(n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(2) A pensioner is celebrating a catch of the day that’s closer to Herman Melville than Harry Ramsden’s after reeling in the biggest cod recorded to have been landed by a British angler.
(3) Characterization of the translation products by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate showed a major polypeptide weighing 11,500 daltons that was specifically precipitated by an antibody against angler fish insulin.
(4) The river is mentioned in Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler , a seminal work published in 1653 on the art and spirit of fishing, while Frederic Halford, the founder of modern fly fishing, fished many beats along the Kennet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
(5) Soon after Chinese salmon deal was unveiled in 2011, British anglers said they were horrified by its implications for wild fish stocks , because of the impact of sea lice infestation on wild salmon, and the risks of escaped farmed salmon having cross-bred with wild fish.
(6) The authors describe a clinical case of rhinitis and asthma in an angler after exposure to antigenic material released from larvae of fly, commonly used by anglers as bait.
(7) Benson, a common carp also known as the "people's fish" owing to its huge size and popularity with anglers, was in fact female, according to its keeper.
(8) Estimates were made for people with average intakes of air, water, foods, household dust, and soil, as well as for recreational anglers and aboriginal subsistence fishermen, who were expected to have higher intakes.
(9) Disease data were recorded in 143 north German dairy herds including cows of three breeds: Angler, German Red and White and German Black and White.
(10) As he painted, using the shelters’ trademark black-pigmented wood tar oil, he told me: “We get walkers, kayakers, anglers.
(11) In fact, its origins date at least as far back as the 19th century, when it is recorded in a threat made by disgruntled German villagers against an English angler who was depleting the stocks of their trout streams.
(12) No information is available in the United States on the levels of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in anglers who consume a great deal of fish presumed to be contaminated by these chemicals.
(13) Izaak Walton's young friend Charles Cotton, in later editions of The Compleat Angler , described the "Lathkin" as "the purest and most transparent stream that I ever yet saw … and breeds, it is said, the reddest and the best trouts in England."
(14) The African Angler ( african-angler.net ) offers guided day trips fishing on Lake Nasser from £80pp and three-night Aswan-Abu Simbel cruises from £270pp.
(15) Angling and the use of dyed maggots by anglers were not found to be risk factors.
(16) Spinal and cranial ganglia of American angler fish, Lophius americanus, are often infected with microsporidia.
(17) John Gale, conservation director for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers in Missoula, Montana, said the Utah representatives were pushing the bills despite their proven unpopularity.
(18) Along with the Itchen and the Test, both in Hampshire, the Kennet was once one of England's most sought-after rivers among anglers.
(19) The spinal cords of other teleosts, the sun-fish and angler, also are abbreviated and possess a filum terminale and cauda equina.
(20) The National Trust, RSPB , WWF and the Anglers' Trust, which together represent at least eight million people, claim that there are "serious flaws" in the way the options for generating large amounts of green electricty from the estuary were chosen, with a bias towards large-scale projects.
Swindler
Definition:
(n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Kremlin swindlers have understood that paid commenters and an army of bots can't help them in any way with their 'ideological struggle for the internet'," Navalny wrote in his blog on Tuesday .
(2) Navalny vowed to continue his fight against "the swindlers in the Kremlin and the White House", the seat of Russia's government.
(3) The Middle is a family sitcom starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn; while Lone Star features James Wolk as a Texan who leads a double life as both a devoted husband to the daughter of a Houston oil baron and a small-town swindler with a girlfriend 400 miles away.
(4) He worked with the most gifted French directors of his day, from Godard (four films including the masterly Pierrot le fou) and Melville (three gangster pictures and Léon Morin, prêtre) to Louis Malle (in Le Voleur) and Alain Resnais (the eponymous swindler in Stavisky He became France's number one box-office attraction in two Philippe de Broca films: the period swashbuckler Cartouche and the espionage thriller That Man from Rio.
(5) Earlier this month, the bank reached an agreement to pay $1.7bn to settle criminal charges stemming from its failure to report its concerns about Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's private investment service.
(6) The references to Armenia do not seem accidental – it appears that the authorities aim to demonise the Yunuses by portraying them not only as swindlers but also as enemies of the nation.
(7) They tried to portray her as a manipulative career swindler who ran a lonely hearts scam and spent time in jail.
(8) They include US dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families of despots, Wall Street swindlers, eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian executives, international arms dealers and a company alleged to be a front for Iran's nuclear-development programme.
(9) Navalny provoked special ire earlier this year when he called United Russia , the dominant political party headed by the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, a "party of swindlers and cheats", a nickname that spread like wildfire through young liberals dissatisfied with the country's ruling elite.
(10) Mayhew's account of the cheap goods sold on street corners that carry "gaudy labels bearing sometimes the name of a well-known firm, but altered in spelling or otherwise" will be familiar to anyone who has been tempted to buy a "Louis Viton" handbag or "Guchi" watch, just as the swindler who poses as a "Decayed Gentleman" and sends out begging-letters will strike a chord with anyone stung by email spam.
(11) Swindlers and legitimate fund managers both project an image of respectability and stability - and they both make promises about how much money they can make for clients.
(12) All this was no more than a swindler's just desserts.