(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
Example Sentences:
(1) New Jaguars owner Shad Khan said when he bought the team that he wanted to make a "splash" in free agency.
(2) So part of what Shad will be tasked for at Arsenal, and what we were tasked for with the DFB, is to integrate.
(3) Shad genuinely cares and will work extremely hard player by player, peer to peer, to help execute the vision Mr Wenger has laid out.
(4) In the present study, a cytostatic tumor growth inhibitory peptide and a tumor growth promoting peptide with molecular weights of 20,000-30,000 Da have been identified in the supernatant fraction of unfertilized ova from Shad.
(5) From Denis MacShane: Bumped into 2 shad cab Tories in Indian rest.
(6) The dead twaite shad, small whitish gray fish, were discovered Tuesday by inspectors conducting routine water testing in Rio’s sewage and rubbish-filled Guanabara Bay.
(7) Same old Arsenal in that sense and something that was meant to become less so following the summer appointment of the fitness expert Shad Forsythe , a key component of Germany’s World Cup-winning triumph in Brazil .
(8) By blocking the rivers and silting up the spawning beds, they helped bring to an end the gigantic runs of migratory fish that were once among our great natural spectacles and which fed much of Britain – wiping out sturgeon , lampreys and shad , as well as most sea trout and salmon.
(9) PCB residues exceeding the tolerance level of Health and Welfare Canada were found in the following: from Lake Saint Clair, smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) in 1975 and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) in 1971; from Lake Erie, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in 1970, smallmouth bass, alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), and gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) in 1971, and white bass in 1971 and 1976.
(10) 20 Fenchurch Street has DESTROYED the view through Tower Bridge from Shad Thames area.
(11) Tower 42 featured in the BBC’s Sherlock TV series, as Shad Shanderson, the financial institution used in the Blind Banker episode.
(12) We are now going to invest, in this case with Shad.
(13) Two subjects each were exposed to pressure equivalents of 50 (SHAD I) and 60 (SHAD II) feet of sea water gauge (FSWG) for 30 and 28 d, respectively.
(14) Unfertilized ova from Shad, a North Atlantic herring, contains a cytostatic inhibitor of T lymphocyte blastogenesis.
(15) Shad Forsythe Has held many roles in training, including at the US Olympic Training Centre in San Diego.
(16) "For dinner I order the shad-roe ravioli with apple compote as an appetiser and the meat loaf with chèvre and quail-stock sauce for an entrée".
(17) It is found in certain series where primary tumors and pulmonary metastase shad been seperately studied.
(18) At least 30,000 salmon and tens of thousands of shads, lampreys and sea trout use the estuary to reach spawning grounds in the Usk and Wye rivers.
(19) Shad Forsythe, a new fitness coach at Arsenal – headhunted to invigorate their training regime – was one of four specialists who were embedded with Joachim Löw’s team every step, every stretch, every session of the way at the World Cup.
(20) Significantly higher levels of six organochlorine residues were found in the gonad tissue of striped bass; however, similar studies on gonad tissue of American Shad, harvested from the same region, show no such enhancement.