What's the difference between boohoo and sailfish?

Boohoo


Definition:

  • (n.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over in Coronation Street , bungling serial killer John Stape returned from Ireland and everything turned a deeper shade of boohoo.
  • (2) Textile firms making products for fashion retailers such as River Island, New Look, Boohoo and Missguided are paying their UK workers between £3 and £3.50 an hour, Channel 4’s Dispatches will allege on Monday night.
  • (3) A third textile firm, United Creations, paid him £3.25 an hour for work which included packing a jacket for Boohoo and marking up zips on dresses for Missguided, the programme says.
  • (4) Shares in AO World, the domestic appliance website, have lost 31% since its float in February while shares in the fast-growing fashion website Boohoo have dropped 22% since their March listing.
  • (5) Both AO World and Boohoo rocketed on their market debuts , triggering fears that the stock market was once again gripped by dotcom fever following the high-profile IPOs of Twitter and King Digital Entertainment in the US.
  • (6) Boohoo said it was unaware that United Creations was carrying out work for one of its approved suppliers.

Sailfish


Definition:

  • (n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)
  • (n.) The basking, or liver, shark.
  • (n.) The quillback.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three MAbs exhibited distinct specificity for sailfish albumin.
  • (2) The MAb-peroxidase conjugate was highly specific toward sailfish in that no reaction against heterologous species was detected.
  • (3) One of these species specific MAbs (M2D1) was conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in order to construct an ELISA for identification of sailfish from serum.
  • (4) Suggestions included a giant squid, whose eyes can be as large as soccer balls, a bigeye thresher shark, which can reach can reach 16ft, a marlin or a particularly large sailfish.
  • (5) The ELISA for sailfish correctly identified eight sailfish from 26 billfish serum samples.
  • (6) Marlins, sailfish, and spearfishes have a heat-producing tissue beneath the brain and adjacent to the eyes.
  • (7) Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) from 16 different clones exhibited activity against sailfish albumin.
  • (8) Hybridomas were produced and screened by ELISA for reactivity with the purified albumins of sailfish, blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) and white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus).

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