(v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
(v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
(v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
(v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
(v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
(v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
(v. i.) A struggle or contest of any kind.
(v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
(v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
Example Sentences:
(1) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(2) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(3) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(5) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(6) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(7) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(8) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(10) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(11) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
(12) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(13) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(14) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(15) We need to put our heads together, and get our act together to fight corruption.
(16) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(17) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(18) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
(19) Everyone expressed commitment to fight climate change.
(20) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
Trout
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.
(n.) Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; -- called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(2) In the saccus dorsalis of the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, the activity of various enzymes (transferase, lyases, oxidoreductases, hydrolases) have been studied in detail.
(3) Hybridization of RNA from BNF-treated Fundulus with a trout P450IA1 cDNA also showed increases in a single band with time.
(4) The histochemical study of the LDH in the Trout embryo during the early organogenesis shows a specific localization in notochord cells, in mesodermic cells of the terminal knob and in some prosencephalic neuroblasts.
(5) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(6) The pH optimum for trout HIOMT was found to be about pH 9.0 although routine use of a pH of 7.9 is recommended to limit potentially deliterious effects caused by degradation of S-adenosylmethionine at elevated pHs.
(7) We have exposed fish (brown trouts) to substances belonging to these groups of compounds together with heavy metals (Cd2+, Ni2+, Hg2+, CH3-Hg+ or Pb2+) and then examined the uptake of the metals in the tissues of the fishes.
(8) Cutaneous oxygen consumption and oxygen uptake from the external medium were investigated in three species of freshwater teleosts:eel(Anguilla anguilla L.)(silvered stage), trout (Salmo gairdnerii R.) and tench (Tinca tinca L.).
(9) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(10) In the retina of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) two types of microtubular structures are demonstrated.
(11) Rhythmic MUA from the NPO, recorded in 46% of the experimented trout, occurred preferentially during Mayer waves.
(12) The excretion routes and tissue distribution of [3H]pristane were measured in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, after a single intragastric dose (0.1 mg).
(13) In the absence of somatic cells, their maximal viability is approximately 5 days, whereas spermatocytes adhering to Sertoli cells can survive at least 10-12 days, provided trout lipoproteins are present.
(14) 3H-Ax was found in the liver of all trout indicating that 3H-Cx and 3H-Zx were Ax precursors, and that salmonids probably possess carotenoid oxidative pathways unknown until now.
(15) After 36% of hepatic mass removal , rainbow trout recovered its initial liver weight in 20-30 days, i.e., with a regeneration rate clearly lower than in mammals.
(16) Rainbow trout were infused continuously for 24 h with epinephrine in order to elevate circulating levels to those measured during periods of acute extracellular acidosis (about 5 X 10(-8) mol l-1).
(17) We provide here evidence for a tissue-specific regulation of the ER mRNA levels in the trout hypothalamo-pituitary axis.
(18) Various compounds, with known clinical efficacy against human viruses, were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV, a rhabdovirus), and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV, a birnavirus), in rainbow trout cell cultures.
(19) Anti-salmon prolactin, but not anti-rat or -ovine prolactin, gave a specific staining of the acidophils of the rostral pars distalis (RPD), while anti-trout growth hormone (GH), but not anti-rat GH, stained similar but always separate cells in the proximal pars distalis (PPD).
(20) In the rainbow trout hepatoma cell line, ZnCl2 was a better inducer of the MT-B gene, as compared to CdCl2 and CuCl2.