(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.
Grumpy
Definition:
(a.) Surly; dissatisfied; grouty.
Example Sentences:
(1) And those who get their kicks from purloining stuff that they’re expected to pay for were especially grumpy.
(2) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
(3) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(4) Counting down to a 3D-printed Grumpy Cat in 3... 2... 1...
(5) Do co-efficients simply take no notice of real and meaningful competitive results, or am I just grumpy this morning?"
(6) Despite the pro-AV leader, Ed Miliband, having stuck his neck out a few times for the yeses, belligerent turns by grumpy old stagers such as John Reid and David Blunkett have created the impression that the people's party has no interest in giving the people more of a say.
(7) As a result, they feel worse off, and understandably grumpy.
(8) And the Doctor is more than ready to welcome her back, said Smith, referring to the Christmas episode in which an increasingly grumpy Time Lord seemed unable to get over the loss of previous companions Amy and Rory .
(9) Reckless, therefore, to give away an earned advantage this week, when the journalists are getting increasingly grumpy about having the microphone physically taken away from them (the Tories on Tuesday) and being jeered at by party supporters (Ukip on Wednesday and Labour on Monday, despite Ed Miliband’s plea to be polite and welcoming.)
(10) The Labour leader will have surprised those who thought he was simply a grumpy old political boss.
(11) Eventually, a 12-year-old girl called Chyrstal – a name that surely wouldn't exist except for in a Lifetime Christmas movie – takes Grumpy home.
(12) And it is the meme, or rather one particular meme, that is the prime cause of Dawkins's current grumpiness.
(13) Grumpy neither denied nor confirmed the claims that some bodies had been moved to Donetsk.
(14) Net neutrality activists celebrate internet victory with grumpy cat parade Read more Lamb disagrees that the proposal wouldn’t be in shareholders’ best interests.
(15) If they're simply difficult, grumpy or selfish in the way male characters are, they provoke outrage and astonishment in the way male characters never do (hello, Lena Dunham.).
(16) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(17) Rudisha may be the greatest 800m in history, but even champions have to put up with grumpy dads.
(18) One self-confessed "grumpy old man" called it "nanny state nonsense".
(19) However, Rifkind’s own recent privacy issues had made that tricky; empty-chairing himself might have set an awkward precedent that the prime minister would not have appreciated, so he settled for looking grumpy and morose while Hazel Blears ran the show.
(20) It was only the hardcore English left, long after the celebrations had ended, hungover, bleary and grumpy.