What's the difference between convict and sheepshead?
Convict
Definition:
(p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.
(n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
(n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
(v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
(v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
(v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
(v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(3) The Mexican government has said that it “strongly rejects” the scheduled execution in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer .
(4) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
(5) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(6) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(7) In my party there are no red lines, only firm convictions,” he declared.
(8) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(9) Its investigations have also resulted in 107 officials in the law enforcement agencies being convicted.
(10) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(11) No one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
(12) With the first prosecutions under way in the UK and Guinea-Bissau , an increased focus on strengthening the law in Kenya , and a rare conviction in Uganda , positive moves are being made in several countries to implement laws that ban female genital mutilation (FGM).
(13) The experts' public report will include recommendations for particularly difficult removal requests (such as criminal convictions); thoughts on the implications of the court's decision for European internet users, news publishers, search engines and others; and procedural steps that could improve accountability and transparency for websites and citizens.
(14) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
(15) Of the 781 tattooed men, 62% had tattoos on their forearms, 34.2% had self-injured scars on their bodies, and 18.6% had criminal convictions.
(16) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(17) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(18) More adequate talks and correspondence by letter or through the telephone, a better compensation for the prison work, the convict representation in some sectors of intramural life, the measures as an alternative to enprisonment, all these actions represent the practical results of the reform achieved so far in a rather satisfactory way.
(19) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
(20) Kambanda and several members of his cabinet were convicted of genocide by an international tribunal .
Sheepshead
Definition:
(n.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) were least affected by mirex.
(2) The sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus) was continuously exposed for 23 wk to the organochlorine insecticide endrin, from the embryonic state through hatching until adulthood and spawing.
(3) An infection of sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) by myxosporidia (Myxobolus lintoni) was discovered in a brackish pond on Assateague Island, Virginia.
(4) The organochlorine pesticide Kepone induces scoliosis in the sheepshead minnow.
(5) Hepatic neoplasms developed in the Japanese medaka, guppy, sheepshead minnow, Gulf killifish, inland silverside, rivulus, and fathead minnow.
(6) No mortality occurred among caged sheepshead minnows at either site.
(7) Twenty-seven of the 550 (5%) captured sheepshead minnows exhibited epidermal lesions: white, raised, irregular tissue masses.
(8) Acute, lethal effects of fenthion deposited in these estuarine habitats were assessed for caged pink shrimp (Penaeus duorarum), mysids (Mysidopsis bahia) and sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus).
(9) No significant mortality was observed for the other organisms, which included: brown shrimp (Panaeus aztecus), grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio), juvenile snook (Centropomis undecimalis) and sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus).
(10) For fenvalerate, the sheepshead minnow LC50 was an order of magnitude greater than that of the most sensitive atherinid, whereas the LC50 for chlorpyrifos and sheepshead minnows was two orders of magnitude greater.
(11) One of the first things you have to do as Niko is buy new clothes in a Broker (read: Brooklyn) neighbourhood called Hove Beach (read: Sheepshead Bay).
(12) The sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus), exposed to N-nitrosodiethylamine (DENA) in sea water, provided the model for this study.
(13) Interspecies variability in the metabolism of pentachlorophenol (PCP) was investigated by exposing rainbow trout, fathead minnows, sheepshead minnow, firemouth, and goldfish to water-borne 14C-PCP for 64 h. 2.
(14) Among animals that survived for 28 days, sheepshead minnows concentrated mirex 40,800X above the concentration in the water, blue crabs 2,300X, pink shrimp 10,000X, and grass shrimp 10,800X.
(15) Mean concentrations of PCB's increased in the clapper rail, remained the same in the fiddler crab and mud snail, and decreased in the sheepshead minnow, mummichog, striped killifish, and salt marsh snail.
(16) A pharmacokinetic model for the accumulation of di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) by sheepshead minnow predicted a significant increase in the bioconcentration factor (BCF) of DEHP if its metabolism were inhibited.
(17) The general similarity of response to DENA in sheepshead minnows and rats suggests that this fish has promise as a model subject for studying some hepatocarcinogens and as a sentinel organism for detecting hepatocarcinogens in contaminated coastal waters.
(18) The sensitivity of sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) to carbophenothion was the same as that of the atherinids.
(19) Light (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) studies characterized the different pathogenetic stages of SH in liver of the sheepshead minnow and revealed a possible late transition of SH to putative polymorphic cell neoplasms.
(20) Additionally, neoplasms occurred in other organs and tissues of the medaka (retina, various mesenchymal tissues, exocrine pancreas, kidney, and nervous tissue), guppy (mesenchymal tissue, exocrine pancreas, and kidney), and sheepshead minnow (choroid gland, mesenchymal tissues, and nervous tissue).