What's the difference between fin and marine?

Fin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
  • (n.) End; conclusion; object.
  • (n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
  • (n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
  • (n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
  • (n.) The hand.
  • (n.) A blade of whalebone.
  • (n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
  • (n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
  • (n.) A feather; a spline.
  • (n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
  • (2) Since there is a body of literature indicating that preexposure to low levels of metals may increase tolerance during subsequent exposure, these experiments were designed to investigate the effects of preexposure to cadmium, using fin regeneration as the parameter of effect.
  • (3) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
  • (4) Electron microscopy discloses axons in the mesodermal mesenchyme and in the epidermis of the bud as early as stage I of the development of the pelvic fins.
  • (5) The fins are formed by a longitudinal tegument fold containing the same components as the remaining part of the tail tegument.
  • (6) The dorsal fin mesenchyme expresses vimentin at stage 26.
  • (7) In this situation one could fins concentrated not only the various stands of protolife necessary for the final act of biopoesis, but also perbiologically formed nutrients necessary as for the first eobionts.
  • (8) These data and independent scanning electron microscopy indicated that a resident population of predominantly Blastobacter bacteria was present as a biofilm on the supply-side cooling coil fins.
  • (9) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
  • (10) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
  • (11) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
  • (12) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
  • (13) The fish of these groups completed translocation of the right eye to the left side and resorption of elongated dorsal fin rays.
  • (14) Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) are found primarily in the dorsal fin and in the ECM surrounding the notochord.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
  • (17) In light of previous descriptions of Crassicauda infections in balaenopterids, this implied that C. boopis should at present be considered a renal parasite of fin whales, and perhaps other rorquals, throughout the world's oceans.
  • (18) The US-based group said it encountered an illegal shark finning operation run by a Costa Rican ship, the Varadero, and told the crew to stop and head to port to be prosecuted.
  • (19) We have used 14 restriction endonucleases to investigate the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of fin whales, 13 enzymes for sei whales, and 8 enzymes for the minke whale.
  • (20) The researchers estimated that global reported catches, unreported landings, discards and sharks caught and thrown back after their fins were cut off – a process known as finning – added up to 97 million fish caught in 2010.

Marine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
  • (a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
  • (a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
  • (a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.
  • (a.) A picture representing some marine subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
  • (2) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
  • (3) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
  • (4) omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a peptide purified from the venom of the marine snail, Conus geographus, that specifically blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in neurons.
  • (5) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
  • (6) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
  • (7) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
  • (8) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (9) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
  • (10) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
  • (11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (12) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
  • (13) Intramembrane faces were visualized in the marine dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra by the freeze-fracture technique, in order to test a prediction of a membrane model for circadian oscillations--i.e;, that membrane particle distribution and size change with time in the circadian cycle.
  • (14) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
  • (15) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
  • (16) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
  • (17) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
  • (18) Greg Hunt , the environment minister, said he will use the existing Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority act to “put in place this ban in legislative form”.
  • (19) Modern lungfish are air-breathing nonmarine forms, yet their Devonian forebears were marine fish that did not breathe air.
  • (20) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.

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