crotch-high waders and do battle with everything that is dropped down drains or stuffed down manholes, from cotton-buds (the perfect size to block filters) to congealed fat from restaurants; from mobile phones to the occasional dead Mafioso.
Usually this happens by exposing minerals to agents that rip away electrons, just as oxygen does during oxidation.As the planets congealed , gravitational forces and particle collisions created the high temperatures necessary to melt metals floating around in space, and minerals began their diversification.
Since the creation of the capital's mayoralty in 2000, a distinct ideology has congealed around that office.
Granovetter contended that institutions are actually congealed social networks, and, because economic action takes place within these networks, social scientists must consider interpersonal relationships when studying the economy.
Some lavas and magmas appear to have congealed partly as glass and partly as crystalline material; water driven out from those portions undergoing crystallization may have been trapped or taken up by the glassy portions to form pitchstone. Pitchstone is unstable, and its conversion to a very fine-grained crystalline aggregate resembles the devitrification of obsidian.
As another bitterly cold Korean winter congealed operations on the ground, repatriation of prisoners of war (POWs) became the most intractable issue at P'anmunjŏm.
I look back, you see, at all those many years of clearly differentiated individuals presenting their work with great flair and panache, yet in my brain they've congealed into one enormous green blur.
In Less Than Zero, Clay watches as a tormented Julian has sex with an older man for money; he runs into an alleyway with his friends to stare into the eyes of a young man, only recently murdered with freshly shed blood not yet congealed on his face; he watches the rape of a drugged 12-year-old girl, handcuffed to the bedpost, tortured for kicks.
Ferguson revealed that when O'Shea got back from France, blood congealed in his muscle, raising the possibility of further problems.
He had, like, blood on his teeth and – I mean, I had felt that his hair was matted, like it had been burnt or something, was congealed.
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The primary grammatical function of ""congealed" " is as an adjective describing a noun. It indicates that the noun has solidified or thickened from a liquid or semi-liquid state. Ludwig examples show it modifying nouns like 'fat', 'blood', and 'lava'.
Expression frequency: Very common
