(n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
(n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(2) The El Dorado Medication Error Tool (EDMET) is objective and simple to use.
(3) Iran is an El Dorado for oil,” said Paolo Scaroni, who when he headed the Italian energy giant Eni met with Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh about potential investments.
(4) Bouchart has long been a fierce critic of immigration policy in the UK, which she said was "considered an El Dorado" by immigrants.
(5) Greece, he said, was set to become an El Dorado for those who did so.
(6) We recently characterized a protein serine-threonine kinase (Pkn1) that is required for normal development (J. Munoz-Dorado, S. Inouye, and M. Inouye, Cell 67:995-1006, 1991).
(7) French champagne at Sherry's Restaurant for the top-hatted Wall Street speculators celebrating the discoveries of El Dorado; shots of five-cent whiskey (said to taste "like a combination of kerosene oil, soft soap, alcohol, and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers") for the unemployed foreign labourer sleeping in the gutters south of Canal Street.
(8) Hotel Posada Freeman, Mazatlán, Sinaloa This 12-storey hotel, built in 1944 on Old Mazatlán’s seafront (and not to be confused with the newer Posada Freeman Zona Dorado), hosted the likes of Rock Hudson and John Wayne while they shot westerns in Mexico.
(9) The content of cadmium and lead was determined in several most popular brands of cigarettes produced in Poland (Carmen, Caro, Extra Mocne, Klubowe, Popularne, Radomskie, Marlboro--produced on the licence of the Philip Morris and in cigarettes imported from Albania (Durres Special, Arberia), Yugoslavia (Jugo) and Cuba (Tobaco Dorado 767, Kim).
(10) One serving intelligence officer told the Guardian: “South Africa is the El Dorado of espionage.” Africa has also become caught up in the US, Israeli and British covert global campaigns to stem the spread of Iranian influence, tighten sanctions and block its nuclear programme.
(11) In the following paper (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, S., and Inouye, M. (1990) J. Biol.
(12) But what I really liked about being a thief was that every week you might find El Dorado," he said.
(13) In response to a request by the French authorities, there is now direct communication between our officials and migrants to explain to them that there is no El Dorado there [in the UK].
(14) Their father was shot in a dispute over land on a cattle ranch near the Brazilian town of El Dorado, in the Amazonian state of Para.
(15) Free from Fifa red tape, the rebel DiMayor clubs went feral, taking their blackballing as cue to cherry-pick whoever they fancied: the El Dorado era was born.
(16) But isn’t the UK, as the mayor of Calais put it , “El Dorado” for immigrants, with our generous benefits and booming economy?
(17) The gene has been expressed in Escherichia coli by using the lacZ promoter, and its gene product was overproduced (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, M., and Inouye, S. (1990) J. Biol.
(18) It was raining hard last Saturday morning as four companies of military policemen and a team of plain-clothes intelligence agents - about 150 troops in all - took up positions around the terminal of El Dorado airport.
(19) Doubles from €50 Hotel El Dorado, Carboneras Almería's fortifications.
Swordfish
Definition:
(n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.
(n.) The gar pike.
(n.) The cutlass fish.
(n.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(2) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(3) Moreover, the gene-transfer hypothesis cannot be discarded without postulating an enormous increase in the rate at which the superoxide dismutase gene has accumulated amino acid substitutions since the divergence of the swordfish and cattle lineages.
(4) The FWC has yet to release its official finding, but shark expert George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville said he had spoken to one of the commission's scientists on Friday afternoon, who told him "eye in hand" that he was sure that it came from a impressively-sized swordfish.
(5) Possible reasons are discussed for the peculiar first finding of this parasite in the gut of a swordfish.
(6) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research argues that Rajoy has changed his tune on conditionality a few times this year.
(7) The BGP of bluegill shares with swordfish BGP a truncated NH2 terminus and an extended COOH terminus.
(8) But there are also frozen scallops, whole sea bass and swordfish steaks, as well as Slimming World ready meals, quinoa and frozen berries for juicing.
(9) Collaborators determined methyl mercury in blind duplicate homogenates at 2 levels in tuna and at 1 level in swordfish and oysters.
(10) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research said it was largely a reaction to the poor PMI data out earlier today : You have a situation where the economic data has been very poor and Spain is clearly trying to avoid a bailout with any conditions at all.
(11) Swordfish, shark, tuna, shrimp, clams, oysters, and NBS Research Material-50 (tuna) were analyzed for methyl mercury by the AOAC official first action method.
(12) The mercury levels of museum specimens of seven tuna caught 62 to 93 years ago and a swordfish caught 25 years ago have been determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis.
(13) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research explains: The likelihood is that eventually they will request a bailout but that it will only come quickly if the conditions attached to any such financial assistance are negligible.
(14) "Of immediate concern is the trend in Spanish and Italian government bond yields," said Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research.
(15) Questionable to say the least November 7, 2013 Swordfish Research (@SwordfishGary) Draghi - 'Eurozone - Fundamentals are probably strongest in world...'- thats -ve loan demand, high unemployment, anaemic GDP growth... November 7, 2013 2.33pm GMT In other news, a team from Twitter including actor Sir Patrick Stewart just rang the opening bell on Wall Street.
(16) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research believes the Moody's downgrade could set the tone for the year: So, there we have it: officially we are now Good Britain; no longer Great, I’m afraid.
(17) Histidine was found in great quantities in all species except swordfish, anserine was found in relatively large amounts in tunas and swordfish, but carnosine was only present in small amounts in yellowfin and skipjack tunas.
(18) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research was on good form about the situation in Spain today, after the European finance ministers' meeting in Luxembourg ended last night.
(19) Collaborators also analyzed single homogenates of swordfish and oysters containing methyl mercury at a second level.
(20) In the morning, long and narrow boats pull into the harbour, and fisherman toss giant hammerhead sharks, tuna and swordfish into the waves, where they float until young men swim out from the dock to collect them, their muscles tense and glistening.