(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.
Ripper
Definition:
(n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
(n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
(n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
(n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the moors murderer Ian Brady; the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe; Rosemary West; and Levi Bellfield, who was convicted of murdering Milly Dowler.
(2) Like Jack the Ripper, the killer who is his closest comparison, it was as if he was invisible.
(3) The Guardian has previously identified other suspected targets of Rees, including Eric Clapton , Mick Jagger, George Michael, Linford Christie, Gary Lineker, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, and the family of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
(4) O’Driscoll was cleared of knowing about Quinn, but faced two other charges – that he was part of the Chelsea policeman conspiracy and the alleged conspiracy to pay Neave for information on high profiles prisoners such as the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
(5) Lukas Podolski was the fringe player who grasped the opportunity most clearly and the opening goal was one of his trademarks – a left-footer ripper into the near, top corner of Sinan Bolat’s net, following Ramsey’s burst and pass.
(6) West Australian Labor shadow cabinet calls for Stephen Smith's withdrawal Read more The 48-year-old was elected to the leadership following the resignation of Eric Ripper in January 2012 and led the party to the 2013 election, scoring points with policies like Metronet , a $3.8b plan to expand the suburban rail network, before ultimately losing to Colin Barnett.
(7) They mix fact and fiction, delving into child murders and police corruption against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper enquiry, the Silver Jubilee and the political tensions of the early Thatcher years.
(8) And it is not the first time that Amazon has looked to the BBC – the internet firm resurrected BBC1’s period crime drama, Ripper Street, after it was axed.
(9) It also revealed that the TV star had offered his services as an "intermediary" in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
(10) Ripper Street was axed by BBC1 after last year's second series, but won a reprieve after Amazon stepped in to fund a third run, which will premiere on its Prime Instant video-on-demand service before a BBC1 repeat.
(11) Sonia Sutcliffe v News of the World, 1990 The wife of the Yorkshire Ripper lost her libel claim over News of the World allegations that she had an affair with a Greek holiday company chief who resembled her husband During the hearing, Carman claimed she had courted the press for financial gain before listing the £334,000 damages she had obtained in actions against newspapers.
(12) A trawl of police records also found that Savile had offered his services as an "intermediary" to detectives in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the late 1970s.
(13) A BBC spokeswoman said: "The BBC is looking at partnerships that could enable Ripper Street to return but at better value to licence fee payers."
(14) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fisher ladies in Okinawa, Japan You can almost see such calculations running through the Big Ripper as she pores over her MRI results, designed to find out whether her organs are ageing at the same rate as the rest of her.
(16) I don’t think anybody in the area is against enterprise and somebody doing something new and exciting, but Jack the Ripper has nothing to do with Cable Street.
(17) I salute them for that.” Class War, originally an eponymous newspaper as well as a movement, somewhat fizzled out during the 1990s but has been recently revived, standing six candidates in this year’s general election under the slogan: “Because all the other candidates are scum.” Class War is organising a protest this Sunday at a museum originally billed as celebrating the role of women in London but which ended up focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper .
(18) I don’t want to have to explain to my teenage daughter that this man butchered women and ripped out their wombs.” Palmer-Edgecumbe told the Evening Standard that he planned to open a museum about the social history of women, but that as the project developed he decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
(19) Before long, Jean Paul Goude will have dismembered more women than Jack the Ripper.
(20) In 1992 his 10-piece graduate collection – bought in its entirety by Vogue stylist Isabella Blow, his first patron – was entitled Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, inspired by Victorian London and with a strong emphasis on tailoring.