(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.
Pork
Definition:
(n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(2) These results indicate that at 24 h postmortem the extra fluid released from PSE pork already has been lost from the myofilament lattice and is awaiting release from compartments downstream such as interfiber and interfascicular spaces.
(3) A young woman with diabetes mellitus developed chronic urticaria after changing from isophane been insulin suspension to isophane beef-pork insulin suspension.
(4) In this study pork modified to have more oleic acid and less saturated fatty acids had a positive effect on tissue lipids when fed to animals.
(5) The range of age of these patients was from 10 to 14 years, from low socioeconomic status; half of the cases had history of in take of infested pork meat.
(6) An ecological study of Micrococcus radiodurans indicated that microorganisms possessing the same morphological and radiation-resistance characteristics as that organism could be isolated from ground beef and from pork sausage.
(7) Serial paraffin sections were stained individually with primary antibodies for anti-porcine glucagon, anti-beef pork insulin, anti-human somatostatin, and anti-avian pancreatic polypeptide (APP), anti-bovine pancreatic polypeptide (BPP), anti-serotonin, anti-porcine motilin, showing the same islet.
(8) Although total serum cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations did not differ due to type of pork, results indicated that serum LDL cholesterol was lower (15%) and hepatic cholesterol was greater (15%) in the high oleic pork, 15% fat group as compared with the control pork 15% fat group.
(9) During this time, the previously untreated patients were treated with highly purified pork insulin, to which they developed low titers of insulin Abs.
(10) In both additional foods, subjects took in an equal amount of total purines, determined as uric acid, but RNA dominated in veal-liver, DNA in pork-spleen.
(11) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(12) Pork insulin antiserum inhibited the biological activity of pork insulin and proinsulin as well as that of beef insulin or proinsulin.
(13) Cultures of 68 samples of fresh pork sausage purchased locally were incubated at 37 and 43 C, with and without Tergitol No.
(14) These figures are about the same as previously reported for pork but much higher than previously reported for beef carcasses; however, they represent only three to five abattoirs in Georgia and do not necessarily represent contamination levels throughout the country.
(15) Turn the pork once and don't stir but gently swirl the sauce as it cooks.
(16) Increased risk for glioma was associated with rural residence, history of a positive tuberculosis skin test and consumption of pork products; increased meningioma risk was associated with a positive reaction to a tuberculosis skin test, previous stroke, use of tranquillizers and a vegetarian life-style in childhood.
(17) The anaerobic film pouch technique was used to quantitate and isolate clostridial spores in 2,358 samples of raw meat (1,078 of chicken, 624 of beef, 656 of pork).
(18) The process would require between 7% and 45% less energy than the same volume of conventionally produced meat such as pork, beef, or lamb, and could be engineered to use only 1% of the land and 4% of the water associated with conventional meat.
(19) It's quite late on in life for me to discover I'm pork-blind.
(20) Purification of pork renal cortex membranes yielded a particulate adenylate cyclase retaining good sensitivity to stimulation by parathyroid hormone and glucagon and a modest but significant response to porcine calcitonin.