MRE

MRE

An initialism for "meal ready to eat," meaning a military ration pack that requires no further preparation. After 12 long months eating MREs, I'm ready to get back to home-cooked meals in my own home.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

MRE

n. meals ready to eat, prepackaged food used by the armed forces in combat. (Also reinterpreted as meals rejected by Ethiopians; meals rejected by the enemy.) Where is my MRE? I’m tired of living.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • meals rejected by Ethiopians
  • reject
  • ready when you are
  • get ready
  • be ready to roll
  • make ready to (do something)
  • all set to go
  • be raring to go
  • raring
  • ready to order?
References in periodicals archive
Spain's Civil Guard at Algeciras port has imposed new regulations, without prior notice, on MREs leaving the port.MREs driving cars with temporary plates have been surprised by Spanish authorities asking them to pay 31% of the car's value.
Computed tomography enterography (CTE) generally demonstrates greater availability and lower initial costs compared with MRE; however, the overall cost benefit remains incompletely evaluated.
MRE is a method used to characterize the biomechanical properties of tissues such as stiffness (2).
The conditional probability that [y.sub.i] that falls into the category j (1, 2, 3, 4, 5: BCS; and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: MRE) with the given vector [beta], [alpha] and t (t = [t.sub.min], [t.sub.1], .., [t.sub.j-1], [t.sub.max]) and represented as:
Faute d'elaborer reellement comme il se doit, cette strategie nationale, avec une sorte de paresse intellectuelle, on se contente de dire et de repeter a satiete qu'on a cette strategie, en la vendant par la [beaucoup moins que]COM[beaucoup plus grand que] de mille et une manieres, en s'ingeniant a trouver les formules ambiguE1/2s et le canal adequat pour accrediter l'idee ...En bref , une simple strategie de communication, en lieu et place d'une reelle strategie nationale globale , coherente et integree en matiere de MRE!
The investigators explained that MRE gives a better indication of the microstructure of the hippocampus -- the structural integrity of the entire tissue.
In this investigation, the viscoelastic properties of the MRE sample were followed by the definition in [13].
MRE showed marked inflammatory changes of the terminal ileum and caecum, characterized by diffuse bowel wall thickening with polypoid appearance.
HepG2 and Hep3B cells were cultured till midlog phase in a 96-well plate at a density of 2 x [10.sup.4] cells/well for 24 h prior to treatment with different concentrations (0 to 2000 [micro]g/ml) of MRE (control cells with vehicle only).
In this prospective, exploratory study, we assessed the accuracy of noninvasive fibrosis biomarkers and MRE shear wave velocity for the diagnosis of fibrosis and portal hypertension in a cohort of hepatitis C (HCV) and/or human immunodeficiency virus- (HIV-) infected liver disease patients.
Ampac has been a producer of MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) retort pouches for the US military for many years.
"He told me that 'if you eat an MRE everyday for two weeks straight--you'll die; If not because of the ten years they have been sitting in the box, then from the inability for my body to process all the calories.'"
For that reason, a number of research projects on the efficient control of variably generated vibrations have been carried out, including the use of magneto-rheological elastomer (MRE) [1-3].
New imaging methods for diagnosing small intestine diseases, including computed tomography enterography (CTE) and magnetic resonance enterography (MRE), are becoming increasingly popular.1,2
Background: To compare the diagnostic values of magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in staging hepatic fibrosis (HF) in an animal model.