(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.
Violinist
Definition:
(n.) A player on the violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "); the credits for the orchestra that revealed 22 violinists and five French horn players had been involved in its creation; the old-fashioned advertising campaign with TV advertising and billboards on Sunset Strip.
(2) The violinist and current LSO chairman, Lennox Mackenzie, said: "It's a very sad day for the LSO.
(3) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(4) He was a talented musician and spent happy days as first violinist in the orchestra on the ocean liner the Empress of Britain, believing that the sea air helped him recover from the effects of the gas, though he always suffered bouts of bronchitis.
(5) His father was a violinist who at one time played with the National Scottish Orchestra and later joined the Merchant Navy.
(6) More people are doing it: violinist Mia Matsumiya, for example, has recently launched her Perv Magnet tumblr, which shows some of the thousands of suggestive and abusive messages she has received online over the last decade.
(7) The son of a composer-violinist mother and a father who was an eminent musicologist, Seeger embarked on a lifelong mission to demonstrate that seemingly archaic forms could be absorbed and recycled by younger performers.
(8) Violinists and violists showed significantly poorer thresholds at 3-6 kHz in the left ear than in the right ear, consistent with the left ear's greater exposure from their instruments.
(9) It may help that the president of the ECHR is currently a British judge, Sir Nicolas Bratza , who happens also to be the son of a one-time celebrated Serbian concert violinist.
(10) Arsalan Kamkar, a violinist in the orchestra, said on Monday that only seven or eight members of the orchestra had valid contracts.
(11) The elder Miliband's passions include Arsenal football club, and he regularly watches his violinist wife, Louise Shackelton, performing with the London Symphony Orchestra.
(12) Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, British violinist Vanessa-Mae and singer Seal were also reportedly paid six-figure sums to attend.
(13) She survives him, along with their son, Tom, a violinist, and two grandchildren, Imogen and Gabriel.
(14) Thus, they are of more value for the relatively mild tremor of the anxious violinist in public performance than in the severe shaking noticed during a panic attack.
(15) Her set includes a white grand piano and four classical violinists dressed in coattails.
(16) A member of the Swiss suicide service, Dignitas, she wants her husband, Omar Puente, a Cuban jazz violinist, to be able to accompany her to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, without fear that he could be arrested on his return.
(17) Ewen will perform My Time alongside Lloyd Webber and four violinists on Saturday night.
(18) It featured Pavel Milyutin, a violinist who showed off a 1701 Guarneri instrument that the programme said was worth several million dollars and had been provided by Roldugin’s foundation.
(19) Miliband, whose wife Louise is an American violinist, had indicated that he would continue serving as an MP after losing the Labour leadership to his brother, Ed, in 2010.
(20) He was photographed with the great violinist Yascha Heifetz, and he was on dining terms with Horowitz, Rachmaninov and Schoenberg.