(a.) Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
(n.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Red muscle of mackerel, Australian salmon, pilchard and scad are better vascularised than red muscle of the flathead having 153, 200, 242, 291 and 309 microns 2 of cross-sectional fibre area per peripheral capillary, respectively.
(2) White muscle of mackerel, pilchard and scad are better vascularised than white muscle of the Australian salmon and flathead having 2040, 3367, 4992, 9893 and 10,469 microns 2 of cross-sectional fibre area per peripheral capillary, respectively.
(3) Flathead red muscle had a C:F ratio of between 1.9 and 2.5; and between 5.3 and 6.6 peripheral capillaries per muscle fibre depending on the method used.
(4) There’s no difference [between] crocodiles and flathead, obviously apart from size and teeth.
(5) The illness occurred in a previously well 68-year-old man who was accidentally spiked in the buttock by the dorsal spine of a flathead caught in Tamboon Inlet, near Mallacoota, Victoria.
(6) Using data collected at the Flathead Reservation, this paper explores the degree to which the investigation of the comorbidity of these three disorders can validly reveal the relevant contours of psychopathological distress in a cross-cultural setting.
(7) Flathead red muscle fibres are well suppled with subsarcolemmal mitochondria.
(8) Flathead red muscle was homogeneous whilst teleost white muscle was only slightly variable.
Phraseology
Definition:
(n.) Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.
(n.) A collection of phrases; a phrase book.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(2) The phraseology is wrong: they don't have a little chart to tell them what proportion of women have had an abortion and in which age group.
(3) Techniques depend on mechanical analysis of sentence length, multiple prepositional phrases, direct phraseology, and arrangement of printed materials on the page.
(4) In view of an ever-increasing infiltration of the German medical vocabulary by Britishisms and Americanisms, a linguistic attempt was made to categorize this phraseology as follows: more or less incorporated terminology, "internationalized" terms, identical translations, unnecessary use of English expressions instead of German synonyms, borrowing from the English with an alteration of the original meaning, and German neologisms on the basis of English vocabular material.
(5) As evident from our results, a minimum of twelve-month treatment is followed by a remarkable improvement in 45% of the patients, 37% having recovered their phatic functions at least so that they were able to master simple everyday phraseology.
(6) One group read a literal version of the story and one group read a figurative version in which all textual answers to the question were masked with figurative phraseology.
(7) The discussion covers the following issues: the changes in the concept of alcohol abuse and the expansion of the concept of alcohol dependence, the withdrawal of indicators of social and occupational impairment, the phraseology used in the new indicators, the lack of a time frame to evaluate the indicators as present, and the relationship of the new diagnosis with compulsive behaviors and with the Alcohol Dependence Syndrome of the International Classification of Diseases-9th Revision.
(8) If the phraseology could be standardized, the new format would also allow easier data flow from one medical record to another and permit the construction of standardized disease profiles.
(9) Echoing the phraseology of Tony Blair's sole arts speech in 1997, he added: "I want people to say that on my watch, the arts didn't just weather an incredible storm but laid the foundations for a new golden age.
(10) Although the dry wit and felicitous phraseology were still much in evidence, this work struck a more sombre note.
(11) The phraseology is different, but the European court's approach is reminiscent of the "reasonable adjustment" concept applied in disability rights legislation.
(12) Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification … Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them … The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism.
(13) The name Twitch is drawn from gamer phraseology – which says everything about its specific appeal.
(14) Even so, the phraseology in which some experts talk about him sounds … odd.
(15) The Islam Versus Europe blogger cites 15 examples of duplications in phraseology from the book which Joya published the same year in which Hari subsequently printed the interview.