What's the difference between flesh and tuna?

Flesh


Definition:

  • (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
  • (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
  • (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
  • (n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.
  • (n.) Human nature
  • (n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  • (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
  • (n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
  • (n.) Kindred; stock; race.
  • (n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
  • (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
  • (v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
  • (v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
  • (2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (3) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
  • (4) Experiments were conducted comparing the relative contribution of internal and external cold stimuli in the initiation of horripilation (cutis anserina or "goose flesh") in men and women.
  • (5) Cutaneous macroglobulinosis is characterized by multiple flesh-colored papules on extensor skin surfaces.
  • (6) A stimulating effect of chondroitinsulphate to regeneration of flesh wound in case of local single action didn't differ essentially from the effect of chonsuride.
  • (7) The cystic stages which occur in the flesh of herbivores are probably non-pathogenic but the earlier stages in which schizonts develop in vascular endothelium may be severely pathogenic.
  • (8) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (9) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
  • (10) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
  • (11) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
  • (12) Supporters said they were not surprised she had been let go as she had become “a thorn in the flesh” of the DfE after speaking out against government policies.
  • (13) The audience just want the thrill of seeing celebrity in the flesh.
  • (14) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
  • (15) We performed the primary operation on the flesh-colored tumor, which had surface telangiectasia.
  • (16) The idea of tattooing your flesh with the southern cross was, well, strange.
  • (17) Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.
  • (18) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
  • (19) There are four or five areas that have been highlighted by the BBC Trust that require more fleshing out."
  • (20) We have used endonuclease treatment in situ, followed by Giemsa or ethidium bromide staining, for mapping repetitive sequences on the chromosomes of the flesh fly Sarcophaga bullata and thus for studying extrachromosomal DNA granules in this species.

Tuna


Definition:

  • (n.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
  • (n.) The tunny.
  • (n.) The bonito, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
  • (2) The methanol-ammonia (20:1) and chloroform-methanol-ammonia (2:2:1) systems, used with silica-gel plates, are the most promising for rapid preliminary screening of tuna fish extracts for histamine.
  • (3) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
  • (4) Immunological properties of the tuna glucagon were analyzed by radioimmunoassay, showing a high degree of cross-reactivity with the 30K antibody.
  • (5) On the other hand, introduction of the mixed protein into a diet based on flour plus tuna sterilized at 115 degrees C for 90 minutes, was not capable of maintaining the optimum patterns for weight evolution.
  • (6) In quiescent BAECs, tuna AI (1 microM) apparently induced c-myc and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) A-chain messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expressions within 30 min, which persisted for 6 h. In contrast, captopril induced a very low expression of c-myc mRNA, and had no relation to PDGF A-chain mRNA expression.
  • (7) The levels were 10 times higher than those found in tuna in the same area in previous years, but still well below those that the Japanese and US governments consider a risk to health.
  • (8) Three foods were preferred by case patients more frequently than by control patients: tuna fish, chicken salad, and cheese.
  • (9) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
  • (10) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
  • (11) The ATPase activity of tuna dorsal HMM was found to be very similar to that of rabbit skeletal HMM in many respects: KCl concentration dependence, pH dependence, effect of pCMB, kinetic parameters (Vmax and Ka) in actin activation, and Arrhenius activation energy.
  • (12) It is concluded that changes in pH following temperature changes can be accounted for solely by the passive, in vitro behaviour of the chemical buffer system found in the blood, so that active regulatory mechanisms of pH adjustment need not be postulated for skipjack tuna.
  • (13) The ion binding properties of horse, bovine, and tuna cytochrome c (both oxidized and reduced) have been measured using a combination of ultrafiltration, neutron activation, and ion chromatography.
  • (14) Midway through a mouthful of tuna sashimi, I confess I struggle to see her as, well… "A musical actress?"
  • (15) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
  • (16) The larger width of lifetime distribution observed for TNS bound to tuna apomyoglobin was related to a more extended conformational space accessible to the fluorophore in this protein compared to sperm whale myoglobin.
  • (17) Both those stores, the group said, offered pole-and-line caught tinned fish and had said they were committed to improving the sustainability of their fish, but the majority of their tuna was caught using the purse seine method.
  • (18) A novel inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) has been discovered and isolated in a pure form from acid extract of tuna muscle by successive column chromatographies and HPLC.
  • (19) Shrimp, canned tuna and salmon are the top choices .
  • (20) The sites in oxidized cytochromes c are the COOH-terminal sides of Tyr-48, Phe-46 and Tyr-46 for horse, rabbit and tuna cytochromes c, respectively.