(n.) A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
(n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
(n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
(n.) A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
(n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.
Example Sentences:
(1) D. ursi and D. klebanovskii predominantly occur in Pacific salmon, and D. dalliae in Alaskan blackfish.
(2) The Act of Killing and the Square were amongst a shortlist of documentary contenders that followed predictions (though there was no room for Blackfish), while The Great Beauty and The Hunt turned up in the best foreign language nominees.
(3) Blackfish by Gabriela Cowperthwaite deals not with animals in the wild, but in captivity, namely killer whales at the SeaWorld chain of resorts in the southern US.
(4) I was a killer whale trainer for 14 years and this is what I saw, the good and the bad.” Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, by John Hargrove with Howard Chua-Eoan, is published by Palgrave Macmillan Trade.
(5) Company names go through the letters of the alphabet – Asherton Ltd, Binbrook Ltd, Coalburn Ltd, Docking Ltd. One of their companies – Blackfish Capital – bought a division of the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in June 2009, with the banking operations being restructured into the Luxembourg-based Banque Havilland, named after Rowland’s Jersey mansion.
(6) It had previously issued a steady stream of lower-key newspaper ads, trying to push back aggressively against the message presented by Blackfish and the pall that was cast over the company when, in late 2009 and early 2010, trainer Alexis Martineau was killed by a SeaWorld-owned orca on loan to a Spanish theme park, and another trainer, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by a giant male orca during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando.
(7) • Blackfish is available to watch on ABC’s iView until 23 November
(8) He now controls Banque Havilland – which used to be the crashed Icelandic Kaupthing bank business – in Luxembourg and the hedge fund Blackfish Capital Management.
(9) A killer whale performs at SeaWorld in a scene from Blackfish.
(10) Critically acclaimed documentary Blackfish first screened at the Sundance film festival in January and is due to open in US cinemas this weekend.
(11) Disparate campaigns for animal rights and protections have steadily gained momentum in recent years, spurred by works such as the 2013 documentary Blackfish , which examined treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld parks and prompted outrage and a sharp drop in profits .
(12) The public turned on SeaWorld after Blackfish’s release, especially after an estimated 20 million people saw the film when it was aired on news network CNN.
(13) Like the other nature docs, Blackfish is a gripping movie, with drama and characters and emotion, but unlike them, it's one that reminds us how much of a gap there is between humans and animals, and between movies and reality, which often amounts to the same thing.
(14) The Disney-owned animation studio Pixar has taken the rare step of changing the plot of its forthcoming sequel to the 2003 blockbuster Finding Nemo , according to a New York Times report, following claims about a US marine park in the critically acclaimed Sundance documentary Blackfish .
(15) Mosquitofish, Sacramento blackfish, or combinations of both species were stocked in experimental paddies.
(16) Last year, in response to the extremely negative response people had after watching Blackfish, SeaWorld chief executive Joel Manby announced that the controversial killer whale shows would come to an end at the end of 2016, to be replaced with “an all new orca experience focused on the natural environment.” Blackfish and our lingering obsession with animals as entertainment Read more In a column for the Guardian in 2015, Cowperthwaite wrote: “People have stopped going to SeaWorld not simply because of a movie but because, it seems, we’re recalibrating how we feel ethically about animal welfare.” “Faced with uncomfortable truths about animal welfare,” she continued, “we’re clarifying what it means to be humane.” This article was amended to clarify how many people were killed by Tilikum
(17) According to Louie Psihoyos, who directed dolphin documentary The Cove, Blackfish also impacted upon Finding Dory, the forthcoming sequel to Finding Nemo.
(18) It is here that the storyline has been changed following claims made in Blackfish, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite , that SeaWorld, which has parks in Orlando, Florida, San Diego, California and San Antonio, Texas, was responsible for the deaths of three people, owing to its policy of keeping killer whales in captivity.
(19) The activists cited the documentary “Blackfish,” which explores what may have caused the killer whale Tilikum to kill SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.
(20) Blackfish , which one American critic called the scariest film of last year, is already the subject of angry debate.
Spawn
Definition:
(v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
(v. t.) To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
(v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
(v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
(v. t.) The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
(v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
(v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
(v. t.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
(2) Such a heterogeneity in DNA content in the diploid part of HPR cell population could apparently suggest some differences in the nuclear chromatin arrangement to be always higher in spring before the frog spawning, and it seems to be characteristic of this type of cells.
(3) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
(4) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
(5) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
(6) The 53K esterase is also present in spawned ovaries and testes.
(7) It is important that newly developed antibiotics be used so as to increase our ability to eradicate infection, rather than to complicate the treatment of infection by spawning the creation of organisms resistant to multiple antibiotics.
(8) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(9) EHSE, but not DSE or HCSE, inhibited spawning (P less than 0.01) in 36% of the exposed fish and hepatic AHH activity in the non-spawning fish was significantly (P less than 0.05) higher than in the fish that did spawn.
(10) It's a fact of modern life that any human aspiration – from dropping a dress size to preventing your own suicide – will spawn a series of how-to books devoted to it.
(11) The many pop stars spawned by Simon Cowell's television shows have, as usual, been comprehensively ignored, apart from in the British single category, based on commercial radio airplay and sales and voted for by the public.
(12) The involvement of active inorganic ion transport and Na+,K(+)-ATPase in oocyte hydration in Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), marine teleosts which spawn pelagic eggs, was investigated by examining changes in the inorganic ion content of ovarian follicles containing mainly oocytes, by performing in vitro incubations of the follicles with ion channel blockers, and by assaying membrane preparations of ovaries containing hydrating and non-hydrating oocytes for Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity and content.
(13) In males, both plasma T and 11-KT initially increased in November and then showed further increasings during the rest of the period of gametogenesis (December) to reach their peak levels in the first half of the spawning period (end of January).
(14) The increase of the lysosomal activity in the connective tissue may be related to the changes found in the muscle texture associated with spawning.
(15) 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone increased significantly in serum before and after the fish had spawned.
(16) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
(17) In Scotland a section of the Labour party remain convinced that Blairism spawned the rise of nationalism, and in England a similar group believe the alienation of the working-class vote stems from the former PM’s embrace of globalisation, leading to lower wages and weaker job security.
(18) The spawning season extends from late October to December and the ovary exhibits asynchronism.
(19) These findings suggest mechanisms for the maintenance of high rates of gluconeogenesis in salmon during spawning migration.
(20) China’s real growth is now below that of the Mao years: the economic crisis will spawn a crisis of legitimacy for the deeply corrupt communist party.