(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
(n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
(v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(4) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(5) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
(6) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(7) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
(8) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(10) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
(11) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(12) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(13) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(14) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
(15) The possibility of mammalian mitochondria functioning in fish embryos has been studied.
(16) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(17) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
(18) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(19) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
(20) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.
Grayling
Definition:
(a.) A European fish (Thymallus vulgaris), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also umber. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish.
(a.) An American fish of the genus Thymallus, having similar habits to the above; one species (T. Ontariensis), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another (T. montanus), is found in the Yellowstone region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking in the Commons recently, the employment minister, Chris Grayling , said: "We will always look very, very carefully indeed where something like that happens.
(2) Opponents of Grayling's proposals say that cutting legal aid will lead to more miscarriages of justice.
(3) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(4) Hallam told the hearing: “If legal aid is being refused to people such as this, I am satisfied that injustices will occur … Mothers in her situation should have proper and full access to the court with the assistance of legal advice.” Parents involved in custody battles are no longer eligible for legal aid following cuts imposed by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in April last year .
(5) 2.35pm BST UK Uncut, the pressure group, says that Chris Grayling's U-turn over legal aid tendering will not stop his proposals undermining justice.
(6) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(7) My last attempt to interview Spurr was blocked after Grayling contacted the Guardian’s then editor, Alan Rusbridger.
(8) Under Mr Grayling’s plans, new franchises would integrate more closely with NR.
(9) So Grayling may well feel less put out than he might otherwise have been at a decision by the high court on Tuesday that he has no power to introduce a residence test for legal aid using delegated legislation.
(10) The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) defended the new rules in the face of a growing protest by novelists and other authors against their introduction by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling .
(11) Grayling proposes to remove client choice, and allocate legal representation from a government agency.
(12) Grayling made clear that he was making a virtue out of the inability of two of the biggest outsourcing companies in criminal justice to bid for £450m of contracts covering the probation service in England and Wales, which are to be put up for competition later this year.
(13) Grayling, the leader of the Commons, also called for ministers to be allowed to campaign on either side from the moment the prime minister concludes the negotiations in Europe , rather than having to wait for the short period of the formal campaign.
(14) If you work with prisoners to help them to change and reduce their risk of offending when they go out, you prevent more victims.” Diplomatically, he says Grayling’s reforms focused on providing better support for short-term prisoners on release, whereas Gove comes with a very clear priority on prisons.
(15) 12.28pm BST Here's the press notice with the full details of the Chris Grayling proposals.
(16) If race discrimination is wrong, why is Grayling saying that homophobic discrimination is right?
(17) One former aide suggested the rise, fall and rise again of Chris Grayling symbolised the party's recent evolution, with a man demoted for homophobic comments now playing such a prominent role with tough talk on criminals.
(18) Read more Suggestions that Heathrow and Gatwick could both be allowed to expand have been played down by ministers, with Grayling saying it would not be “legally straightforward”.
(19) These have happened within living memory, but Chris Grayling either doesn't know this or has forgotten.
(20) Grayling has said that under the new policy a lack of bad behaviour will not be enough to earn privileges.