(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.
Sweeper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no graffiti and no rubbish, because a street sweeper is using a machine to blow leaves into piles.
(2) According to the occupation registered on their licence, the 6630 drivers were distributed into three groups: (1) professional drivers (n = 1726), (2) non-professional drivers "more exposed" to exhaust gas and fumes (this group included occupations such as vehicle mechanic, policeman, road sweeper; n = 712), and (3) non-professional drivers "less exposed," composed of all other occupations (n = 4192).
(3) Wright was not used as a sweeper but rather as a spare man in a flat back four.
(4) In the Barbara Vine book, The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy (1998), the death of a leading author, Gerard Candless, leads to the discovery that almost every detail of his life had been a fiction.
(5) Comparisons between indoor aspirator catches and outdoor mechanical sweeper collections enabled mosquito resting habits to be classified as: (1) endophilic (Anopheles culicifacies, An.
(6) What can I do?” The street sweeper demanded 75 Turkish lira and pointed to a small hole in the fence, not far from the main gate.
(7) We present a case of occupation-related carcinoma of the scrotum (chimney sweeper's disease) in a black man.
(8) Thanks to Manuel Neuer the era of “sweeper-keepers”, boasting strong lines in fancy footwork, is upon us.
(9) He was credited with developing the "sweeper-keeper" style of play, when a keeper acts as an extra defender when needed.
(10) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(11) As a goalkeeper, he was ahead of his time, operating not only with athleticism and anticipation in the goal itself, but always ready to act as a kind of sweeper if his defence were breached, dashing well beyond his penalty area to kick the ball clear.
(12) This study intends to identify the occupational risks that the street sweepers are exposed by handling diary with the urban trash.
(13) Road sweepers, street cleaners all deserve a decent home, they certainly don’t deserve to be priced out of council property.
(14) Until we have a rainfall, or the city’s huge street sweeper mob arrive, you often find dust particles in your eyes and mouth.
(15) The ball came to the sweeper Augenthaler, who flipped an inviting angled pass over the top.
(16) "It is not men who immigrate but machine-minders, sweepers, diggers, cement mixers, cleaners, drillers, etc," writes Berger beneath a picture of two officials looking out over hundreds of workers at a recruitment centre in Istanbul.
(17) Other street cleaners are self-employed: street sweepers who move round after the dustmen work for tips from local residents, and bottle collectors make a living – just about – by selling on plastic bottles for recycling.
(18) The man glanced around uneasily, and finally approached a street sweeper in a blue jumpsuit.
(19) Measurements performed on 176 subjects, without isolating them from day-to-day work, showed 220Rn levels having a median of 0.74 Bq, with the group consisting of sweepers and helpers showing the highest average level (1.68 Bq).
(20) That means the extra defensive cover of a sweeper system and just one change from the side that started against Cameroon: Peter Beardsley for the injured John Barnes.