(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.
Ruff
Definition:
(n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
(n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
(v. i. & t.) To trump.
(n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
(n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
(n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
(n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
(n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
(n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
(n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
(n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
(v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder.
(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
(n.) Alt. of Ruffe
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruff displayed a very high number of synapses with terminals showing a varied morphology.
(2) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(3) Most recently, this research has been expanded to include a more thorough consideration of the geometric properties of bone in relationship to adult age changes (Martin and Atkinsin, 1977; Ruff and Hayes, 1983).
(4) The morphological characteristics of the synaptic contacts in the ruff of the cichlid fish Hemichromis bimaculatus were studies using the combined Golgi-electron microscope technique.
(5) The only exception was the ruff in Lake Yli-Kitka, where a sharp increase was encountered.
(6) Associate professor Tilman Ruff, co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that with a ban treaty likely to be concluded next year, the world stood at an historic turning point.
(7) Strains with the highest fibrinolytic activity belonged to the Bacillus genus and were isolated from mineral detritus and ruff intestines in the Black Sea.
(8) "I've been feeling ruff," intimated the canine star.
(9) The rate of rhodopsin regeneration in decolorized rod outer segments ROS of pollock and ruff in the presence of exogenous 11Z-retinal is found to depend slightly on the temperature.
(10) We have previously isolated a murine UDP-Gal:beta-D-Gal(1,4)-D-GlcNAc alpha(1,3)-galactosyltransferase (alpha(1,3)-GT) cDNA (Larsen, R. D., Rajan, V. P., Ruff, M. M., Kukowska-Latallo, J., Cummings, R. D., and Lowe, J.
(11) Proteocephalus infection in the perch and ruff did not vary significantly according to the length of the fish in either area, except that no P. percae were found in perch smaller than 70 mm in the lake.
(12) There was a prominent seasonal variation in the occurrence of P. cernuae in the ruff in both areas, but especially in the lake, where no proteocephalids were found in the ruff in July-October.
(13) We have described previously a gene transfer system for the isolation of human DNA sequences that determine expression of a mammalian GDP-fucose: beta-D-galactoside-2-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase (alpha-(1,2)-fucosyltransferase) (Ernst, L. K., Rajan, V. P., Larsen, R. D., Ruff, M. M., and Lowe, J.
(14) These include pupillary ruff defects, iris sphincter transillumination, a characteristic whorl-like pattern of particulate pigment deposition on the iris sphincter, particulate pigment deposition on the peripheral iris and trabecular meshwork, and exfoliation material on the zonules and ciliary body.
(15) The neuropsychological application of the Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test as a measure of visual selective attention was investigated.
(16) ), at which time the chick host is known to experience malabsorption in the chick host (Ruff and Wilkins, 1980).
(17) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(18) By using an extension of Ruff's analysis of the sequential model of open end-plate ion channel blockade, we have been able to show that the action of the chloramphenicols on end-plate current amplitude and time course can be explained by the combination of two distinct mechanisms.
(19) We have found that a mixture of either ferrous or ferric ions with hydrogen peroxide (Fenton and Ruff reagents) can serve as biomimetic models for cytochrome P-450 in hydroxylation, exposidation, sulfoxidation, and N-demethylation of various drugs.
(20) Aperture size is based on the average radius (30 mm) of the open face of the ruff.