[
US
/ˈpævɫɑv/
]
NOUN
- Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
How To Use Pavlov In A Sentence
- The fact that I first met it as part of a pavlova didn't help: the deep clouds of snow-white sugar-cake need a fruit with a sting in its tail (the Antipodeans are bang on with their inclusion of passion fruit) if the dessert isn't to cloy. Tender delights
- As such, the set was both heavy on the new material and encore-less, a sort of brilliant means of creating a Pavlovian effect on the assembled concert-goers.
- This Pavlovian addiction gets magnified when the merchandising of the cartoon characters starts entering into every nook and corner of the house, be it the lunch box, the school note book or the bathroom towel.
- The most exotic thing she ever made was pavlova.
- Came away with tummy nicely full (hope no-one noticed me in embarrassingly close proximity to the mini-pavlovas for much of the evening!) and a heart newly inspired. Kakiseni at Alexis
- Cover the cooked pavlova with a damp dish towel and leave it to cool.
- We will have to have pavlova without strawberries, because every time we eat a strawberry we are making the ozone hole bigger.
- Later everyone was served with tea and coffee and delicious homemade strawberry pavlova and chocolate cake, made by Susie herself.
- Even automatic, unthinking actions are to a degree socially-conditioned, as Pavlov and Skinner have demonstrated.
- The election took on a folklorish, mythic nature," Glev Pavlovsky (ph) says. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2004