(n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.
(n.) Salt or brackish water.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is why the recent Victorian Bracks Review into school funding has recommended a new system of strategic audits that would require schools to report on how effectively funds are being used to improve outcomes for students.
(2) The author used Deller and Brack's method in the treatment of twelve patients with squinting amblyopia and eccentric fixation.
(3) As McDougall tells it, Bracks didn’t take much notice of the report anyway – that’s the way transport policy seems to work.
(4) Restriction enzyme mapping as well as partial nucleotide sequencing of the 3' terminal of the homology region confirm the previous conclusion [Tonegawa, Brack, Hozumi and Schuller, Proc.
(5) The tendency of copolypeptides with alternating hydrophilic and hydrophobic residues to form water soluble beta-structures in presence of salt, already described for poly(Val-Lys) (Brack and Orgel, 1975), was generalized to optically pure poly(Lys-Leu-Lys-Leu) and poly(Leu-Glu-Leu- G lu).
(6) Urging the party to reject the proposed U-turn, Duncan Brack – the former special adviser to the previous Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne – warned the party could not be taken seriously if it changed its stance by pretending airports could be expanded without any impact on carbon emissions.
(7) The desal plant was commissioned by Steve Bracks’s Labor government in 2007, amid the lengthy millennium drought, and was completed in 2012.
(8) Indeed, the Bracks Review argued forcefully that the Gonski money the Coalition has walked away from is absolutely central to maintaining a quality school system.
(9) Possible explanations for the occurrence of identical hinge-region deletions in three different immunoglobulins are suggested by recent experiments demonstrating that the three constant domains and the hinge region of mouse gamma1 chains are each encoded by separate segments of DNA [Sakano, H., Rogers, J. H., Hüppi, K., Brack, C., Traunecker, A., Maki, R., Wall, R., & Tonegawa, S. (1979) Nature (London) 277, 627].
(10) The Labor leader Steve Bracks rejected that idea, saying he would instead conduct a study to look into transport in the northern suburbs.
Brackish
Definition:
(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cestode infections include diphyllobothriasis transmitted by both fresh water fish and fish from brackish waters.
(2) This paper intends to be a contribution to the study of the reproduction of the Rivulus cylindraceus, living in brackish waters of canals close to the coasts.
(3) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(4) Rainbow trout held in brackish water (15 parts per thousand) were starved or fed different amounts of food.
(5) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(6) Based on a comparison of the individual acute values for chinook salmon to the expected environmental concentrations, the margin of safety for boron was only 56 in fresh and 46 in brackish water.
(7) farauti 1 which was often found breeding within 100 m of the sea in either brackish or freshwater habitats.
(8) The incidence of some of these infections could be lowered if people took care to avoid eating undercooked seafood, swimming in brackish water, or sustaining lacerations in a marine environment.
(9) Vibrio cholerae, an autochthonous member of brackish water and estuarine bacterial communities, also attaches to crustacea, a significant factor in multiplication and survival of V. cholerae in nature.
(10) An outbreak of poisoning from ingestion of purple clam (Hiatula diphos), obtained from a brackish fish-culture pond, occurred in southern Taiwan in early January 1986.
(11) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(12) Larvae of the other 2 species were not found in brackish water which accords with previous laboratory observations of their lower salinity tolerance.
(13) and fecal coliforms in a cove receiving sewage treatment effluent and draining into a brackish lagoon were studied for 34 months with sampling at six stations.
(14) The meals consisted of Finnish freshwater fish (87%) (vendace, pike, perch and rainbow trout) and brackish water fish (13%) (Baltic herring) that provided about 1 g of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids per day (0.25 g eicosapentaenoic acid and 0.55 g docosahexaenoic acid).
(15) With the river, plain and brackish pools there was abundant food including prey animals, shellfish and edible plants.
(16) Rediae of 2 size groups were present in the digestive gland of the brackish-water snail, Cerithidea californica.
(17) Fresh water was running out, and the share of brackish water was rising.
(18) Its larvae, living in brackish waters of coastal lagoons, can devour those of Ceratopogonidae and at least young stages of those of Mosquitoes whose some halophilic species are dangerous vectors of diseases.
(19) On this occasion, this species was found in a pound of brackish water and abundant vegetation, known as La Redonda, located in the Morón municipality, Ciego de Avila.
(20) In general, young fish tested in fresh water were more sensitive to the individual elements and the two mixtures than were advanced fry tested in brackish water.