(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.
Quinaldine
Definition:
(n.) A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, some quinaldine red may be present in the cytoplasm in an aggregated, ionically bound form.
(2) The following degradation products of quinaldine were isolated from the culture fluid and identified: 1H-4-oxoquinaldine, N-acetylisatic acid, N-acetylanthranilic acid, anthranilic acid, 3-hydroxy-N-acetylanthranilic acid and catechol.
(3) However, uptake as well as subsequent ionic binding of quinaldine red seems to be related to potential in an as yet undefined manner.
(4) A major aspect of the change is that in sodium-loaded cells, essentially all of the quinaldine red accumulated as the result of energization forms a strong bond with an anionic group.
(5) 4-(2'-, 4'-nitro- and 2',4'-dinitrobenzenesulfenamido)-quinaldines (I--III) as well as 2-(2'-,3'-nitro and 2',4'-dinitrobenzensulfenamido)-46-oimethylpyrimidines (IV--VI) were obtained.
(6) 2-Hydroxymethylquinoline and quinaldine are found in nonfresh greyhound urine as putrefactive bases.
(7) 2-aminomethylquinoline is excreted in fresh urine and two others, quinaldine and 2-hydroxymethylquinoline, are formed as the urine decays.
(8) The determination of dichloralantipyrine is based on the fact that it, as well as its major metabolite chloral hydrate, produces a blue color with quinaldine ethiodide.
(9) Solvent Yellow 33 (German: Rauchgelb) belongs to the groups of quinaldine dyes which are produced by condensing quinaldine and phthalic anhydride.
(10) The general characteristics of the cation employed, quinaldine red, closely paralleled those of other amphiphilic cations which have been used to measure membrane potential.
(11) The aggregates were estimated to contain at least five quinaldine red cations at or near van der Waals contact, and the presence of other molecules, such as phospholipids, could not be excluded.
(12) Quinaldine catabolism was investigated with the bacterial strain Arthrobacter sp., which is able to grow aerobically in a mineral salt medium with quinaldine as sole source of carbon, nitrogen and energy.
(13) Type A monoamine oxidase (MAO-A) in human placental mitochondria was competitively inhibited by naturally occurring substances, quinoline and quinaldine, using kynuramine as substrate.
(14) This binding is similar to that which occurs for the basal level of quinaldine red taken up in nonenergized cells.
(15) Uptake of the anesthetics tricaine methanesulfonate, benzocaine, Piscaine, and quinaldine is rapid because they are lipophilic.
(16) Production of 2-hydroxymethylquinoline or quinaldine is not arrested but merely retarded by preservation or refrigeration.
(17) The results show that membrane potential cannot be computed in a simple manner from the distribution of quinaldine red between cells and medium, assuming that the thermodynamic activity coefficient of cell-localized material is identical with that in dilute aqueous solution.
(18) The dithioacetic acid zwitterions were prepared from the base-catalyzed reaction of carbon disulfide with quinaldine and picoline methiodides, and the bis(methylthio) derivatives resulted from reaction with methyl iodide at room temperature.
(19) A method for the measurement of quinaldine and 2-hydroxymethylquinoline using gas chromatography is described.
(20) 2-Hydroxymethylquinoline forms in greyhound urine, if non-preserved, in three or four days at room temperature while quinaldine takes as much as 10 days longer to form.