(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.
Violin
Definition:
(n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
(3) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(4) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(5) Gambaccini has claimed Savile played the tabloids like a Stradivarius violin to prevent details of his private life being revealed.
(6) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
(7) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
(8) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
(9) Latterly, in unfamiliar concert halls, she would bring him from the dressing room to the side of the stage and he would just be able to see the gap between the first and second violins [to walk to the podium].
(10) This is a violin,” replied Alá, now 10 years old.
(11) Gardner recorded and engineered Cabinet of Curiosities at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child.
(12) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
(13) It's the only way I can bear to listen to my violin playing."
(14) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
(15) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
(16) A case is reported of degenerative joint disease in the right mandibular condyle of an 11-year-old boy, apparently due to violin playing.
(17) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
(18) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
(19) Now, they think it's cool; since this started, it's dead cool to play a violin in West Everton."
(20) At first when he turned up at jazz venues musicians laughed that he had a violin - to them it was a classical instrument.