(a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
(n.) An aquatic animal or plant.
(n.) Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a number of bacteriological drinking water analyses, this property was confirmed insofar as aquatic myxobacteria could regularly be demonstrated when inspecting hygienically deficient wells or springs.
(2) While the combined O2 uptake changed by a factor of 2, within the weight range under study, the aquatic O2 uptake changed 8-fold within the same range.
(3) Heavy metals are well known pollutants in the aquatic environment.
(4) In contrast to widespread distribution of PCBs in the environment, PCT residues were seldom found in samples from aquatic environments such as water and sludge and waterfowl and fish, and, if found, the levels of PCTs were so low as to be practically negligible.
(5) Neither the stock cultures nor the aquatic strains were capable of growth in autoclaved river water taken above the sewage outfall at the three temperatures tested.
(6) Hydrotherapy is based on several important bioengineering principles that permit the design and development of aquatic exercise devices, techniques and programs.
(7) Using zoospore capture technique, 361 colonies of aquatic freshwater fungi were recovered from sewage effluents, out of which 341 reached sexual maturity.
(8) Based on this concern, the objectives of this study were to: (1) compile, review, and synthesize literature on the fate, persistence, and environmental concentrations of DFB in both freshwater and saltwater environments; (2) compile, review, and synthesize acute and chronic aquatic toxicity data on DFB effects on freshwater and saltwater organisms; (3) assess possible risk to aquatic biota associated with the use of this insecticide in one specific area (Maryland); and (4) recommend future research based on the data gaps identified from this study.
(9) Monthly mean concentrations of dieldrin in river water and most aquatic organisms were highest in June and July, soon after aldrin had been applied to corn land in the watershed.
(10) Thus, the fern bioassay may be an inexpensive means of detecting both chronic low dose and episodic high dose inputs of mutagenic pollutants into aquatic ecosystems.
(11) Concentration factors of strontium-90 in aquatic organisms and substrates are higher in a dystrophic lake than in the other types.
(12) A minimal kinetic scheme is derived, in which a transient monodentate DNA-platinum(II) adduct is formed in a bimolecular reaction between DNA and aquated platinum(II) compounds.
(13) The substances released by algae in the profundal are taken up by aquatic bacteria which explains the lower release and PER measured.
(14) Eggs contained first-stage larvae in 23-26 days at 25 C. Seven species of aquatic oligochaetes were exposed experimentally to eggs of E. tubifex containing first-stage larvae.
(15) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method is described for determining residues of Bayer 73 (2-aminoethanol salt of 2',5-dichloro-4'-nitrosalicylanilide) in fish muscle, aquatic invertebrates, mud, and water by analyzing for 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline (CNA), a hydrolysis product of Bayer 73.
(16) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(17) Their stabilities were studied in water and the influence of chloride anions, pH, temperature and time was discussed and rate constants of the aquation reactions at different conditions were calculated.
(18) Since sediments from the habitats occupied by the fish in this study have been shown to contain multiple hepatocarcinogens, the findings strengthen cumulative evidence that English sole are useful as indicators of exposure to hepatocarcinogens in aquatic environments.
(19) Aquatic plants are notoriously difficult to study systematically due to convergent evolution and reductionary processes that result in confusing arrays of morphological features.
(20) Tryptic peptide comparisons of 125I-labeled virion proteins showed that five viruses are different from each other, although there was considerable overlap in the peptide maps of the three aquatic viruses, indicting a degree of relatedness.
Waterman
Definition:
(n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
(n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses.
(n.) A water demon.
Example Sentences:
(1) She bounced back into the charts in 1989 with Another Place and Time, overseen by the British producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the single This Time I Know It's for Real was a major international success.
(2) Increasing the sensitivity by setting ktup = 1 allowed FASTA to perform as well as Smith-Waterman on an additional 7 superfamilies.
(3) However, the P-450(11)beta precursor is not processed by mitochondria from a nonsteroidogenic tissue (heart), a result observed previously for the P-450SCC precursor (M. F. Matocha and M. R. Waterman (1984) J. Biol.
(4) Held in jail for a week, Ishi was later introduced to two anthropologists, Thomas Waterman and Alfred Kroeber, and helped them to transcribe his dialect at the Anthropology Museum attached to the University of California in San Francisco.
(5) Using the eight characteristics identified by Peters and Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence, the study analyzes 16 magnet hospitals to ascertain to what extent they possess characteristics similar to the 'best run' companies in the corporate community.
(6) Extremal properties, such as longest helical region, can now be studied with a new family of probability distributions [Arratia, R., Gordon, L. & Waterman, M. S. (1986) Ann.
(7) The period between the rise of Adam and the Ants and the collapse of Stock, Aitken and Waterman’s “Hit Factory” empire may prove to be the last truly great pop era, in that it produced not just great pop music, but great pop stars.
(8) Among his early clients were the pop songwriting and production team Stock Aitken Waterman , who introduced him to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.
(9) Their version of Band Aid , overseen by the Stock, Aitken and Waterman production team, featured a lineup who could baffle a crack pop investigations team 25 years on: D Mob!
(10) In these days of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, stale re-releases and crummy cover versions, an alternative rock scene can still feel proud and puffed up despite being tainted by its own decay.
(11) It was Minogue who, in the early 90s, decided to move away from her girl-next-door image and end her relationship with Stock, Aitken and Waterman in search of a more refined, adult direction.
(12) The annual ocular exposure was calculated from the age of 16 for each waterman by combining a detailed occupational history with laboratory and field measurements of sun exposure.
(13) The FASTA program using the ktup = 2 sensitivity setting performed as well as the Smith-Waterman algorithm for 19 of the 34 superfamilies.
(14) "The first time we recorded Kylie I remember Matt Aitken walking out of the studio and saying 'This girl has got a voice you will always, always remember'," says Waterman.
(15) Each set utilizes at least three of four separate poly(A)+ addition sites providing an explanation of the three sizes of adrenodoxin mRNA (1.75, 1.4, and 0.95 kilobases) previously observed in bovine adrenocortical RNA by this laboratory (Okamura, T., John, M.E., Zuber, M.X., Simpson, E.R., and Waterman, M.R.
(16) Using the eight characteristics identified by Peters and Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), the study analyzes 16 magnet hospitals to ascertain to what extent they possessed characteristics similar to the best run companies in the corporate community.
(17) A first patent was registered in 1903, and Waldo Waterman’s “aerobile” went on its maiden flight in 1937.
(18) At recent protests in New York , Washington , London and Seattle , masked protesters held up boomboxes and chanted the Stock Aitken Waterman lyrics which Astley made famous.
(19) Using the Smith-Waterman algorithm, the same search takes 35 min.
(20) Pete Waterman, of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman songwriting team that signed Minogue on the back of The Loco-Motion's success, isn't surprised her Voice debut was a hit.