(n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
(a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutthroat trout had higher relative enzyme activities than rainbow trout from deposition of eye pigment to hatching.
(2) Using a densimeter technique, a kinetic analysis was made, employing both entrance and exit studies, of the permeability of erythrocytes of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri), German brown trout (Salmo trutta) and cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) to glycerol, ethylene glycol, thiourea and urea.
(3) And it wasn’t so long ago that I tied Midnight In Paris to a chair and went all Mr Blonde on it with my cutthroat razor.
(4) Electrophoretic variation observed in muscle A group lactate dehydrogenase in Snake Valley cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki subsp.)
(5) His other screen appearances have been as varied as Robin Hood, Horne and Corden, Skins and Hollywood movie Cutthroat Island.
(6) These taxa show considerable genetic divergence at 42 structural loci encoding enzymes; the mean Nei's D between the rainbow trout and the two species of cutthroat trout is 0.22.
(7) Pathologic conditions associated with exposure to endrin were found in the gill, liver, pancreas, brain and gonad of cutthroat trout.
(8) Of 10 cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) examined, there were metacercariae present in six.
(9) We examined the developmental rate of hybrids between rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and two subspecies of cutthroat trout: westslope cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki lewisi) and Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki bouvieri).
(10) More than one million lake trout, an invasive introduced species, have been removed from Yellowstone Lake, with the park stating there are now signs that cutthroat trout are beginning to reappear.
(11) Comet, the UK's second largest electrical specialist after Dixons, has struggled to make headway as supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon targeted the cutthroat market.
(12) The 70-day interpolated LE50 values (exposure concentrations of glochidia that killed 50% of the fish) for kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi), cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki), Atlantic salmon (S. salar), steelhead trout (S. gairdneri) and coho salmon (O. kisutch) were 17,500, 29,000, 35,000, 57,000, and 105,000, respectively.
(13) There is an immediate bite and we haul in a small, beautiful cutthroat trout, bearing the telltale red streak under its chin.
(14) The traditional two week "flop and drop" Mediterranean holiday has been hit by cutthroat competition which has slashed margins.
(15) Little voice Nick Clegg likes to cast himself as the nice man who's also a hardman, but his conference analysis of where the other parties were failing was less cutthroat than sore throat.
(16) This paper describes an homologous radioimmunoassay for coho salmon vitellogenin that demonstrates parallel cross-reactivity for plasma vitellogenin of all Pacific salmonids tested (chinook, chum, coho, pink, and sockeye salmon, and cutthroat and rainbow trout), but not for Atlantic salmon or two nonsalmonids: common carp and sablefish.
(17) The newcomer to the capital's cutthroat machinations, who launched his party a year ago, beat the former chief minster of the city, a veteran of the ruling Congress party who had dismissed his challenge as "not even on our radar".
(18) The taxonomic status of the Snake Valley cutthroat trout was reviewed.
(19) There has also been progress on protect native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A cutthroat trout caught in Upper Redfish Hours later I’m woken by the cold tent skin touching my face.
Fierce
Definition:
(superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
(superl.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.
(superl.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(3) Some business groups have been lobbying fiercely against the reform, though others support it.
(4) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(5) Despite its dominance, the PAP continues to fiercely restrict freedom of assembly and speech.
(6) Recruitment has not returned to pre-credit crunch levels, and there is fierce competition for new jobs.
(7) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(8) Andrea Dworkin, who has died aged 58, was a feminist who came to represent the fierce debate on pornography and sexual violence.
(9) In the past fortnight protesters have found themselves caught in the middle of fierce gun battles between regime forces and defected soldiers who have been guarding the main protest camp since March.
(10) The last of these come into force in 2014, and after fierce resistance from the larger operators, Kroes is not proposing any more price reductions.
(11) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(12) Allegations that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies after a fierce firefight in Iraq were roundly rejected by an official inquiry, which also found that a number of prisoners were abused and that troops breached the Geneva convention.
(13) So there will no doubt be another fierce battle next year over this issue.
(14) There's something very earnest about the build up to this MLS Cup final, as if the battle on the field between Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake starts with a competition to see which team can "respect" the other one more fiercely.
(15) Cameron is caught between fierce opposition to reform on his own benches, Labour criticism of the bill, and the determination of his deputy Nick Clegg to press ahead with a reform that has been delayed for 100 years.
(16) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(17) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
(18) Tesco’s accounting scandal has led to concerns about the way the sector handles payments from suppliers for promoting products or hitting sales targets, and UK grocers are operating under fierce competition from discounters such as the German company Aldi which has reported a 65% rise in profits in the UK.
(19) Liverpool did not begin like a side who believed a top-four finish was beyond them and continued to apply fierce pressure.
(20) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.