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Fiddler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
  • (n.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
  • (n.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Redknapp said that far from being "any kind of tax fiddler", he was "the most ungreedy person you have ever met in your whole life – ever".
  • (2) Three simulated marsh systems were constructed, containing sediment, marsh plants, oysters, blue crabs, fiddler crabs, and two species of top minnows.
  • (3) The effect of exposure time and concentration on the tissue-specific accumulation of Zn in two fiddler crabs, Uca annulipes and Uca triangularis, obtained from polluted (Visakhapatnam Harbor) and unpolluted (Bhimilipatnam) areas was studied.
  • (4) But their collaboration with the fiddler Dave Swarbrick on the recording of "A Sailor's Life" was intriguing.
  • (5) Limb regeneration in fiddler crabs, while depressed in leachates from CCA wood, was accelerated in three formulations of recycled plastics.
  • (6) The titer of ecdysone in hemolymph and the ratio of ecdysone to other radioimmunoassay(RIA)-active hemolymph ecdysteroids were compared to in vitro secretion of ecdysone in Y-organs removed from eyestalkless fiddler crabs at various times following eyestalk ablation.
  • (7) Exposure of the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, to the PCB preparation, Aroclor 1242, produces an increase in the quantity of neurosecretory material in the medulla terminalis X-organ.
  • (8) Under the new contract the name of the amphitheatre was again changed to Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre and then to Comfort Dental Amphitheatre.
  • (9) In an interview in 2003, the year before al-Harith’s release, Maxine Fiddler said her brother had converted to Islam in his 20s.
  • (10) As he and three other British men boarded the RAF aircraft that was to fly them to the UK, they say they were met by a Foreign Office official who asked: “Can you make sure you say you were treated properly?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A picture released by Isis of Jamal al-Harith, formerly Ronald Fiddler.
  • (11) Steve Acheson, an electrician, started a picket outside the Fiddlers Ferry power station in Cheshire after he was dismissed from the site.
  • (12) A world away from Afghanistan or Guantánamo in Manchester’s Moss Side yesterday, Harith’s cousin, Trevor Fiddler, said the whole family was in shock at the news.
  • (13) Myofibrillar proteins in muscles of the claws and abdomen of lobster, Homarus americanus, and the claws of fiddler crab, Uca pugnax, and land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, have been analyzed with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
  • (14) The occurrence and distribution of substance P (SP)-like, methionine-(Met)- and leucine-(Leu)-enkephalin-like, and FMRFamide-like immunoreactivities were determined in the neuroendocrine complex of the eyestalk of the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, by immunocytochemistry.
  • (15) In the former species tissue extracts were also tested in a bioassay: extracts of blowfly brains exhibited PDH-like biological activity, causing melanophore pigment dispersion in destalked (eyestalkless) specimens of the fiddler crab Uca pugilator.
  • (16) Fiddler's neck is a dermatosis of violinists and violists.
  • (17) Shortly after the Fiddlers Ferry announcement, the French company Engie said it would shut its Rugeley coal plant with the loss of 150 jobs.
  • (18) A spokeswoman for the company would not comment on when its Fiddler’s Ferry plant might face closure.
  • (19) A haunting presence throughout the piece, invisible to the angry policeman and the kindly American, is a street fiddler.
  • (20) Tony Blair attacks Daily Mail's 'hypocrisy' over suicide bomber Read more While I never “campaigned” for the return of Harith – who was born Ronald Fiddler – from Guantánamo Bay , I was of the opinion that the situation of British citizens held without trial there was not only unsustainable, it was legally and morally indefensible.

Middler


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.

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