(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.
Sturgeon
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the debate, Sturgeon clearly signalled she was open to working with Ed Miliband, at one point saying: “I agree with Ed.” She challenged the Labour leader to join her in seeking an end austerity and said the SNP was his “ally” in trying to roll back a tide of privatisation in the NHS.
(2) Within an hour of his speech, Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish deputy first minister, was making the opposite case at an SNP event in Glasgow.
(3) The SNP can now contend that it is not they who are the reckless parochialists To an extent that is not widely appreciated, Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to go for broke by calling for a fresh plebiscite represents a dramatic shift in her strategy.
(4) But Sturgeon stressed she had not yet made that decision.
(5) They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman’s “pink bus” but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates’ returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, “used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies – at a cost of £35,000”.
(6) This week a ComRes poll for ITV News focusing on Labour’s 40 Scottish seats found that the SNP had a six-point lead, putting Sturgeon’s party on the brink of winning about 28 new seats and close to becoming the third largest party at Westminster.
(7) MW Sturgeon was the shortest leader on show but, what she lacked in height, she made up for in assertiveness.
(8) Gaby Hinsliff Everyone wants their own Sturgeon now Where do we find a Nicola Sturgeon?
(9) The inoculated and primary cell cultures of fish (carp, salmon, and sturgeon) have been studied.
(10) There have been reports that civil servants were working on a deadline of Christmas this year while Theresa May has indicated that she wants to secure the support of the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, before beginning the exit process.
(11) One proposal was that Sturgeon could resign, sparking a Scottish parliamentary election to seek a mandate, but her advisers say she already has a mandate.
(12) Fragments that consisted mainly of two polysaccharide chains joined by a short polypeptide bridge (doublets) were prepared from chondroitin sulphate-proteins of lamprey, sturgeon, elasmobranch and ox connective tissues after hydrolysis with trypsin and chymotrypsin.
(13) Nicola Sturgeon’s hopes of gaining support for her bid to keep Scotland in the European Union despite the UK’s vote to leave have been dealt a blow after the Spanish prime minister warned: “If the United Kingdom leaves … Scotland leaves.” Brexit explained: Corbyn Speaking in Brussels, where the Scottish first minister held a series of meetings to lobby for Scotland , Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, said that although he would gladly hear Sturgeon’s case, he was not in a position to enter into talks on Scotland’s future separately from the UK.
(14) Claiming that Labour and Lib Dem plans to shift some but not all tax powers to Edinburgh were "demonstrably inadequate" to meet Scotland's needs, Sturgeon told an audience of businesspeople in Glasgow on Monday: "The no campaign has no plan.
(15) Meanwhile, their portrayal of Red Ed as a rabid lefty has been utterly blindsided, because Sturgeon has taken every opportunity to emphasise that she doesn’t think Miliband is very lefty at all.
(16) With seven senior cabinet ministers now endorsing Sturgeon and none objecting, Russell told the Guardian Sturgeon was unequivocally the strongest and most popular candidate: "I'm absolutely certain she's the best candidate; I can't conceive of another one better qualified or more experienced, or more trusted by the party."
(17) In an interview with the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson, the first minister said: “If there was a vote in the House of Commons to repeal the privatisation of the health service that has been seen in England, we would vote for that because that would help to protect Scotland’s budget.” The intervention by Sturgeon is designed to answer the central Labour warning to voters in Scotland: that a vote for the SNP could end up helping the Tories by diminishing Labour.
(18) Prof David Bell, an economist with the University of Stirling and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said Sturgeon’s decision to reject Osborne’s new £45,000 threshold for the 40p rate would mean the 340,000 Scots earning over £43,000 would pay an effective tax rate of 52p for every pound they earned between £43,000 and £45,000.
(19) I’m happy to see Nicola Sturgeon bringing the constitutional independence referendum back on the table.
(20) Sturgeon’s aide said that while the Scottish government documents referred only DELand did not factor in AME, she said that did not mean that that extra money could not be allocated to welfare budgets.