What's the difference between butterfish and gunnel?
Butterfish
Definition:
(n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
Example Sentences:
(1) While we sat on the shore eating our lunch we watched the otter tucking into a butterfish with the same enthusiasm – and completely oblivious to our presence.
(2) In the butterfish, cod and rockling, all the oxygen absorbed by the skin is consumed by the skin tissue itself, whereas in the other species there is a net inward transcutaneous oxygen flux.
(3) were investigated in seven species of teleosts in normoxic sea water: butterfish (Pholis gunnellus L.), cod (Gadus morhua L.), five-bearded rockling (Ciliata mustela L), shanny (Blennius pholis L.), flounder (Platichthys flesus L.), sole (Solea solea L.) and eel (Anguilla anguilla L.).
(4) Although MPS-II possessed many radiologic similarities to MPS-I, the former presented certain characteristic features such as butterfish-like vertebra, and small triangular malformation of carpal bones and tarsal scaphoid etc.
(5) Bacterial decomposition of butterfish and smelts in small sealed jars containing seawater and other solutions, for periods ranging from 65 to 205 days, results in a large increase in concentrations of dissolved bicarbonate, carbonate, and ammonia (plus volatile amines).
Gunnel
Definition:
(n.) A gunwale.
(n.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has provided the platform for success that – with notable exceptions in Jonathan Edwards, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Kelly Holmes – has proved elusive since Coe's own glory days in the mid-1980s.
(2) On Saturday, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Ali died from septic shock due to unspecified natural causes.
(3) It was an unprecedented crowd in Colombia, and it convinced local entrepreneurs to set up a proper professional league, preferably stuffed to the gunnels with the world's top talent.
(4) Sally Gunnell wins gold at Barcelona Olympics: from the archive, 6 August 1992 Read more The world governing body for athletics issued a statement saying the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had ratified a settlement agreement under which Shobukhova’s original suspension had been prolonged until March 2016.
(5) Some high-profile foreign leaders – Jordan’s King Abdullah, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan – were cut from the program at the last moment, to make room for two other, as yet unnamed, speakers, according to Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell.
(6) It’s about learning lessons from the financial crisis,” said Gunnell, who is also a member of the National Suicide Advisory Group.
(7) He becomes only the fifth British athlete after Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford Christie to hold all four titles simultaneously.
(8) However it concludes that rises in unemployment “appear to account for less than half the increase in suicide deaths during recessions.” As part of the study, Gunnell interviewed men in their 20s, 30s and 40s who had attempted suicide.
(9) In a recession, all sorts of things happen,” said David Gunnell, professor of epidemiology at the University of Bristol.
(10) As long as next week is the same I have a good chance of winning the worlds in Beijing.” Should he succeed, Rutherford would join a select group of British athletes as only Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford Christie have held the Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles at the same time.
(11) Ali died late on Friday at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, the family’s spokesperson Bob Gunnell said.
(12) By quarter to five, the Cornerstone had shut its doors again, packed to the gunnels with about 200 fans.
(13) Gunnell , her eyes still wide and her smile ever widening, made sure she would remember every moment.
(14) High-profile foreign leaders – Jordan’s King Abdullah and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – were cut from the program at the last moment, to make room for two other, as yet unnamed, speakers, according to Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell.
(15) Sally Gunnell, draped in a Union flag, walked ever so slowly around Barcelona’s Olympic stadium yesterday evening, sponging up every glorious, golden moment of her 400m hurdles victory.